[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBuddy to use Tor to resolve IP address of nodes?

Graham Burnside graham.s.burnside at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 16:55:32 UTC 2013


On 05/01/13 16:40, Michael Rogers wrote:
> On 05/01/13 16:12, Graham Burnside wrote:
> > Tor does provide anonymity, it is also a central record for all
> > machines connected see -
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html
>
> Just to clarify, there's a central list of all Tor relays, but not of
> all Tor clients. If two Freedomboxes were to use Tor to communicate,
> they wouldn't be listed by ExoneraTor or the Tor directory servers.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
I'm not fully up to speed on Tor, so my apologies if I am not
understanding this correctly. If the freedomboxes are not being listed
centrally, how do they find each others hidden services? Is there a DHT
passed around all connecting clients?

- Graham




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