On 10/20/14 3:37 PM, George Kadianakis wrote:
Hello,
this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR [snip]
== Performance Improvements ==
This is the most juicy section. How can we make HS performance better? IIUC, we are mainly interested in client-side performance, but if a change makes both sides faster that's even better.
I suggest to consider also the so-called Tor2webMode to became a standard part of Tor as a way to improve Tor Hidden Services. While Tor2web Mode has born with the goal to reduce the number of hops for a Tor client used together with Tor2web software, it can provide great benefit also for TorHS owner. A TorHS owner MAY wish to be hidden in their location or not. If a TorHS owner enable Tor2web Mode, then it's assumed that he don't want "location anonymity" while preserving all other properties of TorHS (link-level encryption, self-authenticating URI, etc). With latest improvements of #12844 the performance of Tor2web Mode will be even better. For TorHS like Facebook or other resources that *does not need* location anonymity, having shorter circuit is a great performance improvement either in latency either in bandwidth. I would suggest/consider to introduce Tor2web mode (or something called differently) to be usable on stock Tor software, to enable quick optimization of TorHS owner that need performance by scarifying location anonymity . -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi