The purpose of this email is to describe a solution that doesn't exist but could. The technology is available, it just hasn't been created yet.
The current Tor network: Alice uses Tor Browser to connect to mywebsite.com. Tor Browser connects to a guard note, then a middle node, then an exit node. mywebsite.com only sees the IP from the exist node and Alice remains anonymous. However mywebsite.com knows that the IP is from an exit node and at first, it just annoys her with puzzles, then eventually it blocks her altogether. She tries exit node after exit node and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Alice uses Tor Browser to connection to mywebsite.onion Tor Browser connects to a guard note, then a middle node, then to mywebsite.onion. mywebsite.onion only sees the previous hop but nothing else and Alice remains anonymous. The Tor network with Private Exits: Alice uses Tor Browser to connect to myexit.onion. Tor Browser connects to a guard note, then a middle node, then to myexit.onion. myexit.onion provides a portal to the internet via a web interface similar to a VNC session. myexit.onion is not recognized as a Tor exit node and Alice can then go to mywebsite.com without any extra harassment. Private Exits would exist primarily as a stand alone software application. They would provide the user with a web interface that would require uploading a public key to authenticate (similar to SSH). Each Private Exit would normally have a 1:1 User/Owner relationship but it wouldn't always need to be like that. More Examples: Pedro is a journalist inside of a country with stringent internet laws. He connects to pedrowork.onion. This Private Exit is located at his office in New York. He has complete access to the full Internet. VPN Provider Iheartanonymity.com creates a shared Private Exit for their paid subscribers. mywebsite.com sees users coming from a VPN provider but they don't hold them in the same regard as Tor users. Iheartanonymity.com only sees a small portion of the traffic that they would see from hosting a traditional Exit Node and without the worries about treated like one. Suggestions appreciated. I am not a developer and even the simple bash scripts that I write are so bad that they are a crime against humanity. I'm just hoping to maybe throw out some ideas for someone else to implement. Best Regards, Jason Evans -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
