[tor-bugs] #3244 [Website]: Research moving mirrors to a bittorrent distro model

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#3244: Research moving mirrors to a bittorrent distro model
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 Reporter:  phobos   |          Owner:  phobos
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:        
Component:  Website  |        Version:        
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [ticket:3244 phobos]:
 > Research pros and cons of moving our website distribution to a peer to
 peer model, so one can mirror our entire website (all static html and
 binaries) via bittorrent.  Current methods are https scraping or rsync.

 Fine by me if we figure out the logistics.

 > Further, do we push out updates and point www.torproject.org to a list
 of bt peers so anyone can serve up the website?

 That seems unwise, since we a) don't want to give our ssl cert to every
 such place, and b) don't want to trust every such place to give the right
 binaries to users.

 The broader question here is "how can we make use of our website mirrors,
 since currently no users even know to look for them"

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