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Yes! Routing VPNs through Tor is a great way to avoid site discrimination against Tor users. But there are two key problems. One is that you degrade Tor anonym
by mirimir 8y ago
Yes!
Routing VPNs through Tor is a great way to avoid site discrimination against Tor users. But there are two key problems. One is that you degrade Tor anonymity, because Tor can't switch circuits (normally at ~10 minute interval). And also because you typically must pay for VPN services.
The other problem is that Tor only routes TCP traffic. So when you use TCP-based VPNs routed through Tor, and are using HTTPS or some other TCP flavor, you get the TCP-in-TCP horrors. There's too much error correction.
So yes, Cloudflare would need to allow Warp via Tor. Or maybe even better, Warp via Tor via Warp. And also it would need to protect Tor anonymity.
Cool idea, though :)
- marshray 8y ago> Warp via Tor via Warp Warp would see all your incoming packets and all your outgoing packets, so why bother with Tor?
- mirimir 8y agoGood point. I was getting carried away, there. But still, if it were done right, that's not necessarily true. I mean, I can have two accounts with some VPN service. I connect to server1.vpn.com using one account. Then I connect to the Tor network via that VPN tunnel. And then I connect to server2.vpn.com via Tor, using the other account. Even better, I connect to server2.onion, using the other account. Even then, Cloudflare could easily do traffic correlation. But as it is now, the NSA can easily do traffic correlation. So hey.