Really?! Is the Tor funded by governments?π
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it was originally developed by teh US navy intelligence.
i don't think they have been getting that much funding from them since it went public and open source.
I hope so. Although no software can be trusted 100%, I have the highest trust in the Tor project.
Government grants are still their largest source of funding, if I'm reading their reports right. I'm not shitting on TOR or anything the tech is solid, I still use it all the time, but it's good to know where the funding comes from.
Here is their sponsor page and most recent fiscal reports.
https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/
https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-2021-and-2022-financials/
"their tech is solid"
and out of date
just read a good paper on bloom filter based encryption and circa 2018 already there was a proposal for a one-shot protocol for circuit establishment via tor
afaik not reached us plebs
it's a performance improvement, sure, but i was already jaded on the tor project in 2007 for the way they regarded ideas about using a monetary incentive to improve the size of the network
today been doing a lot of research into it and i get it now that with old techniques they literally are limited in network node count
could be fixed with multiple networks with other directories running, at minimum
circuit establishment speed can clearly be dramatically increased to one outbound message now, where it used to be a 6 cycle to and fro through the new channel, at minimum
i had been developing an idea based on HORNET - the actual original inspiration for LN, btw, client side onion relaying - but the problem with the design is it's not spam resistant
i pretty much guarantee that next year lightning is gonna be creaking because of this vulnerability
not sure what to say other than these many points...
gonna be following up with a lot more research in this holiday week and maybe i'll manage to figure out a possible path to agoric, path-blinded relay routing
definitely feels like a dawning moment right now
Hmm, interesting.
WTFπ
lol why does the government fund TOR.
Iβm very skeptical now π
+ In TOR we trust.
- Nope we don't trust.
