use of routing information in anti-fraud mechanisms

[Jason Holt]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Chris Palmer wrote:

> Jimmy Wales writes:
>
>> My point, which ought not to be surprising given what I usually say,
>> is that we should not be too complacent that people who are blocking
>> Tor are just being overzealous or stupid or anti-privacy.  It can make
>> sense, and part of our job is to figure out how to help it not make
>> sense.
>
> Is Jason Holt's Nym server (or something like it) in use now, to allow
> Tor users to pseudonymously authenticate to Wikipedia?

I've submitted the patch, but the coders don't seem very enthusiastic about 
including it.  I think the next step will be to approach the wikipedia 
bureaucrats with a proposal.  That would be easier for me if more people tried 
the demo and emailed me with feedback, so I could argue that a significant 
userbase is ready to use the feature if adopted.

http://www.lunkwill.org/src/nym/

 						-J