[tor-relays] Node Operators Web Of Trust

[Gareth Llewellyn]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:26 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it not time to establish a node operator web of trust?
> Look at all the nodes out there with or without 'contact' info,
> do you really know who runs them? Have you talked with
> them? What are their motivations? Are they your friends?
> Do you know where they work, such as you see them every day
> stocking grocery store, or in some building with a badge on it?
> Does their story jive? Are they active in the community/spaces
> we are? Etc. This is huge potential problem.
>

I had an idea for this a little while ago; https://tortbv.link/ 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.

Never got round to actually doing anything with it though...
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