To be 100% clear, “dos” as in “denial of service” correct? Thx.
> On Jul 9, 2018, at 7:32 AM, George Kadianakis <desnac...@riseup.net> wrote: > > Hello! > > It's a semi-secret that tor2web traffic has been blocked from the Tor > network when we introduced the DoS subsystem this March [0]. The reason > is that a big part of the DoS traffic was coming from one-hop clients > continuously hammering onion services. > > This is something that we've been considering doing for a while (for > security and code-complexity reasons), and it just happened naturally > during the DoS incident. > > As part of this, and since the DoS subsystem is going to stick around, > we are planning to permanently kill the Tor2Web subsystem of Tor, in an > effort to simplify our codebase and our feature list. > > If you've been relying on tor2web for something, please consider > switching to a normal 3-hop client indeed. This is a heads up so that > you can let us know if that won't work for you, or you need help > transitioning out. > > Cheers and hope we are not making you sad. > > [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24902 > > https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915 > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev