On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:41:50 +0100 "Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>" <bastik....@googlemail.com> wrote: > > How far along is the Directory Server decentralization in general? > > If you talk about DHT (distributed hash tables) to bootstrap rather > than fetching the consensus from a central place or a mirror... I > remember that it wasn't safe enough back at that time. I don't know > if anyone is working on it.
I believe the current state of privacy preserving distributed directories is still at Torsk, http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/torsk-ccs.pdf See "Hashing it out in public" for reasons why DHTs and anonymity don't mix well, http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/hashing_it_out.pdf PIR-Tor is another idea, not quite DHT, not quite the current model, http://www.usenix.org/events/sec11/tech/full_papers/Mittal.pdf -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk