On 08/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/8/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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