Comment by barathr
4 days ago
As others have pointed out, this is like Apple iCloud Private Relay, and other multi-hop privacy systems that have been built on and off over the last several decades (Tor included).
We wrote a research paper on the general principle a few years ago: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2022/papers/hotnets2...
Discussed (just a bit) at the time:
The Decoupling Principle: A Practical Privacy Framework [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897450 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)
Perhaps we should arrange a new thread about this?
Happy to discuss further if it's of interest.
Sure! We should just wait long enough (perhaps a couple of months) so the effects of the current thread wear off and it won't feel like a follow-up anymore. If you want to, you'd be welcome to email us then and we could arrange a new thread - similar to what I said at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807631 (on a completely different topic of course!)
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Good to see you here Barath :-)
I didn't realize Chris Wood was also an author!