Re: [tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > Hi all, > > 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". Basically, there are som

Re: [tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/30/12 3:18 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) > wrote: >> 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. > > An

Re: [tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > 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. And the directory authorities could freely attack such u

Re: [tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
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 "cen

Re: [tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread krishna e bera
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 serv

[tor-talk] Data storage in cached-descriptors

2012-05-30 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, 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 i