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How is Convergence different from the Perspectives add-on[1]? I ask because I honestly don't see any significant advantage to one over the other. [1] https://a
by slavak 15y ago
How is Convergence different from the Perspectives add-on[1]? I ask because I honestly don't see any significant advantage to one over the other.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/
- amirmc 15y agoYou can also look at the video where he talks about Convergence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA (Start from 35m35s)
- mike-cardwell 15y agoConvergence has a proxy system built in so you connect to notaries via other notaries. It's a rather rudimentary attempt at offering privacy to the user looking up the certificate. It (rightly or wrongly) works on the assumption that people running notaries wont collude.
- aidenn0 15y agoPerspectives always leaks information about which sites you are visiting to all notaries. Convergence leaks information about which sites you are visiting for the first time with the current key only if your bounce notary colludes with one other notary.