On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:44:24 +0100 Alex Scotton alex.scotton@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
and if so does anyone know of a good encrypted proxy?..
Try Tor, though some operators (myself included I may add) actually block torrents in their exit policies. Too bandwidth hungry.
been checking out the website, looks very good.. however few questions, I assume you have volunteered to be a "relay" so this just sets up a few ssh tunnels between you and the target and bounces your connection around a little etc... its routed through encrypted "relays" to the target and then "encrypted" back through? does this not create a tad of latency, especially on torrents if some relays are allowing it and some aren't.
See http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en for details of how tor works. It is not really a set of ssh tunnels. Tor's great strength is that no-one can link your source address to the destination you are interested in (well, no-one without the capability of observing all possible tor nodes - which excludes even most nation states).
Yes, tor is slow, but how fast do you need to be for file transfer? And of course, the more tor relays there are, the faster the network gets.
See also http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en for how to configure your tor client as a relay. But beware, the impact on your own bandwidth can be huge. I choose to run a tor exit node (a relay which also permits exit) on a VPS. Despite some judicious throttling I still consume 3 to 3.5 Gig of traffic per day. My VPS contract allows 150 Gig per month so I kep an eye on usage. I found that running a relay on my ADSL line was totally impractical. You can, of course, just use tor as a client, but that way you are not giving anything back to the community. And as I said, the more tor relays there are, the faster and more "secure" the network becomes. When I want to use tor myself, I just set up an SSH tunnel to my relay and join the network from there.
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