Re: [tor-dev] PrivCount - Draft of secret-sharing specification

2017-09-27 Thread Carolin Zöbelein
Hi, > Hi, > > This looks like a great overview of the Shamir secret-sharing > protocol. > > We talked about instantiating it with unsigned 64-bit integers on > IRC. > It would be easier for me to understand it (and for someone to code > it). > > This would also help us define an interchange for

Re: [tor-dev] User perception of the prop224 domain format

2017-09-27 Thread Alec Muffett
On 27 September 2017 at 22:25, Ben Laurie wrote: > Your survey is obviously massively biased towards users of Tor. It > would be really interesting to know what non-users think. Yes and no; I can totally see that from a user-experience perspective, it would be exciting research to rock up to s

Re: [tor-dev] User perception of the prop224 domain format

2017-09-27 Thread Philipp Winter
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:25:04PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 21:26, Philipp Winter wrote: > > However, our survey data is likely biased towards a particularly young > > and educated crowd that's presumably less bothered by technological > > hurdles, which may be why they c

Re: [tor-dev] User perception of the prop224 domain format

2017-09-27 Thread Ben Laurie
On 27 September 2017 at 21:26, Philipp Winter wrote: > However, our survey data is likely biased towards a particularly young > and educated crowd that's presumably less bothered by technological > hurdles, which may be why they can afford to care more about content. Your survey is obviously mass

Re: [tor-dev] User perception of the prop224 domain format

2017-09-27 Thread Alec Muffett
Interesting. Do we have a consensus on the length of the "run them in parallel" / cutover period from old-to-new? I would be inclined to keep older addresses around for up to 3 years before trying to kill them entirely, because of such tor-adoption-curve concerns. NB: this would still be massive

[tor-dev] User perception of the prop224 domain format

2017-09-27 Thread Philipp Winter
We recently ran a survey on the usability of Tor and onion services [0]. I had a closer look at how our respondents perceive the prop224 domain format and wanted to share some early insights. The original survey question was: > The Tor Project is currently working on the next generation of onion