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Re: [tor-bugs] #21284 [Core Tor/Tor]: Add torrc option for non-anonymous SocksPort
#21284: Add torrc option for non-anonymous SocksPort
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Reporter: teor | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: tor-hs, single-onion | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points: 1
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by s7r):
I fully agree with asn - a lot of complications for a very weird and rare
use case.
Wonder why would someone really want this... This kind of like wanting to
take a shower without getting wet. While there are obvious, plenty,
demanded use cases for RSOS (very happy to have it), I can't see at least
one for downloading files non-anonymously over Tor.
Let's think if this option would not be actually useless and/or impossible
to implement before further discussing use cases. It's unclear to me:
- a Tor instance running a single onion service is not anonymous because
it only builds single hop circuits (to introduction points and rendezvous
relays) except for HSDirs when uploading descriptors when normal 3 hop
circuits are used. In this case, SocksPort circuits can also be regular, 3
hop, so will this truly be 100% non anonymous? It might affect anonymity
in unknown ways, but we don't know for sure.
- other way around, if the SocksPort circuits are single hop because this
is the only way single hop onion services can also work on the same Tor
instance, how will exiting even work since Exit relays do not allow exit
traffic on single hop circuits. We have `AllowSingleHopExits 0` default on
relay side, so all Exit relays will not allow it. Even if there were few
configured to allow it, on the client side we have `ExcludeSingleHopRelays
1` default and also a `AllowSingleHopCircuits 0` but I guess RSOS
overwrites these in order to work.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21284#comment:3>
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