[LINK] RFI: P2P Traffic 2005-06

[Roger Clarke]

At 12:17 +1000 5/8/06, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Wow, an academic with a reference to wikipedia!!!

I wouldn't move without it, and I tell my grad students that it's a 
key starting-point, not least because it's accessible and up-to-date, 
but also because it tends to give off the necessary vibes about the 
rubberiness of 'facts'.  One downside is of course the instability of 
the source (although, to be fair, 'URL accessed on <date>' is 
sufficient to reconstruct what the citation was actually referring 
to).


>Have only barely skimmed it but it doesn't mention tor.

Cribbing without quotes:  Tor is a distributed, anonymous network of 
virtual tunnels.  No individual server ever knows the complete path 
that a data packet has taken.

So is it really P2P?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en

I spent time talking with Roger Dingledine in Dubrovnik last year, 
and I've met Paul Syverson (the onion routing man) there and several 
times at CFP over the years.  So it might be a bit embarrassing if it 
really is P2P and I leave it out.

Two options:
-   sit down and analyse it
-   ask Roger D.


>Does mention DNS but not SMTP, ntp, usenet/nntp?

A fair point - but they're hard work to retro-fit the definitions to!

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