[tor-talk] Convergence.io + Tor

[Mike Perry]

This was discussed before, though in a random thread.

See: http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Sep-2011/msg00088.html

Thus spake Roc Admin (onionroutor at gmail.com):

> bump
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Roc Admin <onionroutor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey, it's been a while so I'm sorry if this has already been
> > discussed. Hadn't seen it in the archives
> >
> > I wanted to bring up the subject of Convergence.io as it fits in with
> > Tor. Details here: http://convergence.io/
> >
> > The short version of it is that it's a replacement to the current CA
> > system. Instead of relying on a single entity for validation, it
> > applies a web-of-trust style validation process. For example, you
> > would install a bunch of trusted notaries into your browser so that
> > when you visit an SSL enabled site, the certificate is validated
> > between all of them so that you hopefully come to a consensus (or at
> > least a majority) about the authenticity of that cert. There's a lot
> > more to it but you can read about it yourself.
> >
> > My thought is that if implemented correctly (which it's currently
> > not), this could get more people to enable SSL on their sites with
> > their own self signed certificate thereby making Tor browsing more
> > secure. Secondly, hosting notaries as hidden services may be a good
> > way to implement this on the Tor network.
> >
> > Also it seems like Moxie is attempting to implement some of the same
> > infrastructure paradigms that Tor has already so I wonder if anything
> > can be applied that Tor already has learned.
> >
> > Moxie's talking about Convergence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
> >
> >
> >
> > @
> >
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Mike Perry
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