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most citedAre easily usable security libraries possible and how should experts work together to create them?

19 citations · 53 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.SE2020

Fluid Intelligence Doesn't Matter! Effects of Code Examples on the Usability of Crypto APIs

Kai Mindermann, Stefan Wagner

Context: Programmers frequently look for the code of previously solved problems that they can adapt for their own problem. Despite existing example code on the web, on sites like S…

cs.CR2018★ 19 cited

How Usable are Rust Cryptography APIs?

Kai Mindermann, Philipp Keck, Stefan Wagner

Context: Poor usability of cryptographic APIs is a severe source of vulnerabilities. Aim: We wanted to find out what kind of cryptographic libraries are present in Rust and how usa…

cs.CR2018★ 2 cited

Usability and Security Effects of Code Examples on Crypto APIs - CryptoExamples: A platform for free, minimal, complete and secure crypto examples

Kai Mindermann, Stefan Wagner

Context: Cryptographic APIs are said to be not usable and researchers suggest to add example code to the documentation. Aim: We wanted to create a free platform for cryptographic c…

cs.CY2017★ 13 cited

Exploratory Study of the Privacy Extension for System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA-Priv) to elicit Privacy Risks in eHealth

Kai Mindermann, Frederik Riedel, Asim Abdulkhaleq +2

Context: System Theoretic Process Analysis for Privacy (STPA-Priv) is a novel privacy risk elicitation method using a top down approach. It has not gotten very much attention but m…

cs.CR2016★ 19 cited

Are easily usable security libraries possible and how should experts work together to create them?

Kai Mindermann

Due to non-experts also developing security relevant applications it is necessary to support them too. Some improvements in the current research may not reach or impact these devel…