STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Wed Oct 26 01:07:03 CEST 2011


On 10/25/2011 15:46, MFPA wrote:
> An oft-used analogy when promoting encrypted communication is to compare
> it to sending a letter in an envelope rather than sending a postcard. If
> people don't care about privavy, why did envelopes rather than postcards
> develop as the default for sending messages through the post?

Privacy is certainly one reason. Others are the greater capacity of
envelopes, ability to send more than one piece of paper at a time,
ability to carry things other than paper .... I could go on. My point
being that it's just as important to observe the lenses through which we
do our observations as it is to make the observations themselves.


Doug

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