ChaMAILeon: Exploring the Usability of a Privacy Preserving Email Sharing System
Prateek Dewan, Niharika Sachdeva, Mayank Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

TL;DR
ChaMAILeon is a privacy-preserving email sharing system that allows users to create multiple passwords with different access controls, enabling secure sharing while maintaining privacy, as demonstrated by usability testing with positive results.
Contribution
The paper introduces ChaMAILeon, a novel system that enables secure email sharing through multiple passwords with customizable access controls, addressing privacy concerns in email sharing practices.
Findings
All participants completed tasks with multiple attempts
System usability score of 75.42
Over half of participants expressed willingness to use regularly
Abstract
While passwords, by definition, are meant to be secret, recent trends have witnessed an increasing number of people sharing their email passwords with friends, colleagues, and significant others. However, leading websites like Google advise their users not to share their passwords with anyone, to avoid security and privacy breaches. To understand users' general password sharing behavior and practices, we conducted an online survey with 209 Indian participants and found that 64.35% of the participants felt a need to share their email passwords. Further, about 77% of the participants said that they would want to use a system which could provide them access control features, to maintain their privacy while sharing emails. To address the privacy concerns of users who need to share emails, we propose ChaMAILeon, a system which enables users to share their email passwords while maintaining…
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TopicsUser Authentication and Security Systems · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
