On 7/28/13 10:40 PM, David Barrett wrote: > (Picking up an old thread) > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Sean Lynch <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > When you start the application for the first time, it prompts you to > generate a public key or import one (it could be generated from a > password, but this has some problems associated with it). It lets you > put any metadata you want on the key, then connects to the network via > an included list of seed peers, or you could type them in yourself. The > application would then maintain a list of known reachable peers for > future connections. > > > There was a lot of discussion on this list on how keys themselves are > very offputting to the casual user.
People clearly understand physical keys. I've wondered if it would be easier if the public key was a file (not a string) whose icon looked like a physical key. But I don't know if casual users can send files any easier than they can copy and paste. Wes Felter _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
