Re: [tor-dev] Finding the HSDIR responsible for a certain onion address

2013-04-25 Thread Frank Young
Thanks for your explanations, but my interest is not on the calculation of the descriptor id. I'm actually interested in getting the list of the responsible HSDIR for the hidden service after i have calculated the descriptor ID. This is not fully explained in the documents. According to the specifi

Re: [tor-dev] Finding the HSDIR responsible for a certain onion address

2013-04-24 Thread Donncha O' Cearbhaill
A Tor client generates the desc_id for the v2 hidden service it would like to query. It did selects the 3 HSDIR from the router list which are found directly after the position of the desc_id when the routers are sorted by their identity digest (hash of their onion public key). I took me quite a wh

Re: [tor-dev] Finding the HSDIR responsible for a certain onion address

2013-04-24 Thread George Kadianakis
Frank Young writes: > Dealing with v2 hidden service descriptors, how does a tor client get > the list of HSDIR are responsible for a certain onion address so it > can contact them for descriptor of the hidden service?. > > According to rend-spec.txt the list of the responsible HSDIR for a > part

[tor-dev] Finding the HSDIR responsible for a certain onion address

2013-04-24 Thread Frank Young
Dealing with v2 hidden service descriptors, how does a tor client get the list of HSDIR are responsible for a certain onion address so it can contact them for descriptor of the hidden service?. According to rend-spec.txt the list of the responsible HSDIR for a particular hidden service changes alm