Is it possible to leak huge load of data over onions?
On 4/3/16, Griffin Boyce <griffin@cryptolab.net> wrote:
How do you transmit an elephant? One byte at a time...
But on a serious note, it's possible to transfer 2.6TB over Tor in small pieces (such as file by file or via torrent). Given the size, however, I'd suspect they mailed hard drives after establishing contact with journalists. Even on a fairly fast connection, 2.6TB would take quite a while...
That amount of data would take 27 days at 10Mbps. Few would be willing to sit supervising in a hotseat that long when they can physically mail 3TB for $100 and 8TB for $230. Though they might spend 3 days pushing 100Mbps via shells, etc. Overlay networks move data reasonably well, and reliability could be handled by chunking protocols. Available link speeds (thus path speeds) are likely to be limiting factor, ie: 10Mbps limits you to 100GiB a day. Though at 1Mbps, DVD torrenting on say I2P seems to be a thing.
It could be possible, though I think they must have done in a different way. I don't think waiting 27 days is an option, specially for the source. Freenet has a file-sharing service by default, that could also have been used. Mailing is an option too, though you have a risk of loosing the package, so registering would be needed (fucking his identify). I am really curious about this, since he was not yet caught. Also what kind of encrypted chat did he have with the journalist? Did they already have a OTR or something similar? Or did he have to "teach" them like Snowden had? On 04/03/2016 11:50 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On 4/3/16, Griffin Boyce <griffin@cryptolab.net> wrote:
How do you transmit an elephant? One byte at a time...
But on a serious note, it's possible to transfer 2.6TB over Tor in small pieces (such as file by file or via torrent). Given the size, however, I'd suspect they mailed hard drives after establishing contact with journalists. Even on a fairly fast connection, 2.6TB would take quite a while...
That amount of data would take 27 days at 10Mbps. Few would be willing to sit supervising in a hotseat that long when they can physically mail 3TB for $100 and 8TB for $230. Though they might spend 3 days pushing 100Mbps via shells, etc. Overlay networks move data reasonably well, and reliability could be handled by chunking protocols. Available link speeds (thus path speeds) are likely to be limiting factor, ie: 10Mbps limits you to 100GiB a day. Though at 1Mbps, DVD torrenting on say I2P seems to be a thing.
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