On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:24:56AM +0200, Joris Bontje wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:13:16PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > It's not fully distributed, yet (there's still a single IRCd), but v2 > > > looks like it will be incredibly awesome (can't get anything too solid > > > on a timescale, but I think it's supposed to be soon). > > > > I am still pretty sceptical about its security, I have been pestering > > its authors for some time now to have their architecture peer-reviewed > > by someone who is an expert in anonymity/crypto, and to my knowledge > > this hasn't happened. I would be reluctant to endorse IIP until it > > has undergone some peer-review. > > Take a look at http://www.cypherpunks.to/ip/ > "A promising potential solution for anonymous IRC appears to be the > Invisible IRC Project [iiP]. cypherpunks are currently analyzing the > code to assist in securing the protocol."
A brief comment that people are in the process of analyzing the code is hardly sufficient to justify my unquestioning trust. When they come out with a paper detailing the following: - What do they mean by anonymity? - What is the threat model? - What assumptions do they make about the attacker? - What smart people have tried to break their protocol? Then I will be a little satisfied. I don't even know what they mean by "anonymous" yet. Is it anonymous from an ISP - or just from other users of the network? Is it anonymous for the NSA? Is it subject to traffic analysis? Is it subject to MITM attacks? These are all fundamental questions that - to the best of my knowledge - remain unanswered. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian at freenetproject.org Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20020820/353e32bb/attachment.pgp>
