-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I've been experimenting with small changes to Tor to improve the performance of mobile hidden services. The following patches for Tor and jtorctl make two performance improvements: 1. Each time the network's enabled, don't try to build introduction circuits until we've successfully built a circuit. This avoids a problem where we'd try to build introduction circuits immediately, all the circuits would fail, and we'd wait for 5 minutes before trying again. 2. Added a command to the control protocol to purge any cached state relating to a specified hidden service. This command can be used before trying to connect to the service to force Tor to download a fresh descriptor. It's a more fine-grained alternative to SIGNAL NEWNYM, which purges all cached descriptors and also discards circuits. https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar/blob/9e5e2e2df24d84135f14adaa4... https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar/blob/9e5e2e2df24d84135f14adaa4... The Tor patch is based on the tor-0.2.24 tag, and the jtorctl patch is based on the Guardian Project's repo, which is ahead of the upstream repo (n8fr8 needs commit privileges for upstream, I think). https://github.com/guardianproject/jtorctl I've only done small-scale testing of these patches so far. If they seems like they might be useful I'll create a trac ticket to merge them. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUM6W7AAoJEBEET9GfxSfM5FkIAL+gPk2ZmGvSnt/gVQGZwqH5 mpqGoPIfZPycfhm/dgOjE4MSANcGo7kTqnh85ir9TQvjtNAEkfkTL7GB9G+DOd2X ghje+HCWNRU8WlFD27rrxSUzT+8IvfVaJaj+sCYtA44ib3qpz4XXKXee8xTW2epV dnCLtW7TBUjQEHqbL0aGtsKEHvgVQcLWPxusEioefBPXo6a+8cRKLY+EJvqxaMze mdOQBh+wa7SIyMQi4JqgzjtKAoAqpVzXYsIrmxT1hlCOOaNDjbFUN35QbrZMT6B+ zNCuWIIC6JfBWccfxDsAew2MC8WNf05nvgM67cTFU2nCI6MwYYf4x2xtEOcA5qs= =LweI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----