GSoC 2015 to overcome NAT limitations?

[David Stainton]

> Perhaps I did not express myself very well. I want to store several TB on
> Tahoe-LAFS nodes behind NATs. This is not a super-expensive high-tech exascale
> project; just a few Raspberry Pis with external hard drives, distributed
> around my friends' houses, total cost well under US$1000.
> Your onion grid may well be small, but if I try to use Tor as a NAT-piercing
> technology then it means using on the order of 100 TB of bandwidth on the Tor
> network (connections to a .onion server go through six intermediate nodes;
> multiply that by the redundancy setting and add a bit more to account for
> downloading the data again and you have a factor of 20+ times the data being
> stored). I think using 100 TB of volunteers' bandwidth counts as leeching.

Agreed.