Hello,
I am attempting to develop truely anonymous file transfers for gnutella. This issue must eventually be addressed to ensure the future of the network. I know many developers feel it is a waste of time because it cannot be implemented using the gnutella protocol but I am attempting to theorize a way to overcome this limitation. How about this:


File transfers are not done over a tcp transport, instead a seperate "push" protocol (using udp or invent a new one that uses ip packets) is set up where the source address can be bogus.

IP Addresses are not sent back with Query hits. Instead when a client want to download a file it sends its ip to the conenction it recevied the hit from and that peer is responisble informing the peer with the file to start pushing the file using a bogus source address. The recevieng client would never respong the the file pushes to avoid disrupting arp tables.

Will something like this work? Mainly I am interested in anyone being able to tell me if using bogus addresses in udp or another made up transport is not possible using the ip protocol. Is this a good idea?