[freenet-support] Freenet and Tor

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 02:49, Jim Cook wrote:
> Tor's FAQ notes ...
> 
> "Tor and Freenet work on different levels: Tor is about transport, 
> and Freenet is about storage/retrieval. So it would make perfect 
> sense (assuming we become happy with the scalability and 
> decentralization properties) to use Tor to get anonymous transport 
> between Freenet nodes."
> 
> That sounds cool.  But is it feasible, given that Freenet uses UDP 
> and Tor uses TCP?  I've read on Freenet's website the possible ways 
> to anonymize internode connections, and saw no mention of Tor.

It would be hideously expensive. Also I was under the impression that Tor 
doesn't recommend you use p2p apps over Tor (e.g. bittorrent), in fact that 
they regard it as a denial of service attack? Has this policy changed?
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