sweetbitter

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by sweetbitter 5y ago
Loopix - https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536 Nym (Loopix but using blockchain for users to pay nodes) - https://nymtech.net/nym-whitepaper.pdf https://nymtech.net/
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
That would be security by obscurity- something which the creator of such an important website does not have the privilege of relying on.
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Well, some of us never saw it in the first place.
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
It's dead either because my account is new, or because I mentioned a mix network.
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
"Trusting mathematics" would be a much more accurate claim if we were talking about mix networks, such as Loopix ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536 ). But Tor is vulnerable to confirmation attacks to varying de
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
And yet, confirmation attacks and traffic shaping by global adversaries are where the actual design flaws lie, inherent to any 'low-latency' (read: performance trumps privacy) anonymizing network, and you know that. Even efforts s
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https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper...
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Generally speaking, it is wise to assume that any entity under which trust is centralized is far easier for a government to persuade. At least DuckDuckGo is friendly to Tor.
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Even if ProtonMail had not stored these data, it could have easily been, legally or not, collected from the ISP(s) providing Proton with their internet access.
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Basically, you want to run a messaging service over an onion routing network (Tor, I2P), or even better, a mix network. You should check out Nym ( https://nymtech.net/ ) and come back with what you think about it. It is very
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This wouldn't even have resulted in the catching of the person in question, due to the use of an Onion Service, your link referring to the guy downgrading HTTPS on bitcoin exchanges. Hacker News users have surprisingly little comprehen