On 3/5/2015 at 5:41 AM, "Dan Cristian Octavian" wrote: >"It's a novel idea to prevent detection of the PT-server by tunneling in some other traffic" instead of being sarcastic, maybe you can focus on wording your message better, I find it quite hard to follow what you write :)
I don't think it was sarcasm at all. It is a novel idea. It's exactly what PT-servers need to do to avoid detection. Unfortunately there are major flaws in your belief that bittorrent can be used to create cover traffic. Mostly in that you've not made your implementation clear enough. Do no harm. As it stands you rely on strength in number--the peers in a bittorrent swarm. So if an adversary attacks the swarm you've been spotted. If you try to go against the BT-spec you been spotted. You don't have the luxury of hiding behind google or azure. You've only got Bittorrent encryption to hide your data. Which means you actually have no encryption because BT-spec encryption isn't security oriented--it's obfuscation oriented for making traffic shaping hard. (On a side note bittorrent failed miserably in this regard) Which means, in the absence of swarm cover traffic, you've got nothing to protect your data encoded inside bittorrent packets. An adversary will then only have to compare your hash-failing pieces to the known-good piece by looking at the hash. I expected a response like "hey thanks for being so critical because criticism will make this transport stronger", I expected "it might be a good idea to consider this criticism seriously for the sake of those I'm trying to help" What I got was yet another assumption. Sarcasm requires an ego. A focus on self. Yet I think I've made it clear that my focus is on the ethical concerns behind what you're proposing for those who will be using this transport. I should care you've got trouble following what I write? After that kind of response I couldn't care less. --leeroy -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
