Comments on: At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say

Government controls held back cryptography in the past, but today usability blocks adoption. Microsoft's Ray Ozzie promises a fix.
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[sfrank212]

Easy Crypto

Found this site today offering a service for two-factor password tokens, looks interesting.

Guess mainstream crypto might just happen.

Its www.mypw.com , seems pretty cheap, but who knows.

[RememberEZ]

Some options.

The following comments do NOT address the interface issue of the article. They do suggest some ways to generate encryption software unique for the individual, organization subgroups, and the organization.

The following website briefly (too briefly for a change?) describes the basic concept. Feel free to skip to the few comments on encryption.

http://RememberEZ.tripod.com/eat.html

The basics: Environmental samples (sound, etc.) can provide theoretically infinite enrichment sources for encryption software. Design for a construction set of algorithms, pseudo random selection of specific algorithms, and design of pseudo random number generators can all "feed" on the diversity of environmental samples.

Confirm: Try to get an exact duplicate digital sound sample on two different systems. Add in the most variable components of date and time stamps, and possibly some GPS data, and you'll have what you can not regenerate during any other sampling session.

Enjoy the challenge to make something better for a specific cryptography niche.

[sfrank212]

Re: MYPW.COM Easy Crypto

Hey, it took me about 30 mins but I got MyPW to work.

Looks like they might have something going on here.

I can use the same token at multiple sites.

http://www.mypw.com

[rbannon]

WOT

There's a commercial (thawte) provider of that gives away
personal e-mail certificates, and has an extensive worldwide
network of notaries that will help authenticate them.

Here's the web address:
http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-
certificates/index.html

I'm running a WOT users group in New Jersey (USA):
http://thawte-notary.blogspot.com/

[rbannon]

Commercial Grade For Free . . .

There's a commercial (thawte) provider of that gives away
personal e-mail certificates, and has an extensive worldwide
network of notaries that will help authenticate them.

Here's the web address:
http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-
certificates/index.html

I'm running a WOT users group in New Jersey (USA):
http://thawte-notary.blogspot.com/

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