In what way is Tor centralized? I was under the impression that your traffic was routed through a largely random sequence of Tor servers... is there some communication with a central server in addition to that?
toptennut --- Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
