Show HN: AnonTorrent

What are you doing to stop your location leaking through torrent trackers? I believe bit-torrent through Tor is not anonymous in and of itself. Is your torrent client doing hostname lookups via the conventional UDP? Have you made sure you are not leaking these requests? There have been many privacy leaks through bittorrent clients in the past, and I was wondering what steps you have taken to mitigate against this possibility.

Re: Show HN: AnonTorrent

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 2:04 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #3

While I approve of the concept in principle, I fear all the wrong types of people will make use of it. And I don't mean pirates...

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Re: Show HN: AnonTorrent

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 2:05 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

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This is only for the first seeder/uploader. This doesn't hide any other peers in the torrent swarm.

Re: Show HN: AnonTorrent

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

derrida wrote: post #6

I support what you are doing, but I have some questions. What are you doing to stop your location leaking through torrent trackers? I believe bit-torrent through Tor is not anonymous in and of itself. Is your torrent client doing hostname lookups via the conventional UDP? Have you made sure you are not leaking these requests? There have been many privacy leaks through bittorrent clients in the past, and I was wonderi…

It's not BT through Tor. Which is good because BT over Tor is a terrible idea :) You sent your file to his server over Tor, and he seeds it via completely normal means until there are 20 other seeds.

Re: Show HN: AnonTorrent

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Post by derrida » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 2:13 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #9

derrida wrote: post #6

I support what you are doing, but I have some questions. What are you doing to stop your location leaking through torrent trackers? I believe bit-torrent through Tor is not anonymous in and of itself. Is your torrent client doing hostname lookups via the conventional UDP? Have you made sure you are not leaking these requests? There have been many privacy leaks through bittorrent clients in the past, and I was wonderi…

It's not BT through Tor. Which is good because BT over Tor is a terrible idea :) You sent your file to his server over Tor, and he seeds it via completely normal means until there are 20 other seeds.

Ok. So the "hidden service" is not intended to be anonymous then? Just as a check to ensure that the user knows they are on Tor? Because, in order to be the first seed, you will generally leak your IP. If not, what steps have you taken to make sure the first seeder (the host of this service) are anonymous?