On 08/31/2013 09:28 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > We all know that Hidden Services need lots of attention. The crypto > needs to improve (upgrade keys to other cryptosystems, fix hybrid > encryption, etc.) and the protocol needs to improve (make hidden > services scale, oblivious transfer for HS descriptors, prevent DoS > attacks, valet services, etc.). > > IMO, to properly fix Hidden Services someone needs to think of the big > picture and write a "Next generation Hidden Services" paper/essay that > proposes new protocols and addresses most of the known problems. Then, > after we know how these new changes influence each other, we can start > writing proposals and figuring out implementation and deployment > strategies. Unfortunately, even though I know that some people are > thinking about this, I'm not sure if we will see such a paper soon > (within the next months). >
FYI, we just started a project on improving hidden service protocol. I am working on ticket #8510 so we can first set up tools to profile hidden service traffic. That said, we are probably not going to publish a paper within the next months ;p -- qp _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
