Filename: ???-quickening-tor2webmode.txt Title: Making Tor2Web mode faster Author: Virgil Griffith, Fabio Pietrosanti, Giovanni Pellerano Created: 2014-02-23 Status: Open
1. Introduction While chatting with the Tor archons at the winter meeting, two speed optimizations for tor2web mode [1] were put forward. This proposal specifies concretizes these two optimizations. As with the current tor2web mode, this quickened tor2web mode negates any client anonymity.
2. Tor2web optimizations 2.1) self-rendezvous In the current tor2web mode, the client establishes a 0-hop circuit (direct connection) to a chosen rendezvous point. We propose that, alternatively, the client set *itself* as the rendezvous point. This coincides with ticket #9685 [2].
2.2) direct-introduction Identical to the non-tor2web mode, in the current tor2web mode, the client establishes a 3-hop circuit to the introduction point. We propose that, alternatively, the client build a 1-hop (or 0-hop?) circuit to the introduction point.
4. References [1] Tor2web mode: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2553 [2] Self-rendezvous: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9685