[tor-onions] Connection to a hidden service with a RFC 6455 web-socket - advice on risks please

[Michael Jonker]

Thanks to all for the wealth of valuable information I have received.

I am officially a onion service believer now, and my understanding has 
grown exponentially!


On 06/03/18 19:38, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:27:32PM +0000, Michael Jonker wrote:
>> They have asked me to ask here also if, when connected to a hidden service,
>> the circuit becomes "dirty" after default 10 minutes and resets?
> No, onion services use the opposite logic: once you open a circuit to
> the onion service, the 10 minute timer starts, and if you open a new
> stream you *reset* the timer to a fresh 10 minutes. So as long as you
> keep using it, it will stay open.
>
> If 10 minutes pass and you didn't attach a new stream, Tor won't try to
> put new streams on that circuit in the future (i.e. it will try to open
> a new one).
>
> This 'opposite logic' is actually the same logic that Tor Browser uses
> for its circuits, since it uses the socks isolation feature where the
> goal is to separate requests between domains, rather than to separate
> them between time slots:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/circuituse.c#n2713
>
> --Roger
>
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