Why doesn't Jane protect her privacy?
Renaud, Karen and Volkamer, Melanie and Renkema-Padmos, Arne; De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Murdoch, Steven J., eds. (2014) Why doesn't Jane protect her privacy? In: International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8555 . Springer, NLD, pp. 244-262. ISBN 9783319085050 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08506-7_13)
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Abstract
End-to-end encryption has been heralded by privacy and security researchers as an effective defence against dragnet surveillance, but there is no evidence of widespread end-user uptake. We argue that the non-adoption of end-to-end encryption might not be entirely due to usability issues identified by Whitten and Tygar in their seminal paper "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt". Our investigation revealed a number of fundamental issues such as incomplete threat models, misaligned incentives, and a general absence of understanding of the email architecture. From our data and related research literature we found evidence of a number of potential explanations for the low uptake of end-to-end encryption. This suggests that merely increasing the availability and usability of encryption functionality in email clients will not automatically encourage increased deployment by email users. We shall have to focus, first, on building comprehensive end-user mental models related to email, and email security. We conclude by suggesting directions for future research.
ORCID iDs
Renaud, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6531, Volkamer, Melanie and Renkema-Padmos, Arne; De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Murdoch, Steven J.-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 75116 Dates: DateEvent20 June 2014PublishedNotes: Conference code: 14th Subjects: Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 21 Jan 2021 13:28 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 01:26 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75116