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diff --git a/wiki/gossamer/index.md b/wiki/gossamer/index.md index eaeb433..9e68b1a 100644 --- a/wiki/gossamer/index.md +++ b/wiki/gossamer/index.md @@ -27,20 +27,30 @@ software. ## Design Goals * Users must be in control of their own privacy and identity at all times. - (This is a major failing with Diaspora, which gates personal ownership by - being hard to run.) + (This is a major failing with Diaspora, which limits access to personal + ownership of data by being hard to run.) * Any functional communication system _will_ be used for illicit purposes. This is an unavoidable consequence of being usable for legitimate purposes - without a central authority. + without a central authority. Rather than revealing illicit conversations, + Gossamer should do what it can to preserve the anonymity and privacy of + legitimate ones. * Centralization encourages control and enables pervasive monitoring. + Contrary to received wisdom, people who haven't done anything wrong + _should_ be entitled to hide things, and to have conversations without the + intervention of a central conversation authority. * All nodes are as equal as possible. The node _I_ use is not more - authoritative for messages from me than any other node. + authoritative for messages from me than any other node. You can hear my + words from anyone who has heard my words, and I can hear yours from anyone + who has heard your words, so long as some variety of authenticity and + privacy are maintained. * If an identity's secrets are removed, a node should contain no data that - correlates the owner with his or her Gossamer identities. + correlates the owner with his or her Gossamer identities. Relaying and + authoring must be as indistinguishable as possible, to limit the utility of + traffic analysis. ## Gossamer Network Primitives @@ -108,6 +118,8 @@ might of Gossamer's network? **TODO**: Can we reuse Bittorrent's DHT system (BEP-5) to avoid having every node know the full network topology? +**TODO**: Are node-to-node exchanges encrypted? If so, why and how? + ### Authenticity Gossamer node addresses are not authenticated. Gossamer relies on freshness |