[tor-talk] 2 hop mode for people that only want to use Tor for censorship circumvention to conserve bandwidth and decrease latency?

[Roman Mamedov]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:56:34 +0200
gdfg dfgf <torrio888 at net.hr> wrote:

> I have read the proposal for non hidden .onion services for sites that don't need anonymity but want to use Tor's end to end encryption and authentication, for  example Facebook. 
> 
> Could the same be done for people that are more interested in censorship circumvention then in anonymity to decrease latency and conserve bandwidth  so  instead of building 3 hop circuits they could build 2 hop circuits? 
>  
> entry node---> exit node ---> website

You don't even need 2 hops in this case. Why not propose 1-hop?
But I don't think any hop reduction like this has chances to be implemented,
due to such scenario not being within the scope of Tor, or something along
those lines.

>      bridge- --> exit node ---> website

(Here 2-hop makes sense, as exit node can't be also a bridge)

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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