Re: Tor

["Jiann-Ming Su" <sujiannming@gmail.com>]

On 6/10/06, David R. Litwin <presently42@gmail.com> wrote:
> This software looks very interesting to me. As
> you seem to be familiar with it, how would
> you say it affects speed? Is there a drastic
> reduction?

Speed depends on the bandwidth each Tor server is willing to share.
But, the price of anonimity through Tor is about the speed of a
28.8-56k connection.  It slows things down.

> Would I be able to use a p2p file-sharing or bit torrent
> programme, or would these simply be too much to handle?

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/May-2005/msg00013.html




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