Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
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Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
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Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#2Does it allow someone with knowledge of a key to find the IP addresses of other people interested in that key? Because if yes, the other security guarantees are not all that interesting.
The fact that Tor is mentioned would suggest that you have to add that to be secure.
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#3I learned about Elligator quite recently and was shocked by how rarely it's actually been deployed (or even implemented), very happy to see it being used here.
> Release date: 4/20/2018
> Revision date: 10/8/2018
Would be nice to get a (2018) in the title.
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#4I learned about Elligator quite recently and was shocked by how rarely it's actually been deployed (or even implemented), very happy to see it being used here. > Release date: 4/20/2018 > Revision date: 10/8/2018 Would be nice to get a (2018) in the title.
That’s also only the specification release/revision dates.
Digging into the GitHub repo: “The implementation is not yet complete.”
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#5I learned about Elligator quite recently and was shocked by how rarely it's actually been deployed (or even implemented), very happy to see it being used here. > Release date: 4/20/2018 > Revision date: 10/8/2018 Would be nice to get a (2018) in the title.
That’s also only the specification release/revision dates. Digging into the GitHub repo: “The implementation is not yet complete.” https://github.com/wootfish/theseus.dht
I found a 2020 blog post from the author, announcing a pause of the project https://eli.sohl.com/2020/04/26/pressing-pause-on-theseus.ht...
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#6Oooh interesting! I've been reading up on DHT's for the first time recently (I'm very late to the party).
It looks like the original inspiration was an anti-censorship network for sharing/providing scientific papers: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-system-for-pr...
But as another poster noted, the project seems to be defunct do it being a solo effort: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-system-for-pr...
I'm curious why the OP is interested in this project, or if anyone else has any interesting DHT tools they want to share?
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#7Does it allow someone with knowledge of a key to find the IP addresses of other people interested in that key? Because if yes, the other security guarantees are not all that interesting. The fact that Tor is mentioned would suggest that you have to add that to be secure.
I just had a brief read of the protocol but my understanding is yes, there is nothing like onion routing or similar that could disguise to a peer that is serving the data that the requester is indeed the one who is interested in it.
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#8Oooh interesting! I've been reading up on DHT's for the first time recently (I'm very late to the party). It looks like the original inspiration was an anti-censorship network for sharing/providing scientific papers: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-system-for-pr... But as another poster noted, the project seems to be defunct do it being a solo effort: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-syst…
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#9> To a passive observer, all Theseus DHT protocol traffic is indistinguishable from random noise.
This.
And it should have been a design requirement for every protocol on the internet since day one.
Re: Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
#10> To a passive observer, all Theseus DHT protocol traffic is indistinguishable from random noise. This. And it should have been a design requirement for every protocol on the internet since day one.
I would have rather have every protocol to supply endless amount of ice cream.