On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti - lists lists@infosecurity.ch wrote:
On 11/9/14 8:58 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
For example, it would be interesting if TBB would allow people to input a password/pubkey upon visiting a protected HS. Protected HSes can be recognized by looking at the "authentication-required" field of the HS descriptor. Typing your password on the browser is much more useable than editing a config file.
That sounds interesting.
Also i love this idea but i would suggest to preserve the copy&paste self-authenticated URL property of TorHS, also in presence of authorization.
It could be done with a parameter in the URL http://blahblah.onion/?authTorHBauBauMeowMeow=PASSWORD Or it could be done with a URL handler httpA://PASSWORD@blahblah.onion .
That way it will be possible to use such authenticated TorHS by bookmarking an URL in TBB or by copy/pasting it from a password manager.
This assumes you're using a Tor aware browser, or Tor is somehow protocol aware and MITM for all user protocols (such as TLS non-web) which is impossible. So this won't work. Any such descriptor authenticating would need done at the onion 'hostname' level since that's the only non-user-protocol area available. ie: authtoken.16char.onion. Or in torrc as is today.