> On 3 Jan 2017, at 11:46, Mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I believe that what is needed is changing Tor to accommodate a >> lot of small relays running by a very large number of volunteers, >> and to push real traffic through them. > > Alternately, you need lots of small relays, running (with plausible > deniability) on IoT devices. Mirai-style. Using covert channels (packet > timing etc). Tor Project would never do that, I know. But eventually, it > might come down to that. I think you are talking about a different network, which is not Tor as currently designed, implemented, and deployed. In particular, how do you get decent throughput, reliability, and low- latency out of tens of thousands of devices? This is an open research problem, which the Tor design does not solve. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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