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I’m confused. Is this designed to provide anonymity? If not, why not send messages directly to the target’s IP address rather than go through a bunch of hops?
by comex 5y ago
I’m confused. Is this designed to provide anonymity? If not, why not send messages directly to the target’s IP address rather than go through a bunch of hops?
- Arathorn 5y agoThis is not designed to provide anonymity. You don’t send messages directly to the target’s IP because they are likely not to be directly routable - eg they could be only contactable via Bluetooth Low Energy, or an adhoc wifi segment, with no clearnet IP routing connecting them to the ‘net. So you use pinecone to route instead.
- cyphar 5y agoSo that you don't need n connections to communicate with n servers, which won't scale past a few thousand servers (probably even less if you also consider that the idea is have phones run the p2p server on mobile data connections).