On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:32:04PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: > > With a FOAF routing scheme with just 3 degrees of separation there > > are not that many strangers left. > > How do you meet people outside your circle of friends?
You don't. The message is routed through the social network, until it reaches your destination. > How do you stay anonymous? With FOAF, you have a single identity for it By running onion routers like Tor on top of that routed network. With FOAF I don't mean a specific system, but a generic small-world social network, where each member is reachable in a small number of hops. > to work. I offer people many different identities. But all of them are > protected, and all communication encrypted. > > That's what my protocol addresses. To introduce new people to one > another, securely. You might not know the person but you are sure that > your private message is encrypted and can only be read by that person. > > Of course, as it's a stranger, you don't trust them with your secrets. > > For example, to let people from this mailing list send encrypted mail to > each other, without worrying about the keys. The protocol has already > taken care of that. No fingerprint checking. No web of trust validation. > > > > If you add opportunistic encryption at a low transport layer, plus > > additional layers on top of you've protected the bulk of traffic. > > I don't just want to encrypt the bulk, I want to encrypt everything, all With multilayer transport protection, you'll get multiple layers of encryption for your typical connection. > the time. It makes Tor traffic much more hidden. > > > There is more > > The local CA (one for each website) signs both the server and client > certificates. The client only identifies itself to the server after it > has recognized the server certificate. This blocks phishing attempts to > web sites (only a small TOFU risk remains). And that can be mitigated > with a proper dose of Certificate Transparency. > > Kind regards, Guido Witmond, > > > Please see the site for more details: > http://eccentric-authentication.org/
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