From Onions to Shallots: Rewarding Tor Relays with TEARS
Addendum to LTB Article Bitcoin or “DARPACoin” Could Save Civilization After a Nuclear Event
From Onions to Shallots: Rewarding Tor Relays with TEARS
Addendum to LTB article Bitcoin or “DARPACoin” Could Save Civilization After a Nuclear Event
By Brian Cohen 6/14/2014 1:05 PM EST
This is a addendum to Bitcoin or “DARPACoin” Could Save Civilization After a Nuclear Event over at Let’s Talk Bitcoin where we uncovered a couple of Cold War Documents entitled “Options for Accelerating Economic Recovery After Nuclear Attack” and “Markets, Distribution, and Exchange After Societal Cataclysm” which discuss alternative currencies and general economic recovery after a nuclear disaster; We discuss the history of the internet and TORCoin (a.k.a DARPACoin).
There was another project project referenced in the footnote (9) of TORCoin Project which is worth a second look:
9. Jansen, R., Miller, A., Syverson, P., Ford, B.: From onions to shallots: Rewarding Tor relays with TEARS. In: HotPETS. (July 2014)
This project will also be presented at the Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2014) at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium on July 18, 2014 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
And is also DARPA, Office of Naval Research funded and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)
Onions to Shallots: Rewarding Tor Relays with TEARS (Link)
“TEARS, a system rewarding useful service with traffic priority, TEARS audits relays and rewards them with anonymous coins called Shallots, proportionally to bandwidth contributed…”
Abstract “In this paper, we draw upon the distributed Bitcoin architecture to design a transparent, efficient, and auditable reward system (TEARS):”
The Tor anonymity network depends on volunteers to operate relays, and might oer higher bandwidth with lower response latencies if more users could be incentivized to contribute relay bandwidth.We introduce TEARS, a system rewarding useful service with trac priority. TEARS audits relays and rewards them with anonymous coins called Shallots, proportionally to bandwidth contributed. Shallots may be redeemed anonymously for PriorityPasses, which in turn may be presented to relays to request trac priority. The PriorityPass construction enables relays to prevent double spending locally without leaking information. Unlike previous incentive proposals, TEARS incorporates transparent and distributed banking using protocols from distributed digital cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin. Shallots are publicly-veriable, minimizing reliance on and trust in banking authorities, making them auditable while naturally distributing bank functionality and associated overhead. Further, these distributed banking protocols resist denial-of-service attacks and can recover from catastrophic failures. TEARS may either be deployed in the existing Tor network or operate alongside it.
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