On 08/09/2007, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 9/8/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As far as speed goes if you're using TOR SSL
is the least of your speed
worries.
I wonder if running Wikipedia as a tor hidden service would improve
the speed. It'd at least spread the traffic more evenly as there'd be
no need to find an exit node with an appropriate exit policy.
Tor's speed is getting faster, for the record.
With Mike Perry's new load balancing, Tor
should have four times the capacity once
the network rebalances - i.e. after a number
or people have upgraded to the latest
versions.
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Sep-2007/msg00005.html
And no, running Wikipaedia as a Tor hidden
service would definitely not improve speed -
remember that hidden services are designed
to anonymise the server, not just the client. It
would be slower... but then if you care about
speed and not security, I recommend you
don't use Tor.
Running Wikipaedia as a hidden service would,
however, provide a number of security benefits.
For example, end-to-end encryption, better than
SSL/TLS, in my opinion - for all of those admins
using Tor y'all are apparently concerned about.
One IP for checkusers to check, if checkusers
feel the need to find out what sorts of edits
admins are making through Tor. (This also
assumes Wikipaedia is doing a good job blocking
Tor, which it isn't. The Tor developers gave you
the code to generate a list of Tor nodes exiting
to Wikipaedia, use it.)
> Too bad the tor local exit stuff has to be on an
exact IP match,
> otherwise it would be easy enough to run our own exits to at least
> remove that terrible sniffing problem from tor for our traffic.
Again, hidden services provide high quality
end-to-end encryption. Or stick with TLS.
145.97.39.155 isn't the only ip address for
en.wikipedia.org? How
many are there?
145.97.39.155 is
rr.knams.wikimedia.org
en.wikipedia.org is 66.230.200.100
which is also
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org