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Metaphors considered harmful? An exploratory study of the effectiveness of functional metaphors for end-to-end encryption
2018
Proceedings 2018 Workshop on Usable Security
unpublished
Research has shown that users do not use encryption and fail to understand the security properties which encryption provides. We hypothesise that one contributing factor to failed user understanding is poor explanations of security properties, as the technical descriptions used to explain encryption focus on structural mental models. Purpose: We methodically generate metaphors for end-to-end (E2E) encryption that cue functional models and develop and test the metaphors' effect on users'
doi:10.14722/usec.2018.23015
fatcat:i6jj66inmzcanorgon7bxmhi6q