herbert Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 would be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Tor is a Socks4A/5 proxyPrivoxy is a HTTP proxyLook over the settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayers Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Notice, however, that DNS requests will be done locally so your ISP will know where you have been and you will not be anonymous as you thought you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grnch Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 SOCKS v5 does support proxying of DNS lookups, so it would be nice if uTorrent used this capability when proxy type is set to "Socks5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanatos Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Um... not to appear stoopid...Is it or is it not possible to use Tor and the Onion network with uTorrent? Has anyone done it? Is anyone doing it? Has anyone come across links with nfo or howto?TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 The proxy will work for HTTP requests only (not data transfer, just communication). It's considered rude to be using other people's bandwidth for P2P file transfer, and will probably kill the Tor network if it is used in that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Is it or is it not possible to use Tor and the Onion network with uTorrent? Has anyone done it? Is anyone doing it? Has anyone come across links with nfo or howto?It's possible, but the admins don't like it because of the increased strain on the resources on the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanatos Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 With all respect to the good people of this forum, that seems like an ultimately counter-productive concern for the Tor admins to have. While it might be technologically reasonable (not wishing to strain the network), one of the best uses, and undoubtedly most popular, of an anonymous WAN would be to make all kinds of filesharing safer (Please don't flame me re: intellectual property; I'm well aware of the arguments on both sides). I would gladly donate bandwidth for that, as do the Freenet and Entropy folks. It sounds like the Tor admins need to convince more people to act as servers, and inviting P2P users onto the network with the promise of sharing files more anonymously would certainly help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Seeing as how the default settings for Tor block the default ports used by popular P2P applications, I'd assume that Tor wasn't designed to handle so much traffic (and it doesn't seem so either). BitTorrent was deliberately designed to not hide information. There's a lot of things working against people who want to anonymize the BitTorrent protocol.The way I see it, if a P2P application is to incorporate anonymous file sharing, then it's going to have to do that from the ground up. There are already P2P applications like that being developed (though I can't remember the exact names). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 And all of those anonymous P2P programs are worthless and don't work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanatos Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Hmmm... I read somewhere that Tor isn't scalable, and therefore can't adapt to the load. Guess that explains the argument against using it that way. Thanks for the input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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