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That ship sailed years ago. Today, if you want a client-facing service to be reliably available, it has to run on port 80 or 443.
by caf 8y ago
That ship sailed years ago.
Today, if you want a client-facing service to be reliably available, it has to run on port 80 or 443.
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y agoExactly. Effectively, there is only a single usable Internet protocol, called TCP. There is only two usable ports, 80 and 443. There is only a single usable transport-layer protocol, called SSL/TLS. And nothing more. Luckily, Tor relay operators have recognized this problem from the beginning - Tor uses standard TLS for the transport-layer encryption, most of the relays are running at port 443. It enables everyone to bootstrap them to the complete version of Internet. And recently definitely IETF is well-aware of this, hence DNS-over-HTTPS.