--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Karsten Loesing <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/30/2009 08:47 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > > Would it be possible to create a URL or some longer > > string that describes a hidden path through the tor > > network to a specific hidden URL and to implement a > > routing mechanism to access documents (files) using > > this "Obfuscated URL"? > > Two thoughts:
Thanks, for the feedback... > - - What you describe as obfuscated URLs sounds a lot like > precursor designs of hidden services. For example, encoding > a path into the locator works only as long all nodes in > that path are functional. Hidden services (and other > designs) have directory services to overcome that > problem. Why make a step backwards? Yes, it probably is a path that one would take while designing hidden services. However, I think that it is a different fork of the main thought process that leads to a different (not better, but better for somethings) use case. Agreed, a single path encoding is a weak point, but this may be acceptable in some cases. Also, other mechanisms could eventually be built on top of this mechanism to replicate a document to several places and provide several obfuscated URLs to the same content. This suddenly makes this content much less vulnerable to single points of failure than a hidden service, hopefully. :) > - - Tor is made for interactive communication, not for > exchanging single files. I agree that it is optimized for this, but I hardly think that you could make the claim that static content has no place in tor, could you? Anti censorship is not just about dynamic content, visit onion land for plenty of static content examples. ...not to mention that dynamic systems could potentially be layered on top of this static mechanism, again hopefully. :) > Even if you don't intend to exchange bulk files, others > will do so. Unfortunately, the Tor network does not have > the necessary capacity. Relevance? How does this enable bulk files transfers anymore than what tor provides today? I fail to see the connection, but perhaps I a missing something. -Martin
