Sockscap? Sweet

Waste over tor does file transfers fine, just the same as it does
without tunneling it through tor.

The advantages of running waste over tor are:

1) Tor 'hidden service' fully qualified domain names (FQDN) are not
resolvable to normal Internet 'root' based DNS servers (that means a
waste user connecting in tor space to a tor-space hypothetical waste
address like '5cyzkrgktetk5o7z.onion' outside of a socksified waste
client would get a 'time-out' from a normal Internet resolved DNS
server, iow the waste users not using a socksified tor-space waste
client will be unable to connect to the tor-space 'hidden' waste node)

2) File sharing & chats work just the same running waste through tor
as running waste directly through tcp/ip Internet.

The advantage of running waste through tor is another level of
anonymity & security. Tor is built of SSL & encrypted channels,
multiple nodes & exit points. When connecting to a socksified waste
node through tor, it is possible to completely lock the waste node
from 'regular' Internet users & normal waste access. The advantage is
now the file transfers & chats are going through the tor network,
where the exit node for one waste client may be coming out of the
other side of the planet. The packets destined back for the waste node
on the other side of the tor network may be coming out of another part
of the planet. Since the waste channel is encrypted & relies on
security keys exchanged between users, it doesn't matter where the tor
exits & entry points are between the two clients, the result is now it
is virtually impossible to track the origination & destination points
of the waste file transfers & chats. Since tor nodes randomly scramble
packet traffic to different 'middlemen' & exit nodes, the result is
another level of added anonymity & security.

Btw, tor works fine for file transfers: http://tinyurl.com/2fk4ma this
is how it looks when connecting a socksified waste client to another
socksified tor-space waste node:
http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wasteconnectingtoraddrejn0.jpg

Believe it or not, just about anything you can do on the normal 'open'
Internet can be done over tor. I've even run tor-space socksified
shoutcast audio servers through tor, created a bogus-domain-name tor
.onion address for the shoutcast audio server, then streamed &
listened to the audio stream over a socksified tor-space using Winamp
client. It worked fine, not good for extremely high quality, high
bitrate mp3s, but it streamed 12K/second mp3s through the tor network
without too much trouble. The advantage was, no one outside of tor
users could access the shoutcast audio stream. To the rest of the
Internet, it was impossible to get at the tor-space audio stream
through any kind of audio player.

You should try some of this stuff with your tor client before debating
why it is a 'waste' of time (pun intended). I've done all this stuff,
it is doable, it does work, it's fun, impossible to shut down or stop
or for average Internet users to even find or take advantage of.

Those are the reasons to do it. Sometimes it is best to do something
because it can be done... like invade iraq, right? ;-) lol

have fun :-)

--- In waste-discuss@yahoogroups.com, "twofish1344" <newswiki@...> wrote:
>
> the easiest way is to use sockscap for WASTE to use Tor.
> but then again, why should use Tor while basically one major reason
> of WASTE existence is its file sharing. Tor is not design for file
> transfer.
>
>
> --- In waste-discuss@yahoogroups.com, "jerrya_sj" <amdfan@> wrote:
> >
> > I sent this to your gmail acct but figure there may be others in
> the
> > group who might want to try it as well (well this is really only
> for
> > those of you who are hosting tor servers right now & may want to
> try
> > it because it requires access to a local tor node running on the
> > machine to make it work), sorry, its in German:
> > http://board.planetpeer.de/index.php/topic,941.msg3546.html run it
> > through babelfish, but you can get the gist of it by the snapshots.
> > That looks really similar to how I'm doing it on my systems.
> >
> > When you get it working on your system, send me your .onion address
> &
> > waste key, I'll send you mine & we'll hook up in tor-space :-)
> >
> > Any of you needing any help or suggestions on tuning tcp/ip & tor
> > along with freecap to get it working, drop me a message, I'll do
> what
> > I can to help you make it work (windows users only though, sorry, I
> > don't do *nix)
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > --- In waste-discuss@yahoogroups.com, Daven <davensjournal@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd love to use it, but I can't for the life of me figure out how.
> > >
> > > Please send me the information and if I can figure it all out,
> I'll
> > > gladdly use that node.
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > On 10/26/07, jerrya_sj <amdfan@> wrote:
> > > > Hi I run a tor accessible waste node. Anyone here using tor to
> run
> > > > waste, or running socksified waste?
> > > > -'jasj'
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tarot readings by Daven!
> > > http://davensjournal.com/Tarot.xhtml
> > >
> >
>