Filesharing: Bittorrent and Tor [re: Leaks, magnets, etc]

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 17:00:46 PST 2021


>>> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A6EF4D336F11BC502BB76006D669E695C959BE79
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DB37E82521500BEE7570F97479225D825B0598DB

If people want people using anonymous overlay exit networks such as tor to
be able to participate in and perhaps support bittorrent clouds, they have to
announce to the worlds most popular trackers, and include those trackers
in their magnets, and they must be http[s], because neither UDP trackers
nor UDP DHT work across tor exits, not without tunneling vpn which hardly
works well with tor for the UDP things either, and https because http is
often censored and logged.

Tor+OnionCat also exists to create fully functional bittorrent clouds that
are contained entirely within onionland [can also horizon over exit-ipv6].
But Tor Project tries to kill features that people actually can and are
using at users own acceptable tradeoff levels, and Tor Project completely
censors all talk about such useful things. Thus, "Tor Stinks  -- NSA"

Here are some repos that can help you build such large automagic tor
bittorrent clouds, that are reasonably anonymous for generic purposes,
and much more anonymous than raw BT solely over clearnet, and the
bandwidth delivered across such tor clouds is also quite good, especially
when contributing back both tor relay and BT nodes to it...

# Enable OnionLand+IPv6+UDP
https://github.com/rahra/onioncat
# Bootstrap peers for DHT/PEX
https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker
https://github.com/corralpeltzer/newtrackon
https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist
# Run with DHT/PEX
https://github.com/transmission/transmission
https://github.com/aria2/aria2
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qbittorrent
https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge

You will need to make your own suggestions as to good, hopefully distributed,
bittorrent indexing software, such enables both submission and search of
torrent releases metadata (titles, release infos, filenames, filehashes) to find
content without already knowing the infohash. This is the metainfo database
itself, not stupid forums and other crap that such db's can get bolted into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients

And there are other filesharing protocols in addition to BT,
many can be used entirely within some overlay networks.


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