[tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread vimalathithan
Hi, I am new to this community. A group consists of 5 members from School of Informatics and Computing, working with Professor Jean Camp on a research paper. Our research is to carry out a case study after making changes in the UI of Tor Browser. Could anyone here, please provide a link

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Vimalathithan. By Tor UI I suspect that you mean Vidalia? https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en I'm not sure if it would benefit much from a usability study at the moment since development on it seems to be on hiatus (I might be wrong, Tomás would know). On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Damian Johnson ata...@torproject.org wrote: I'm not sure if it would benefit much from a usability study at the moment since development on it seems to be on hiatus (I might be wrong, Tomás would know). Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread k e bera
By Torbrowser UI they might mean the whole anonymous browsing experience. There are some reports of real user feedback that were posted to Tor-Talk mailing list awhile back that may give some start on the problems involved:

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
vimalathithan: Hi, I am new to this community. A group consists of 5 members from School of Informatics and Computing, working with Professor Jean Camp on a research paper. Our research is to carry out a case study after making changes in the UI of Tor Browser. Hello and welcome!

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Damian Johnson: Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could benefit from a usability study. Usability studies only help if there's development resources to make the suggestions happen. Tor Browser has had a study or two. It has been helpful even though we have not yet had the

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Greg Norcie
Hi, I'm Greg, I'm a PhD student at Indiana University, and I', helping supervise Vimalathithan on this project. You're right Damian: a usability eval on it's own is not very useful to Tor. The usability evaluation has actually been done (and was presented at HotPETS 2012[1]) What we're doing

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 214: Allow 4-byte circuit IDs in a new link protocol

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:36:34PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: Relays are running out of circuit IDs. It's time to make the field bigger. I don't doubt the second sentence, but is the first sentence actually true? Do we have any evidence / measurements / something here? (Since circids

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 214: Allow 4-byte circuit IDs in a new link protocol

2012-11-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:36:34PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: Relays are running out of circuit IDs. It's time to make the field bigger. I don't doubt the second sentence, but is the first sentence actually

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 214: Allow 4-byte circuit IDs in a new link protocol

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:10:15PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: And if a very few do, maybe the solution is to move to a new TLS connection for those rare cases, rather than impose a 2-byte penalty on every cell in all cases.) Maaaybe, but I sure can't think of a sane testable design for