Re: Suggestion: Many OR-ports would improve the network

["vikingserver@xxxxxxxxx" <vikingserver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interresting. So there ARE possible plans about changing the Tor network in the future to become resistant to blocking, and to become a tool to allow people behind restrictive firewalls to reach the full internet. Very good. I hope this will happen soon, so that Tor becomes a powerfull tool against censorship.
This document affirms the fact that Tor is very easy to block today, and that only poorly configured restricted firewalls today allow traffic to Tor, either because the admins don't know about Tor, or because they don't care.

Let's hope that the Tor project will get more funds and more programmers to speed up the work on making Tor a powerfull tool against censorship by becoming blocking-resistant.

/Viking

Paul Syverson skrev:

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:45:34PM +0200, vikingserver@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
  

A Tor client behind a restrictive firewall/proxy doesn't even reach the
dirservers, and has no way of connecting to the Tor network. Meaning
it's almost useless as a tool to allow freedom of speech in the whole world.

Decentralized popular P2P with a wide variety of ports and
"hubs/nodes/servers" are more successfull then Tor at helping persons in
oppressed countries.
Tor has to become better in order to allow users in the whole world to
reach every website in the world. But perhaps the goals is just to allow
traffic in the western world from non restrictive networks?

    

You should read "Design of a blocking-resistant anonymity system"
at http://tor.freehaven.net/svn/trunk/doc/design-paper/blocking.html
and/or at least look at the slides on the Tor documentation page.

HTH,
Paul