Crisis Overload (re Electronic Racketeering)

[Connie Sadler]

Subject: Re: Crisis Overload (re Electronic Racketeering)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:27:18 PDT
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>On July 13, 1995, Robert Hayden said:

>Unfortunately, a system of social engineering needs to be adopted to get 
>massive use of cryptography started.  This means, and I advocated this 
>from the day I entered this forum, that programs such as PGP need to be 
>redesigned so that the a user friendly . . . so user friendly that any 
>Joe Moron can figure out not only how to use them, but also how it helps 
>them and how it is "good" for them.  This means that we need simplified 
>key management easy enough for the point-and-click masses to utilize.  
>...

>Unfortuately, all I can do is stand on the sidelines and cheer, because I 
>am not a programmer; I'm a user and a teacher.

Well put! I agree wholeheartedly! I have friends who are mostly teachers and
writers who are interested in encryption from what I've told them, but their
computer knowledge is pretty much limited to their word processors. A good
user interface would do wonders for spreading the use of PGP. Unfortunately
I am not a programmer either, but I am being motivated to become one. If
only there was more time...

Connie