On 06/07/2016 06:55 AM, J.M. Porup wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 08:25:49PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
Since nobody asked, here's a description of why neither TOR nor any other existing or presently planned anonymizing protocol I know of can be relied on to conceal a user's identity from the Five Eyes or any of several other hostile actors. I wrote about the Dissent Project last year:
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dissent-a-new-type-of-security-tool-could-...
project home page:
http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/
Serious project, led by Bryan Ford at EPFL. Roger Dingledine said nice things about it.
Project seems to lack momentum, but could offer cryptographically- provable anonymity guarantees, as long as real-time comms is not the use case.
jmp
SOMEONE'S got to spew here about Yale's connection to the CIA... Juan? Rr