[tor-talk] Alec Muffet "Tor is a very attractive proposition for secure networking"

[Jason S. Evans]

Thanks for the article. This is something that I'm interested also.
I've been wondering about the feasibility of using Tor for low level,
low priority applications such as connecting servers with Saltstack,
setting up Jabber servers, or IRC.

Jason

On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 01:16 -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> A blog post that envisions Tor working as part of mainstream
> infrastructure.
> https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/tor-is-end-to-end-encryption-for-comp
> uters-to-talk-to-other-computers-34e41d81c9e2
> 
> "
> Tor protocol enables end-to-end encrypted communications between 
> computers — eg: Tor Browser on your laptop at one end, and an Onion
> Site 
> at the other.
> 
> This is not only decentralised and distributed, it is
> disintermediated 
> communication: there’s no DNS-name to be censored, nor spoofed nor 
> hijacked, there’s no fixed network route to be blocked, there’s no 
> firewall to be bypassed nor a single big ISP router to be DDoSed by
> some 
> attacker.
> "
> 
> He also faintly disagrees with Andrew Lewman about the "dark web",
> for 
> those into name dropping and keyword doping ;)