On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Daxter <xovat...@gmail.com> wrote: > From my understanding, there is a fundamental flaw in p2p technologies like > Freenet for those that want to deploy in highly-censored countries. That is, > it's too obvious. The censor doesn't have to know what's being transmitted, > only that /something/ is that's outside of their control. All they have to do > is disallow the ports on which the technology runs. Torrenters can at least > get around this by changing the port they're using; Freenet has no such > option.
Every node chooses random ports for opennet and darknet during the installation. You can change them if you want. > From my understanding of internet communication protocols, the use of udp is > too obvious; it stands out like a sore thumb. Why not tunnel the connection > over tcp? Wouldn't that prevent potential censors from differentiating it > from the rest of transmitted data? As well, wouldn't it solve the closed > ports issue? No, it's not that easy. You clearly don't know what you're talking about. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
