Do we have indication of any geographic concentration of these relays? Worried about sybil attacks.
------Original Message------ From: Scott Bennett Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Sent: Jun 21, 2009 7:51 PM Subject: many new relays Somewhere on the order of 500 new relays or so seem to have appeared in the tor network in the past week. I take this as a very welcome event, not only for the future of the tor network and enhanced performance of the network, but because it suggests that quite a lot of people have become more aware of the need for network anonymity. What bothers me a trifle is that the timing of all this also suggests that it has been triggered by the ruckus over the recent election in Iran. I hope that most of the new tor nodes will stick around for the long haul after the situation in Iran has quiesced, rather than simply being up for a few weeks and then vanishing again. Either way, though, I welcome them all for as long as their operators are willing to help out by running relays. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
