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Old 08-05-2010, 04:52 PM   #24
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The sheer number of websites being accessed each day is staggering, so in terms of starting a blacklist or whitelist, even if only for SSL, if that is possible, would be a huge headache.
Well a blacklist wouldn't be too bad if you could find a decent source for the info. I haven't been able to find anything tho.

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I realize that we're never going to be able to block all objectionable content, so we're just looking at ways to block programs like Tor that create bottlenecks because they send all their data over SSL.
The SSL packets themselves shouldn't be creating any kind of bottleneck that I can think of, SSL puts a load on a server when that server has to actually decrypt it (like on the web server), otherwise it's just a normal packet as far as a router or whatever is concerned isn't it?

If the Tor users are setting up the app as a server though that will generate extra bandwidth, though Tor usually tries to be pretty light in that respect, only 20KB/s by default I think (though they can crank that up).
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