Richard Dennis <[email protected]> writes: > Hi guys, > > i have been doing a bit of reading recently about hidden services, and > i am just wondering how exactly a hidden service selects its > introduction points, i understand there are two methods, one where the > H.S picks its own set of I.P's and one where this is done for the > H.S., is this correct? >
AFAIK, HSes pick their own set of intro points. > If so is there an algorithm for automatically selecting introduction points > for a hidden service and is one method recommended over another, if so why? > > Finally how many introduction points does a H.S. usually have, can a larger > H.S. have more I.P's to deal with the traffic or is this not advised ? > See this thread for some more information on IPs: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007335.html and specifically the "==How many IPs should an HS have?==" section. FWIW, the relevant function is rend_services_introduce() in src/or/rendservice.c . _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
