[messaging] Let's run a usability study (was Useability of public-key fingerprints)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/13/2014 02:18 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 11 March 2014 00:41, Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:
>> Fingerprint Types
>>  - Visual and poetry fingerprints seem worth including.
> 
> Does anyone have a preference for type of visual fingerprint?  Some of
> the implementations I know of are:
>  - Identicons: http://haacked.com/archive/2007/01/22/Identicons_as_Visual_Fingerprints.aspx/
>  - Monsters: http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
>  - Wavatars: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462
>  - Unicorns (really)
> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns
> 
> I think I will go with identicons unless anyone really thinks unicorns
> is better ;)

i think for all of the above, we're going to have a difficult time
designing credible similarity metrics that roughly match the metrics
used by the "fuzzy fingerprinting" work.

i do ♥ the unicorns though.

	--dkg


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 1010 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/attachments/20140313/d619316d/attachment.sig>