On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 01:43:55PM +1000, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
On 2020-10-16 19:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
That won't stop this humble techno punk from having a crack at a better than Tor version of Tor, but I have no doubt that if it is sufficiently "liberating of Peer 2 Peer free speech", then the PlayStore and Apple's whatever the damn thing is called, will "be ordered" to eliminate that app from "their" stores...
There is an inherent problem with Tor, in that it attempts to provide responsiveness comparable to regular IP, and this exposes it to timing based attacks.
For text messages, and blog like websites, we don't actually need that performance. Send all data to everyone, flood filling it usenet style, or if that is too much data, to everyone subscribing to a stream, flood fill it around usent style plus bittorrent style, so that everyone has a copy of everything, so when you interact with a website, it is locally on your computer, and your replies get flood filled back to the original website and everyone reading the original website, after a considerable delay and through many intermediaries.
This is one part/possible solution. Statistical/hash based (part-)content distribution to $N peers may significantly reduce net wide storage requirements for example. Those with minimal reading/ participating interests, may still want to cache $MORE if that improves the size of the haystack in which they wish to hide needles. Different operational prefs and therefore configs etc.
Zeronet almost does this, you can have things that function like websites, but it does not support things that function like blogs, though it could and should.
I feel confident we will solve a lot of these issues in a relatively generic way.