-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's extremely easy to get gmail accounts in bulk. https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=pva+gmail+bulk
Not to mention I wouldn't want to have a google account (the opposite of anonymity) just to use an anonymous service... Just say'n... On 04/17/14 19:04, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 17/04/14 19:11, Zwiebelcode wrote: >> hi developers, >> >> some time ago I wrote about OpenIdent. The core of OpenIdent is >> now finished. >> >> >> .- How it can help freenet -. >> >> OpenIdent can solve the problem, that an attacker can log into >> the freenet network with thousands of ip adresses. >> >> >> .- Introduction -. >> >> In the internet, there are some problems, that have not been >> fully solved, yet. Spam can still not be controlled. Fraud only >> can be fighted in a limited way. In the internet, democratic >> decision processes are only possible with some limitations. All >> of these problems have one point in common: The problems could be >> solved, if the participants would identify themselves, but that >> would reduce their privacy. OpenIdent wants to solve this >> problem and provide an identification mechanism without reducing >> the privacy. >> >> >> .- OpenIdent -. >> >> OpenIdent is a Server-Client-Software that allows people to >> provide their unique identity without exposing them. So, users >> are unique and can be blocked in case of fraud or spamming for a >> long time. With that, the problems pointed above could be >> solved. >> >> OpenIdent contists of two parts. The first parts handles the >> identification of users. The second part handles the >> pseudonymization of users. The pseudonymization is realized with >> the use of blind signatures. >> >> The repository of OpenIdent is: >> https://gitorious.org/openident/openident/ >> >> used libraries: - Bouncycastle - sqlite-jdbc-3.7.2 - myjipc - >> https://gitorious.org/myjipc/myjipc/ >> >> The command line language is german at the moment. This will be >> changed soon. >> >> An information file can be found at: >> https://gitorious.org/openident/openident/source/doc/info.txt > Potentially very interesting. The fact that it's centralised > doesn't necessarily mean we can't use it on opennet. > > From his page: > > # .- Ways of identification -. # # For the identification of users > there are some different ways. Examples # are: E-Mail address, > telephone number, scanned passports, electronic # passports and > fingerprints. Because E-Mail addresses can be created # too easily, > their use case is very limited for secure identifications. > > Gmail etc accounts are worth more than email accounts in general; > Tor uses them for e.g. bridges. > > I have no idea how you would verify scanned passports, I would > imagine it would involve human labour or at least some nonzero > financial cost? > > Mobile numbers are the basis for gmail accounts, but are probably > fairly easy to obtain in bulk; how much does it cost to buy 10,000 > SIMs, register their numbers, and then sell them on? I would be > surprised if there weren't companies who did this already to supply > the spam industry, just as there are companies that provide bulk > CAPTCHA solving. > > It's great to see somebody looking into a generic solution for this > anyway! > > I have no idea whether any of this will have sufficient user > acceptability. Like darknet, it contravenes users' expectations > and misconceptions about "anonymity". But it's definitely worth > trying. Especially if you can get some user acceptability outside > of Freenet in e.g. forums. > > Sorry I don't have time to review the source at the moment... :| > > > > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTUGZGAAoJEJ6DCuZ5py6jpT0H/Avu8y3hyR4GOvMDiv3CXTED UqiURoNLw38pPh9IrJs/mu96Z/v7AX3KoH9NKtpodZ3FumaWOvtk8tFa5ksB/6eM RhMEX8jruOkEgEPN2TEpFZ/zkOfHq/A0rq4I8XXcczd4waeKgPCR0LAQ3RwXr5bi 3q12ok4NZ1dg8huDq81UUkqSywby7gdr97OyQSmmY7LYm1d7dJhWSCxRBI/L+q1I 70fUle8G6kbSNvkfXW5QZMPq3V9q+qgIJOyFOhAywzYqRDpvVkXLzh7DHacPM1Bm ja3GQTklID3FP6smo47V7rqfV95VyPCCn2dyASTLXezsH2hE7gddHOyvrk/c3gc= =gRu+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
