[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

Michael Rauch l15t at miranet.ch
Sun Jul 8 22:17:29 UTC 2012


On 07/08/2012 09:45 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 16:25:54 +0300, Michiel de Jong wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Michael Rauch wrote:
>>> with PageKite, this probably leads to registering a domain name for
>>> a box...
>>
>> or subdomain, which saves money.
>>
>>> with Tor HS, no need to register a domain...
>>
>> for mainstream users that would mean going via tor2web, so effectively
>> still a reverse proxy setup.
>
> For the record, I'd like to see what comes of both the PK and THS
> approaches.  PK seems easier, while THS seems more robust (it'll take a
> lot more than some ICE paperwork to corrupt the Tor directory servers).
> Box-to-box communication can be much simpler and is where I've been
> focusing most of my time.  Thanks for looking into these harder
> problems.

i think too that Tor HS (+FreedomBuddy) is mostly an advantage for interbox communication and a time when app usage might mean, that a user logs-in to his fbx where information gets pulled together for him.

for the integration in the web-of-today (role:server) it's more of a handicap.



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