Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of GSoC2012/Statscollector

Timestamp:

Aug 19, 2012, 11:05:33 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

sanket

Comment:

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GSoC2012/Statscollector

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 == Ensuring server names in prpl-jabber/irc are public ==
+
+One problem very rightly pointed out by elb (Ethan) regarding displaying Jabber/IRC breakdown is that it may potentially reveal private servers which can then reveal identity of users. We don't want that obviously :-). Also if a user is running a local server for some development purposes, we don't want that either. To solve these problems this mechanism has been provided:
+
+=== Plugin ===
+ * The plugins will ask for a trusted list of servers from the Stats server
+  * This list will actually contain md5 hashes
+ * If the current server is in the list then we can simply put it's name in stats.xml, else
+  * The server is yet to be determined as public
+ * In both cases, the current stats will count as evidence towards it's being public
+
+=== Server ===
+ * The server will check for incoming stats, if it contains only the Hash or both Hash and Name
+ * If only hash is present, then it'll increment confidence for it being public else,
+ * If both hash and name are present, it'll check if md5(name) == hash ^ hash in trusted_list
+  * If both conditions are satisfied, then the name will come in display else not