Box for simple Tor node.

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> GAA
> GPA
> GT-1 - ??

Global Tier-1 Internet and Telecom Backbones
aka: rats, fiber splitting log and data giving, government cocksucking
yes men and apologists

Except maybe Joseph Nacchio of Qwest, so they jailed him too.


> "between two edge hosts (aka src and dst)" is the point why more than
> say 3 to 9 hops adds little to nought - and if you're onion routing,
> not only reducing bw by [header_size] per layer, but consuming
> overall network bandwidth according to hop count

Which is why onioncat bittorrent users had howto on setting
BT usage rate limits 1/7 under Tor limits to provide that bandwidth back.

And partly why people should be able to understand that if they
dedicate 1/Nth of their ISP pipe to a fulltime chaff padding fill network
they can still get that entire rate as wheat on demand whenever
needed, same as setting any overlay network today to 1/Nth.

And see that a ping through an empty network still has roughly
same usable latency as a ping though a network just at saturation,
or at any other node-to-node fixed transport contract so long as
CPU is available to perform the regulation.


>> (even delivery of storage or msgs is in a way a stream)

Even fixed envelope size messaging mixnets can end up
pathing your message through a bunch of idle nodes to
your recipient... no amount of store and forward random
delay mixing is going to save you from end to end
traffic analysis there.

And people are talking about trying to use actual applications...
mail, IRC, voice, video, file transfer, web services, shells, etc...
over TCP / UDP etc... over overlays...
all ultimately, end to end, input to output, streams of Bytes^N
and pulsations and waves that stick out like canaries...
over todays overlay networks, whether mix or circuit,
that have degenerate paths, no traffic fill etc...

Todays darknet overlays (ie: Tor onionspace, Pond, etc) survive
pehaps not because they're particularly strong, but because their
weakness is currently an open TOP SECRET, remanding all finds
out to parallel construction.

The encryption is probably pretty good.
The who is talking to who is quite likely not the best regarding G*.

People think it's hard to sift distill analyze and line up the
waveforms coming off 2^32 IP addresses... it's not.
This is not the old game of manually picking up the phone calling
ISPs and tracing back 1990s crackers anymore.
It's f(n) 24x365 lights out in Bluffdale and elsewhere... point,
click, you're done.

Next generation overlay networks must not fail to put
serious effort into characterizing and mitigating
the various G* traffic analysis, and Sybil, risks.

Many of todays nets write those off, and or irresponsibly hush
those topics under the rug (no doubt to appear better than they are).
That's sad, and shameful.


> Jurisdictional hops - e.g. through Russia if you're avoiding USGov
> etc - sound conceptually useful.

Intentional routing lets you select and diversify across different sets
of fiber taps and Sybil deployment efforts, serves as fun random
takedown splash page badge generator, increases spook workunits
and their private backhaul lambdas required, etc...


> Link(s) to Phantom please?

https://code.google.com/archive/p/phantom/

Other repos are not merged in.