Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

[WIP] Updated scoring system #101

Open
wants to merge 2 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from

Conversation

kristovatlas
Copy link
Member

@kristovatlas kristovatlas commented Jul 7, 2016

This includes a new scoring system discussed at our 2016/07/06 meeting. Previously, our scoring has worked this way:
assign sibling-relative weights to attackers, then sibling-relative weights to categories, then to types of criteria (quality/feedback/usability), then to individual criteria. The final weight of a criterion is achieved by finding the fraction represented at each of the four categories and cross-multiplying.

The new system will instead be based on the threat model categories instead of the criteria categories. The four categories are: attacker, attack, countermeasure, criteria.

Attackers and attacks will be sibling-relative weighted as before. A countermeasure’s score will be the percentage to which it successfully defends/mitigates an attack’s access to private information. Same for criteria, except that criteria can have a variety of arithmetic relationships to each other, and so may optionally be broken into logical groups. For example, Criteria A and B may each satisfy Countermeasure C 50% each, but not in an additive fashion, and so a wallet implementing both will still be capped at satisfying the countermeasure 50%.

The weighted score for a criteria will thus be determined by taking the weighted average of attackers and attacks as before, and multiplying them by the percentages in lower categories (countermeasures, criteria/criteria-groups). Percentages can never exceed 100%, and will be normalized to a max of 100% after multiplication.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant