Researchers developing new anonymity tool

Have you heard the news about a new anonymity tool that some researchers are developing here:

http://www.darkreading.com/security/encryption/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217801293

So what do people think about this? Will it be better than tools we have right now?

 

Yes and no. From what the article mentioned it seems to be file based 'darknet'. From my understanding that would be using files as 'replys' so you could use any webhost to load this file and they would tunnel you through any other webhosts with that file. I wouldn't know how you'd get encryption to work perhaps they are forwarded using ssl?. As soon as a proof of concept is posted and deployed whom knows, but its an exciting prospect to have a network that could spring up on any webhost making it highly mobile and hard to block.