[tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

[goofyzrnssm at vfemail.net]

Roger Dingledine:
> And to be clear, I think this is a great trend: we need to make onion
> services easier to understand and more accessible (and faster and more
> robust) for ordinary people, or we'll remain stuck with all the metaphors
> that include the word 'dark'.

Realizing that there are many different considerations of which I'm  
not aware, (also that this is a feature request of sorts, so please do  
point me in the right direction here) I for one would really like to  
see TBB automatically translate (for example) "3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion"  
into the human readable "DuckDuckGo," perhaps in a similar manner as  
with EV SSL cert's, though perhaps only for location-known and  
the-content-is-legal-everywhere onion services.

Perhaps some sort of opt-in procedure would be reasonable for those  
high-security-yet-not-location-anonymous onion services who really  
would rather be more easily identified?  That would save the users'  
time of verifying their .onion URL's at least (plus, it could possibly  
decrease any phishing / link-jacking opportunities as well).

It just seems like all the information is already there, in the Tor  
world, that if .onion site operators are okay with being found  
geographically... then why keep their business names hidden from the  
browser?  Vote cast.

cheers,
gz


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