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Hi Steve,
~~long time no si.. BT trackers could easily be put into DNS and
stored for TTL times in fact talk at code con 2005 in the lounges and
corners were discussing the very possibility after the OZYDNS demo by
Dan Kaminsky, since most of the DNS servers practice recursion, it is
practically impossible at the current time to prevent the flow of
information via DNS in and out of internet connected spaces even if
firewalled. Dont you remember my beach talk in anguilla about stashing
a complete banking system software/websites and persistant transaction
into DNS running the E language interpreter which would be loaded by
the java hooks in mozillas name resolution mechanism, it could simply
be done by operating as a local socks4a/5 proxy same as tor, privoxy
etc so that the special domain names would be recognized PRIOR to
going to DNS.
problem about hiding the trackers is easy in MY opinion, the hard
problem I see is that for people who have loaded the torrent by what
ever means now see the other members of the swarm of users
uploading/downloading the proprietary content ,as in bit torrent
content is directly related to prosecutable evidence.
And having said tha,t the user level source code for M of N slices
secret sharing algorithms I have seem practice extreme data expansion
in their implementations.(ie secretshar etc). 4kpgp keys expand to
several 65k slices. :(
~~ regards
~~ gwen
Steve Schear wrote:
| At 12:15 AM 3/10/2005, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|>> I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and
|> Mnet got
|>> their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the
|>> MPAA
|> was so
|>> easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers.
|>> The
|>
|> Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind.
|
|
| And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my
| work at MN was that a secrecy-oriented proxy network development
| and successful deployment needed to precede P2P file sharing if
| such networks were to survive determined technical and legal
| challenges. End users often care little about what 'under the hood'
| of their P2P app only that they can get the content conveniently
| and they are not subjected to annoyances like spy or adware.
|
|
|>> exposure of the trackers was a prominent topic of MN planning
|> discussions
|>> and its odd that precautions, like distributing the tracker
|> functions into
|>> clients or hiding them inside a TOR-like proxy network weren't
|>> taken
|>
|> You can post BT links on a P2P network.
|
|
| But trackers must still be widely accessible by the general
| population of BT users and can you offer the content or obtain it
| without likely identification?
|
| Steve
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