I've had a couple of hours recently to catch up on how freedombox is developing. I was reading through the debian wiki and noticed that the method being used to resolve the IP address of nodes in the network is via Tor hidden services.
I know that Tor is well tested, but is this not far too centralized a way of bootstrapping the networks? More so, is it not going to make a lot of people nervous about hosting a node on the network. It wouldn't take more than the mention of silkroad and CP in the mainstream media to taint the whole project. Has there been any discussion into alternatives? Such as running a basic xmpp client on each box, which periodically contacts your friends' boxes with its current IP address, encrypted and signed using PGP? The host freedombox JID could be distributed with public keys. This would allow anyone with a domain name to run a tracker for their friends' boxes, or to just use a free jabber server. - Graham. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
