On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Rana wrote:
How would that work? First of all, the clients need to know which exit nodes exist, so that they can build circuits. That list, as well as that of the middle nodes, is public, otherwise you'd >have to manually request exits by email/web service/… As a result you'd be limited to a few exits, which might not necessarily have an exit policy matching your needs, or might be offline, >or simply overloaded on account of there being less than regular exits.
The same way bridges work. They are not published.
By the way, I just checked, Gmail works without problems over Tor (both Web and IMAPS).
Using Gmail over Tor when they already know who you are is self-defeating. Try to register an anonymous Gmail account using Tor.
Responses have already been given in this thread about trying to obtain an email account that is anonymous (err, pseudonymous) with the intended meaning that the service provider is not directly given another identity (phone number, etc.) intended to be kept separate---where "given" means that the service provider can (easily) associate these. (So not some sort of ZKP of a blinded credential, etc.)
'Anonymous' often gets thrown around quite recklessly, but the much more important problem with the above statement is perpetuating the false impression that letting a service provider know such associations must be contrary to the goals of Tor. As we wrote in 1996, "Our motivation here is not to provide anonymous communication, but to separate identification from routing. Authenticating information must be carried in the data stream... use of a public network should not automatically reveal the identities of communicating parties. The goal here is anonymous routing, not anonymity." As of last April, FaceBook reported over a million users per month via Tor. As to GMail, you might want to access GMail over Tor to complicate geo-location by GMail, or because you don't want a local ISP (or your VPN provider or...) to know you are accessing GMail, or...
aloha, Paul