>From my understanding of the networking model, tor could be de-centralized if more people ran authoritative directory servers. ie if every client was a server and every server was a directory... Comrade Ringo Kamens
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:34 AM, eugen gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- F. Fox wrote: > >> Something I've been thinking about: On a theoretical basis, how would >> Tor's architecture be classified? > >> Two extremes of the scale I'm talking about would be: > >> * Fully centralized, like plain ol' client/server; >> * Fully decentralized, which Gnutella comes close to. > > Maybe you could think of it like this: > If someone evil can shutdown Tor, then Tor is centralized, if not then it is > decentralized... > > I know too little to answer that... > Eugen > >
