Hi there, Nice work Irfan Mir. I'm trying to understand the rationale behind those questions. Sorry if I've missed something, correct me were I am wrong please.
1) Do you know someone who runs Freenet? Does freenet have an expressive number of users and are most new users newbie users that have a friend in freenet? I mean, if we know that +80% of the users that see the wizard are 'first timers' or newbie users and, even if they have a friend in freenet, they don't have the friend noderef to add him now, these question can be placed somewhere else. If he is installing freenet because a friend told so, is very likely that this friend will provide the noderef necessary to be added as a friend and explains how to do it. IMHO wizards are better to configuration related questions, the darknet mode looks more like a feature than a configuration. Maybe we can place this question in a 'dashboard' so the user can add a friend after he is already inside the freenet. I'm not saying that this question is not needed, I'm just wondering if it's needed in the wizard at the current status of freenet. Am I wrong if I believe that most new users don't have any noderef and are just trying freenet out? (do we have some information or statistic on this?) 4) (optional) Would you like to set a password? If I got it right this password will encrypt the user downloads. If the user downloads something from freenet which he thinks it needs encryption will he rest just with freenet build-in encryption or will he use an external tool? I think that the kind of user that could answer 'yes' here already use an external way to encrypt his files. It seems very likely to me that this user have more content that needs to be protected and already thought about this, and if so he is not the kind of user who relies on 'generic' encryption solutions. Again, maybe this is more like a feature than a needed configuration. IMHO the questions about the disk space and network are enough for the wizard (all the user probably want now is to see the 'face' of freenet). I think that further protection must be treated as a advanced feature where the user really have time (and attention) to understand what he's doing and the implications and limitations of it. Irfan, I'm doing some usability work in the interface, let me know if I can help you with something. Paulo > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:13:14 -0400 > From: Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> > To: devl@freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Security Setup update > Message-ID: <515ce1ba.8060...@asksteved.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/03/2013 08:43 PM, irfan mir wrote: > > Hello all, I just wanted to update you on that I got the > > opportunity to make some major progress on the interactions of the > > new security setup. > > > > Currently all the interactions work in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, > > Opera (latest), and IE10. I plan to further develop the > > interactions so that I can extend the support deeper into the > > previous versions of the aforementioned browsers including IE6+. > > Wow! That's impressive compatibility. > > > In accordance to the user-flow discussed seen, much simplified, > > here: > > > > Ask questions-->Way questions are answered result in a security > > level being > >> selected--> security options are shown underneath selected > >> security level. > > What I was thinking is that while the questions are about security > (and other) settings, they are asked instead of an explicit selection > of low / normal / high (network|physical) security levels. > > > What is the exact wording of the questions that are to be asked in > > the first step? And how many questions are there to be? I recommend > > 3 or less. And no more than 5 if more than 3 are necessary. > > > > The wording can always be changed later, but since this is a > > high-fidelity prototype, I want the wording to be on topic and as > > close to the actual questions as possible. > > Working from the exchange between Matthew and I March 23rd: > > 1) Do you know someone who runs Freenet? > > If yes is selected: > 1.5) Do you want to connect to untrusted strangers to improve > performance? Freenet will be faster but less secure. > > If not: > Freenet will connect to strangers. You can always add connections to > your trusted friends later to improve security. > > > 2) Do you have a monthly bandwidth limit? > > If yes is selected: > [ ] GB/month > > If not: > Select your Internet connection speed: > > [table of common Internet connection speeds] > [autodetected limit if available] > [ ] KiB/s download | [ ] KiB/s upload > > > 3) How much hard drive space do you want to give to Freenet? > > [ ] GiB (initially populated with the default of some fraction of > free disk space) > > > 4) (optional) Would you like to set a password? > > Password: [ ] Confirm: [ ] > > If you set a password Freenet will require it to decrypt its data each > time you start it. > > > Do these questions seem reasonable? > > Steve > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRXOG6AAoJECLJP19KqmFu+gEQAMnLKDL4AkWdMoZlhX0MFa7E > gAF83p/q2SNKzfhlB83WXeZi/Ie8ok1UZq7ZGBZrU+rwo6Ie1th5+AgXL+kc0GIb > BQM5rn2+CWciIEfQv38KpZmV+5t0nCmn/pLJPLiYYVvCQ0pBWVDJkui+Mf3vcEeY > 5xIbqGp/fQ4x7LYrlgkrAt6X7mwlfAQvzGL/lKycfP1xPEBosBo+2nMatFMg6f12 > dquT46uNsX9ljGIp4pfbYEaxafxVM1nVwEFCWJlfZbkxvRR5hYF8f4jI8gvaU6Ku > a4H2tgcwHjVGQzqYcMz4p6Ji7rpop/2HbbwHo5b5Bx2eRDOgfgFVNBLPGyFCyIYo > /uLIpiyTSLbpp+seiuYNuK79F9gbqmXPrreruw6JQn05BS7IuL7nexEYtq+AU2to > jDAcncMasDg4Wsu3Xf+RwhJ1l8lQByLxaifrvlbXsBwnbbBAe3contK+w7tBMeuW > GJC6+BWI5ofjicRyEfeijVWblQ62HiUy82Qt3SXqLKZHsB84WX000Vm6wnYChOBy > PqiWcKnLb45tpbb14DzaOySVz4oJMS3rqeV7k/mYhdTIhoy6eNQ5oT2nmxYGsD1W > lfweBN6V+xR3k6a5thiGDOs5ml2SZ7BOhYG/FeLnQBmAAuyrO6F2GmnmiJuYfQYI > iCAmip2Obnl11crmyKH/ > =UXGD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > End of Devl Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3 > *********************************** >
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