[tor-dev] 2nd status report for OnioNS

2015-06-20 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone, Work on the Onion Name System (OnioNS) continues. As stated in the previous status report, my primary focus now is separating the server components. In the last release, a single name server handled everything, making it a

[tor-dev] 1st status report for OnioNS

2015-06-04 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For this first status update on my SoP project (the Onion Name System), I'd like to give a quick run-down of where the project currently is. I would consider OnioNS ahead of schedule as I made significant progress on it for the paper before the

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-06-02 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 What's to stop a sybil attack where the malicious relays try to occupy likely site(s) for the next Quorum? Is the consensus unpredictable enough to thwart this attack? Even during quiet times? (Does Tor have quiet times?) As you can see from

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-23 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/20/2015 12:18 AM, tor-dev-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: Furthermore, there is the question of time. As .tor-names are pinned (if you have a name, you get to keep it 'forever', right?), an adversary may invest into the required

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-19 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/19/2015 03:20 AM, tor-dev-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS) From: Christian Grothoff groth...@gnunet.org Date: 05/19/2015 03:24 AM To: tor-dev@lists.torproject.org Please

Re: [tor-dev] Namecoin .onion to .bit linking

2015-05-19 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/19/2015 10:02 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: I'm not familiar with Namecoin, but I thought I'd just point out that someone will be working on OnioNS, the onion name system, as part of the SoP in Tor. The person who will be working on it just

[tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-18 Thread OnioNS Dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone, I'm the one behind the Onion Name System (OnioNS), a Tor-powered distributed DNS for Tor hidden services. It's been several weeks since my project was selected for the SoP program, and I've finally got around to posting here