[Freedombox-discuss] Announcing Santiago Release Candidate 1

[Michael Rauch]

On 05/18/2012 04:35 AM, Nick M. Daly wrote:
> ...
>
> Tor Hidden Services (or other protocols, maybe I2P, GNUnet, etc) can act
> as static IP addresses.  So, if I use that to host the FreedomBuddy
> service, my friends will be able to find me, because that location is my
> unchanging, cryptographic identity.
>
> We could stop right here and have no need for the FreedomBuddy service,
> but there's one functional problem: communicating over Tor is really
> slow.  So, we can use the FreedomBuddy system to exchange our current IP
> addresses (for any service), and connect directly to one another,
> without going through any sort of proxy.  This sort of connection, while
> less anonymous, is usually much faster.

this is really cool! by exposing FreedomBuddy as a Tor Hidden Service 
there's no DNS resolution involved for service discovery. to find a 
service, the client only needs to know the public key or hash thereof, 
which is the .onion address.

would this work together with monkeysphere to connect the ssl-cert to 
the gpg-cert and this way allowing verified HTTPS connections?

-michael


> Finally, since we already have a whitelist of permitted users (through
> their PGP keys), you could configure each service to allow only
> whitelisted users to connect.
>
> Nothing in the above is new.  However, it's nice to have a standardized
> system behind it, making it more accessible to less technical users.
>
> Nick
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