October 30, 2006

Cryptography experts confess

CNET: At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say

" 'In the early years, we as an industry could blame the system for controlling the pace of innovation because the government was throwing up roadblocks,' Ozzie said. 'At this moment in time, it's laziness on the part of the industry in terms of not embracing architecture and the importance of human interface in design of secure systems.' "

I wonder what their plan is to address the issue...

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