alt Hacker NewsI have no clue how you reached the conclusion of calling it a red herring.
It matters - because Satan can disconnect the centralized nodes.
I have no clue how you reached the conclusion of calling it a red herring.
It matters - because Satan can disconnect the centralized nodes.
It’s a red herring because systems that achieve end-to-end security do so regardless of whether the underlying hosts are centralized or not. A typical network adversary wants you to downgrade the security properties of your protocol in the presence of an unreliable network, so they can pull more metadata out of you.