On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 01:43:55PM +1000, [email protected] wrote: > On 2020-10-16 19:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > That won't stop this humble techno punk from having a crack at a better > > than Tor version of Tor, but I have no doubt that if it is sufficiently > > "liberating of Peer 2 Peer free speech", then the PlayStore and Apple's > > whatever the damn thing is called, will "be ordered" to eliminate that app > > from "their" stores... > > There is an inherent problem with Tor, in that it attempts to provide > responsiveness comparable to regular IP, and this exposes it to timing > based attacks. > > For text messages, and blog like websites, we don't actually need that > performance. Send all data to everyone, flood filling it usenet style, > or if that is too much data, to everyone subscribing to a stream, flood > fill it around usent style plus bittorrent style, so that everyone has a > copy of everything, so when you interact with a website, it is locally > on your computer, and your replies get flood filled back to the original > website and everyone reading the original website, after a considerable > delay and through many intermediaries.
This is one part/possible solution. Statistical/hash based (part-)content distribution to $N peers may significantly reduce net wide storage requirements for example. Those with minimal reading/ participating interests, may still want to cache $MORE if that improves the size of the haystack in which they wish to hide needles. Different operational prefs and therefore configs etc. > Zeronet almost does this, you can have things that function like > websites, but it does not support things that function like blogs, > though it could and should. I feel confident we will solve a lot of these issues in a relatively generic way.
