Excellent post, language and all. It is important to be passionate about what matters to you. The Explorer development team at MS needs to have your screenshots blanketing their whiteboards and their mouses unplugged.
PGP suffers because of remarkably poor nomenclature. The terms "public key" and "key pair" lend less than zero towards understanding the simple concept of how these objects are involved with encrypting and decrypting messages.
I've supported applications that use PGP for almost 9 years, and the number of times I must explain and re-explain how PGP keys work is just sad. In fact, there is one PGP administrator who methodically signs and distributes, every month, his company's latest public key *and* key pair to us. Why, oh why, didn't Phil just call them "encoders" and "decoders"?
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Excellent post, language and all. It is important to be passionate about what matters to you. The Explorer development team at MS needs to have your screenshots blanketing their whiteboards and their mouses unplugged.
PGP suffers because of remarkably poor nomenclature. The terms "public key" and "key pair" lend less than zero towards understanding the simple concept of how these objects are involved with encrypting and decrypting messages.
I've supported applications that use PGP for almost 9 years, and the number of times I must explain and re-explain how PGP keys work is just sad. In fact, there is one PGP administrator who methodically signs and distributes, every month, his company's latest public key *and* key pair to us. Why, oh why, didn't Phil just call them "encoders" and "decoders"?