Joy:

Hey everyone,

The Tor manual has some basic information about the difference between the stealth and basic authorization options, but can anyone point me to the actual technical differences between these options? What exactly does the stealth mode do to hide service activity from unauthorized clients and why is this less scalable?

All the details are explained in the specs. Have a look at rend-spec.txt [1].

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec.txt#n844

Hope it helps, -- Ivan Markin