On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:56:03AM -0800, Brian C wrote: > Matt Thorne wrote: > >it would work better if they were required to contribute. > > It would work better from a technical perspective only. From a technical perspective, it would also fail. Right now, our directory-based server discovery system requires all clients to know about all servers. This works right now for hundreds of servers; for hundreds of thousands, it would fail. We need more architectural work before we can support a P2P model. (Yes, we know about existing p2p models, but the problem isn't trivial. It's easy to do bad things to anonymity by partitioning client knowledge, or worse, isolating clients in adversary-targetable zones.) yrs, -- Nick Mathewson
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