Zeronet: Switch to next-gen onion services
Hi. Tor's recent releases now support their next-gen onion services with better crypto. Can you please consider switching to them by default?
cc/ @adrelanos
HulaHoopWhonix
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I think it would be way too early as for example debian package manager contains tor 2.x and no known problem with old style onion services
HelloZeroNet
on 18 Feb 2018
There are some other attractive features besides improved crypto algos. Now an onion address is confidential unless disclosed. Hidden Service Directories can no longer learn what sites there are.
In our privacy distro we use the .deb in the Tor Projects repos that have newer stable versions available.
HulaHoopWhonix
on 19 Feb 2018
Make this optional for zn?
6543
on 20 Feb 2018
The problem is if someone switches to next-gen onion services, then the clients who using non-compatible tor version won't be able to connect to it which could result in network split. So I think we should only enable it if at least 50% of clients are upgraded to tor 3.x
HelloZeroNet
on 20 Feb 2018
@HelloZeroNet Do you have any way to tell how many clients are running tor 3.x yet?
anoadragon453
on 9 Sep 2018
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The problem is if someone switches to next-gen onion services, then the clients who using non-compatible tor version won't be able to connect to it which could result in network split. So I think we should only enable it if at least 50% of clients are upgraded to tor 3.x