Re: [VIPR] VIPR privacy issue

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
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> Like I said, the mitigation here is the same as any situation where you want to hide your IP address: Send packets from a different network.


So we should run a great big VPN in order to run RELOAD in order to run ViPR?

Great! Now all we need is a peer-to-peer VPN capable of obscuring the IP addresses being used.

I'm trying to imagine just how badly the universe would break if one tried to run RELOAD over TOR. I don't think I have that good an imagination, because scenes from the movie "2012" pale by comparison, and I'm sure the real situation would be far worse than what I imagine.

But this does all come back to why I haven't been able to convince myself of the real-world utility of ViPR. We're layering vast complexity onto what is basically a distributed  trust-anchor problem, where the easiest thing to do in the real-world is to have a centralized anchor (which might itself refer to the PSTN basis anchor).

How about an alt-root DDNS/ENUM server that itself uses PSTN reachability to verify registrations submitted via DDNS?


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Dean