UI terminology for calculated validities

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Wed Apr 23 11:51:02 CEST 2014


On 23/04/14 00:49, Hauke Laging wrote:
> We do agree that crypto is by its nature difficult (I don't mean the math I 
> mean the organizational envorinment) and that a serious part of this 
> difficulty is more or less hidden by current tools (in order not to scare
> the users away), don't we?

We agree on the first point, crypto is by its nature difficult. Which is
/precisely/ why you shouldn't make it more difficult than necessary.

On the latter point: I think the user interfaces can be made better, but I
disagree with your description of that. We do agree to disagree, don't we?

> Thus we should head for most users having several keys.

That's how you want to improve the user interface for, I quote, the
"non-expert(!) user"? In that case we disagree about the right way to do this on
such a fundamental level that I don't think we're going to come to common ground.

Also, I think this discussion would benefit from a narrower scope. Let's focus
on terminology and user interface elements with the current mechanics, and leave
things like "the lack of transparency of the security level" to other threads.

HTH,

Peter.

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