Comments on: What is Anomos? http://anomos.info/wp/2008/06/02/what-is-anomos/ The Anomos: Pseudonymous and Encrypted BitTorrent protocol Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: admin http://anomos.info/wp/2008/06/02/what-is-anomos/#comment-8 admin Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:41:48 +0000 http://anomos.info/wp/?p=6#comment-8 @pat, Thanks for the question. Not all clients involved in a relay will be in the same swarm. The tracker (assuming it's serving more than one file -- as most bittorrent trackers do) assigns neighbors randomly from it's pool of all peers. So in your example P4 most likely has not participated in uploading/downloading the file that you're receiving from P9. They may not even know that the tracker is serving that file, and have no way (ignoring extremely sophisticated attacks) of finding out which file they're relaying. @pat, Thanks for the question.
Not all clients involved in a relay will be in the same swarm. The tracker (assuming it’s serving more than one file — as most bittorrent trackers do) assigns neighbors randomly from it’s pool of all peers. So in your example P4 most likely has not participated in uploading/downloading the file that you’re receiving from P9. They may not even know that the tracker is serving that file, and have no way (ignoring extremely sophisticated attacks) of finding out which file they’re relaying.

]]> By: pat http://anomos.info/wp/2008/06/02/what-is-anomos/#comment-7 pat Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:19:39 +0000 http://anomos.info/wp/?p=6#comment-7 Does this mean that all clients within the same 'swarm' (if that term applies to Anomos in the same way it does to bittorrent) are involved in downloading / seeding the same file? As in, the network is made up of a large number of discrete swarms all sharing difference pieces of content, just as bittorrent is (ignoring the dhts for a moment)? If so, I'm wondering if that means that ppl like the RIAA would still be able to connect and collect IPs because even while I'm receiving data from P4 which originally came from P9, P4 must still be involved in the swarm at some level - and is still facilitating the transfer of content, just as is the tracker. I realise you're more concerned with anonymity than with what I guess you could call privacy, but hopefully I've explained myself so that you can understand the question. Does this mean that all clients within the same ’swarm’ (if that term applies to Anomos in the same way it does to bittorrent) are involved in downloading / seeding the same file? As in, the network is made up of a large number of discrete swarms all sharing difference pieces of content, just as bittorrent is (ignoring the dhts for a moment)?

If so, I’m wondering if that means that ppl like the RIAA would still be able to connect and collect IPs because even while I’m receiving data from P4 which originally came from P9, P4 must still be involved in the swarm at some level - and is still facilitating the transfer of content, just as is the tracker. I realise you’re more concerned with anonymity than with what I guess you could call privacy, but hopefully I’ve explained myself so that you can understand the question.

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