Hello, I know there is probably no overwhelming demand for having recognizable links/buttons to hidden hosts.
But you all know those paypal buttons, right? You see them on some random website and instantly know they will take you to paypal. So if one does setup a hidden service, not because he wants strong security and privacy or something, but maybe just to avoid to depend on US-goverment-controlled-DNS-and-not-want-to-reinvent-the-wheel or whatever (see the removal of some DNS entries because of copyright reasons recently)... having an consistent analogy to such paypal links/buttons would be nice. And when such sites owners could see there is a proposal for a consistent design of such a link/button they would use it. And people who visit those sites and see such links/buttons everywhere would get more aware of tor. Of course this doesn't work out for all tor sites. This could be used for sites that do not want to rely on US-goverment-controlled-DNS anymore. Right now people are desperate to come up with alternatives to DNS like turning the IP of a server into a sentences with 4 words from an array of 255 words (https://github.com/armooo/4-little-words-DNS-server/blob/master/convert_4lw.py). That is just fragmenting what could be an addition to the tor userbase. Regards, Dirk *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
