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 < [email protected]> 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)? > > -- > Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) > HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights > http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - > https://ahmia.fi > > > _______________________________________________ > Tor2web-talk mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://lists.globaleaks.org/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk >
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