Hi Tor Talk, I've been pondering over some stuff regarding net neutrality, Tor, etc. There are a number of people interested in decentralizing the internet via self-hosted mesh network nodes. Basically, everyone hosts a node and they all link up to create a wide-area mesh net. To summarize my thoughts, I'll quote what I just posted to /r/darknetplan about this (full post <http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/27e9h7/mesh_net_with_tor_tor_coin/> ):
I recently wondered why we didn't just make a mass, decentralized network > by linking self-hosted nodes. As is typical with the internet, a little > googling and I find others have similar thoughts. I thought I'd share a few > of my own on this. CJDNS seems alright, but why not build on some things out there that > already solve similar problems? We have Tor, which is great at bouncing > around nodes to get to a distant endpoint, has end-to-end encryption, and > more. Granted, Tor is currently built to purposefully take a less-efficient > route in the name of obscurity, but adapting that to a mesh network seems > less work than starting from scratch. Getting people to host nodes could be an issue over time. It will take > hardware, electricity and a sizable crowd of those willing to contribute. > The Tor group just released their plan for TorCoin > <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7r4osQgWVqKTHdxTlowUVpsVmJRcjF3Y3dtcTVscFhEaW5F/view?sle=true> > to deal with this issue. It's a method of mining TorCoins as you host a > node, using the proof-of-work schemes to verify you contributed a given > amount to the network. Seems like a great way to make this more popular. > Lastly, the Grugq has a project called Portal > <https://github.com/grugq/portal> which configures routers as tor-only > network nodes. There's also a Raspberry Pi version > <https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi>. These could be a fantastic > starting point to creating easily-configurable devices to put on the mesh > net. I would love to hear more from Tor experts or anyone else interested in how this could work. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
