Freenet 0.5 is detectable, and is blocked by the Chinese firewall. Freenet 0.7 will be much harder to detect. Tor is centralized, and will surely be blocked by the chinese in the not too distant future.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:13:37PM -0800, Greg Steffenson wrote: > I'm a college student writing a column for the student > newspaper about ways that the technically adept can > contribute to free speech in China, and would like to > reccomend Freenet. However, I know that our network > administrators use commercial traffic shaping software > to degrade or block most file-sharing services, and I > was hoping someone could indicate how easily ISPs can > detect Freenet traffic. > > I've tested it briefly, and am able to get about > 10kb/sec down (I simply downloaded two random music > files), and probably higher up. But I don't know > whether this is within the normal range, or whether > Freenet traffic is being shaped and adding more users > would be pointless (although I suspect the former). > Does Freenet use fixed ports, and is there some kind > of unencrypted connection protocol or something that > could be sniffed for? Basically, I'm trying to > determine whether this is something worth > reccomending, or whether I should just suggest that > people run Tor servers. > > Many, many thanks in advance, and keep up the great > work. > > toptennut > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060216/dd9ae6c4/attachment.pgp>
