[tor-bugs] #6052 [- Select a component]: oniontor mac help, point about BitTorrent

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#6052: oniontor mac help, point about BitTorrent
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 Reporter:  TheDude               |          Owner:     
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 Okay one final one ticket from me today and again apologies if I have
 classified this wrongly, not sure what it comes under - have been trying
 to figure out how to make ocat work and did a lot of reading but the
 contact email for requesting further help (ocat-talk at cypherpunk.at) seems
 to be gone :(( and I'm also having trouble getting the tun/tap thing to
 work (installer fails) and again where to go for help with these dead
 email addresses... can someone signpost me in the right direction? As in a
 contact email address that's current or some other help? Or details of any
 equivalent program to what OnionTor provides or provided for the Mac?

 Also, and this point could be regarded as more to do with an enhancement
 request maybe and it kind of relates to what ocat is partly for too, but
 people say BitTorrent and Tor don't jive - what I've noticed though is
 that whilst the DHT aspect of BitTorrent doesn't seem to work (the
 information on where the peers are doesn't seem to go through) once that
 information is obtained (outside of Tor), the download itself routes
 through Tor just fine. I don't know all the technical ins and outs of how
 these things work but it seems to me there could be a way of enhancing Tor
 so that the list of peers from which the downloading is done, the DHT
 gathering process, could be found/read also..?  I imagine the problem is
 to do with the Tor IPs and how they are resolved or something like that
 but I don't get how the actual downloading of the actual file itself works
 through it and only the initial DHT bit (where the seeders are) seems to
 not work and so would be curious as to the explanation for this or any
 further development or ideas in this regard...

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