[tahoe-dev] switching from introducers to gossip?

[James A. Donald]

On 2012-07-10 12:18 PM, Nathan wrote:
> Missing from the list of firewall hopping technologies: tor hidden services.
>
> I advocate a name change to this technology to emphasize it's feature
> list.  Tor hidden services are:
>
> * A firewall traversal mechanism.
> * A highly-available addressing mechanism.
> * A self-authenticating address.
> * Possibly (see below) a connection-capability.
> * "hidden"
>
> It seems people are only aware of the last feature because of the
> poorly chosen name.  IMO, the "hidden" aspect is one of the less
> interesting features.  I've heard a rumor that there's a proposal to
> make a version of this feature which provides the other features
> without the hidden part for the benefit of lower latency.

This would be extremely convenient, for unhidden tor services could not 
only provide lower latency, but could handle high bandwidth.