This was discussed before, though in a random thread. See: http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Sep-2011/msg00088.html Thus spake Roc Admin (onionroutor@xxxxxxxxx): > bump > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Roc Admin <onionroutor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey, it's been a while so I'm sorry if this has already been > > discussed. Hadn't seen it in the archives > > > > I wanted to bring up the subject of Convergence.io as it fits in with > > Tor. Details here: http://convergence.io/ > > > > The short version of it is that it's a replacement to the current CA > > system. Instead of relying on a single entity for validation, it > > applies a web-of-trust style validation process. For example, you > > would install a bunch of trusted notaries into your browser so that > > when you visit an SSL enabled site, the certificate is validated > > between all of them so that you hopefully come to a consensus (or at > > least a majority) about the authenticity of that cert. There's a lot > > more to it but you can read about it yourself. > > > > My thought is that if implemented correctly (which it's currently > > not), this could get more people to enable SSL on their sites with > > their own self signed certificate thereby making Tor browsing more > > secure. Secondly, hosting notaries as hidden services may be a good > > way to implement this on the Tor network. > > > > Also it seems like Moxie is attempting to implement some of the same > > infrastructure paradigms that Tor has already so I wonder if anything > > can be applied that Tor already has learned. > > > > Moxie's talking about Convergence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA > > > > > > > > @ > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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