George K: I suspect that HS authorization is very rare in the current network, and if we believe it's a useful tool, it might be worthwhile to make it more useable by people.
Is anyone making their HSDir onion descriptor scraping patches available somewhere? I'd suspect the rarity of HS authorization could also be determined with that since some fields would be obfuscated and thus not match patterns.
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rend--spec.txt: 2. Authentication and authorization. 2.1. Service with large-scale client authorization 2.2. Authorization for limited number of clients 2.3. Hidden service configuration 2.4. Client configuration