commit 10bc0c9b88ddf50345e590d1ae05a8a49a6c63f2 Author: gus gus@torproject.org Date: Fri Jan 8 15:12:12 2021 -0500

Rephrase onion services overview docs to make it more clear. Fix #179 --- content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr b/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr index 8d6be84..8895acd 100644 --- a/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr +++ b/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Let's imagine that your local newspaper decides to set up an onion service (usin As the first step in the protocol, the onion service will contact a bunch of Tor relays and ask them to act as its _introduction points_ by establishing long-term circuits to them. These circuits are anonymized circuits, so the server does not reveal the service location to the introduction points.

-The onion service will hide and protect itself behind the Tor network by only allowing access through three introduction points that it connects to through a three-hop Tor circuit. +The onion service will hide and protect itself behind the Tor network by only allowing access through three introduction points that it connects to through a two-hop Tor circuit.

<img class="col-lg-8" src="../../static/images/onion-services/overview/onion-service-01.png" alt="Onion Services: Step 1">

@@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ The introduction point passes your details (secret string and rendezvous address ### Act 8: Where the rendezvous point verifies the client's secret

The onion service connects to the rendezvous point (through an anonymized circuit) and sends the "one-time secret" to it. -The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa. - The rendezvous point makes one final verification to match the secret strings from you and service (the latter also comes from you but has been relayed through the service).

+The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa. + <img class="col-lg-8" src="../../static/images/onion-services/overview/onion-service-08.png" alt="Onion Services: Step 8">

### Act 9: Where the onion service rendezvous with the client