It's not really clear what you are proposing here, what is the context? Ian.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org>wrote: > The leaked files on Tor suggest it is significantly stronger than at > least I had assumed. > > It might be interesting to create a simple, but cryptographically > verified, TCP-based protocol for communicating with gateways through > tunnels, to protect the first hop. This would be a "transient" > request/response protocol handling binary blobs; clients would route the > first hop (at least on opennet) through these tunnels, verify returned > content, and possibly label requests to keep them on separate tunnels. > > On darknet we will eventually protect the first hop via PISCES tunnels, > however IMHO this is some way off and there are (probably) very few > darknet users at present. > > We could then ask Tor for a directory server flag, although they might > say no if Freenet is seen as "filesharing" and therefore obnoxious. > > DoS issues might result in some servers asking for payment, although > creating a business model is often a good way to fund your attackers > (especially if the gateways are anonymised); this is why a classic > mixnet doesn't work for bitcoin, for example (don't trust anything > without provable blinding). > > tgs3 and various people on Frost have been suggesting this for some time. > > IMHO Tor is preferable to I2P (assuming the NSA stuff isn't a false > trail, which it might be), but it could work with either. > > Arguably we should use a normal transport, we're some way away from > having TCP-based transport plugins though... and this could be a fairly > simple protocol, we can transfer a single block (key) at a time as a > single message. > > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-presentation-document > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
