Tor: A JAP Replacement 266
kid_wonder writes "Wired is running an article describing an answer to this previous /. story. Packets are sent through a network of randomly selected servers each of which knows only its predecessor and successor. Packets are unwrapped by a symmetric encryption key at each server that peels off one layer and reveals instructions for the next downstream node. As a 'connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system,' Tor seems to be the answer to JAP to allow anonymous networking activities of all kinds."
Why would the government fund something... (Score:4, Interesting)
If the Navy is funding this project, don't you think they have already found a way of monitoring it?
Re:Not Like Freenet (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Not Like Freenet (Score:4, Interesting)
Interestingly, one of the other reasons is that he managed to convince the Navy that others would use and trust the code (therefore making the Navy's use of it more difficult to detect) if those others could read the code and implement it themselves. I'm honestly kinda surprised (but happy) that the Navy agreed to it.
You missed some points. (Score:5, Interesting)
1. The Navy is bankrolling the development, presumably to allow government employees to surf around without leaving ".gov" and ".mil" ip addresses in logs.
2. JAP supposedly has a German Government implanted backdoor that this one shouldn't because it's open source.
I think that the US Government is bankrolling it to piss off the Chinese.
Re:Freenet? (Score:1, Interesting)
Paedophiles trade movies too you know.
The extreme anonymity provided by Freenet is exactly why I'm avoiding it like the plague (and also because it's a Java thing, but that's another problem): unless you live in some dictatorship like China, the only real reason you'd need that much anonymity is for kiddy pr0n...
Anonymous mailer technology (Score:5, Interesting)
I was at a presentation by the guy behind MixMaster and was impressed by all the thought that has gone into the various generations of the application. They even had it generating fake messages so you can't do traffic analysis.
Re:I've been doing this since August 2003. (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe because you say right on your website [24.125.12.101], "Don't post this to slashdot. You will murder my cable modem."
Who knows how many truely brilliant ideas have languished in obscurity because their author was afraid of a slashdotting... Surely thousands -- no, millions...
Re:You missed some points. (Score:3, Interesting)
you can get the sourcecode for JAP here [tu-dresden.de].
they were told to record access to a child porn site, which they did (visible in the source). they cought one access to that site, but the data had to be deleted after another court ruling which declared the surveillance illegal.
Onion Routing (Score:5, Interesting)
It's important to note that there are some statistical attacks on both of these systems, and none of them are very secure for long communication sessions when group membership churns, as in a peer-to-peer network.
I2P has been doing this for some time now (Score:1, Interesting)
If you're on freenode.net chat, join #i2p or go to the website right here. [i2p.net]
About I2P [i2p.net]
False (Score:1, Interesting)
Not true. If you try to contact people the government deems a terrorist, you will simply disappear. You will be sent to Cuba, deemed an "enemy compatant", and simply tucked out of the way.
The Bush administration is openly hostile to habeus corpus. They have secret courts and secret subpeonas. They hold people without a public court appearance.
All it takes, dude, is to be called a terrorist, and your life might as well be over.
I'm not making this up; hell, I'm a 35 year republican, but when a thing is wrong, you've got to stand up to speak out.
And if the guy doesn't want to be labelled a terrorist for his political views, then he has that right.
So stop dragging out kiddie porn; its an old, worn saw, and its used simply to smear people.
hmmm-They went, all those ways. (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh, for God's sake... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Been around for awhile... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Freenet? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Talk about politically incorrect (Score:3, Interesting)
I do think slashdot's only purpose on the Internet is to aggregate stupidity.
If Freenet isn't free then what is? (Score:1, Interesting)
Care to explain this obscure statement?
Freenet is as free as it gets, if you don't like the freenet client (which is opensource) you can write your own.
What's not entirely free?
Re:Why would the government fund something... (Score:2, Interesting)
Wouldn't you think the government has had some non-public serious hardware dedicated to this for the past decade? If these are the Top 500 "known" supercomputers (http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/ [top500.org]), where are all the Defense Department listings?
The NSA has "worked" closely with vendors supplying encryption equipment since the 1990s (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/27/securit y.idg/ [cnn.com]
I would believe the government's NSA hardware is probably around 6-10 years ahead of what is commercially available or even known. http://www.hpcc.gov/pubs/blue94/section.4.6.html [hpcc.gov]