[Commotion-dev] quick note on crypto UX

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I definitely agree that the crypto lingo definitely needs to be improved.
Unfortunately, I think that tweaking it here and there will only make it
worse.  For better or worse, "fingerprint" is the widespread term for that
thing.  And using a different word for it means that users will not be able to
tap into the existing body of knowledge around key fingerprints.

So if there is a crypto key fingerprint that the user has to know about, it
should be called a fingerprint.  And what we need to be working towards is
ways of representing crypto in a better way.  Here are some more of my more
recent thoughts on that topic:

https://guardianproject.info/2013/12/12/keys-signatures-certificates-verifications-etc-what-are-all-these-for/

.hc

On 01/28/2014 04:23 PM, hello at ninabianchi.com wrote:
> Josh Breitbart + I started to do some of this work in 2011 with the Every Network Tells a Story workshop. We gathered ideas + feedback during the workshops.
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> I can see if I can find our notes around some of the proposed language -- I may have to dig around for a bit. Ecological metaphors seemed to resonate in general. 
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> It would be great to pick this conversation back up in general, especially around encryption. 
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> Conceptualizing new language (through a collaborative / participatory approach) is only one part of the process — testing the language, adapting to feedback, circulating the language in easy to digest forms, changing behavior with advanced users and introducing the material to new users... and so on. 
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> It'd be great to see more about this on the blog as Preston mentioned.
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> Perhaps this can become part of the Commotion Construction Kit's future.
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> Nina
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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote:
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>> The Doctor wrote:
>>> Why not poll a group of potential users who aren't hackers, explain
>>> what you want to accomplish (but don't tell them what it's called),
>>> and see how they react.  There might be something in common parlance
>>> that is more intuitive.
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>>  That's a great idea.  I wonder where we could rustle some up who aren't already familiar with the nomenclature....  Thoughts?
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>> ~Griffin
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