Re: [tor-dev] Changing Rendezvous Single Onion Service at Runtime

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:16 AM, teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

Is there any reason an onion service would want to temporarily switch from 1-hop to 3-hop paths? Is it ok if we force operators to restart the tor instance when onion service path lengths change?

Just said on IRC, but saying here too for the record:

IMO it's fine to require a restart for now. And in fact, there should be some kind of affirmative opt-in to switch a hidden service directory from one to the other.

Treating these two kinds of services as interchangeable at service-side is IMO a recipe for bad times.