Re: [freenet-support] Freenet and Tor

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Author: Matthew Toseland
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Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet and Tor
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gpg: Signature made Tue May 6 13:18:44 2008 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
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. 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?