Tor speed

[Fran Litterio]

F. Fox wrote:

Ideally, TCP wouldn't be used in
> Tor's operations at all; any TCP-based protocol using Tor would do its
> own housekeeping. In other words - just as it does in things like
> Hamachi and OpenVPN - Tor acts (from the program's point of view) just
> like the underlying packet network.
>

I asked this earlier, but didn't see a response ...  Wouldn't moving Tor
away from TCP connections impact the client's ability to connect out through
draconian firewalls (i.e., those that block all outbound connections except
HTTP and HTTPS)? If Tor wants to be valuable to journalists, aid workers,
disgruntled citizens, etc. then having it be UDP-based just makes it trivial
for an organization or government to block outbound client connections.

Granted, the same organization could block outbound HTTPS connections, but
that has a much higher visibility and the press can call it "blocking access
to the Web", which it cannot say about blocking UDP traffic.
--
Fran
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