Re: [tor-dev] Timers in Arti?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Rogers
Sorry, I should have said that we're interested in keeping a hidden service running. Without that requirement, I agree we could just close the guard connection via DisableNetwork after some idle period. So the question is about keeping circuits alive, and I guess also keeping HS descriptors pu

Re: [tor-dev] Timers in Arti?

2024-01-09 Thread Micah Elizabeth Scott
Ah. If you want to run an onion service you'll need to keep at least a couple circuits open continuously for the introduction points. I'm not sure where you would meaningfully find time to deep sleep in that scenario. There will be ongoing obligations from the wifi/wan and tcp stacks. You need

Re: [tor-dev] Timers in Arti?

2024-01-09 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 12:58 PM Micah Elizabeth Scott wrote: > > Ah. If you want to run an onion service you'll need to keep at least a > couple circuits open continuously for the introduction points. I'm not > sure where you would meaningfully find time to deep sleep in that > scenario. There wil