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Re: Myth: the Payment Protocol is bad for privacy
by
Peter Todd
on 03/06/2014, 00:57:32 UTC
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Tor is more "centralized" than CA's?

Just numerically, this is true. There are 7 directory authorities that matter in Tor, vs over 100 certificate authorities.

In the CA system any one of those 100 certificate authorities can break your security - 100 single points of failure. In Tor that's just 7 single points of failure, and IIRC Tor does have a n of m scheme for directory authorities.

As the experts have known for years, you can do even worse than centralization, significantly worse: you can have numerous points of failure distributed around the world where failure of any one breaks your security. The certificate authority system is exactly that.