[tor-commits] [community/staging] Rephrase onion services overview docs to make it more clear. Fix #179

hiro at torproject.org hiro at torproject.org
Sun Mar 21 19:17:30 UTC 2021


commit 10bc0c9b88ddf50345e590d1ae05a8a49a6c63f2
Author: gus <gus at torproject.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 8 15:12:12 2021 -0500

    Rephrase onion services overview docs to make it more clear. Fix #179
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 content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr b/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr
index 8d6be84..8895acd 100644
--- a/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr
+++ b/content/onion-services/overview/contents.lr
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Let's imagine that your local newspaper decides to set up an onion service (usin
 As the first step in the protocol, the onion service will contact a bunch of Tor relays and ask them to act as its _introduction points_ by establishing long-term circuits to them.
 These circuits are anonymized circuits, so the server does not reveal the service location to the introduction points.
 
-The onion service will hide and protect itself behind the Tor network by only allowing access through three introduction points that it connects to through a three-hop Tor circuit.
+The onion service will hide and protect itself behind the Tor network by only allowing access through three introduction points that it connects to through a two-hop Tor circuit.
 
 <img class="col-lg-8" src="../../static/images/onion-services/overview/onion-service-01.png" alt="Onion Services: Step 1">
 
@@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ The introduction point passes your details (secret string and rendezvous address
 ### Act 8: Where the rendezvous point verifies the client's secret
 
 The onion service connects to the rendezvous point (through an anonymized circuit) and sends the "one-time secret" to it.
-The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa.
-
 The rendezvous point makes one final verification to match the secret strings from you and service (the latter also comes from you but has been relayed through the service).
 
+The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa.
+
 <img class="col-lg-8" src="../../static/images/onion-services/overview/onion-service-08.png" alt="Onion Services: Step 8">
 
 ### Act 9: Where the onion service rendezvous with the client





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