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Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization



On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:23 -0600
Raynardine <raynardine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just wanted to ask here in Tor-Talk where the efforts to decentralize
> the Tor directory servers have gone so far?

One of the goals of centralizing is protect Tor against attacks
based on the desynchronisation and dividing stats for users.

Without unified consensus from DA available to all users synchronously,
an adversary can effectively divide users to small anonimity sets.

IMHO that points to some your others proposals to.
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