Make it clear what Blindstore is

[HarryCutts]

I just sent a link to a friend who is pretty knowledgable on crypto, who couldn't tell what Blindstore was by reading the page. I then had a look myself, and realised that the explanation in "Motivation" stops as soon as it mentions the oblivious operator. Fixing this should be high on our priorities list, I think.

Also, we should have a box pretty near the top (preferably in view when the page loads) that can tell the viewer what Blindstore is then and there. It really puts me off a project when I can't tell what it does after reading half of the home page.

[Eipifi]

Agreed. For now, we should focus on what Blindstore actually does instead of what we want to do with it.

I think FHE should be mentioned at the very beginning (obligatory link to wikipedia), and we should remove the part with establishing encrypted P2P connections. This worked great for the presentation on sunday, but now it can be very misleading.

[OmeGak]

The project page will need to be reworked entirely. For now it's so verbose I'd be surprised if anybody reads it. The motivation focuses on a use case instead of in the actual matter.

The challenge is to find a few sentences that summarizes what Blindstore is univocally. It would also be desired to state clearly what differentiates us from other solutions such as CryptDB.

[HarryCutts]

"Blindstore is an oblivious data store; that is, it provides an online lookup service which returns the correct answer without ever knowing what the question was. It is currently in an early stage of development, but has many possible privacy applications, such as completely private Peer-to-peer signalling or domain name resolution. It is completely Open Source."

Something like that?

[bogdan-kulynych]

You're the native speaker, so you know better :) I like this description.