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gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
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
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> >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).
