Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC-Issues with Apple Mail since macOS 10.12.3 (Sierra)
Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC-Issues with Apple Mail since macOS 10.12.3 (Sierra)
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC-Issues with Apple Mail since macOS 10.12.3 (Sierra)
- From: "Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:08:13 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] CAC-Issues with Apple Mail since macOS 10.12.3 (Sierra)
On 4/25/17, 4:00 PM, "William Cerniuk" <email@hidden> wrote: The irony is that it is Apple software yet unfriendly. ☺ ☺ But in the end, regardless of striving for accuracy, the user experience is all that matters. The fact that it can’t resolve the certificate chain is important and that it does not offer a way for “my mom” to say “Ok, I trust this” easily with confidence is worse. But it does, sort of – it has that checkbox “Always trust “Blah-blah-blah…”. Although I’d be rather reluctant to advise my wife (for example) to click on it in case of doubt. In fact, I don’t often do that myself. ;-) This is partially prevents wide scale adoption of email security. The other part that prevents adoption is the onerous way email certificates are generated. The secondary irony is that I remember some version of the Mac OS way back that presented that “does not compute” information with a yellow background and I remember it having a “Trust” button… Making it useable hence adoptable. Today’s version may (or may not) be more technically accurate but is a lot less usable. See above. There is that button (or rather, a checkbox) – but the information presented is insufficient (for a lay-person at least, IMHO) to make a good decision. But Apple managed to reduce the remaining messages to one-liners. ;-)
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