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Here’s our early attempt at building a framework to evaluate how much privacy & robustness each protocol actually provides. It’s a work in progress — and we’d really love your thoughts on

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1. Introduction

1.1. Purpose

This document specifies the Privacy Robustness Accelerationism (PR/ACC) framework. The framework's objective is to provide a systematic and standardized methodology for evaluating the privacy and robustness guarantees of applications, particularly those in the decentralized space whose privacy properties are user-visible. We also evaluate infrastructure protocols, but treat them as single applications themselves rather than as general-purpose platforms

1.2. Scope

The framework is designed to assess an application's resistance to information leakage by an external observer (the attacker). It evaluates applications based on two primary categories: Privacy, which measures the effectiveness of information obfuscation, and Robustness, which measures the protocol's resilience and architectural soundness.

1.3. Intended Audience

This specification is intended for protocol developers, security auditors, researchers, and informed users who wish to conduct a structured analysis of a privacy-centric application.