Veilid - The Next Generation of Tor?

As one of the creators of Veilid, I really enjoyed and appreciated this video!! You did a great job going over some of the features and tech we are using. One thing to add- IPFS and TOR are not user friendly, and neither is adopted by folks outside of tech. One thing we are reaching for with Veilid is to make it accessible for all users, whether or not they’re tech literate. Anyway, thank you again for covering Veilid, and I hope some of your folks join in to help us give privacy to EVERYONE :)

It's amazing that cDc is still around. I haven't given them much thought since they released Back Orifice 2000.

Correction: In this video I had a typo which carried through due to the magic of copy / paste it is not ISPF the Inter Planetary File System should be IPFS

Go cDc! Man, talk about a nostalgic surprise this morning over coffee. Seeing them still around and at it makes me smile from ear to ear. Best memories of my childhood (BBS years). 🤓🖥️📞🐄🛸👾😆

The first time I heard of cDc was in high school in the 1980's. I just wish I had a computer at the time to learn more about them. Looked up things later. I wish those people well.

While Tor can be "slow" it doesn't sound like you fully understand how Tor works. Tor does take care of routing automatically in it's 'default' mode, but you can pick the entry node. That's what bridges are for. It gets you around the problem of networks and even countries censoring Tor by blocking public nodes.

I followed CDC in their early days and have really been impressed with how far they've come all these years.

Awesome, thanks for talking about this

Tor seems very fast these days which is a warning sign in itself, it's broken if there's significant resources being provided to it.

Bridges and normal nodes (non-exit nodes) work exactly the same (protocol and implementation). So you can set every Tor node as your guard ("entrance", this isn't a seperate kind of node like you say at 11:55) by manually setting it as bridge in the connection settings. The difference is that bridges don't get listed publicly so they can't be censored on mass scale by e.g. foreign governments. I assume you sould only do that with nodes who have the guard flag so others use them as guard, too. That can be checked on Tor Metrics. So check some trusted privacy organizations or local hacker communities if they run a Tor node and if they got the guard flag and add them as bridge(s). Or even run your own!

the shrinking packet size closer it gets to target might be an issue, allows attackers to estimate how many hops are from the target.

I'm a big fan of self hosting and I will look into veilid, thank you!

very interesting! checking out Veilid.... thanks for the video, subscribed.

it's not the protocols that's the problem; it's that the internet became owned by a handful of companies. users flocked to these mega social networks. it's pointless having extra privacy/encryption, when you willingly sign up to services, telling them which devices can be used for the services.

Man...I haven't followed the cDc since the mid 90's. I'm getting a nostalgia wave just hearing the name again.

It looks quite promising!

Interesting review. I had no idea this development was underway. Thanks for the good review.

Now I am intrigued - Thank you for the heads up Don

Cautiously hopeful! One question is will it work from China without an identifiable (commercial) VPN?

The ability of the B side to pick the entire return route seems unusual.