"we have created a platform where by no party outside of the trusted tracker will have any information about who a peer is or what they are downloading"
There are many issues with this. Just an FYI re Anomos. On 11/9/10, Kyle Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John M. Schanck <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Cav wrote: >> > Hi Or-Dev, >> > >> > I have stumbled across this torrent client. My first thoughts, upon >> > seeing Onion Routing in the description, was wondering if this is >> > using the Tor network. >> > I have included a link and some details about this torrent client below. >> > >> > In which case, does this then mean its likely to clobber the Tor >> > network with p2p traffic ? - this bodes ill for Tor servers ? >> > Does anyone have any thoughts ? >> > [snip] >> >> Hi Cav, >> >> I'm an Anomos developer so hopefully I can answer your questions :). >> Anomos does not rely on the Tor network in any way. The blog does >> suggest that clients could use Tor to make their announce requests, but >> that functionality isn't built into Anomos directly. > > > It is important to note that the many torrent clients report their real IP > address to the tracker through the announcement of the torrent. This is so > other torrent clients can send request to the client that issued the > announce to the tracker. Anyone who has run an exit node and observed > torrent exit traffic. Bottom line, it's not anonymous if the client reports > to the tracker correctly. > > >> Even if users chose >> to announce over Tor, it would amount, at most, to a few small HTTPS >> requests per client per hour. The file transfers themselves are done >> entirely peer-to-peer, with clients connected to the same tracker >> serving as relays for each other. So, Anomos certainly wouldn't clobber >> the Tor network, and ideally it would alleviate some of the load on Tor >> by drawing BitTorrent users off of it. >> >> -John >> >
