Re[2]: Interoperating with p2p traffic

[Arrakistor <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx>]

What  if  we  designated  some type of tor family specifically for p2p
content, and coordinated with the software developers?




Hello Marc,

Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 12:59:22 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Matthias & group,

> We'll never stop variant of disparately high bandwidth use.  At best,
> we'll level the ground a bit.

> And I think that's sufficient.  I suspect that a lot of p2p users won't
> make the effort to defeat fairness provisions we may try to build in,
> and I believe that p2p developers will ask that their software be used
> responsibly (at least in terms of resource usage).

> But this is why port number prioritization might also be helpful. 
> Casual BitTorrent users won't stray from the defaults.  Tor's
> documentation also can educate them as to the purpose of traffic
> prioritization and ask for cooperation on this.

> Marc




> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 05:40, Matthias Fischmann wrote:
> ...what about sybil attacks, though, ie. attacks that open many channels
> in parallel, impersonating a large number of anonymous users?



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