On 01/22/2012 08:14 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > As a client, the geoipdb is only required for specification of nodes by > country code, yes. On relays/bridges, we also use it for statistics. One
Thanks for the clarification. > idea for you might be to not include the geoip thing by default at all, > and only when the user requests a feature that requires it do you inform > them that they need to fetch another file. I'm not clear if that's legal > on Android, but if it is, it could be an effective mechanism. It is legal on Android, but I have always been concerned about that sort of secondary download from a Tor perspective, in that you would want to make sure it was downloaded through the Tor network itself, right? Maybe I can just create an Orbot-lite version that does not include privoxy and geoip, etc. > Also we've had plans to make the geoip db a thing the tor client > downloads on demand only, but haven't gotten far with that. If you > wanted to help with that on an 0.2.4 timeframe, that'd probably be > fantastic. It would be easier if that was just part of the native Tor functionality, instead of something tacked on as part of Orbot. I will do what I can, so keep me in the loop. +n8fr8 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
