Eric Nystrom wrote:
There isn't a week that goes by without my receiving an email from someone who thanks me for the benefit they have gained by my introducing them to encryption or anonymous remailers, yet I doubt that many of them
Toto hints at some issues here that I've been wondering about for a while now. What are some effective strategies for securely introducing "newbies" to the world of cryptography and anon remailers? I'm currently attending college, which means that my peers all use email very regularly -- a ripe environment for use of cryptography in email, I should think. However, nearly everyone's email accounts are on a central Unix machine, which brings up many issues about the (lack of) security of private keys on multiuser machines.
My question is this -- is it better for the crypto community in the long run to have more people using encryption, but perhaps insecurely, or to have fewer users whose communications are more cryptographically secure?
Multiuser Unix Security == No Security. Your users may have illusions, but not true security. First thing I'd suggest is to explain them that nothing that goes through that central unix machine is truly secure. - Igor.