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Re: Block hidden services



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xiando wrote:
>> is it - in analogy to exit policies - possible to block certain (or
> 
>> all) hidden services of using my node as directory or introduction
> 
>> point and to disable rendezvous point functionality for my node? (I
> 
>> understand that I cannot block being a rendezvous point for specific
> 
>> hidden services.)
> 
>>
> 
>> If not, I vote for such a feature.
> 
> I strongly disagree with your vote for such a feature. There may be
> anonymity issues involved. Your refusal to have involvement with hidden
> service introduction may ease the adversarys attempts to locale my
> hidden service and identify me as the operator.
> 

At the very least, such a new feature - if introduced - should be
opt-in; by default, a node should have the ability to be an introduction
or rendezvous point.

FWIW, it's not possible for a node to differentiate between proxy and
hidden-service traffic for relay purposes; this has been discussed before.

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F. Fox
Owner of Tor node "kitsune"
http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com

Note 2008/08/19: I lost my old GPG keypair, and have generated a new
one. Authenticity can be verified by checking the ContactInfo on kitsune.
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