[liberationtech] Broadcast Anonymous Routing

[Travis Biehn]

TOR and I2P provide algorithms for anonymizing traffic. My suggestion is
that the approaches they take may be better adapted to the problem of
protecting chat than Echo / Flood / BAR approaches.

So I'm not saying 'pump XMPP through TOR or I2P' but i'm saying
ECHO/AE/Flood might be the wrong approaches - why not derive from
algorithms that I2P / TOR use?

Once key federation is addressed then message encryption itself is very
easy.... The metadata problem is what ECHO/AE/Flooding/BAR attempts to
address.

-Travis


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Randolph <rdohm321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014-08-20 16:24 GMT+02:00 Travis Biehn <tbiehn at gmail.com>:
> > I'm not sure why Echo / AE would be used in lieu of onion
> > routing... TOR based would show that Bob was transmitting something. I2P
> > would show no metadata about transmission or reception.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
>
> sure, the talk was about encrypted messaging and not a comparison
> about a browsing proxy chain. the chat can be done over any proxy. so
> both could be stuck together and that adds another layer. I think that
> should be analysed in one year further, in case TorChat is based on
> encryption and the endpoint of Tor or I2P is getting only ciphertext.
> Regards.
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