On 5/30/12 2:08 PM, krishna e bera wrote: > 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.
Well, think if the data you would store would be a bunch of byte, such as: - An identifier of the software (5-6 byte) - An identifier of some metadata (2-4 byte?) - An pointer to extended-metadata (ex: an URL convention) Maybe in less than 20-25byte you would be able to leverage the Tor infrastructure: - To have a centralized/decentralized index of your software node - To get some degree of protection against sybil attack - To get authentication/identification data (The RSA keys of a node) So basically "on top of Tor software and Tor Infrastructure" it would be possible to build other kind of networks, given that they participate to the Tor network itself. -naif _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
