Re: [tor-talk] About time to make BitTorrent work over Tor,

[Nathan Suchy <theusernameiwantistaken@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK. Why not setup some automatic internal routing so we don't waste exit
bandwidth?
On Aug 26, 2013 8:00 AM, "Kostas Jakeliunas" <kostas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Nathan Suchy <
> theusernameiwantistaken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't want this for piracy as I have a paid VPN account that is much
> > faster for that if I decide to pirate. I think we need BitTorrent though
> to
> > work on Tor so Tor Users can securely share files with one another.
>
>
> AFAIK the most obvious issue with this (among more subtle side-channel
> attack / decloaking problems) is network scalability. Total relay bandwidth
> available is, while seemingly increasing in general, very limited given
> such use cases. [1] How does one scale BitTorrent on top of that? It's
> probably not the right way to look at it. Perhaps try delving into, for
> example, GNUnet [2, 3], which is explicitly designed to be compatible with
> your use cases (probably). There are bound to be interesting problems and
> possible solutions there.
>
> But perhaps there's still some discussion to be had. I'm sure this has been
> discussed myriads of times, however - maybe it's worth trying to browse
> through the mailing list archives.
>
> [1]: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet
> [3]: https://gnunet.org/
>
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