Autor: intrigeri Data: A: Tails user experience & user interface design Assumpte: Re: [Tails-ux] Terminology for the web assistant: different kinds
of Tails
sajolida wrote (13 May 2015 14:50:11 GMT) : > intrigeri:
>>> And also what about people using DVDs?
>>
>> I've no idea. Perhaps we'll have to ask for user input when no
>> persistent entropy pool seed is found. > The same wouldn't be applicable to the Tor state persistence.
s/wouldn't/might/ (one of the solutions that was suggested to me
regarding Tor state persistence relies on user input when no
persistence is available -- IIRC I wasn't convinced by *that* solution
but it's still among the available choices)
> So we probably have to think about that in a more general way.
That's true anyway, regardless of what I wrote above.
> This is what I'm referring to when saying that it might be awkward to
> ask for a passphrase that is not protecting any user visible data. > If we decide to go this way, then we might have to be upfront about it
> and explain more of the technical details. Maybe we can explain that we
> need to store some, let's say "cryptographic information", in
> persistence and that the user gains security by activating them. > Then our discourse about persistence would change ("use persistence to
> store private date, custom configuration, and get additional security").
> But we wouldn't have to change how it is called.
