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Security has often been placed as more important and essential than usability. However, fully secure environment is not an easy to use or user-friendly environment. Some people believe that security always has to come at the expense of usability and vise versa, and it is often argued that there is no good way to achieve both effective security and usability simultaneously. In the past, when a priority was placed on security without consideration for usability, this resulted in the failure of those solutions and less secure environments and processes. Nowadays industry realizes that security needs to be usable. Security should support and enable better business instead of hindering business functioning in any sense or impacting its efficiency in a negative way (Woods, 2013). Security and usability depend on one another, and good security is ineffective if the solution is unusable. For security and usability to successfully work alongside one another, security cannot be a constraint but must be an enabler (Magalhaes, 2018).
Answering the question why it is more important to use publicly known algorithms instead of propriety algorithms that are unknown, it is important to remember that the only way to test the strength of an algorithm is through a public review. Everyone uses different analysis techniques, and sometimes all it takes is for one person to find a certain weakness that the algorithm authors might have missed. Through public analysis weaknesses get reveled and thus can be refined later on.
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and it is used for transferring data over a network. Most information that is sent over the Internet uses the HTTP protocol and it uses two main kinds of HTTP messages such as requests and responses. HTTPS provides “secure’ transfer and it uses TLS (or SSL) to encrypt HTTP requests and responses. HTTPS is thus far more secure than HTTP (“HTTP vs. HTTPS: What are the differences?”, 2020).
Nowadays in our electronic world cryptography has been widely used as a means of information security. Even though the reason behind cryptography is clear and essential, the increased reliance on cryptographic methods has also raised several ethical questions of global concern that are closely related to fundamental human rights. A lot of those problems are related to inequality of access, intellectual property and copyright issues.
Magalhaes, M. (2018). Security vs. Usability: Does there have to be a compromise? TechGenix. Retrieved from http://techgenix.com/security-vs-usability/
Woods, D. (2013). Why Security Without Usability Leads to Failure. Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2013/03/11/why-security-without-usability-leads-to-failure/?sh=49bf0b445336
Why is HTTP not secure? HTTP vs. HTTPS. (2020). Cloudflare. Retrieved from https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/why-is-http-not-secure/
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The society’s reliance on information technology has been on the rise simultaneously
with the abilities of organizations, individuals, and states to conduct attacks on computer
networks and systems. I agree with the s...
