Re: [tor-dev] Finding the HSDIR responsible for a certain onion address

Frank Young <pfcodes@gmail.com> writes:

Dealing with v2 hidden service descriptors, how does a tor client get the list of HSDIR are responsible for a certain onion address so it can contact them for descriptor of the hidden service?.

According to rend-spec.txt the list of the responsible HSDIR for a particular hidden service changes almost in every 24.

This is unforunately not very well explained in rend-spec.txt. You can find more information about this in proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt , and in section 4.4.3 in Karsten's PhD thesis "Privacy-enhancing Technologies for Private Services" (http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/loesing2009thesis.pdf). Patches for rend-spec.txt that include the missing information would be awesome :)