[tor-dev] stem support for v3 ephemeral onion services

[Micah Lee]

On 01/25/2018 05:10 AM, David Goulet wrote:
> On 25 Jan (06:50:30), teor wrote:
>>
>>> On 25 Jan 2018, at 05:14, Micah Lee <micah at micahflee.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now that Tor Browser 7.5 is released and includes the tor 0.3.2 series,
>>> which supports next generation onion services, I would love to make
>>> OnionShare use these by default. Here is the issue [1].
>>>
>>> OnionShare is written in python3 and relies on stem to communicate with
>>> the Tor controller. Although tor now supports v3 ephemeral onion
>>> services, stem still doesn't. Just take make sure, here's a quick test,
>>> with Tor Browser 7.5 (providing tor 0.3.2.9) open in the background, and
>>> using stem 1.6.0:
>>
>> Here is the current status of v3 onion control port support:
>>
>> This proposal is listed as "Finished":
>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/284-hsv3-control-port.txt
>>
>> And the code was merged into 0.3.3 (not 0.3.2):
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20699
>>
>> Stem typically tracks Tor's control spec.
>> But the changed commands have not been integrated into control-spec.txt:
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24847
> 
> This one is on me and I apologize... I haven't took the time to make a proper
> control-spec.txt patch from the prop#284.
> 
> I'll put this on my priority list so when 0.3.3 goes stable (~ April 15th),
> we'll have a up to date control spec for Stem to work with.
> 
> Cheers!
> David


Excellent, thank you so much for the updates.