Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
Jesse V: > On 09/27/2016 10:05 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> Namecoin also can be used for name-level load balancing, although I >> haven't really carefully considered the anonymity effects of the load >> balancing (e.g. does it open the risk of fingerprinting?), so that >> feature is lower priority un

Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jesse V
On 09/27/2016 10:05 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: > Namecoin also can be used for name-level load balancing, although I > haven't really carefully considered the anonymity effects of the load > balancing (e.g. does it open the risk of fingerprinting?), so that > feature is lower priority until I can think

Re: [tor-dev] Reducing initial onion descriptor upload delay (down to 0s?)

2016-09-27 Thread Ivan Markin
Hi tor-dev@, Ivan Markin: > IMO an onion service should publish its first descriptor instantly. If > something happens afterwards and one has to fix the descriptor - deal > with it with backoff/delay to prevent DoS on HSDirs. > I think that most of the ephemeral services are not going to use more

Re: [tor-dev] prop224: Ditching key blinding for shorter onion addresses

2016-09-27 Thread Jeff Burdges
I'll add a note on GNS to your wiki George, but.. On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 16:48 +0300, George Kadianakis wrote: > We really need to start serious work in this area ASAP! Maybe let's > start by > making a wiki page that lists the various potential solutions (GNS, > Namecoin, > Blockstack, OnioNS, et

Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
Jesse V: > On 09/27/2016 02:27 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> Hello! I just had a chance to look through the latest state of the wiki >> page (thanks to everyone who's been expanding it). I've added several >> items to the security properties and drawbacks sections of Namecoin, and >> made a few trivi

Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
Jesse V: > On 09/27/2016 02:39 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> Relatedly -- I had some trouble summarizing some of the items in the >> Namecoin section because the security, privacy, and scalability >> properties of Namecoin are somewhat different depending on whether the >> user is using a full node (do

Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jesse V
On 09/27/2016 02:27 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: > Hello! I just had a chance to look through the latest state of the wiki > page (thanks to everyone who's been expanding it). I've added several > items to the security properties and drawbacks sections of Namecoin, and > made a few trivial corrections;

Re: [tor-dev] Naming Systems wiki page

2016-09-27 Thread Jesse V
On 09/27/2016 02:39 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: > Relatedly -- I had some trouble summarizing some of the items in the > Namecoin section because the security, privacy, and scalability > properties of Namecoin are somewhat different depending on whether the > user is using a full node (downloads the ent