[sslh] adding proxying capability for tor

[Jon Spriggs]

Walter,

Part of the core functionalty of TOR is that it's not easy to sniff
for the signature of the TOR packets. If this project some how finds
something which identifies what looks like TOR and what looks like
HTTPS, then it will provide ammunition to the very people that TOR are
trying to protect their users against.

It's a nice idea, but I'm sorry to say I think it's not a workable position.

You might find more traction in asking the TOR project to amend their
project to enable relaying of HTTPS requests not destined for the TOR
relay/node. They may even be able to use the signatures identified by
this project to relay other traffic, but I doubt either will happen.
--
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

On 30 April 2012 09:39, Walter Haidinger <walter.haidinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How about adding support to proxy tor (https://www.torproject.org)
> connections?
>
> Just an idea, I haven't looked at the tor protocol, therefore I
> don't know how difficult to implement this would be.
>
> However, given that the recommended ports for tor relays are 80
> and 443 (which are least likely to be blocked), this would allow
> people to run webservers and tor-relays on one IP.
>
> This could become the "killer application" for sslh.
> Maybe you could even contact the tor developers about this.
> Integrating sslh code (->library?) into tor would be another option.
>
> Just a thought. It would spark sslh usage, I think.
>
> Regards,
> Walter
>
>
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