On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:06:42 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:42:51PM -0400, James Vasile wrote: > > On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:22:56 -0400, Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:23 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > > > > * Is a torrent client and can use TOR for that purpose. > > > > > > Is this a typo? Using Tor for BitTorrent traffic is frowned up by the > > > Tor Project, and the default exit policy is to block common BitTorrent > > > ports, and BitTorrent clients commonly leak information which has the > > > capacity to de-anonymize users on the same circuit. I don't see why the > > > FreedomBox Foundation would want to recommend this, as it doesn't make > > > sense from a political or technical standpoint. > > > > This isn't a typo, but maybe it needs more than a single line to explain > > it! > > > > It might be the case that each FreedomBox will need a specially > > configured tor/torrent client for talking to other FreedomBoxes. And we > > might need to confine the traffic to FreedomBox tor nodes. But it is > > possible to combine tor and torrent without leaking identity and without > > burdening the rest of the tor network. Exploring that possibility is > > well within the goals of this project. > > Having a special, private and dedicated freedombox tor network isn't that > easy to deploy, this would require to have special authorities servers, > as I understand it, which isn't really easy to setup. > > On the other hand, freedombox should probably also provide i2p (as > opt-in), which has a builtin torrent client and tracker, and is more > designed to support torrent.
There are lots of paths to our goal: tor, torrent, i2p, oneswarm, etc. I'm going to broaden that line of the is/is not to say something a little more general. I don't think we need to nail down a specific protocol/network/package right now. They're all good suggestions for investigation. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
