[Tor2web-talk] OnionFlare: Onionification service (based on Tor2web)

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists]

On 3/14/15 8:00 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote:
> What's needed a performance enhancement allowing sites to work "the
> other way".  My understanding is that, as-is, hidden services are 6
> hops and traditional tor to the clearnet is only 3 hops, correct? 
> Ergo putting regular sites as hidden services is likely to be a
> net-performance decrease.  Correct?
That's another very interesting point that you are highlighting!

To make an OnionFlare stuff to work, we'd need to have a "Tor2web mode"
that work in the opposite side of the circuit, when you have a Tor HS
but you don't need location anonymity feature.

Facebook would much likely need the very same feature, because Facebook
does not need the 3-hops on their side because they don't need location
anonymity.

I don't know if there's already a ticket about it on Tor's trac, but
maybe it's worth doing it.

It could be always a feature part of Tor2web mode so that, when it's
enabled, it just remove TorHS anonymity in both side (Client-side and
TorHS side)?

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Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
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