[tor-bugs] #21284 [Core Tor/Tor]: Add torrc option for non-anonymous SocksPort

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#21284: Add torrc option for non-anonymous SocksPort
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 Reporter:  teor                            |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                     |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Very Low                        |      Milestone:  Tor: very
                                            |  long term
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                    |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                          |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-hs, single-onion, wontfix?  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                                  |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                                  |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:9 teor]:
 > Replying to [comment:6 alecmuffett]:
 > > In terms of use cases, the goal is to simplify OnionBalance adoption
 to drive scale; anyone who is running Single Hop Circuits is unlikely to
 care about remaining anonymous, so it seems odd to ban them from SOCKS
 merely to drive the point home?
 >
 > As s7r noted, Exits already ban single-hop circuits, so if we had
 naïvely allowed a single-hop SOCKSPort, it might only have worked when
 accessing onion services as a client. Which would have been a terrible
 user experience.

 I checked the code:
 * the single onion service code only changes service intro and rend
 circuits, and
 * Tor2Web only changes client intro and rend circuits.

 So exits remain 3-hop regardless, and would work ok if you used the
 --enable-tor2web-mode workaround (or any option we might add that does the
 same thing).

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