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"Public Understanding of Science" has been a big issue for several decades (maybe even longer?), but I think we'll see progress towards "Public Understand of Cr
by prezjordan 13y ago
"Public Understanding of Science" has been a big issue for several decades (maybe even longer?), but I think we'll see progress towards "Public Understand of Cryptography," or at least I hope so :)
It goes deeper than just using some PGP client. You need to understand how it works, to be sure that the bits coming out of your network are encrypted, and only you and Alice know how to decrypt them.
- schoen 13y agoI've been working a little bit on cryptography education issues and so have a number of people I know, but now I'm reminded of Lancelot Hogben's books "Mathematics for the Million" and "Science for the Citizen". Maybe someone will create their equivalents for cryptography! "Cryptography for the 2⁶⁴"?
- pekk 13y agoIf you want "public understanding of cryptography," then first you may need to remove a lot of the elitism, posturing, showing off and one-upmanship that surrounds almost any public discussion of cryptography (mostly coming from people who are actually not very knowledgeable). Otherwise the rest of the world will continue assume it is beyond them, not really worth understanding and is something for arrogant nerds to argue about in order to establish who is smarter.