#30029: Objective 2, Activity 5: POC for Human-memorable addresses for .onion services --------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: pili | Owner: tbb-team Type: project | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: #30281 | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: Sponsor27-must --------------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by dkg): i agree with cypherpunks that Zooko's triangle is relevant here, and i generally really like petnames as the solution to that trilemma. But effective petnames depend on persistent local configuration -- the user's history with a given site, and their selected petname. Torbrowser, on the other hand, seems to strive to *avoid* persistent local configuration, since persistent local configuration has two drawbacks: * it leaves records on the local machine of the user's history (a stored petname for a particular onion service implies that the user has visited that onion service in the past) * if network behavior changes at all on the basis of the persistent local configuration, it represents a potential tracking/fingerprinting vector (not clear that this is an issue for the petname proposal, but it could be depending on how the petnames affect torbrowser's user experience). For the people advocating petnames, i'd love to see more detail about how they plan to balance these tensions. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30029#comment:4> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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