Re: [VIPR] VIPR privacy issue

Unfortunately, options 2 and 3 introduce delays that decrease the
relevance/utility of VIPR , which in my view has significant near term
(i.e., now) value, but in the long term is likely to be far less
useful.

Mary.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org> wrote:
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> On 01/26/2012 01:28 PM, Dean Willis wrote:
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>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> That may be worth investigating, but the first thing that the WG should
> answer, IMHO, is do we want to 1) give up, 2) delay for RELOAD, or 3) replace
> RELOAD?
>
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