| Non scrivetemi 2006-08-04, 1:15 pm |
| Your Greasy Granny wrote:
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> That's the clincher for me. Tor has hundreds of nodes, Jap only a few.
I believe Jap has a considerable number of nodes, they just don't have
as many "exit" nodes. OTOH, Tor needs a freely published directory of
nodes to compensate for its diversity, and as far as I'm aware JAP
doesn't. There use to be a third party util to sniff out a JAP node
list, but it was only marginally effective for a number of reasons.
Tor and JAP do function differently under the hood, each with its own
strengths and weaknesses, it's just my semi-educated opinion that Tor's
way of doing things is marginally more secure. That's not to say JAP
isn't secure, it's just "different".
> It would have a chance if they opened the design up to be more Tor-like in
> allowing any user to make his copy a server and add it to the anonymity
> set.
Everything has it's price my friend. 
What would be nice is having the diversity of the Tor network with a
completely "blind" node list. But alas, I don't believe such a thing is
even possible. There's has to either be a partially hard wired "chain",
or a freely available list from which to build a chain. I don't think
we can have it both ways.
> as it is, it blows chunks
I wouldn't say that.... not at all. Tor is just a little more
"confidence inspiring" than JAP is. Not to mention quite a bit more
flexible usage wise. You gotta admit an anonymous SOCKS proxy is just
a beautiful thing as a concept. ;)
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