5/18/2023 0 Comments Mullvad android tv![]() This makes the cloud environment inhospitable for any cost-effective, transit-intensive business like a CDN/VPN, increasing the barrier to entry by requiring self-hosting a distributed network. The root obstacle is incumbent compute-based clouds oversubscribing compute by gouging on bandwidth. I also like Fly.io and Cloudflare Workers and generally any product that iterates toward a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform. Personally, I like what Orchid, Tailscale and ZeroTier are doing. ![]() I remained (and remain) interested in decentralized VPN networks, and played around with implementing something around it, but ultimately I didn’t have the experience to build what I wanted. We never developed it further beyond the initial research (it was senior spring, not a lot getting done, I even forgot to buy Bitcoin). The tl dr is a Neff shuffle with a matrix of relays and assignment servers. ![]() So the “TorPath” part was about circuit assignment, and in retrospect perhaps more interesting than the cryptocurrency aspect of it. The main premise was proof-of-bandwidth cryptocurrency, but its resistance to Sybil attacks was partially dependent on assignment of publicly verifiable but privately addressable circuits. Shameless plug, for my undergraduate senior thesis in 2014 I coauthored a paper related to this called “A TorPath to TorCoin”.
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