On Jul 18, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: > > On 2008-7-10, at 22:58, ext David Barrett wrote: The upshot is I'm > > not sure that this is really a good idea. Anybody who installs it > > will be horribly slowed. Anybody who runs a server will see a > > crapload of timeouts and dead requests. And any ISP that really > > cares about observing users can still easily do so. ...
These problems are not shared by Obfuscated TCP. There's a sense in which the last problem is shared -- ISP's could easily disable it -- as the Obfuscated TCP web pages carefully explain with pretty graphics. However, that would lead to an arms race, each step of which is expensive for the ISPs, and ultimately the end users could win, so in a stronger sense Obfuscated TCP can *not* be easily circumvented on a large scale by ISPs. Although obviously they always retain the option of simply not delivering packets which they are incapable of deep-inspecting or modifying. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
