-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 (CCing the hidden-services list.) On 16/02/15 16:11, Leif Ryge wrote:
If someone has a suggestion for an alternative interface that can handle applications crashing (possibly before they persist the list of HSes they need to clean up), applications that are just poorly written (and not cleaning up all the ephemeral HSes), and (optionally, though lacking this would be a reduction in features) limiting cross application HS enumeration, I'd be more inclined to change things.
First, thanks for doing this! I think it's a great feature which will make it much easier to create new hidden service applications.
Seconded!
I like the idea of tying HS lifetime to the control port connection for the reasons you state, namely that cleanup is automatic when applications crash.
As an app developer this strikes me as the right approach. But having said that, I wouldn't actually need this feature because Briar already uses __OwningControllerProcess to shut down Tor if the control connection is closed. I imagine the same would apply to any app that manages its own Tor process - so this feature would only be useful for apps that share a Tor process with other apps and communicate directly with it via the control port, rather than indirectly via a controller such as Orbot. Are there any such apps, and is it a good idea to support such apps (has the rest of the control protocol been examined for cross-controller data leaks, what happens if apps tread on each other's configuration changes, etc)?
However, it seems like in the case of applications which are not HS-specific this will necessitate keeping another process running just to keep the HS alive.
Dormant processes are essentially free, so does this matter? Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJU4kaeAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMP/oH/Aoel3gyOAtn5NrgKh6WRcFf 5TwPOElP/vL+XI5XrPRYJYczilQ2st/ZLu6nuULLvGoqbtDZ0VU23uyffPhypx87 n5hXPNYbXt7/tvJ42ULq509D1nRI9Xp39YOwPMt0Yw7RXWo2eB7eYd2n0tMXrdan 4hhxIqe21MXXiL9QGuf/MaToFRQP9TB2vNP5eZzS07WR1EvSN5TvBO5nZM9TRE4t daJ0mNPhL4v6gb0j0iVCzZJFZ424swOyqdOu5K7iPRWkMbacX9uXINzjUn8NWzIO hT6GK3dHsyhGjiWLQ0Dlpw1yIZ6vv5YCKAbYoS7mSS0U1NNSaouaT7zzR7+GIMo= =uVVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----