On 3/7/2015 at 1:49 AM, "HOANG NGUYEN PHONG" wrote:Dear all, I read a discussion about "How can Tor use a one hop circuit to a directory server during initial bootstrap?" here However, why I cannot find "TunnelDirConns 0|1" in torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en? Is the feature already removed or replaced with another name? Next, may I ask that as Weasel mentioned in his answer for the question: "This so-called tunneled connection doesn't provide anonymity. It only provides confidentiality, i.e. nobody listening on your network can know exactly what you fetched" However, in Tor directory Protocol 3, there is a sentence "all directory information is uploaded and downloaded with HTTP" which means no encryption for what we fetch, so where is the "confidentiality"? Best Regard.Hi,
The option was removed in 0.2.5.x in response to ticket 10849. All directory connections are tunneled by default using the directory ORport. If you're bootrapping for the first-time it won't matter because the directory authorities are well known. In this case you would need to use bridges. --leeroy