The problem is "motivational"

[Robert J. Hansen]

On 10/20/2011 1:39 AM, M.R. wrote:
> Interesting. However, the problem of widening email encryption
> practice is not technical, it is motivational.

Absolutely agreed.  Shirley Gaw, Ed Felten and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
had a wonderful paper a few years ago, "Secrecy, Flagging, and Paranoia:
Adoption Criteria in Encrypted Email" which covers this subject.  It's
eye-opening reading, which is why I bring it up as often as I can.  :)

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sgaw/publications/01Feb-Activists-sgaw-CHI2006.pdf