[Slightly OT] Theoretical classification of Tor
eugen gmail
eugenrn at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 06:34:46 UTC 2008
--- F. Fox wrote:
> Something I've been thinking about: On a theoretical basis, how would
> Tor's architecture be classified?
> Two extremes of the scale I'm talking about would be:
> * Fully centralized, like plain ol' client/server;
> * Fully decentralized, which Gnutella comes close to.
Maybe you could think of it like this:
If someone evil can shutdown Tor, then Tor is centralized, if not then it is
decentralized...
I know too little to answer that...
Eugen
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