On 11/2/12 11:26 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> Read up on the "Tor2webMode" option. > Tor2webMode 0|1 > When this option is set, Tor connects to hidden services > non-anonymously. This option also disables client connections to > non-hidden-service hostnames through Tor. It must only be used when > running a tor2web Hidden Service web proxy. To enable this option > the compile time flag --enable-tor2webmode must be specified. > (Default: 0) > > > It doesn't say what 'non-anonymously' means. Or > what the option actually does. Or why it 'must only > be used when running a tor2web Hidden Service > web proxy', and if that's an actual technical interop > limitation or just nannyspeak. > I also don't need it anti-foot-shooting me in regards > to 'disables client connections to non-hidden-service hostnames > through Tor', I can manage on my own. > I'll look in torspec to see if it says anything about > what this actually does. It throw away the first 3 hop of "client side" of a connection to a Tor Hidden Service, de-facto removing the "client anonymity" protection when connecting to a Tor Hidden Service considering that the RP would be able to know "who the client is".
>From a performance perspective in such particular use case, it would be very nice if someone would make a patch to make possible also the opposite: Allowing a Tor Hidden Service to throw away the "server side" 3 hop. Fabio _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
