Hi Greg, Regarding your second question, Last year we introduced a DHT proxy feature, allowing to hide your device IP from the distributed network.
You can use the free proxy that we provide (dhtproxy.jami.net), or configure your own. https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht/wiki/Running-a-node-with-dhtnode Best regards, Adrien De: "Greg Troxel" <[email protected]> À: "Cyrille Béraud" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Envoyé: Dimanche 2 Décembre 2018 20:20:01 Objet: Re: [Ring] Important information about the project Given your announcement I have two comments/questions. What kind of CLA/assignment will there be with Jami? With what entity? (I personally view most CLA terms and any assignment to other than a charitable non-profit with a mission to promote free software to be objectionable, and they have successfully discouraged me from contributing to multiple projects.) Entirely separately, I have long had a concern about user tracking and the DHT architecture. I hear that Ring is "secure", but that seems to focus on confidentiality of the traffic (and perhaps integratity/DAO). There are two additional important properties: confidentiality of traffic meatdata, and confidentiality of user IP address. WIthout really understanding, it seems that if a user registers in the DHT somehow, then there is some ability for some third party to gain information about the IP address that the user registered from, when they are registered, and their mobility patterns. I don't see discussion of this risk in things that I've read -- but perhaps I am failing to read something I should. Greg
