I run a pseudonymous exit node and I'm not interested in giving up my pseudonymity by meeting people in real life.
I don't want to end up on a special interest watch list. On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:26:40PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > Is it not time to establish a node operator web of trust? > Look at all the nodes out there with or without 'contact' info, > do you really know who runs them? Have you talked with > them? What are their motivations? Are they your friends? > Do you know where they work, such as you see them every day > stocking grocery store, or in some building with a badge on it? > Does their story jive? Are they active in the community/spaces > we are? Etc. This is huge potential problem. > NOWoT participation is optional, it is of course infiltratable, > and what it proves may be arguable, but it seems a necessary > thing to try as a test of that and to develop a good model. > Many operators know each other in person. And the node > density per geographic region supports getting out to meet > operators even if only for the sole purpose of attesting 'I met > this blob of flesh who proved ownership of node[s] x'. > That's a big start, even against the sybil agents they'd surely > send out to meet you. > Many know exactly who the other is in the active community > such that they can attest at that level. And so on down the > line of different classes of trust that may be developed > and asserted over each claimed operator. > Assuming a NOWoT that actually says something can > be established, is traffic then routable by the user over nodes > via trust metrics in addition to the usual metrics and randomness? > WoT's are an ancient subject... now what are the possibilities and > issues when asserting them over physical nodes, not just over > virtual nodes such as an email address found in your pubkey? > And what about identities that exist only anonymously yet > can prove control over various unique resources? > If such WoT's cannot be proven to have non-value, then it seems > worth doing. > > This doesn't just apply to Tor, but to any node based system. > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
