Usability Challenges of PKI

Security mechanisms can only be effective if they are usable as well. Above all, this statement applies to systems based on public key infrastructures (PKI) due to their high complexity. In practice PKI has been found to be a source for user errors, which could easily lead to security breaches. On t...

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Main Author: Straub, Tobias
Format: Others
Language:English
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Published: 2006
Online Access:http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/682/1/tstraub_diss.pdf
Straub, Tobias <http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/view/person/Straub=3ATobias=3A=3A.html> : Usability Challenges of PKI. [Online-Edition] Technische Universität, Darmstadt [Ph.D. Thesis], (2006)