[tor-talk] Tor hidden services and SSL certificates

alex mayer 4lex.mayer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 13:39:40 UTC 2011


Hi Mike,

thanks for your quick response. I'm going to investigate a bit more on this,
there's some document where I can find this information regarding the
exit nodes?

Alex

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Mike Cardwell <tor at lists.grepular.com>wrote:

> On 11/10/11 14:05, alex mayer wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a project that involves a secure installation of a
> > web blog and a Jabber messenger service through Tor Hidden services.
> >
> > I'm aware of SSL man in the middle attacks by rogue tor relay servers,
> > how to protect login credential of the administrators and users while
> > accessing the services? which is correct mitigation approach?
> >
> > No SSL enabled?
> >
> > Self generated SSL certificates?
> >
> > Other form of confidentiality and integrity protection?
>
> Hidden services are already encrypted end to end. They don't have the
> MITM problems that using Tor to access Internet services has; there are
> no Exit Nodes are involved. So there's no real point in adding a layer
> of SSL on top.
>
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