MessageGuard: A Browser-based Platform for Usable, Content-Based Encryption Research
This addresses the problem of fragmented research in usable encryption for security and usability researchers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing encryption concepts with a new platform.
The paper tackles the challenge of enabling collaboration between security and usability researchers in content-based encryption by introducing MessageGuard, a browser-based platform that simplifies research efforts and allows for sharing and replication of results, validated through case studies on Gmail and Facebook Chat.
This paper describes MessageGuard, a browser-based platform for research into usable content-based encryption. MessageGuard is designed to enable collaboration between security and usability researchers on long-standing research questions in this area. It significantly simplifies the effort required to work in this space and provides a place for research results to be shared, replicated, and compared with minimal confounding factors. MessageGuard provides ubiquitous encryption and secure cryptographic operations, enabling research on any existing web application, with realistic usability studies on a secure platform. We validate MessageGuard's compatibility and performance, and we illustrate its utility with case studies for Gmail and Facebook Chat.