[tor-bugs] #17178 [Tor]: Single Onion Services: One-Hop Intro Point and Rendezvous

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#17178: Single Onion Services: One-Hop Intro Point and Rendezvous
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     Reporter:  teor         |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.8.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  SponsorU
Actual Points:               |  Parent ID:
       Points:               |    Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 This is an alternate design and implementation of the "Stream latency is
 reduced on a 4-hop circuit" feature of #prop252. (It reduces the path
 length, but does it in a different way to the proposal, by building a one-
 hop path to hidden/onion service introduction points and rendezvous
 points.)

 These one-hop introduction point and rendezvous paths are compatible with
 the existing hidden service implementation, and it works on the existing
 tor network without any changes to older relays or clients.

 Some sites wish to scale up public ".onion" sites within the next 6
 months, using the existing Tor network and Tor clients. This patch enables
 their use case, until #prop252 is implemented and deployed widely enough.

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