On Tuesday 06 May 2008 21:24, Jim Cook wrote: > At 09:18 AM 5/6/2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >* PGP Signed by an unknown key > > > >On Tuesday 06 May 2008 02:49, Jim Cook wrote: > > > Tor's FAQ notes ... > > > > > > "Tor and Freenet work on different levels: Tor is about transport, > > > and Freenet is about storage/retrieval. So it would make perfect > > > sense (assuming we become happy with the scalability and > > > decentralization properties) to use Tor to get anonymous transport > > > between Freenet nodes." > > > > > > That sounds cool. But is it feasible, given that Freenet uses UDP > > > and Tor uses TCP? I've read on Freenet's website the possible ways > > > to anonymize internode connections, and saw no mention of Tor. > > > >It would be hideously expensive. ... > > Do you mean that it'd overtax Tor servers or Freenet nodes, or both?
I mean it would be very slow. > > >... Also I was under the impression that Tor > >doesn't recommend you use p2p apps over Tor (e.g. bittorrent), in fact that > >they regard it as a denial of service attack? Has this policy changed? > > No, it hasn't (notwithstanding the comment re Freenet that I quoted). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20080507/70fca29f/attachment.pgp>
