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Preserve users privacy #10

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Added input which should be useful as we move this towards an RFP.

@yiannisbot yiannisbot requested review from daviddias and jsoares and removed request for daviddias September 23, 2019 09:28
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jsoares commented Sep 25, 2019

Looks good to me. Probably good to merge this quickly, otherwise the nested branching may yield conflicts soon.


This happens to be one of the toughest problems to solve in order to provide a complete and human rights preserving fabric for knowledge.

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## Background
### Background

@@ -52,6 +64,33 @@ Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network
### Within the broad Research Ecosystem
> How do people try to solve this problem?

A general and rather simple approach and rule of thumb is to use an anonymising proxy which is placed between a sender and a receiver of traffic. This inevitably means that there is trust placed on this proxy to behave as desired. Decentralised approaches (that don't necessarily have to trust proxies or proxy operators) rely on layered encryption and multiple extra hops of routing so that any message cannot be linked to its originator/source.
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How is this general? Which systems use this approach?

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Can rephrase to just "simple". The initial concept gave rise to anonymising VPN solutions and the like.

@daviddias daviddias merged commit 7137622 into ipfs-inactive:preserve-users-privacy Sep 26, 2019
daviddias pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2019
* Initial input

* Background Update

* Related works update.

* Update PRESERVE_USER_PRIVACY.md

* Update PRESERVE_USER_PRIVACY.md
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