[tor-bugs] #21314 [Obfuscation/Snowflake]: snowflake-client needs to stop using my network when I'm not giving it requests

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#21314: snowflake-client needs to stop using my network when I'm not giving it
requests
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 Reporter:  arma                   |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                 |     Resolution:
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Comment (by arma):

 My first thought was that snowflake-client needs to go dormant when it
 hasn't received any requests in a while.

 Yawning thinks it should be a more aggressive, and simpler, plan: it needs
 to be dormant when it is not right now having a request that it's supposed
 to answer.

 (After all, Tor tries to maintain circuits to its guards, so it will have
 a persistent connection, and if Tor goes dormant because it doesn't expect
 to use the network for a while, then that's a great time for snowflake-
 client to notice that there is no network use, and go dormant too.)

 I am fine with either approach, so long as pretty soon after I stop trying
 to talk to snowflake-client, it stops trying to use my network.

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