SSL fro hidden services

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Christian Beil wrote:

> Is it possible to access hidden services using SSL? Does this make sense at 
> all?

You can certainly use https, and port 443.

That said, the certificate naming scheme may be way off, since there's no 
concept of a valid certificate (I doubt verisign will want to sign one for 
786237261871621.onion :)

However, assuming the user installs your self-signed cert, it *should* 
work the same unless there's something I'm missing.)

Of course, you're really just protecting content from being sniffed 
between the user and the entry node (usually, the same machine, but not 
always), and the exit node and the hidden service (presumably, you control 
both).

This is my understanding of it -- if someone has a better one please step 
on me without hesitation :)

-Dan

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