[tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

Matthew Finkel matthew.finkel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 00:32:04 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:11:37PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35:45PM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> > >   I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the
> > > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and
> > > censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless.
> > 
> > It's not so easy if users host their own torified CGIproxies on their
> > own servers. - Ok, how many users are technically able and willing to do
> > that?
> 
> We called this remote-proxy access in "Anonymous Connections and Onion
> Routing" https://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html#JSAC-1998

Thanks for the link! 

> (Somebody should really put the early onion routing papers on anonbib,
> almost none of them are there. Copious free time and all that I
> guess.) 

(For some value of copious free time? :) )


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