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Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and
by yeukhon 11y ago
Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?
- zmanian 11y agoThey use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary. Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.
- yeukhon 11y agoThank you for the info. This is helpful to know. [edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.
- anonion 11y agoIt's not decentralized. The directory authorities, which hold the current state of the network, are hard-coded into the client software and trusted by all. They are a central point of failure - if a denial of service attack brought them all down for a suitably long period of time, the Tor network would cease to function.