Transferring data quickly via Tor

[Mirimir]

On 01/25/2017 12:43 PM, John Newman wrote:
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>> On Jan 24, 2017, at 3:52 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>> On 01/24/2017 01:04 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>>> Please, John, I know I need to give you  (and a lot of people here, oops!)
>>> a lot of answers, but I'm ending  (at least trying, I swear, Oda!)  a lot
>>> of things in this moment.
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>> That's good, I think :)
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>>> If possible, please make Mirimir happy and give him some feedback about
>>> this project.  I liked the idea of Fast Data Transfer via Tor, but I'm not
>>> the best person to give an opinion because I have almost no technical
>>> knowledge.  You know, I need to learn how to code decently because it's a
>>> more useful skill than being a lawyer.  Everybody hates lawyers!  :(((
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>> What I need is help understanding the privacy implications. I'm going to
>> explore possibilities for moving long transfers randomly across sets of
>> subflows. Using "roundrobin" as mptcp_scheduler instead of "fullmesh"
>> would be a start. That would also spread load across more relays.
>> Another possibility is aggregating OnionCat and GarliCat links, so
>> transfers would be split between Tor and I2P.
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>>> I was thinking about forwarding this message to Tor-Talk list to get more
>>> feedbacks, but I was kick-banned there and I need to pretend that I'm not
>>> reading the list anymore!  :P  :P  :P
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>> I'm not expecting constructive feedback from Tor devs :(
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>>> Thank you very much!  :*  <3
>>>
>>> ​Ceci
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>>> "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your
>>> curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
>>> you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison
>>>
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>>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>>> Using OnionCat and MPTCP, one can transfer data between servers via Tor
>>>> at ~50 Mbps. With multiple targets, source servers can push ~200 Mbps.
>>>> It's obviously not very anonymous. But it's probably more anonymous than
>>>> using VPN services. That's for servers with gigabit uplinks, by the way.
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>>>> https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUDV2KHrAgs84oUc7z9zQmZ3whx1NB6YDPv8ZRuf4dutN/
>>>>
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> I read mirmirs post with some interest...  At the moment MPTCP is not implemented in FreeBSD and i don't have a linux machine particularly convenient to play with this on, although that should change soon.
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> I talked to some people on #freebsd and there is an MPTCP source tree, but it's essentially a fork at the moment, total PITA to get merged into a running system, probably 11.x only (im still at 10.3-release on my handful of machines).

You could ask on <mptcp-dev at listes.uclouvain.be>. I'd also like to see
it in pfSense :) See <https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4632>.

> In any case i continue to follow all such posts with interest. ;)

:)

> John
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