[tor-relays] Node Operators Web Of Trust

[Kevin de Bie]

>With that in mind, he does raise a valid point.  Are there any plans to
move
>to a more decentralised model for the directory authorities?  Are their any
>plans to move the power to blacklist nodes out of the hands of the Tor
Project
>and into the hands of its users somehow.

This is pretty interesting point, but then i'm personally not really
interested in having any control over the actual blacklist. I'd feel plenty
comfortable with just insight into what is blacklisted, for what reason and
if possible some evidence to support this reason. Giving control to "the
people" isn't always a good thing either as even in TOR circles there'd be
people that can't deal with having power on any level. Transparency is
probably the word I was looking for to use.
I didn't fill in contact information on my fresh tor relay simply because
the app I use doesn't allow me to. (my tor relay runs on an Ouya, therefore
android) Regardless of the absence of contact information the reason I run
the relay are in line with the reasons why TOR exists.


2014-11-07 22:35 GMT+01:00 Derric Atzrott <datzrott at alizeepathology.com>:

> > How does one establish trust online though? Trust is a very delicate
> thing. A
> > system such as this simply inherently has these challenges. Pretty sure
> that
> > is why the tor browser for example always uses https.
>
> Indeed, both the centralised and decentralised systems that are currently
> in
> place have major issues.  Within centralised systems like the Certificate
> Authority system we see corruption (have you seen their fees) and we must
> trust them to actually verify identities and to remain secure, something
> at least a few CAs have proven that they can't do.  Then we also have to
> trust our vendors to provide default lists of CAs to trust that are in
> fact worth of our trust.
>
> Within decentralised systems like PGP we have to worry about the network
> effect, and making sure that people understand what they are actually
> doing,
> again we worry about whether or not we can trust our friends, and whether
> or
> not we can trust their friends.
>
> Trust is probably one of the hardest problems facing folks using the
> Internet.
>
> With that in mind, he does raise a valid point.  Are there any plans to
> move
> to a more decentralised model for the directory authorities?  Are their any
> plans to move the power to blacklist nodes out of the hands of the Tor
> Project
> and into the hands of its users somehow.
>
> I'm not exactly sure how either of those would be accomplished, but I'm
> sure
> there is a clever solution somewhere.
>
> Thank you,
> Derric Atzrott
>
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