[tor-onions] hiddenserviceauthorizeclient stealth vs basic techinal details

[Ivan Markin]

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,
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Ivan Markin