On 9 Feb 2016, at 00:35, Wilton Gorske wilton@riseup.net wrote:
Hey Tim,
Just out of curiosity, if one doesn't care about the discover-ability of their onion service, is there any other reason to not run a relay and hidden service?
I have an onion service and relay running on separate machines, but I was wondering if I could also run a relay on the same machine hosting the onion service and add it as a 'family' with the other relay. I do not mind if someone knows the location of my onion service, as I mainly use it to force readers to use Tor, and offer end-to-end encryption by default.
Not that I'm aware of - in fact, one of the proposals for speeding up Onion Services involves running a service with an ORPort, and getting clients to extend to that ORPort and make Onion Service requests. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/252-single-onion.tx... https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/252-single-onion.txt
Tim
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