Hi! > perhaps a naive comment compounded by low caffienation, but wouldn't > longer chains reduce the likelihood (or raise the cost) getting the > first-last spots?
How? If you have, lets say, 100 nodes in the Network, and 2 of them are owned by you, your chance is 2 in 100 to be used as entry node and 2 in 100 to be used as exit node (simplified). So the chance that you have entry AND exit node for 1 connection is 2/100 * 2/100, which is 4 in 10.000. No matter how long the path between entry and exit node is. On the problem in general I think, that it may be possible for 1 Attacker to put up a lot of servers, BUT if one government starts doing this, I think, another government will, too. So no one will hold more than 90% of the nodes, I guess not even more than 50%, because we don't only have 2 large governments in this world ;) Best regards, morphium *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
