rich1.0npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2phttps://nostr.ae/npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2pnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-05-08 📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> 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