blog about tor and skype

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:50:59PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > The problem is that Skype uses either UDP or TCP, depending on the
> > situation. If it chooses TCP, Freecap will intercept it
> 
> Would you agree that Tor should be able to tunnel UDP traffic too?
> There's a /lot/ of UDP-based applications that it would make sense to
> tunnel over tor.

One day I'd like to support this, yes. It's hard though:

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#TransportIPnotTCP

--Roger