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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Roc Admin <onionrou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, it's been a while so I'm sorry if this has already been > discussed. Hadn't seen it in the archives > > I wanted to bring up the subject of Convergence.io as it fits in with > Tor. Details here: http://convergence.io/ > > The short version of it is that it's a replacement to the current CA > system. Instead of relying on a single entity for validation, it > applies a web-of-trust style validation process. For example, you > would install a bunch of trusted notaries into your browser so that > when you visit an SSL enabled site, the certificate is validated > between all of them so that you hopefully come to a consensus (or at > least a majority) about the authenticity of that cert. There's a lot > more to it but you can read about it yourself. > > My thought is that if implemented correctly (which it's currently > not), this could get more people to enable SSL on their sites with > their own self signed certificate thereby making Tor browsing more > secure. Secondly, hosting notaries as hidden services may be a good > way to implement this on the Tor network. > > Also it seems like Moxie is attempting to implement some of the same > infrastructure paradigms that Tor has already so I wonder if anything > can be applied that Tor already has learned. > > Moxie's talking about Convergence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA > > > > @ > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
