Anonymity gives you safety to share your findings. Whether that’s whistleblowing or ideas or results, having your real identity attached may be more risk than it’s worth.
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Some of these issues are solved (and others mitgated) by the v3 onion services used today, as they are now officially called instead of hidden services, but they remain not-hard-enough to deanonymize.
TLDR: if the stakes are high, do not rely on Tor onion services alone to hide the location of a service!
This work investigates the fundamental constraints of anonymous communication (AC) protocols.
We analyze the relationship between bandwidth overhead, latency overhead, and sender anonymity or recipient anonymity against a global passive (network-level) adversary.
We confirm the trilemma
that an AC p...