Marie-Laure Zollinger

Security – Visible, Yet Unseen? How Displaying Security Mechanisms Impacts User Experience and Perceived Security

An unsolved debate in the field of usable security concerns whether security mechanisms should be visible, or blackboxed away from the user for the sake of usability. However, tying this question to pragmatic usability factors only might be simplistic. This study aims at researching the impact of displaying security m…