[tor-dev] HSv3 descriptor work in stem

[George Kadianakis]

Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> writes:

>>    Can I use `_descriptor_content()` to do that? Or should I call
>>    `_descriptor_content()` to generate the whole thing _without_ the
>>    sig, and then do the signature computation on its result and
>>    concatenate it after?
>
> Hi George. Yup, to create a signed descriptor we create the bulk of
> the content then append the signature. Server and extrainfo
> descriptors already do this so I suspect you can do something
> similar...
>
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/tree/stem/descriptor/server_descriptor.py#n902
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/tree/stem/descriptor/__init__.py#n1388
>
> Will this do the trick?
>
> PS. Sorry about the duplicate. Hit reply rather than reply-all
> forgetting that you included the list.

Thanks for the reply Damian! That was super useful!

The current state of affairs can be found here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31823#comment:1
(just in case you didn't check IRC that day)

peace