May 15, 2019, 2:50 AM by damieng...@tutanota.com: > I want to better understand behavior of circuits and streams, on both onion > and client sides. > > Using carml monitor, or the Linux onioncircuits package, I see circuits for > onions that I connect to (client-side circuits). I also see circuits for > onions hosted on the machine, when clients connect to them (onion-side > circuits). However, I only see streams attached to client-side circuits, > primarily HS_CLIENT_REND circuits. I see no streams attached to onion-side > circuits (HS_SERVICE_HSDIR, HS_SERVICE_INTRO or HS_SERVICE_REND). > > Does this reflect limitations in the Python libraries that those tools use? > Or perhaps in Tor itself? Where ought I look to learn more about this? > > -- > Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: > > https://tutanota.com <https://tutanota.com> > -- > tor-talk mailing list - > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > <mailto:tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > <https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk> >
I naively expected to see streams in both HS_CLIENT... and HS_SERVICE... circuits. But after reading https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt <https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt> more carefully, I believe that I understand. As Tor documentation defines "streams", only HS_CLIENT_REND circuits carry them. HS_SERVICE_REND circuits must also be handling TCP streams, because Tor is forwarding them to onion-service apps. However, Tor documentation doesn't refer to that cell traffic as "streams". Basically, traffic on all circuits except HS_CLIENT_REND is just referred to as "cells". -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: https://tutanota.com <https://tutanota.com> -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
