On 5/15/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
So that brought me to my current working idea,
which is just a vmware
player virtual machine [*] which hosts a Chinese Wikipedia mirror on
https.
Could be useful - then again, aggressively pushing SSL as a method to
circumvent censorship will likely lead to the authorities taking a
closer look at methods to block it.
If there is indeed a shortage of Chinese mirrors, generating a fresh
static HTML dump + free images and advertising it a bit would probably
lead to hundreds of copies within weeks.
HTTPS does not protect anonymity for editors. Neither does Tor.
Low-latency encryption methods suffer a common flaw: an attacker
can correlate timestamps and message lengths with the size and posting
time of an edit. With ordinary HTTPS you can also correlate the
destination address. You could almost say that encryption is useless for
sending data which will be public 200ms after it arrives.