[tor-dev] Onioncat and Prop224

Bernhard R. Fischer bf at abenteuerland.at
Thu May 26 10:51:59 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-01 01:44, str4d wrote:
> On 27/04/16 22:31, grarpamp wrote:
>> On 4/25/16, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 22 Apr 2016, at 17:03, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FYI: The onioncat folks are interested in collaborating
>>>> with tor folks regarding prop224.
>>>>
>>>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
>>>
>>> I'm interested in what kind of collaboration onioncat would like to do on
>>> prop224, next-generation hidden services.
>>> It would be great to work this out in the next few weeks, as we're coding
>>> parts of the proposal right now.
>>
>> Yep :) And I know Bernhard was hoping to get in touch with Roger
>> on this before long.
>>
>> Basically, prop224 HS being wider than 80 bits will break onioncat's
>> current HS onion <---> IPv6 addressing mechanism.
>>
>> They're looking at various backward compatibility options, as well
>> as possibly making side use of the HSDir DHT, or even integrating
>> more directly with the tor client.
>>
> 
> Just FYI, I recently migrated all of I2P's spec proposals to the
> website, and came across a seven-year-old proposal that Bernhard wrote
> about improving I2P support in GarliCat:
> 
> https://geti2p.net/spec/proposals/105-garlicat-name-translation
> 
> I don't know how well it has aged, but given that Tor is now facing the
> same issues that I2P has, perhaps it can be of some use if resurrected
> from the dead :)
> 


This proposal simply suggest to a DNS reverse lookup within the I2P
network based on a specific TLD.


This kind of mechanism would work for Tor as well.
In my opinion, the best solution would be to directly use the HS
directory to do those lookups.

Bernhard




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