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<li><a href="#KeyManagement">Tell me about all the keys Tor uses.</a></li> |
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+<p>Alternate designs that we don't do (yet):</p> |
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+<ul> |
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+<li><a href="#EverybodyARelay">You should make every Tor user be a |
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+relay.</a></li> |
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+</ul> |
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<p>Abuse</p> |
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<ul> |
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<li><a href="#Criminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad things?</a></li> |
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+<a id="EverybodyARelay"></a> |
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+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#EverybodyARelay">You should make every Tor |
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+user be a relay.</a></h3> |
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+<p> |
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+Requiring every Tor user to be a relay would help with scaling the |
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+network to handle all our users, and [#RelayAnonymity running a Tor |
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+relay may help your anonymity]. However, many Tor users cannot be good |
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+relays -- for example, some Tor clients operate from behind restrictive |
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+firewalls or could be subject to penalties for relaying traffic (e.g., |
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+potentially questionable exit connections, encrypted connections, or any |
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+connections at all). Providing service to these clients is a critical |
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+part of providing effective anonymity for everyone, since many Tor users |
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+are subject to these or similar constraints and including these clients |
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+increases the size of the anonymity set. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+That said, we do want to encourage Tor users to run relays, so what we |
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+really want to do is simplify the process of setting up and maintaining |
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+a relay. |
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+</p> |
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+<p> |
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+There are five steps we need to address before we can do this though: |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+First, we need to make Tor stable as a relay on all common operating |
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+systems. [:TheOnionRouter/WindowsBufferProblems:We haven't achieved this |
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+on Windows XP yet, and we need your help.] |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Second, we need easy configuration -- requiring users to edit text files |
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+is bad for adoption. The [http://vidalia-project.net/ Vidalia project] |
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+is making great progress on this part. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Third, Tor needs to do more tasks automatically: we need it to |
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+automatically detect appropriate bandwidth, help you with opening ports |
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+in your firewall, et cetera. We need to let people rate-limit outside |
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+connections without limiting their own connections -- this is hard because |
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+Tor puts traffic from different people on the same TCP stream, so we can't |
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+tell whether we should read it off the network without first reading it. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Fourth, we need to work on scalability, both of the network (how |
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+to stop requiring that all Tor relays be able to connect to all |
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+Tor relays) and of the directory (how to stop requiring that all |
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+Tor users know about all Tor relays). Changes like this can have |
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+large impact on potential and actual anonymity. See Section 5 of the |
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+[https://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/design-paper/challenges.pdf |
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+Challenges] paper for details. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Fifth, we might need some sort of incentive scheme to encourage people |
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+to relay traffic for others, and/or to become exit nodes. Here are our |
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+[https://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/contrib/incentives.txt early |
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+thoughts on Tor incentives]. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Please help on all of these! |
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+</p> |
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+<hr /> |
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<a id="Criminals"></a> |
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Criminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad |
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things?</a></h3> |
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