Hi Huy, You’re very welcome, we look forward to your application!
Best, Marcela > On Mar 13, 2016, at 3:40 AM, Huy Vu Quoc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Marcela, > > Thanks for your quickly reply. > >> It's reasonable to assume that the client may one day talk to other CONIKS >> servers and >> clients. So clearly specifying the data format that the Tor Messenger client >> (and also >> the server) uses is an important part of the project. Ultimately, the data >> format specification >> should follow the data formats given in the paper. So you should provide a >> clear specification >> for Tor Messenger but you shouldn't worry too much about making it >> compatible with other >> services. The main reason being that we don’t know of other communication >> services that >> have already implemented and deployed CONIKS. >> >> I'm not currently working on a standard specification. That's something that >> I think >> communication/identity providers should come together to do once there are a >> few tested >> deployments of CONIKS. This is what I've heard from other communication >> service providers >> I've talked to, and I think it makes sense. >> >> To get a rough sense of what a data format might look like, you may look at >> the CONIKS reference >> implementation (github.com/coniks-sys/ref-implementation). It uses Protobufs >> >> to specify the data exchange format, so you could use a similar format. > > Thanks for your suggestion. I will have a look at this carefully. > >> As part of your application, we’d like for you to provide us with your >> planned timeline >> according to the functionality we’d like to have. Here’s the functionality >> that would >> be great to have by the end of the summer: key registrations, lookups and >> monitoring. >> The nice thing about splitting up the functionality like this is that it >> allows for the >> key server and the client to be built incrementally. So given how you want >> to tackle these >> tasks, you should set up your plan accordingly. > > I get it. It would help me a lot when writing my proposal. > > best, > Vu Quoc Huy > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
