carlo von lynX writes: > Hm, federation is so commonly expected to be the normality that > any distributed system is filed under "p2p" even if, like Tor, it > runs on thousands of servers, thus rather distant from what "p2p" > was supposed to mean. Tor started as P2P, but I think it isn't > anymore.
I don't think Tor was ever peer-to-peer. It has a directory listing all of the public routers; originally the directory was maintained by hand by the Tor developers, rather than by automated announcement notices from new routers to the directory servers. I think the "you should make every Tor user be a relay" question has been in the FAQ all along: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#EverybodyARelay -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
