OnionCat -- An IP-Transparent TOR Hidden Service Connector

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, M. Peterson wrote:
> Hiho,, cool codings,
> does that mean, emule and torrent can run over tor now?

Yes, with some limitations. OnionCat (currently) does not route packets.
You can not forward packets to arbitrary destinations to onioncat, only those 
with destinations which are associated a hidden service. It is a "hidden 
service connector" and not an "anonymizing network layer" (currently).

That means that people running TOR and OnionCat can share data with 
torrent/donkey/... together, anonymously, on top of OnionCat but you can not 
just mix it with some "legacy" Internet-Users.

> Was that not something, that was not desired?

Not desired by who?

> How may Outproxies are then needed by the tor network?

Sorry, don't know.


Bernhard
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