[tor-bugs] #20104 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor2web should connect to HSDirs over a 3-hop path

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#20104: Tor2web should connect to HSDirs over a 3-hop path
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 Reporter:  teor             |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect           |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor     |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-hs, tor2web  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #17945           |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                   |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by dgoulet):

 * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 I'm personally very reluctant to touch the `Tor2web` code because I
 seriously don't want to encourage anyone running this not now not after,
 never.

 And this is also basically touching code that is *never* tested on our
 side nor even packaged by distros. So even shipping Tor2web code in tor
 today is imo border line reckless.

 Regardless of my hate of Tor2web ;), I might prefer much more that HSDir
 defends against that with #24964 so we can avoid a DoS attack.

 At least right now, clients fetching descriptor directly from HSDir are
 putting less load on the network.

 Thoughts?

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