Hello Mr. Perry and Mr. Dingledine,<br><br>Quted from Mike Perry:<br>> ...maybe I will have a go at it.<br>> ...<br>> ...I should be able to do a perl prototype on a saturday afternoon or something <br>> though.<br><br>That would be great! I really hope you find Tor annoying and worrysome (just kidding) enough to create this excellent feature for Tor. <br><br>I would like to humbly add my suggestion for the impilmentation of this feature. I think a controller button is the best option as Mr. Dingledine suggested "...the controller could have a botton to "change to a new pseudonym".<br><br>An end-user can decide when to change pseudonyms depending on what they are doning with Tor. It seems this approach would have reduced bandwidth vs. your suggested method (which is also a very good idea). <br><br>The old Zero-Knowldege Freedom Network's controller had a button which changed pseudonyms (they called it "Nym's") which sound very
similar to the method suggested by Mr. Dingledine. With Freedom the end-user could click the button and they had a new pseudonym, with a new icon associated with the new "nym".<br><br>Regardless of the method you choose I would also like to suggest some type of icon in the Tor controller to signal that in fact you are using a new nym. <br><br>~~Warning: Wish List~~<br><br>The icon could also be used to show information about the current entry-guard (EG). For example the icon could show the EG's country of origin, operating system, speed, etc. All these factors could allow for a more informed choice of EG's (via. StrictEntryNode, etc). I could for example click the button "Change to a new Nym", then see what country the EG is located in. If I don't want to access the Onion Route II via. the country the current EG is located in I could click the "Change to a new Nym" button again until I an acceptable country.<br><br>Even more advanced (and
complicated) would be the option to pre-select the EG's paramiters you allow. For example I could configure the "Change to a new Nym" button to only allow EG's located in certain countries, or running certain opterating systems, etc. A possibly more effectient method (vs. EG "only allow" configuration) may be to pre-select EG paramiters as to *not* to allow certain countries, operating systems, etc.<br><br>The downside to pre-selection of EG's depending on specific criteria could be uninformed end-users who make choices that hurt thier anonymity.<br><br>Thank you for you time, <br><br>Very best regards, Jermy Litle<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br><p>
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