[liberationtech] Fw: Concept for takedown-resistant publishing

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From: Pavol Luptak <wilder at trip.sk>
To: Daniel Margo <dmargo at eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kendra Albert <kalbert at cyber.law.harvard.edu>, Victor Shnayder <
shnayder at gmail.com>, Matt Becker <matthewbbecker at gmail.com>, Esther Lim <
ehslim at gmail.com>, Alicia Solow-Niederman <aliciasn at cyber.law.harvard.edu>,
liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 02:35:46 +0100
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Fw: Concept for takedown-resistant publishing
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Daniel Margo wrote:
> 1. Name resolution comes in two parts: finding the torrent file, and
> then finding the actual P2P cloud. Web sites like The Pirate Bay
> function as name resolution services for finding torrent files, but
> obviously any single such server can be blocked. What I presume we
> actually desire is a name resolution service just like DNS for Web
> sites: you type in a URL, it gets resolved to a torrent file.

It's not fully functional yet, neither widely used, but it may be the
solution
in the near future:

Namecoin (decentralized DNS system based on bitcoin chains) is used for
resolving .bit domain that is CNAME to .onion tor hidden service where
the given torrent file is uploaded :-)
At least in case of namecoin/tor hidden services I don't see many ways for
censorship. Anyway, from the privacy point of view I do not consider torrent
protocol to be a secure one.

Pavol
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