On 25 February 2010 11:17, Stephen Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well how exactly would you accomplish that? You could put the tracker > on a location hidden service, that eliminates one exit node, however, > to connect with other hosts in the swarm, you need to be able to > connect to them... which means now, you have to have every bittorrent > client in the swarm ALSO running a location hidden service, lest you > need exit nodes to contact them. > > I highly doubt any bittorrent client yet supports operating in this > manner. It would be very cool to see... but... there would be some > hurdles. (should each node in the swarm publish a public rendezvos > descriptor? If not a custom client would be needed to set them up and > distribute them via the tracker rather than the public directories).
For both these aims, there are projects. The HiddenTracker<http://z6gw6skubmo2pj43.onion>is a bittorrent tracker put behind a Tor hidden service (but it seems to be down <http://twitter.com/HiddenTracker/status/9451900556> right now). BitBlinder <http://www.bitblinder.com/> attempts to create a closed Tor-based network for bittorrent traffic, including a system attempting to assure equal sharing.
