Open holmesworcester opened 4 years ago
One thing is the padding and vertical rhythm on the security page is getting messy. I wonder how many more sections we can sustain. Probably it's best to put the "Outbound links" section last since it has subsections of indefinite length.
1. Add this welcome text to the message people get when they join the Zbay channel for the first time:
Welcome to Zbay! To start quickly, Zbay includes username and channel registration data in the app itself. To verify this data, which takes ~1 hour but may add some security, restart & re-sync. Otherwise, say hi and introduce yourself!
2. Add this section to the security settings.
Verification
To start quickly, Zbay includes username and channel registration data in the app itself. If the Zbay team omitted some data, or provided incorrect data, a user or channel could be censored or impersonated. To verify this data, which takes ~1 hour but may add some security, you can restart & re-sync. You only need to do this once.
BUTTON: Restart & re-sync
Note: once the user has done this, we should say "Zbay has been re-synced."
3. Rescan all username and channel data whenever user rescans (e.g. when rescanning an old channel) and throw away any data we've shipped with the app, and any data based on it.
4. Put the "outbound links" section at the bottom, and the recovery key section at the top, followed by the verification section.
Note: we are already showing the union of messages included with the app and messages from the node, on rescan. This is important for security.
In #409 we are choosing to ship Zbay with data from included channels (users, channel of channel, price oracle, default channels) so that we can start the lightwallet with the birthdate of the app release.
In #290 we let users rescan to see old messages.
With this issue we want to give users a way to rescan the data that Zbay provided them to validate it. (At some point in the future we will do this automatically by default, and warn users if there is a discrepancy, but that's something for future work once we figure out a general solution to "going back in time".)
Ideas:
Basic idea for text:
"To start quickly, Zbay includes existing username and channel registrations in the app itself. If you'd like to restart and verify these, click here. It will take ~15 minutes. "
UPDATE: see my comment below for instructions on completing this.