<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gareth Llewellyn <<a href="mailto:gareth@networksaremadeofstring.co.uk" class="">gareth@networksaremadeofstring.co.uk</a>></span><br class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">November 10, 2014 at 5:58:12 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Re: [tor-relays] Node Operators Web Of Trust</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:26 PM, grarpamp <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">grarpamp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Is it not time to establish a node operator web of trust?<br class="">Look at all the nodes out there with or without 'contact' info,<br class="">do you really know who runs them? Have you talked with<br class="">them? What are their motivations? Are they your friends?<br class="">Do you know where they work, such as you see them every day<br class="">stocking grocery store, or in some building with a badge on it?<br class="">Does their story jive? Are they active in the community/spaces<br class="">we are? Etc. This is huge potential problem.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I had an idea for this a little while ago; <a href="https://tortbv.link/" class="">https://tortbv.link/</a> using the published GPG signature in the contact info to sign the node fingerprint, if you trust the GPG key then you can _possibly_ trust that the node is run by the named operator.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Never got round to actually doing anything with it though...<br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Strikes me as a very good idea. Perhaps lawyers wielding attorney-client privilege could be used to protect the identities of those node operators who wish to remain anonymous.<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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