📅 Original date posted:2014-05-08
📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The tor network works based on a centralized (well, in theory,
> federated) trusted directory service. (More info in
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=dir-spec.txt).
Thanks!
> Much of data that is not related to relay related is just generated by
> probes, e.g. semi-trusted bandwidth authorities that measure node
> performance back to the directory authorities.
Right, so there is more involved than just adding having nodes provide
measuring points, a third-party is also performing tests on the nodes.
In a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to
find good and stable nodes, although more extensive.
Wladimir
Wladimir [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 15:21:06
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