[tor-bugs] #23280 [Core Tor/Tor]: Censorship resistant onion sites

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#23280: Censorship resistant onion sites
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks                       |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                            |      Milestone:  Tor:
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Component:  Core Tor/Tor                      |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-proposal tor-hs censorship  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 I don't think that running BM is practical for that. It is too heavy. My
 proposed implementation is lighter. Also it is unlikely that BM will be
 shipped together with tor, so this option will only be used by a subset of
 users, reducing their anonymity. So I believe any solution of the problem
 should be a part of the official tor software.

 To those who thing that there is no ''problem'' here and that the current
 implementation is censorship resistant: it is not! Many countries have
 laws powerful enough to block torrent trackers, who serve the same
 function for torrent protocol that hsdirs serve for tor hidden services
 protocol. The official reason for shutdown of torrent trackers: those
 trackers could block torrents with copyrighted content, but failed to do
 so. Anybody can send registered letters to all hsdir owners in the world
 informing them about a "bad" site and then try to shutdown all of them who
 didn't remove the site.

 Also many countries have laws criminalizing situations when a person could
 prevent some other crime and was informed about it, but knowingly didn't
 do it. That is why it is so important to change the hidden sites protocol
 in such a way that no participant (including hsdirs) has a technical
 possibility to blacklist sites.

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