On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:38:10AM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > i've been thinking some days ago that the Tor infrastructure maybe a > very valuable infrastructure also for other software that would like to > stay distributed without a "central directory". > > In order to do so, a server-software for a distributed network, may also > run a Tor Relay and write it's meta-data to cached-descriptors, de-facto > relying on Tor's Directory Authority infrastructure.
Perhaps this will work as a way to get more relays, but i would be worried about the increased temptation to seize them in order to extract the distributed data. In addition, if it works well, such a secondary function could become important enough to alter development of Tor's primary function. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
