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FAQ >> Is Yggdrasil anonymous? No, it is not a goal of the Yggdrasil project to provide anonymity. I understand that the problem is hard, has its own set of is
by A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
FAQ >> Is Yggdrasil anonymous? No, it is not a goal of the Yggdrasil project to provide anonymity.
I understand that the problem is hard, has its own set of issues to solve beyond just technical, but this honestly makes it a non-starter for me. Anything that would be an actual internet evolution would need to include actual anonymity. Apart from this, I simply do not see what problem it actually solves for the existing internet that is not already solved with the current setup.
- neilalexander 2y agoAnonymity isn’t a goal for Yggdrasil anymore than it is a goal for for BGP, OSPF, BATMAN etc. Anonymous networks also generally have very high costs/overheads as they often engineer long and indirect paths for obscurity. See the generally poor performance/reliability of Tor circuits for an example of why we probably wouldn’t want the entire Internet to work this way.
- ravenstine 2y agoWhy? I think it makes perfect sense to focus on a mesh routing protocol and make anonymity something optional that you can lay on top of it. No reason you can't run a Yggdrasil network and have an I2P network within it. This way there isn't as much of a performance hit for communications that don't call for anonymity, and anonymous peers can be established without being on the clearnet.
- cma 2y agoOptimized latency can deanonymize, so better to layer anonymization on top.