[liberationtech] dark mail alliance

[phreedom at yandex.ru]

On Friday, November 08, 2013 12:50:19 PM adrelanos wrote:
> phreedom at yandex.ru:
> > [...Tor...]
> > Both client and service can opt to drop their half of the circuit, which
> > turns it into a more or less direct tcp connection, with nat traversal
> > capabilities.
> Is dropping half of the circuit really already implemented for client
> and for server?
> 
> There is Tor2webMode for connecting non-anonymously to hidden services.
> But which option hidden services could use to drop half of their circuit?

I meant that the technical ability to do so is present and proven by the 
tor2webmode. If there are any takers, doing so for the hidden service part 
would be just as easy.

In fact, the hardest part was finding all the checks in the code which tried 
to ensure you aren't shooting yourself in the foot by using insecure circuits.

The tor2webmode is a tiny and straightforward patch. See: 
https://gitweb.torproject.org/rransom/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads/feature2553-v3