Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

[Stefan Claas]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 3:34 PM Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote:

> I had a look at the whitepaper - Claudia has outdone herself in
> describing a system which could maybe work - but, and I quote, "The
> specific algorithms and implementation details of each part of the
> system will be fleshed out in separate documents."
>
> There is no proof, or even enough details, to show that it will or even
> could work. It's all sweeping statements and claims, backed up by - nothing.
>
> Thing is, I don't trust Claudia to get it right (we have a history... ).
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> The loopix part looks interesting, at first glance. Though "a
> measure of sender and receiver unobservability" is not exactly reassuring..

Well, I mentioned Nym, because, once in production, it could be an
alternative to Tor. They already have a test net running, consisting
of several thousand mix nodes and a couple of gateways. The funding
they received this year was a couple of million, so let's see how this pans out.

Regards
Stefan