Re: Feedback and Suspicions about Tor...

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:34:51PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> Tor seems to be doing a good job indicating the usefulness and
> application of anonymity to a wide variety of potential users.
> Moreso than before. But it does hesitate from suggesting that it
> can be used as a check and balance within the user's own particular
> state. Which is certainly an equally valid and worthy use case.
> 
> Why does Tor not use a fully distributed model? Seems it's allowing
> itself to be shutdown by shutting down the Directory Authorities.
> Perhaps these are not true, or have been
> addressed technically elsewhere, for which a link would be welcome.
> Then again, if they're valid weaknesses, and only a technical change,
> why not put it on roadmap and do it?

You may like:

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html
(available via https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation#DesignDoc)

https://www.torproject.org/press/presskit/2008-12-19-roadmap-full.pdf
(available via https://www.torproject.org/press/press)

https://www.torproject.org/press/presskit/2010-09-16-circumvention-features.pdf
(available via https://www.torproject.org/press/press)

https://www.torproject.org/bridges

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-and-censorship-lessons-learned

http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#danezis-pet2008
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-torsk
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-nisan
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs09-shadowwalker
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#wpes09-dht-attack
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs10-lookup

as for "and do it", it's proving to be a bit more complex than that.

> And allowing censorship of any given .onion through the cooperation
> or coercion of same.

Yeah, that hasn't been true for years.
https://git.torproject.org/tor/doc/spec/rend-spec.txt
but Karsten sure has been procrastinating about merging in proposal
114 to the rend-spec.txt file.

Hope that helps,
--Roger

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