Sounds Good? Fast and Secure Contact Exchange in Groups
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| author | Putz, Florentin Haesler, Steffen Hollick, Matthias |
| author_facet | Putz, Florentin Haesler, Steffen Hollick, Matthias |
| contents | Trustworthy digital communication requires the secure exchange of contact information, but current approaches lack usability and scalability for larger groups of users. We evaluate the usability of two secure contact exchange systems: the current state of the art, SafeSlinger, and our newly designed protocol, PairSonic, which extends trust from physical encounters to spontaneous online communication. Our lab study (N=45) demonstrates PairSonic's superior usability, automating the tedious verification tasks from previous approaches via an acoustic out-of-band channel. Although participants significantly preferred our system, minimizing user effort surprisingly decreased the perceived security for some users, who associated security with complexity. We discuss user perceptions of the different protocol components and identify remaining usability barriers for CSCW application scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Sounds Good? Fast and Secure Contact Exchange in Groups Putz, Florentin Haesler, Steffen Hollick, Matthias Human-Computer Interaction Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture Trustworthy digital communication requires the secure exchange of contact information, but current approaches lack usability and scalability for larger groups of users. We evaluate the usability of two secure contact exchange systems: the current state of the art, SafeSlinger, and our newly designed protocol, PairSonic, which extends trust from physical encounters to spontaneous online communication. Our lab study (N=45) demonstrates PairSonic's superior usability, automating the tedious verification tasks from previous approaches via an acoustic out-of-band channel. Although participants significantly preferred our system, minimizing user effort surprisingly decreased the perceived security for some users, who associated security with complexity. We discuss user perceptions of the different protocol components and identify remaining usability barriers for CSCW application scenarios. |
| title | Sounds Good? Fast and Secure Contact Exchange in Groups |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13694 |