On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no particular reason you need Tor hidden services for this. Any > server that implements a mail queue type protocol, doesn't keep logs and > accepts connections via Tor would satisfy the desire to avoid leaving any > metadata trails. After all, the core assumption behind hidden services being > hidden is that Tor nodes do not keep logs that could be correlated together > to reveal the underlying circuits. Nothing stops you having the same > assumption for a separate network of chat relay servers.
It's not clear exactly what you're proposing. I think Ricochet / Invisible.im is aiming for peer-to-peer (serverless) chat between pseudonymous users. If you give up peer-to-peer you could have both parties connect to a chat server via Tor. But then the server can tell which pseudonyms are talking (unless, I suppose, you start doing tricky things with shared secrets like Pond/Petmail delivery tokens). If you give up pseudonymity you could have both parties make a direct peer-to-peer connection. But if you want pseudonymity and peer-to-peer, it seems like you need *some* sort of pseudonymizing layer like Hidden Services or Nym Servers or Pond mailboxes or something? Trevor _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
