ZBox claims misleading and inaccurate. Please consider rewording the lack of leakage. about zbox HOT 4 CLOSED

Sure, I've now updated the wording on https://zbox.io/about, hope it to be more clear and less misleading.

from zbox.

Thanks for your suggestion, @james-darkfox . I think this issues had been discussed since beginning, see #4.

PIR and OT protocols are great, but that's not the purpose of Zbox implementation. Its purpose is not trying to hide and be anonymous to server, like Tor. Instead, its goal is to remove the details of data as much as possible. As you said, server knows where you come from, what blocks reads or writes, and when are you doing that, server even knows your email address (if you signed up). It knows you have secret data, we're not hiding that truth, but it just doesn't know what the content is.

'Zero-details' doesn't mean zero knowledge or no knowledge, it definitely has some knowledge but just don't know what's the details, as the name suggested. In a cryptographer's eyes, 'zero-knowledge' has strict claim and that's why I changed the naming to avoid misleading.

Anyway, I will improve words in the doc to give it more accurate description. Thanks again.

from zbox.

Perhaps "near-zero", with a footnote or link to an enumeration of what the server does know.

from zbox.

@burmecia I wouldn't quote the near-zero nor mention the things you're not doing. The list of what is leaked is sufficient.

from zbox.