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List:       moderncrypto-messaging
Subject:    [messaging] Let's run a usability study (was Useability of public-key fingerprints)
From:       pgut001 () cs ! auckland ! ac ! nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date:       2014-02-14 2:20:59
Message-ID: E1WE8Oh-0000sM-UC () login01 ! fos ! auckland ! ac ! nz
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>I'd also be interested in a study about whether people even try to check
>fingerprints *at all*.

Already done, "Do Users Verify SSH Keys?" from 2011,
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gutmann.pdf.  

tl;dr: "Abstract: No".

Peter.

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