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Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by HackerNCoder on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:59AM (#33905829)
No, v3 isn't TLS either. TLS is only used as a connector between hops (so the client connect to a node using TLS, and the nodes connect to each other using TLS), but that is it. (I think, if I'm wrong do tell me. I didn't go check the spec)
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Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by schoen on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:36PM (#33910674)
OK, I checked and it's indeed still not TLS.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/r...

I think the main question would be: are there cryptographic attacks that a rendezvous server could do that wouldn't work against TLS?

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