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Re: [tor-bugs] #7830 [Tor]: UDP over Tor
#7830: UDP over Tor
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Reporter: proper | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by rransom):
> This is unlikely to be possible.
>
> * Transporting UDP-based protocols through an exit node would require
significant design and implementation effort for an âexit policyâ for each
UDP-based protocol that is to be supported.
> * Transporting UDP-based protocols cannot provide a performance
improvement unless relays are permitted to reorder and/or drop cells.
This would make end-to-end tagging attacks much easier (they would no
longer be limited to relays), and would be incompatible with Tor's current
relay crypto and the currently proposed new relay crypto protocols.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7830#comment:2>
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