"børge bojsen" <eldiablo@e-mail.dk> wrote in message
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> Hej gruppe.
>
> Jeg er egentlig nysgerrig efter om det kan lade sig gøre og "gemme" sig
ved
> p2p. Kan det lade sig gøre at bruge en proxy ? Jeg har hørt om Mute og er
> også ved at kigge lidt på det, men det er ikke særligt hurtigt endnu. Ser
> frem til jeres svar.
>
> M.v.h
>
> Børge
>
>
taget fra >
http://www.emule-project.net/
P2P networks all rely on a direct connection of two users to transfer data.
To accomplish this the IP of the target client has to be known. This IP
makes the user identify and trackable. There are only two ways of
guaranteeing anonymity: routing the traffic over anonymizing proxy servers
or bouncing it across other clients.
Proxy servers have numerous disadvantages. They can be closed down, the
degree of anonymity depends on the trustworthiness of the admin and the
traffic they consume costs a lot of money. Let's assume an average 100.000
client eMule server. Each of the connected client causes 10kB/s traffic in
each direction. The server would have to cope with a transfer volume of
2.000MB (1,9GB) per second. No one can afford such servers.
Routing all traffic over third clients causes a similar problem as half of
the traffic would be used for anonymizing. This means that each user would
have to upload twice as much as now to keep the network's performance on the
current level.
At the moment a secure and sensible way of anonymity in a P2P network is not
feasible!
vh Jastrau