- Subject: Re: Crisis Overload (re Electronic Racketeering)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:27:18 PDT
- A1-type: DOCUMENT
- Importance: normal
>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