[guardian-dev] WebRTC

[Daniel Pocock]

On 31/07/13 16:29, Timur Mehrvarz wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 04:17 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> While the idea of peer-to-peer always seems great initially, if you are
>> unable to route that through Tor, or bounce it off a middle mix server
>> of some sort to mask end-points, I hesitate from adopting that as a tool
>> for activists and journalists, say, who need to protect their networks
>> and sources.
> Actually, WebRTC traffic does *not have* to travel peer-to-peer. It can
> also be pushed through proxies. Probably even through TOR. (Does TOR
> route UDP?)


The bigger question: do you want to risk an arbitrary ICE client such as
a browser discovering all the local addresses and sending them to the
peer?  It defeats the purpose of TOR

For ICE to find the optimal connectivity path, it implicitly has to
share topology information between the two endpoints.