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

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:33:36AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> -----
> 
> On 8/26/13, Kostas Jakeliunas <kostas at jakeliunas.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Nathan Suchy <
> > theusernameiwantistaken at gmail.com> 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?

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" ;-)



  -jf