Hello Eric, The system you describe is already implemented. However, as your intuition pointed too, this create issues for new users who do not have their RingID trusted yet. A second row of if issues arise from an integration point of view. While most of the software stack support the trust request system, only one client expose it (disabled by default).
The workflow involved in being able to manage the trust is technically rather complex. This run against our mission of providing software anybody can use. We really want, and will, turn it on before calling Ring a finished product. However, for the alpha stage, we decided not to follow on with forcing the trusted mode on. Once the system is mature enough not to make the application unusable, then it will be turned on. If you wish, you can enable it on (at least in the Gnome and KDE clients, I did not recently try the others): http://i.imgur.com/86IAKQJ.png As for the "trust request" ("introductions"), no client fully implements them. The KDE client has some of it, but not enough to be very useful. Technical users can make a small python script to review them, for the there is no "GUI" for them yet. If you wish to read more, I made a blog post a while back about this. It is now a little outdated and some parts changed, but this will give you an idea: https://elv13.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/what-is-ring-and-how-it-works/ Regards, Emmanuel Lepage ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Worden" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 12:23:58 PM Subject: [Ring] privacy in the DHT Hi, thanks for building this great program! I have a concern about the privacy of my IP address in the DHT. Am I correct that anyone with knowledge of my ringid can obtain my IP address from the DHT? I think it would be desirable to enable some privacy control on this, perhaps to encrypt the IP address so that only one's trusted contacts can read it. That idea introduces a new problem for newly-introduced people who wish to message each other. For that problem, people would have to exchange ringid's and "trust" them before a call could be made. It would also be nice to have an option to let your friends make "introductions", which amounts to letting friends establish your trust of their own friend. Also, I would appreciate any details of firewall configuration that you can provide. Eric Worden _______________________________________________ Ring mailing list [email protected] https://lists.savoirfairelinux.net/mailman/listinfo/ring _______________________________________________ Ring mailing list [email protected] https://lists.savoirfairelinux.net/mailman/listinfo/ring
