[tor-dev] The case with Tor2Web

[Keifer Bly]

To be 100% clear, “dos” as in “denial of service” correct? Thx.

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 7:32 AM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> It's a semi-secret that tor2web traffic has been blocked from the Tor
> network when we introduced the DoS subsystem this March [0]. The reason
> is that a big part of the DoS traffic was coming from one-hop clients
> continuously hammering onion services.
> 
> This is something that we've been considering doing for a while (for
> security and code-complexity reasons), and it just happened naturally
> during the DoS incident.
> 
> As part of this, and since the DoS subsystem is going to stick around,
> we are planning to permanently kill the Tor2Web subsystem of Tor, in an
> effort to simplify our codebase and our feature list.
> 
> If you've been relying on tor2web for something, please consider
> switching to a normal 3-hop client indeed. This is a heads up so that
> you can let us know if that won't work for you, or you need help
> transitioning out.
> 
> Cheers and hope we are not making you sad.
> 
> [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24902
>     https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915
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