On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Nathan Suchy < [email protected]> 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/ -- Kostas. 0x0e5dce45 @ pgp.mit.edu -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
