DOC - Decentralized Onion Communication

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> Do you recall my suggestion from about 2 years ago that a new anonymity
>> network be built, akin to TOR, but hosted by 1000+ people out of their
>> homes and small businesses?  I mentioned using Raspberry Pi.
>>
>> I recall this a little.  I was feeling discouraged at the time.  Why
> worry about hosting when everyone has a device already they are using
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I thought about this further and realise the reason to normalise the
routing device would be to move toward protecting against sybil attacks via
normalising device security.

to email with?  Why start a new project rather than forking an old --
> unless the old ones are overcomplicated and unweildy.
>

Question still stands.

The main desirable thing is that unlimited-data Internet be available,
>> which even then was true for 940 Mb/sec $65 month service.  (CenturyLink
>> service).  I believe they are now  offering 100 Mbits/sec for $30/month,
>> which should be plenty for an anonymzation network.
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>> I suggested that all nodes be able to act as output nodes, and that to
>> facilitate this
>>
>> Tor used to function with everyone an exit by default, of course.
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> , all outputs be subject to mild (or better?) encryption, to ensure than
>> plaintext never appears on any output node.  (To avoid inadvertently
>> providing 'probable cause' to justify a search warrant.)
>>
>> Good idea.  A little similar to tor's exit node filtering for ssl (which
> is mostly unused I believe).
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>>
>> Is somebody ready to talk about this?
>>
>> How do my questions land?
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