Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea | Tor Project
blog.torproject.org
An increasing number of people are asking us about the recent paper coming out of Inria in...

It’s been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        291·
        1 year ago

        I answered there. Not sure why you open a completely new post for that follow-up question?! You could have asked just here.

        • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          417·
          1 year ago

          I thought it is better as the focus is different: one is about “Is a blog post written 13 years ago still valid today”, the other one is “If BT protocol leaks information anyways, why VPN is acceptable but other’s not.” That’s the reasoning.

      • supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Better, because it is free and secure. And at same time you are torrenting, you are helping the network. But a downside, it is the speed and amount of peers you find is less compared to the clearnet. Also it is not the best option to surf the clearnet, tor is better at this.

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      936·
      1 year ago

      Thanks. I was hoping 13 years will bring some improvements but sadly seems like not.

      • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        522·
        1 year ago

        I don’t understand what the down votes are for. Disagreement? What’s wrong in hoping for improvements in a 13 years gap? I understand and agree that BT over Tor is bad, but two doesn’t conflict.

        • kirk781@lemm.eeEnglish
          27·
          1 year ago

          hoping for improvements

          There have been improvements, just on the fronts you haven’t been looking for. Also, if I am correct, torrenting over Tor would be painfully slow compared to normally doing it or via a VPN. It is not worth the hassle.

  • 520@kbin.social
    40·
    1 year ago

    Always will be because of the way the two technologies work at a fundamental level.

  • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    You could probably rent a seedbox or more generic service like an aws ecs instance and then download from the seedbox or s3 via tor.