> Bittorrent is indeed heavy on resource consumption and that's why it's on > the default reject list, I think, but saying it will disrupt the network, > come on, it's a bit hard to tell
Dear Marco, The issue is somewhat controversial, and as far as I know it's not discussed in detail anywhere. Cons: 1. Bittorrent is optimised for bulk transfer. Tor is designed to be a low-latency network. Using high-throughput applications such as Bittorrent over tor is pointless. One should instead implement anonymity in the P2P applications themselves (as Freenet tried, and failed, to do). 2. Tor currently doesn't include proper fairness algorithms. Hence, running a Bittorrent client gives you an unfair share of the available bandwidth, and kills the latency for the rest of us. Pros: 1. Tor should be able to deal with Bittorrent. Running Bittorrent over tor is what might finally get the tor developers to implement proper inter-flow fairness. (Yes, I know, it's a *very* difficult problem.) 2. People do want to run Bittorrent anonymously. Allowing Bittorrent on the tor network might bring more interest to tor. I think that's it. Take your pick. Juliusz