Re: Tor questions

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:39:07PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> Why does Tor not too use or support UDP?
> 
> I know its stateless in nature ( could error handling be handled but Tor 
> ), but the point im trying to make is, and I know you all know, with UDP 
> there will be less overhead and to my logic may improve services and 
> delivery of Tor.

See section 1.1 of
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/roadmaps/2009-03-11-performance.pdf

> The other question I would like to know or maybe even a suggestion. 
> Could the Tor packages be set to enable the Tor service / daemon as a 
> default, to help contribute, as a default (naturally the person can 
> switch it off if they wish) to the network and to the greater scheme of 
> things.

https://www.torproject.org/faq#EverybodyARelay

but then see also section 3.7 of the above pdf.

--Roger