POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue

Ruba Abu-Salma; M. Angela Sasse; Joseph Bonneau; Matthew Smith

doi:10.1145/2810103.2810126

POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue

Ruba Abu-Salma, M. Angela Sasse, Joseph Bonneau, Matthew Smith

Computer Science

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Abstract

In light of recent revelations of mass state surveillance of phone and Internet communications, many solutions now claim to provide secure messaging. These include both a broad range of new projects and several widely adopted applications that have added security features. However, despite the demand for better solutions, there is no clear winner in the race for widespread development and deployment of messaging products. Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation evaluated dozens of messaging tools based on security best practices, and publicized the results via the Secure Messaging Scorecard. Our goal is to expand the scorecard by evaluating messaging tools on a range of usefulness (utility and usability) attributes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1623-1625
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450338325
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2810126
State	Published - Oct 12 2015
Event	22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2015 - Denver, United States Duration: Oct 12 2015 → Oct 16 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Volume	2015-October
ISSN (Print)	1543-7221

Other

Other	22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	10/12/15 → 10/16/15

Keywords

Secure messaging
Usable security
User-centered security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Networks and Communications

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Abu-Salma, R., Sasse, M. A., Bonneau, J., & Smith, M. (2015). POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue. In CCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1623-1625). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security; Vol. 2015-October). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2810126

POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue. / Abu-Salma, Ruba; Sasse, M. Angela; Bonneau, Joseph et al.
CCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 1623-1625 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security; Vol. 2015-October).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abu-Salma, R, Sasse, MA, Bonneau, J & Smith, M 2015, POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue. in CCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, vol. 2015-October, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1623-1625, 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2015, Denver, United States, 10/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2810126

Abu-Salma R, Sasse MA, Bonneau J, Smith M. POSTER: Secure chat for the masses? User-centered security to the rescue. In CCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 1623-1625. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security). doi: 10.1145/2810103.2810126

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