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0 pointskijin11y ago0 comments

OP's proposal is not just to add bandwidth-heavy clients to the Tor network, it is to add a large number of relays by making every BitTorrent client a Tor relay. OP also devotes two long sections on why he thinks his program will not harm the rest of the Tor network. Sure, there are issues to overcome before this can become reality. But the Tor network has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, and there's no reason to be pessimistic about its ability to handle a lot more traffic.

Sure, I2P already works reasonably well with BitTorrent. But what's wrong with trying to achieve a similar result with Tor?

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synchronise11y ago

The architecture is already there with I2P, it has proven to be efficient over I2P, Tor already has extensive use as an anonymous web browsing tool, whilst adding relays to each client would help mitigate Tor's network constraints somewhat, it would still degrade performance on the network to a degree due to the nature of how it anonymizes data. There's also the issue of not being able to run a client and a relay AND remain completely anonymous, as I posted earlier.

The I2P network is also being underutilised at this point, it has a lot of potential for growth especially in this area. It makes sense to use that potential to grow a specific specialised network, rather than potentially impact an already perfectly functioning network that Tor currently is.

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