Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-27 Thread adrelanos
grarpamp: >> I didn't make an academic comparison, but it looks like retroshare >> is quickly gaining more and more users: >> http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend-to-friend > > When I last looked briefly at this one a couple years back, the > users were not n

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (XMPP?)

2012-09-27 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 9/26/12 8:48 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > > For 1: It would seem to me that a system that ships a local torified > XMPP server would satisfy this. XMPP is fully decentralized, and > maintains persistent connections between servers. Each user would run > their own server over .onion. Something like

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-27 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 9/26/12 9:14 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote: > I can tell you that based on prototype code I have created, SMS and > VoIP type p2p applications between mobile devices works just fine. The > latency is not bad, especially since the apps are coded to be > asynchronous anyhow. Whether it takes 10 seconds

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-27 Thread grarpamp
>>> Given that these services are surely coming in force... and from >>> directions that see these networks more as a raw transport than >>> say, primarily for the purposes outlined on their respective web >>> pages... it seems the usual echo of "we're a nice project, don't >>> do that, too much lo

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-27 Thread Jan Reister
Il 27/09/2012 02:06, adrelanos ha scritto: >> More links are welcome. > > Loads of links here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P I researched and used Oneswarm in the past, it works fairly well. It's in the wikipedia page and its site is http://oneswarm.org Jan __

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-27 Thread grarpamp
> Loads of links here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P Always a good read :) Part of me wants to see if one giant anonymous general purpose filesystem will ever come about... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems > A very interesting idea is/wa

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake adrelanos (adrela...@riseup.net): > grarpamp: > > Given that these services are surely coming in force... and from > > directions that see these networks more as a raw transport than > > say, primarily for the purposes outlined on their respective web > > pages... it seems the usual ech

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread grarpamp
>> My question is, how would it scale and what would be the implications >> of such a system (every user would be a hidden service and would be >> constantly connected to other hidden services it wants to interact >> with)? > thrash the HS > directory system excessively, and probably overload the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread adrelanos
grarpamp: > Given that these services are surely coming in force... and from > directions that see these networks more as a raw transport than > say, primarily for the purposes outlined on their respective web > pages... it seems the usual echo of "we're a nice project, don't > do that, too much lo

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread grarpamp
> While we don't need a very complex p2p design (in short, we are mostly > just talking about simple HTTP servers running on each device, behind > a hidden service .onion), I am concerned in the long run about > scalability and reliability of this. Is, or can Tor be, useful or optimal? On which pl

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread grarpamp
Allow me to combine some quotes from this recent thread alone... > I've had an idea for a while for a killer service for... > I'd be very much interested to see it in reality. I guess the > delays will be more then acceptable. > it would be cool to have a more general protocol for P2P use > thro

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread grarpamp
> When one phone connects to another, it "knows" that the device it's > connecting to is running the hidden service that it is trying to send > a message to. However, the other phone, (the one running the hidden > service), has no idea who is connecting to it. You can use ping pong handshakes. Or

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread Nathan Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2012 08:53 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > Further, SMS is basically real-time. An SMS app that had > hidden-service type delays (which would be especially bad when > roaming between network connections, causing you to rebuild all of > your circuits) w

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nathan Freitas (nat...@freitas.net): > On 09/26/2012 10:08 AM, meh. wrote: > > > > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, > > but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to > > have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:08:06AM -0400, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 9/26/12, meh. wrote: > > > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but > > how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a > > more general protocol for P2P use through hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:50:56 +, meh. wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 07:17:32PM +0200, Bernd wrote: ... > > No, these few string replaces do not waste any time or resources, this > > claim is totally ridiculous. > > They do, you have to go over the whole packet Yes, over all typically 100 by

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread meh.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 07:17:32PM +0200, Bernd wrote: > 2012/9/26 meh. : > > > It's not pragmatist at all, it wastes time and resources doing > > replaces when it could have just been really binary and prepend the > > length of the packet, which is the sane way to do something like that > > inste

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread adrelanos
Nathan Freitas: > On 09/26/2012 10:08 AM, meh. wrote: > >> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, >> but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to >> have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. > > This is something we have defin

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread adrelanos
Ted Smith: > On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:42 +0100, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: >> >> This is not the same as using XMPP over Tor. XMPP requires a trusted >> third party server to handle the relaying. This is P2P direct >> communication using hidden services. It's not real-time IM chat. It's >> SMS

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread Bernd
2012/9/26 meh. : > It's not pragmatist at all, it wastes time and resources doing > replaces when it could have just been really binary and prepend the > length of the packet, which is the sane way to do something like that > instead of using an end of packet separator. No, these few string repla

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:42 +0100, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: > > This is not the same as using XMPP over Tor. XMPP requires a trusted > third party server to handle the relaying. This is P2P direct > communication using hidden services. It's not real-time IM chat. It's > SMS style chat (with

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread meh.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Nathan Freitas wrote: > I am concerned in the long run about > scalability and reliability of this. It is not unheard of for apps > that work well and do something cool to suddently have 1M+ users, and > already are nearing half that with Orbot. That is ex

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread meh.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:17:39PM +0200, Bernd wrote: > 2012/9/26 : > > >>> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it > >>> is, but how nice the idea is > > What is bad about the torchat protocol? Is it its pragmatism and the > fact that it does not use xml and other bloat?

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread meh.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:08:06AM -0400, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 9/26/12, meh. wrote: > > > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but > > how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a > > more general protocol for P2P use through hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread Bernd
2012/9/26 : >>> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it >>> is, but how nice the idea is What is bad about the torchat protocol? Is it its pragmatism and the fact that it does not use xml and other bloat? ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

2012-09-26 Thread tor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 26/09/12 10:06, Nathan Freitas wrote: >> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it >> is, but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool >> to have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden >> services.

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Nathan Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2012 10:08 AM, meh. wrote: > > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, > but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to > have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. This is s

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01:14PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: > meh. writes: > > > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but > > how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a > > more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. > >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-25 Thread Robert Ransom
On 9/26/12, meh. wrote: > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but > how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a > more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. > > My question is, how would it scale and what would be the implicati

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
meh. writes: > After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but > how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a > more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. > > My question is, how would it scale and what would be the implications > of su

[tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-25 Thread meh.
I'll be short because I'm not used to mailing lists, it's 6 AM and I haven't slept yet. After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. My question