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Why would any user trust this system? #120

Open dbosk opened 6 years ago

dbosk commented 6 years ago

Why would any (non-cryptographer) user trust this system? Or more generally, why would any user of anonymous credentials trust the anonymous credentials to be secure? \Eg it's quite counter-intuitive that you can prove your age without revealing your birthday.

This was a question asked by Simone during SWITS. She also suggested that we collaborate on a paper researching this question.

sbuc commented 6 years ago

How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf https://medium.com/qed-it/the-incredible-machine-4d1270d7363a

Such examples might convince dedicated journalists who in turn might be trusted by potential participants.

dbosk commented 6 years ago

Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’ http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3196490 Bran Knowles, Vicki L. Hanson

Older adults frequently deploy the concept of distrust when discussing digital technologies, and it is tempting to assume that distrust is largely responsible for the reduced uptake by older adults witnessed in the latest surveys of technology use. To help understand the impact of distrust on adoption behavior, we conducted focus groups with older adults exploring how, in what circumstances, and to what effect older adults articulate distrust in digital technologies. Our findings indicate that distrust is not especially relevant to older adults’ practical decision making around technology (non-)use. The older adults in our study used the language of distrust to open up discussions around digital technologies to larger issues related to values.

dbosk commented 6 years ago

@sbuc Haha, one of the authors of the "how to explain to children" paper is from Cesson-Sévigné --- that's where I lived in Rennes :-D