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Send queries to random notaries

Open daveschaefer opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

Instead of clients sending requests to all notaries every time, they should only send queries to a random set of notaries.

This would improve privacy, since a notary doesn't see all of the requests you make/sites you visit. It may also be faster, once we have stable notaries that always reply and the client stops processing results when it reaches quorum ( #26 )

Sending queries to a random selection of notaries is actually the design in Dan's original paper (Section 3.3 Querying Notary Servers: "The client then randomly chooses n entries from the list of notaries and queries these servers in parallel").

daveschaefer avatar Nov 07 '13 04:11 daveschaefer

I think we need more notary servers first before we can start omitting some of them. It's very hard for me at the moment to even reach medium security.

ghost avatar Jun 15 '14 21:06 ghost

Heartily agreed! We need to get the main notaries online 24/7 before we consider this.

daveschaefer avatar Jun 18 '14 05:06 daveschaefer