tor and p2p

Patrick Hooker patriko at norlights.net
Thu Jan 25 00:18:11 UTC 2007


eweb101 wrote:
> The section on Bandwidth and filesharing seems to be dealing with exit
> nodes. What I'm suggesting is that content is contained within the Tor
> network so exit nodes are not used at all.
>
> What I don't know is if the non-exit nodes in the Tor network are
> bandwidth-constrained. If there is extra capacity in the middle or
> entry nodes, P2P may be a good way to fill that capcacity.
To help clarify things, it sounds like you're wondering if file sharing
could function as a hidden service inside the tor network?

--patrick



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