[Popcon-developers] Bug#480860: Bug#480860: popularity-contest should encrypt contents

[Sheridan Hutchinson]

2009/2/19 Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> Your issue is mentionned in the popcon FAQ
> <http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ>.

Thank you for your reply, indeed it is very clearly in the FAQ and I
should have checked that first.

> At this stage I am afraid that decrypting all the submissions would
> but too high a load on the server.

I guess there are two ways to consider this relative to the demands
and productivity of the server.

I'm going to assume that it would be too much for the server for all
submissions to be encrypted, but what about if popcon had an opt-in
for encryption.  Surely the number of people who would opt-in for
encryption and getting it set up would be reasonably low, although it
may still generate too high a load.

Ideally though (and I hope you'll agree) all submissions would
preferentially be encrypted in transit and one day when you've got the
necessary computing resources this may become a reality.

The FAQ indicates this is an on-going consideration so we'll see what
the next few years bring.

-- 
Regards,
Sheridan Hutchinson
sheridan at shezza.org