[HN Gopher] Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion
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       Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 74 points
       Date   : 2025-12-08 16:27 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | supermatt wrote:
       | > A natural question is how this differs from something like Tor.
       | In a nutshell, Tor offers identity protection before you enter a
       | P2P network, and Dandelion offers identity protection inside the
       | P2P network.
       | 
       | My understanding is that TOR also provides the latter - as that
       | is specifically the purpose of the "onion" routing:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
        
         | k__ wrote:
         | Yeah.
         | 
         | I had the impression that onion services are exactly that:
         | protection inside the P2P network.
        
       | basedrum wrote:
       | The explanation for why Tor is different makes no sense. Instead
       | of using a highly audited, 20 year proven, research backed
       | protocol, let's invent something else? NIH syndrome
        
         | supermatt wrote:
         | I think it's more that the author of the article doesn't know
         | what they are talking about?
         | 
         | The linked paper itself seems to make no such claim and
         | actually references it for its similarity!
        
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