(FWD) Tor, Socks bind, and BitTorrent

[Douglas F.Calvert]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 7:58 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>
>> Initial connection establishment is fairly slow but once the peers are
>> talking its not bad (can't really test myself as I have a slow 
>> uplink).
>
> We have some plans for how to speed up initial connection by a factor
> of 2 or 3. But it's always going to involve a public key operation and
> at least some circuit extension, so it's always going to be fairly 
> slow.
> The key to scalability will be getting other people to carry bandwidth,
> and learning to handle unpredictable and heterogeneous relays.
>
> --Roger
>
>

what is the plan?

--dfc
Douglas F. Calvert
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