[messaging] Let's run a usability study (was Useability of public-key fingerprints)

[Tom Ritter]

On 8 April 2014 01:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> On 04/07/2014 08:03 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> > Okay, made the last changes, are we good to pass it along?  Any last
> > pull requests or comments?
> > https://github.com/tomrittervg/crypto-usability-study
>
> This looks pretty good to me, but the list of "Fingerprint Types"
> doesn't mention unicorns, while the "computationally-chosen flaw" bit
> does mention unicorns.  And they only show up there, actually -- that's
> probably going to be a head-scratcher for some poor usability researcher :)
>

A mistake. =) I've updated it with a 25/75% split between 2^80 flaw chosen
specifically and chosen at random for each type.

-tom
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