(FWD) Tor, Socks bind, and BitTorrent

[Wes Felter]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>
> How do clients interact with the Tracker in BT -- do they connect once
> and keep talking periodically, or do they connect every so often, talk
> a bit, and disconnect?

Since the tracker protocol is just HTTP, it's the latter.

> b) Each user runs behind a hidden service.

This isn't strictly necessary, since BT peers don't *have* to accept 
incoming connections at all. A peer that only makes outgoing 
connections can still participate in the BT swarm, and that model 
should work with Tor easily.

This leaves the problem that the peers who *do* listen for connections 
are exposed.

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/