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de-centralized if more people ran authoritative directory servers. ie
if every client was a server and every server was a directory...
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:34 AM, eugen gmail <eugenrn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> --- F. Fox wrote:
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>> Something I've been thinking about: On a theoretical basis, how would
>> Tor's architecture be classified?
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>> Two extremes of the scale I'm talking about would be:
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>> * Fully centralized, like plain ol' client/server;
>> * Fully decentralized, which Gnutella comes close to.
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> Maybe you could think of it like this:
> If someone evil can shutdown Tor, then Tor is centralized, if not then it is
> decentralized...
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> I know too little to answer that...
> Eugen
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