I love the dialog box prompting the user to authenticate their "buddy" with the caption: > Why is this security dialog (present in other encrypted messaging to

I love the dialog box prompting the user to authenticate their "buddy" with the caption: > Why is this security dialog (present in other encrypted messaging tools) missing from Skype? Why? Because that dialog is horrifying. First, because my parents (Skype users) don't want to have to understand public key cryptography just to talk to their kids and see a video conference of their grandkids. They want to make a phone call and video conference inexpensively. That the medium is encrypted is an implementation detail and one that they don't care about; certainly this impedes their barrier to entry. But also because I read that dialog box twice and I still don't understand it. Am I expected to change the combo box to say that I have verified his fingerprint before clicking Authenticate? What happens if I don't change the combo box and click Authenticate anyway? Anything? That would be unexpected, so maybe it's nothing. But if that's true, why isn't Authenticate disabled? That's why.