On 08/10/2013 05:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> There were a few threads over on tor-talk in which a gmail staff >> participated. Some community suggestion was made for refundable >> bitcoin deposit to appease the google claims, not sure where that >> went. >> > > We're still paying attention. Actually I don't work on Google > anti-abuse anymore (different project these days) but am still > happy to provide our perspective and contacts. Google is not an > enemy of the Tor project, we just struggle with the same issues all > other providers do. > > The "community suggestion" to use Bitcoin was actually my > suggestion. It didn't go anywhere partly because it's fairly > complicated and partly because Mike Perry and others from Tor felt > Bitcoin wasn't anonymous enough, and desired a different system. So > it's not really clear what the right approach is, technically. > > You may be interested in checking out Pond, the work of another > crypto/Tor-friendly Googler: > > https://pond.imperialviolet.org/ > > It is an email-like messaging system that runs over Tor, has > forward security, tries to beat traffic analysis, TPM integration > to beat log structured filesystems that can't erase data and also > has a variety of other interesting features. It's not a drop in > replacement for email by any means, but with some more work it > might be a reasonable alternative for specialised use case. >
This project is pretty much what I have been looking for. Seems like a good chance (excuse) for me to learn Go as well. But there seems to be a lack of clues on how to get involved. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
