From: Miron <c1.sf-bitcoin@niftybox•net>
To: Brooks Boyd <boydb@midnightdesign•ws>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor / SPV
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:30:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389846611.19590.24.camel@mimiz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANg-TZAyr8LyRQ5e4DpQA8fXEbGq6kxv=peB9oYB+bU_xA98ww@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:26 -0600, Brooks Boyd wrote:
> My goal here is not necessarily to hide P2P nodes - we still
> need lots of clearnet P2P nodes for the forseeable future no
> matter what. Rather we're just using hidden services as a way
> to get authentication and encryption. Actually the 6-hop
> hidden service circuits are overkill for this application, a
> 3-hop circuit would work just as well for most nodes that
> aren't Tor-exclusive.
>
>
>
...
> communication to Tor doesn't change that. I agree the six-hop circuits
> would be overkill for that; I wonder if the network slowdown you get
BTW, I believe that the number of hops can be reduced below 3 on both
sides (client/server). For Orchid, this will require a change to
CircuitPathChooser. For other Tor implementations, it might require
using the control port to custom-build a circuit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 22:51 Mike Hearn
2014-01-15 23:07 ` Brooks Boyd
2014-01-15 23:32 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-16 2:26 ` Brooks Boyd
2014-01-16 4:30 ` Miron [this message]
2014-01-16 10:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-16 3:54 ` Isidor Zeuner
2014-01-15 23:37 ` Robert McKay
2014-01-16 4:29 ` Miron
2014-01-16 4:40 ` Miron
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