[tor-dev] The case with Tor2Web

[Giovanni Pellerano]

Hello George!

no problem exists at all and an thank you so much for letting us know.

definitely the safety of Tor has always to come first with no compromises :)

take care,

Giovanni

2018-07-11 12:06 GMT+02:00 Fabio Pietrosanti <fabio at pietrosanti.it>:
> Hey George,
>
> not a problem if the Tor2webMode goes away, as it was an optimisation introduced years ago.
>
> Nowadays performance of Tor has greatly improved, so I really feel it will not be an issue for Tor2web use-case, especially now that the one-hop server-side is optimizable for Onion sites that wish to have such an performance improvement! :-)
>
> Fabio
>
>> On 9 Jul 2018, at 18:32, 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
>>
>



-- 
Ing. Giovanni Pellerano - Founding Member and CTO
giovanni.pellerano at hermescenter.org | +39.328.9590046

HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
Associazione No Profit | Via Aretusa 34, IT-20129 Milan, Italy
t. +39-02-87186005 (voicemail) | f. +39-02-87162573
TaxCode: IT-97621810155 | EuropeAid: IT-2012-AOD-0806909254
w. https://www.hermescenter.org | m. info at hermescenter.org