Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WiJ0v-0005iV-Fq for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 May 2014 07:45:09 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.223.180 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.223.180; envelope-from=laanwj@gmail.com; helo=mail-ie0-f180.google.com; Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WiJ0u-0000Ld-DP for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 May 2014 07:45:09 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f180.google.com with SMTP id as1so2206553iec.39 for ; Thu, 08 May 2014 00:45:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.50.146 with SMTP id c18mr51478327igo.42.1399535102513; Thu, 08 May 2014 00:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.22.168 with HTTP; Thu, 8 May 2014 00:45:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <536A8592.8010009@gmail.com> <536A902C.6080602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:45:02 +0200 Message-ID: From: Wladimir To: Gregory Maxwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (laanwj[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WiJ0u-0000Ld-DP Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 07:45:09 -0000 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > The tor network works based on a centralized (well, in theory, > federated) trusted directory service. (More info in > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=dir-spec.txt). Thanks! > Much of data that is not related to relay related is just generated by > probes, e.g. semi-trusted bandwidth authorities that measure node > performance back to the directory authorities. Right, so there is more involved than just adding having nodes provide measuring points, a third-party is also performing tests on the nodes. In a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to find good and stable nodes, although more extensive. Wladimir