> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Pierre Fenoll <[email protected]>
> Sorry if that was pointed out earlier, but what I don't understand is > this very socio-economic situation between Admins & Users. Ok. > As I've understood: > • you need people with higher privileges than others > • you need "exit nodes" with sic: "preferably fixed IP addresse > Are you asking for some kind of virtual network w/ exit nodes à la Tor > and thus a client/server design? Sort of. The overlay network here allows nodes that are often behind a firewall (like a freedombox installed at home) to accept some kinds of connections anyway. Think of something like PageKite. So, "admins" operate machines on the net that have no trouble accepting connections, and they tunnel these to freedomboxes that do have trouble accepting ordinary Internet connections. Admins also help with things like allocating numbers and names for the overlay network. If people want Tor-like onion routing in addition, it should be possible to just run the freedombox overlay network over Tor itself. > I'm not a saying that what you've done is shitty and BTW I'm pretty > impressed by this mastering of a design. I'm just a bit lost & can't > see the decentralization. Thanks In the allocation of names and numbers, there is no central authority. A successful allocation occurs when many admins (in a federation) agree that certain encrypted messages were broadcast at certain times (within a few hours) and later their verifiable decryption was broadcast -- and there were not (statistically unlikely) "collisions" of multiple requests for the same name or number. If lots of admins sign off that those objective observable facts occurred, the name / number is assigned. Admins don't exactly have extra "privilege" in name allocation. Successful admins have widely well regarded cryptographic signatures, is all. The system is also decentralized in that no user is "captive" to any one admin. Users can always change admins, sign up with multiple admins, invest time and effort to be their own admin, etc. Does that help? I'm not too sure what details to make more explicit in trying to answer your question. -t _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
