📅 Original date posted:2014-01-16
📝 Original message:On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:26 -0600, Brooks Boyd wrote:
> My goal here is not necessarily to hide P2P nodes - we still
> need lots of clearnet P2P nodes for the forseeable future no
> matter what. Rather we're just using hidden services as a way
> to get authentication and encryption. Actually the 6-hop
> hidden service circuits are overkill for this application, a
> 3-hop circuit would work just as well for most nodes that
> aren't Tor-exclusive.
>
>
>
...
> communication to Tor doesn't change that. I agree the six-hop circuits
> would be overkill for that; I wonder if the network slowdown you get
BTW, I believe that the number of hops can be reduced below 3 on both
sides (client/server). For Orchid, this will require a change to
CircuitPathChooser. For other Tor implementations, it might require
using the control port to custom-build a circuit.
Miron [ARCHIVE] /
npub1me…amfwn
2023-06-07 15:12:09
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