[tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

Matt Joyce toradmin at mttjocy.co.uk
Sat Apr 13 22:34:48 UTC 2013


On 12/04/13 22:54, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 12.04.2013 19:16, Matt Joyce wrote:
>> It would help a lot if we used versioning and stopped sending almost
>> unchanged data constantly and instead only providing the changes 
> I doubt that this is easy to do in a privacy-preserving way. You don't
> want to be able to discriminate relays based on what diffs/what amount
> of data they pull, right?
>
That could be a valid point I hadn't considered that but yes in theory
if a node used only one dir mirror or a collection of dir mirrors that
all co-operated you could gain profiling info based on which version
they claim to have etc.

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