[NBLUG/talk] Tor tonight

Chris Palmer chris at eff.org
Thu Oct 20 13:11:55 PDT 2005


Christopher Wagner writes:

> I think Aaron was right to point out that it's important that people
> understand *why* someone would use an anonymizing service like Tor,
> other than criminals and "tin-foil hats" as there are many
> applications where it would be useful.

What all applications were named?

> I'm also interested in the directory servers, which seem to be a point
> of high-risk for failure (relative to the high redundancy in other
> parts of the network).  How might a low-latency anonymizing network
> circumvent this problem and what are the Tor developers considering as
> options?

Check out dir-spec.txt in the latest Tor source distribution.
Decentralizing the directory is an ongoing research area. Everyone
recognizaes centralization as a problem.


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