Hello George! no problem exists at all and an thank you so much for letting us know.
definitely the safety of Tor has always to come first with no compromises :) take care, Giovanni 2018-07-11 12:06 GMT+02:00 Fabio Pietrosanti <fa...@pietrosanti.it>: > Hey George, > > not a problem if the Tor2webMode goes away, as it was an optimisation > introduced years ago. > > Nowadays performance of Tor has greatly improved, so I really feel it will > not be an issue for Tor2web use-case, especially now that the one-hop > server-side is optimizable for Onion sites that wish to have such an > performance improvement! :-) > > Fabio > >> On 9 Jul 2018, at 18:32, George Kadianakis <desnac...@riseup.net> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> It's a semi-secret that tor2web traffic has been blocked from the Tor >> network when we introduced the DoS subsystem this March [0]. The reason >> is that a big part of the DoS traffic was coming from one-hop clients >> continuously hammering onion services. >> >> This is something that we've been considering doing for a while (for >> security and code-complexity reasons), and it just happened naturally >> during the DoS incident. >> >> As part of this, and since the DoS subsystem is going to stick around, >> we are planning to permanently kill the Tor2Web subsystem of Tor, in an >> effort to simplify our codebase and our feature list. >> >> If you've been relying on tor2web for something, please consider >> switching to a normal 3-hop client indeed. This is a heads up so that >> you can let us know if that won't work for you, or you need help >> transitioning out. >> >> Cheers and hope we are not making you sad. >> >> [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24902 >> >> https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915 >> > -- Ing. Giovanni Pellerano - Founding Member and CTO giovanni.peller...@hermescenter.org | +39.328.9590046 HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights Associazione No Profit | Via Aretusa 34, IT-20129 Milan, Italy t. +39-02-87186005 (voicemail) | f. +39-02-87162573 TaxCode: IT-97621810155 | EuropeAid: IT-2012-AOD-0806909254 w. https://www.hermescenter.org | m. i...@hermescenter.org _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
