Torgeek
- What are rendezvous points?
- What is the purpose of a Tor rendezvous point?
- How does hidden service work?
- What is hidden service protocol?
What are rendezvous points?
Quick Definition: A rendezvous point is a router that acts as the place where sources and receivers of multicast data can find each other. On small networks, it's not hard to imagine finding the source of a multicast and subscribing to it.
What is the purpose of a Tor rendezvous point?
The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa. Once rendezvous point get the response from service it informs client that connection is established and now client and service can talk with each other through rendezvous point using their circuit.
How does hidden service work?
Any hidden service requires that any citizen executes the rendezvous protocol to contact the service. This protocol guarantees that the citizen accesses the service without having knowledge of server's IP address. While the citizen is using Tor, the service does not know citizen's IP address.
What is hidden service protocol?
Hidden Service Protocol. The hidden service creates a Service Descriptor containing it's Public key for Authentication and the IP Addresses of the Relays acting as introduction points. The Service Descriptor gets signed with the hosts private key.
