To be able to create a kick arse anonymity software we have to face reality.
Fact is: 1) there are evil exit nodes(this won't change, no matter what) 2) there are tons of noob(this won't change, no matter what) 3) there are to few routers/exits for the clients(this bad ratio won't change no matter how fast the network grows) 4) even if the people will change the habits of not sending sensitive message through not encrypting exit nodes there will be new tor users who will Solution Let the users surf the tor net instead of the www(encrypted messages -> don't care about evil exits as they can not inject anything bad) as much as possible. To keep tor users on the tor net there must be a huge number of websites. A huge number of websites can only be achieved by having an integrated secure and preconfigured web server. Grandma will never learn how to set up a webserver but she knows how to use a Wysiwyg editor to create html pages to tell people about her life under dictatorship for example. How can the ratio of router/clients be improved? Every client must become a router. There is no other way. There must be a simple button "Yes, I want to be an exit." or "No, I don't want to be an exit". I know this will take many, many hours of coding and I am not criticizing but wishful thinking won't get this great project anywhere. Yes, there are many nice people that run servers but the network will soon suffer a heart attack as the number of clients grows much faster than the number of routers. Here is some really great idea. How about some function in Tor into which users can enter their .onion bookmarks along with a description! 99.9% of the Tor users have no idea that there are hidden services. No Tor user I ever met knew about the hidden wiki and all its links. Right now the only entry point to the Tor net is the link on the tor site. If every user could enter links of his friends or sites that he knows about into his tor client(which is searchable by other tor clients) then this would help make the Tor net known big time! Similar to freenet where a start page opens. Also if the clients could keep track of when a tor site was last reachable then that would rock! Similar to emule where the software knows when a file was last seen complete. No need to have link section on .onion sites and update the links. -- JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again
