[tor-dev] [RFC] Directory structure of prop224 onion services

[George Kadianakis]

David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> writes:

> On 30 Jan (16:16:07), George Kadianakis wrote:
>> David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> writes:
>> 
>> > On 26 Jan (15:05:26), George Kadianakis wrote:
>> >> Hey list,
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > First, big thanks for this write up!
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> with service-side prop224 implementation moving forward, we need to pin down
>> >> the directory structure of prop224 onion services. This will be very similar to
>> >> the current directory structure, but with some mods to facilitate assymetric
>> >> client authorization keys and offline keys.
>> >> 
>> >> As people have pointed out, the HS directory structure matters less after the
>> >> introduction of ephemeral ADD_ONION onion services, but still it's an important
>> >> part of onion service sysadmin UX.
>> >> 
>> >> <snip>
>> >
>> 
>> Hey David,
>> 
>> thanks for the useful comments.
>> 
>> Please check my torspec branch `prop224-directory-format`.
>> 
>> FWIW, I agree with all the expected behavior details you noted at the
>> end of your email. I encoded some of those behaviors in the spec, but I
>> didn't provide a complete formal algorithm of how the whole process
>> works because I don't think it's spec material and also because I feel
>> that during implementation we will get new insights on how this should
>> work.
>> 
>> Let me know how you feel about the spec patch :)
>
> Good stuff! And yes, I don't think it's spec material at all but good to have
> in an Appendfix for reference. Once this file structure will be released in a
> tor version, we *must* update the man page FILES section.
>

OK, I merged this patch to torspec as well!

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

We can edit it if we figure out something is wrong; and we need to
update it anyway to add the offline keys info.