Nice work; really impressed. When I next get some free time I will try and use your code to host a service. Thanks for your continued hard work :)
On 18 May 2012 03:35, Nick M. Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > To answer the "what can I use this for" type questions I'm getting, I'll > try to explain what I'm going to use this for. > > I'm going to host a FreedomBuddy node as a Tor hidden service. That > will let my buddies find me online to use the wiki I'm sharing with > them, even as we both move constantly (through meatspace and the > network). > > It's designed to operate as a sort of distributed DNSSEC that lets only > the people you trust find you. > > How would this work? > > Tor Hidden Services (or other protocols, maybe I2P, GNUnet, etc) can act > as static IP addresses. So, if I use that to host the FreedomBuddy > service, my friends will be able to find me, because that location is my > unchanging, cryptographic identity. > > We could stop right here and have no need for the FreedomBuddy service, > but there's one functional problem: communicating over Tor is really > slow. So, we can use the FreedomBuddy system to exchange our current IP > addresses (for any service), and connect directly to one another, > without going through any sort of proxy. This sort of connection, while > less anonymous, is usually much faster. > > Finally, since we already have a whitelist of permitted users (through > their PGP keys), you could configure each service to allow only > whitelisted users to connect. > > Nothing in the above is new. However, it's nice to have a standardized > system behind it, making it more accessible to less technical users. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
