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

Ruben Pollan meskio at sindominio.net
Fri Aug 30 07:10:27 PDT 2013


Quoting Jan-Frode Myklebust (2013-08-30 09:38:52)
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:33:36AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> -----
> > > How does one scale BitTorrent on top of that?
> 
> By adding TOR exit-node functionality into the bittorrent clients, and
> giving bittorrent credit score to clients with lots of TOR-traffic. That
> would scale the TOR network, and also give plausible deniability to
> direct downloads ("wasn't me, it was the TOR exit" ;-)

If you have a tor exit-node some sites are block or give you problems, like 
google, wikipedia or irc.freenode.org. To activate an exit node by default will 
annoy a lot of users.

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