http://haacked.com/archive/2007/01/22/Identicons_as_Visual_Fingerprints.aspx
On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:02, Timur Mehrvarz wrote: > On 30.09.2011 16:29, Ted Smith wrote: >> So, it seems that your app uses Bluetooth to transfer key >> material, and then relies on users manually verifying >> fingerprints. > > This is correct. Anymime does not transmit fingerprints but only the > full keys. > >> Is it possible to use Intents from another app to transfer files >> over anymime? Or is it possible to do the same to allow monkeysign >> to verify fingerprints from anymime-ksp? I'm not an android expert, >> but that seems like the best way of going about doing this. > > The anymime-ksp activities are already available to any app. It's only > a matter of requisting an intent with... > > intent.setDataAndType(pgpFileUri,"application/pgp") > > Your "Apply action..." popup will then contain both: > ShowPgpFingerprintActivity and UploadPgpFilesPopupActivity. Android is > genius in this regard. Good luck implementing this for iOS. > > > On 30.09.2011 16:43, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> My main concern is that visually comparing two strings of 40 >> hexadecimal digits is beyond the attention span of most humans i >> know. Even for the folks who can actually compare all the digits, >> once a handful of key exchanges have been done and have always >> "checked out" by visual comparison, the user will probably start to >> get sloppy. >> >> I don't mean this in a pejorative way; comparing long strings of >> arbitrary symbols is just not what the human mind is cut out for. >> >> So having a way for the exchange to be securely done *without* >> users needing to inspect fingerprints would be an excellent step >> forward in the experience of key exchange. > > I fully agree with you say. Someone suggested to me in private to do > an alternative ShowPgpFingerprintActivity with color coding. This > would then be available as an additional entry in the "Apply > action..." popup menu. I just didn't want to start coding something > fancy without having a discussion upfront. Bingo, here we are. > > So, how do we want to make comparing 48 hex digits easier for the user? > Timur > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
