Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 8/7/07, Frozen Flame [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, guys. Hi! Is anyone interested on the return of the hidden wiki? Fire at will. Alex. -- I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 22:59:56 Ringo Kamens wrote: It's not the issue of a great wall attack where a person can't access a public wiki with onion links, it's an issue of whether that wiki could even exist. You'd have to crazy to host that on a public machine. Comrade Ringo Kamens You

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Josh McFarlane
On 8/8/07, Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate the concern, but I think that while freenet is a viable option and certainly there should be a backup on it, tor users need a central link cache (so they can use the tor hidden network). I think that tor is the right network for

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Ringo Kamens
you'd have to have some method to prevent an attacker from simply launching a massive amount of sites under this key to destroy it. 1000 fake sites would cause probably cause the load balancer to refer to the fake sites the majority of the time, effectively take it off line. The way we were

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Josh McFarlane
On 8/9/07, Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way we were describing, by giving trusted servers the private key to make a redundant wiki system wouldn't have that problem unless on of the trusted servers gave away the key or got taken over by an adversary (police or what have you).

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Ringo Kamens
I just googled for raid over network, but I didn't find anything so maybe I made it up? How about a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network? This still wouldn't fix the problem of a server going to the dark side but it would probably be a bit more practical. I have heard of YaCy which is

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Josh McFarlane
On 8/9/07, Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just googled for raid over network, but I didn't find anything so maybe I made it up? How about a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network? This still wouldn't fix the problem of a server going to the dark side but it would probably

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Freemor
Hello all, I've been watching this discussion with some interest. It's an intriguing problem you are working on. Anyways, I was just wondering.. would it not be possible to use a custom configured/hacked version of Freenet that the nodes were their own micro Freenet and not connected to the

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Eduardo Costa Lisboa
I think that a redundant system would be the best thing. The main hidden wiki could contain script that backs the site up every X hours, and anyone could download it and host anywhere. Or, maybe, some more softsticated high availability system could run on the background to host the same

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
I like the distributed private key idea. Each wiki copy would have a separate email address so that if one server got compromised, the operators could be informed and change the private key. My question is: what would determine which server got chosen? Comrade Ringo Kamens On 8/8/07, Eduardo

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Eduardo Costa Lisboa
On 8/8/07, Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the distributed private key idea. Each wiki copy would have a separate email address so that if one server got compromised, the operators could be informed and change the private key. My question is: what would determine which server got

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
I'm interested in testing this out with somebody. Until then, can any devs/tor hackers enlighten us as to what would determine which host gets picked? Would it be whoever is the fewest hops away? If so, one host would get the most traffic if it was consistently closest to fast servers. Comrade

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I like the distributed private key idea. Yes, that's really a nice idea. And it might even work. My question is: what would determine which server got chosen? I think that if two or more hidden services used the same private key, thus

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
Perhaps instead of just making it redundant, they should shut off at random times for random lengths (like 10 hours or less). From the way I understand the attacks remaining against tor, this would make is much more complicated to do a timing or deductive attack against the hidden service even for

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:32:39 Ringo Kamens wrote: I'm interested in testing this out with somebody. Until then, can any devs/tor hackers enlighten us as to what would determine which host gets picked? Would it be whoever is the fewest hops away? If so, one host would get the most

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
Well I think that just through system-backups, maintenance, restarting etc. that the descriptor upload times would be fairly random anyways, especially if a random-turn-off function was implemented. Comrade Ringo Kamens On 8/8/07, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Karsten, Ringo and Eduardo, Feel free to experiment, it's fun... But: In my opinion it's MUCH easier to: -have one well known hidden wiki -have one or more well known backups of the hidden wiki, with the edit function disabled If the primary server is down, people can just go to a backup.

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
I appreciate the concern, but I think that while freenet is a viable option and certainly there should be a backup on it, tor users need a central link cache (so they can use the tor hidden network). I think that tor is the right network for unbreakable hidden website, especially if we use

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Ringo Kamens
It's not the issue of a great wall attack where a person can't access a public wiki with onion links, it's an issue of whether that wiki could even exist. You'd have to crazy to host that on a public machine. Comrade Ringo Kamens On 8/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use

Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-07 Thread Frozen Flame
Hello, guys. Is anyone interested on the return of the hidden wiki? I've got a hidden service running idly for months, and with no chances of going down so soon. The URL is http://5kj3bjvapz7pm3uv.onion/ and is now hosting only an anarchism page for tests.

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-07 Thread Ringo Kamens
I think everybody is interested. The real solution is to use a distributed system. Right before the fall of the hidden wiki, this had started to happen. The hidden wiki linked to other wikis and they all interlinked with eachother. As a result they all had the same links and it was a lot more

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If someone sets up a wiki, why does it have to be hidden? Is it illegal in any country to have a web page with .onion links and text? But anyway, it might be good to have Tor encryption the whole way from client to server. As some volunteer most likely will set up a hidden wiki, I have a