On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:04 PM, <BM-2cUqBqHFVDHuY34ZcpL3PNgkpLUEEer8ev@bitmessage.ch> wrote:

Why is Tor wasting time in implementing secure hidden services? Why not copy from here if they are doing it right:

Tor I2P Cell Message Circuit Tunnel ...

Why not distributed directory authorities and hardcoded? Why not secure tunnels independent of guards? Or does Tor want to remain less secure?

Yes, there should be more comparative analysis of approaches amongst all the current networks. Create a dedicated group that publishes such things on a darknet wiki. Hold not just project specific meetups as is done today, but genuine summits amongst all such projects that puts their specific projects aside and determines what models might best suit the next 10-20 years. Determine whether the community is too chained by legacy project/product entrenchment to adopt new better approaches that have come up in research since they themselves started their own projects. Find any worthy new techniques and peel off interested developers into new projects. Try to ensure that big well known projects aren't soaking up all the fanfare/funds when equally valid small projects, or new projects would benefit the world the same or more than the gorilla in the room. For example, there seems some merit in filling your internode links with chaff padding up to the bandwidth limit you configure in order to mask both when and how much you are communicating. But it does not seem any project is doing that? Perhaps because chaff transmission/management/security models are not well developed. Or just the 'woah, bandwidth' reaction, which in reality of the simplest design only affects you and what bw you were willing to purchase or experience anyway (as when operating under a non-chaff network with a given/high utilisation condition). Another example... there was, or is, at least one group accepting funds and then running some of the various overlays equally at once... tor, i2p, freenet, cjdns, mailmix. Take some time to step back and see what together you can do with the big picture in all areas... research, development, operations, marketing.