On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:34:51PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > Tor seems to be doing a good job indicating the usefulness and > application of anonymity to a wide variety of potential users. > Moreso than before. But it does hesitate from suggesting that it > can be used as a check and balance within the user's own particular > state. Which is certainly an equally valid and worthy use case. > > Why does Tor not use a fully distributed model? Seems it's allowing > itself to be shutdown by shutting down the Directory Authorities. > Perhaps these are not true, or have been > addressed technically elsewhere, for which a link would be welcome. > Then again, if they're valid weaknesses, and only a technical change, > why not put it on roadmap and do it?
You may like: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html (available via https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation#DesignDoc) https://www.torproject.org/press/presskit/2008-12-19-roadmap-full.pdf (available via https://www.torproject.org/press/press) https://www.torproject.org/press/presskit/2010-09-16-circumvention-features.pdf (available via https://www.torproject.org/press/press) https://www.torproject.org/bridges https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-and-censorship-lessons-learned http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#danezis-pet2008 http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-torsk http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-nisan http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-shadowwalker http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#wpes09-dht-attack http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs10-lookup as for "and do it", it's proving to be a bit more complex than that. > And allowing censorship of any given .onion through the cooperation > or coercion of same. Yeah, that hasn't been true for years. https://git.torproject.org/tor/doc/spec/rend-spec.txt but Karsten sure has been procrastinating about merging in proposal 114 to the rend-spec.txt file. Hope that helps, --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
