On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:56:21PM +0200, Lunar wrote: > Matthew Finkel: > > Some months ago, the petname system interested me enough that I started > > to write a proposal for it. At this point, it's wound up in bitrot. > > Though I'd spent a bit of time working on it, there was no comprehensive > > way to accomplish it. One thing to remember about petnames is that they > > are *user defined*. […] > > > > The problem I ran into with this scheme is where the mappings should be > > stored - who is in control of this? In short, is this a mapping that Tor > > persistently stores or is it a client application that handles this. AND > > if it is a client application, that becomes a usabibility nightmare > > because if Tor Browser has an interface for it, then that's great but > > what if I'm using irssi and lynx on a headless system? If Tor maintains > > this database, then for the petname to perform as expected, every > > application would need to support a minimal Controller and have the > > ability to resolve the name mappings (and possibly append to them, > > also). > > What looks like a possible way to solve the problem you describe: > > The address book would be stored by the Tor daemon, in a persistent > manner. > > A new host extension would be introduced so that when an > application tries to connect to `torproject.myonions` through Tor, it > will connect to the hidden service that holds the name `torproject` in > the local address book. > > Editing the local address book would be done through commands sent > through Tor control port. The Tor Browser could gain a new > `about:myonions` page for GUI editing. Editing capacities could also be > added to Arm for headless system. And we could even make the address > book file human editable to have `vi` as a fallback. > > (I don't really like `myonions` but I'm sure someone will come with > something better.) > > Usability wise, I wonder if we could implement some kind of web links > that could quickly add a new name in the local address book (after user > confirmation).
I'd be a bit worried that we'd have a similar problem to the erstwhile ".exit" suffix: any website could include a link to "foo.myonions"; this may be able to be used to probe whether the user has a "foo" entry in her address book. - Ian _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
