On 9/26/12 9:14 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote:

I can tell you that based on prototype code I have created, SMS and VoIP type p2p applications between mobile devices works just fine. The latency is not bad, especially since the apps are coded to be asynchronous anyhow. Whether it takes 10 seconds or 1 minute for someone to respond does not bother users.

Sure, also GlobaLeaks 0.2 is designed in a way to minimize the impact on TorHS latency and avoid "white page effect" on user's browser.

Hidden Services as a globally anonymous NAT'd networked is an amazing opportunity for this type of application. We just need to solve the scalability problem so we do not, as Robert put it "thrash the hidden services directory". Totally agree, especially it's absolutely reasonable that we will see a growing number of Applications that include Tor as part of their code and use Tor Hidden Services a unique way to communicate.

It would be very useful to have an official statement by Tor Project on the current scalability / performance impact of Tor Hidden Service with a Guideline to let Application Developer (bundling Tor, using TorHS) avoid breaking/hurting the Tor Network. That way the limits are clear and the way to be "Polite with the Network considering it's current limitations" would be explicit. Fabio _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE