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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:50:09 JST alcinnz

   Tor Hidden Services (sometimes vilified as "The Dark Web") allows for offering services anonymously via the Tor network. Or provide an alternate to public IP addresses, where ISPs refuse to provide them.

   The service choses some random "introduction points" from Tor's relays & builds circuits to them. We the client choses a random "rendezvous point", building a circuit to it.

   We contact the service via the introduction point asking it to connect to our circuit via the rendezvous relay.

   1/1.2!

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:52:18 JST alcinnz

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     Connecting our circuit to the rendezvous server & the service's we have a circuit to that service!

     There's a lot we need to do to avoid denial-of-service, & I still need to finish reading up on how Tor finds these introduction points.

     1.2/1.2 Fin for today!

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     meejah (meejah@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 10:36:26 JST meejah

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     @alcinnz Hey, fun, I know some of this stuff .. but also you can use my tool "carml" to easily get information that the Tor daemon is emitting. See https://carml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

     You can also very easily launch an Onion service after installing my other project https://meejah.ca/projects/txtorcon by doing: twistd web --port "onion:80" --path ~/public_html

     (If you're on Debian, the above should work after an "apt install python3-txtorcon")