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On 31/08/13 12:40, Philip Hudson wrote: > Better than TOR? > > http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/anon/ > > -- > Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz > @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 > > No. Technically, it may well be, but this is a high-brow PhD research level academic exercise - it's going to be miles beyond the reach of all but the most technical types. I'm cloning it from git as we speak to attempt to get it running, but I'm anticipating build issues and then there's the fact where once it's up, I'll be in an elite global community of 4 users. You also have to manually edit up your confs, *distribute* them and generate/distribute your own keypairs - this is going to get real messy, real fast. Tor has over 1.2 million daily users currently, and any moron can download the Tor Browser bundle or the PirateBrowser onto Windows and be up and running in seconds. Who knows, in a couple of years they may have cleaned up the code, have easy installers for every OS, a great help page and millions of users - I hope so, 'cos choice is nice. But we both know the chance of that, considering these are Yale/Austin PhD students, is non-existent (the authors will all get their PhDs and be snapped up as highly paid quants by life-sucking HFT firms). Also, they've failed at the first hurdle (I've tried 4 times over the last couple of hours): ghost@failbot:~/SRC$ git clone https://github.com/DeDiS/Dissent.git Cloning into 'Dissent'... remote: Counting objects: 168176, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (55527/55527), done. error: RPC failed; result=18, HTTP code = 2006 MiB | 390 KiB/s fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: recursion detected in die handler Whoops, someone hasn't set httpPostbuffer correctly... So, no. This is a damn poor show. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq