On 2013-06-30, at 9:40 AM, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nadim Kobeissi:
>> 
>> On 2013-06-29, at 11:48 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Natanael:
>>>> I'm not seeing that many options though. The Phantom project died
>>>> pretty fast; https://code.google.com/p/phantom/ 
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/phantom-protocol 
>>>> http://phantom-anon.blogspot.se/
>>>> 
>>>> So who's out there developing any useful protocols for
>>>> anonymization today? *Anybody*? Could we try to start a new
>>>> project (if needed) to create one? (I would like one with at
>>>> least the same level of functionality as I2P, even if it would
>>>> have to have a very different architecture.)
>>> 
>>> I guess you might be interested in this project called Tor? A few
>>> of us have spent a decade working on it:
>>> 
>>> https://www.torproject.org/
>> 
>> There should be a disclaimer somewhere that Tor is a competitor to
>> I2P, is far from perfect itself (actually has a few glaring
>> weaknesses, such as exit nodes), and the guy critiquing I2P works for
>> Tor.
>> 
> 
> Ha. There isn't a competition. This isn't zero sum.
> 
> We're all interested in similar goals and in some cases, the designs are
> totally different and for good reason. Also, the security properties and
> reviews of claims have different results.
> 
> I didn't just critique i2p offhand because I work on Tor - which I
> disclosed by saying "a few of us have spent a decade working on it" - I
> linked to a paper that broke it!
> 
>> I'm a Tor supporter personally, but those things should be
>> clarified!
>> 
> 
> Read my email more carefully next time. I specifically encouraged
> experimentation in a way that seems reasonably safe:

There's no need to be so patronizing — I'm aware that you recommended TAILS 
(which is also a Tor project).

NK

> 
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest if you want to experiment with Tor and i2p, to try
>>> Tails:
>>> 
>>> https://tails.boum.org
> 
> All the best,
> Jacob
> 
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