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

[Virgil Griffith]

facebook would indeed like that.

it's unclear to me how to modify the protocol to do this.  however if there
exists a way to reduce the hops for a site to accessible for Tor users, you
potentially have something self-sustaining in your hands.

-V

On Sunday, March 15, 2015, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists <
lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:

>
>
> 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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