<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2010 11:17, Stephen Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thecarp@gmail.com">thecarp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Well how exactly would you accomplish that? You could put the tracker<br>
on a location hidden service, that eliminates one exit node, however,<br>
to connect with other hosts in the swarm, you need to be able to<br>
connect to them... which means now, you have to have every bittorrent<br>
client in the swarm ALSO running a location hidden service, lest you<br>
need exit nodes to contact them.<br>
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I highly doubt any bittorrent client yet supports operating in this<br>
manner. It would be very cool to see... but... there would be some<br>
hurdles. (should each node in the swarm publish a public rendezvos<br>
descriptor? If not a custom client would be needed to set them up and<br>
distribute them via the tracker rather than the public directories).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For both these aims, there are projects. The <a href="http://z6gw6skubmo2pj43.onion">HiddenTracker</a> is a bittorrent tracker put behind a Tor hidden service (but it seems to be <a href="http://twitter.com/HiddenTracker/status/9451900556">down</a> right now). <a href="http://www.bitblinder.com/">BitBlinder</a> attempts to create a closed Tor-based network for bittorrent traffic, including a system attempting to assure equal sharing.</div>
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