On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:17:47PM -0700, eweb101 wrote: > I don't think it would be too difficult to get something like > bittorrent working within the Tor network. What I mean by that is both > the tracker and all clients are within the network. We'd have to > update the bittorrent client software to not use IP addresses of > course, but something similar has already been done on Azureus for I2P. > Users of the network would have to set themselves up a hidden service > in order to participate. > > I'm sure there will be scaling issues involved with the increased > number of hidden services and we'd want to optimize some of the > transfer parameters but conceptually, it shouldn't be difficult to > support. >
See "Challenges in deploying low-latency anonymity" available on the Tor docs webpage via a link in the URL Roger gave in his last message or at http://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html#challenges for a preliminary discussion. Cf. the sections "Bandwidth and file-sharing" and "Scalability". HTH, Paul -- Paul Syverson () ascii ribbon campaign Contact info at http://www.syverson.org/ /\ against html e-mail
