On 2013-02-17 4:49 AM, Jonathan Warren wrote:
A primary goal has been to make a clean and simple interface so that
the key management, authentication, and encryption is simple even for
people who do not understand public-key cryptography.
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This is of course, the hard problem.
If I understand correctly what you have done, in the system, true names
are long random non memorable bit strings, and introductions are not
inherently part of the system, nor are petnames part of the system.
So no one has anyone to talk to, nor anything to talk about, and if they
did, they would have trouble recollecting who they were talking to,
since all truenames look like gibberish, thus all truenames look alike.
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A proposed alternative user interface design:
Seems to me that you need something like public web pages, and something
like a favorites list / bookmarks list, where when you add something or
someone to your list, a petname/truename pair is added to your bookmark
list.
Note how Tor's browser thinks it is communicating by http, while in
reality communicating by a completely different protocol.
A link in the webpage would be nickname/truename pair, thus clicking on
such a link, you would be guaranteed to go to where the author the web
page intended (trusted path) and the destination would be capable of
being added to your bookmarks list. The long random gibberish true name
would almost always be hidden behind nicknames, petnames, and trusted
path links.
When you click on something in your list, you either find yourself on a
webpage(by trusted path), or open a text message window to an
individual, by trusted path. If the recipient is not currently dealing
with your window, (windows open simultaneously on both machines)
messages get saved and are available in an email like interface, so that
instant messaging and email are variant user interfaces on the same
function.
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