-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Jesse V: > On 04/03/2017 05:01 PM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> Maybe this topic has already been brought up, but in case it >> hasn't, I'll do so. I notice that Prop279 (onion naming API) >> defines its own API rather than using DNS. I guess that this is >> because of security concerns about the centralization of the >> DNS. > > Hi Jeremy, > > I believe that the general idea with prop279 is simply to introduce > an API for resolving pseudo-TLDs before they were sent through the > Tor network. How that is done is entirely dependent on the naming > system. > > For example, if a user typed in example.bit into a Namecoin-enabled > Tor browser, the software could then perform your proposed DNS > lookup and rewrite the request before turning it over to the tor > binary. In my case, my OnioNS software rewrites .tor to .onion, > since the tor binary knows how to handle .onion. At the moment, > this is a bit hacky because the software has connect with tor's > control port, manually review and process each lookup, rewrite the > the request, and then tell tor to connect it with a circuit. Prop > 279 is designed to make this much easier and avoid hacky > solutions.
Hi Jesse, Yes, I understand that the goal is to provide an abstraction layer for naming systems that doesn't rely on control port hacks -- and that's great! My primary inquiry here is about whether the DNS protocol might be a better-suited protocol for Tor to use for talking to naming systems, rather than a Tor-specific protocol as is proposed now. I don't hold a strong opinion on this; I'm mostly just curious whether it was considered, and if so, what led to the decision not to use it. Cheers, - -- - -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile PGP: 2158 0643 C13B B40F B0FD 5854 B007 A32D AB44 3D9C Send non-security-critical things to my Mobile with PGP. Please don't send me unencrypted messages. My business email jer...@veclabs.net is having technical issues at the moment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJY5wi/AAoJELPy0WV4bWVwp78P/jd8xte9hgEZiVIJ1nSgIV7Q Yo3NNZpSlDyeyPr2XktGm9JUsBGgMjN+D+oIQcilEiaIAuufrdNW8R4n00VoJMgQ yAHB42UNRJXq1W9+Y7TgrDHjbzsea4fNSZSA5e2kHqOaxPV5fK/qX7xKC8/fPHsf 329qk8BPcGVe2SkLkJqNKBW5D5cBA54HcMENV6w/6Vos64OD/ZKUOclSHcubtwWz kYRn6ERv67/dHRV8M58WYewA/lFvyvMCSLyyZbfJXuJEsV6wlpFIxWbJezps80EU coiCunGeu0TCj6Ae0lVtr8cuyMCN4WyCs7C4BkdiuCrLwri+IW8vR8LeP8fLjQCa ImnfgxIOdxiHti77UPzWjEPGKerdJi/gVF4NmJ2XL2qJEv0rr4hnaEn3LKTHAEQm 0k0EjDXGaMgNhSS5y67PLW5bW909uISrCIYnNAOfSi3vRwCfYusY3N0P6seH78R9 VNhS/bnUCTEfD3CJFvZD2coUbpvG/vXW5OI8D02Ro+3FJqvcbbkXXhimK0d9R65V s96ckSAmI+m0VD7FO3hGW0BUzGdzVAJIsEfLIwUCqasQ7ugwbawfh0JvjYreM14T ZmnM9usdNPcgE+uRnZbHpHG6n3GcOIWc1ShhoCHvzaF3zF8+UWPMElwmFA4XZCo2 2YgPFCAuFfSfQapZxrX9 =iXyt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev