Re: [tor-dev] GSoC - Search Engine for Hidden services

[George Kadianakis <desnacked@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Juha Nurmi <juha.nurmi@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>>>> Also, are you sure that 1-3 workdays are sufficient to design &
>>>>  implement a banned domain synchronizer between tor2web and
>>>> ahmia?
>>> 
>>> Well, I cannot know that. Let's put one workweek for that. I am
>>> hoping to spend a workday or two with Tor2web and we get it
>>> done.
>>> 
>> 
>> How is ahmia going to communicate with tor2web? Will the connection
>> be authenticated? How will you block bad people from adding their
>> own stuff to your blacklist?
>
> One way to solve this is to download a list of working Tor2web nodes
> from the github. These nodes are added manually to the github. After
> that I can download the information from the nodes everyday. On the
> other hand, Tor2web software can download the list of the banned
> domains from ahmia.fi. This is one easy way to handle the information
> exchange.
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It seems to me that with this architecture the list of banned hosts is
exposed to anyone on the Internet.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing and it's not up to
me to decide, but just wanted to point it out.
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