Hi all. Changes at work have me stressed so I’ll be skipping Rome this year, but none the less Tor has been a welcome anchor. Work may suck, but Tor? Well…
ORPort Protocol Support
As discussed yesterday Stem can now communicate over the ORPort protocol. Still lots of follow-up work to do, but thanks to Tim’s wonderful work prototyping how this is done with Endosome Stem can now download descriptors via the ORPort protocol!
import stem.client
with stem.client.Relay.connect('127.0.0.1', 12345, [3]) as relay:
circ = relay.create_circuit()
circ.send('RELAY_BEGIN_DIR', stream_id = 1)
desc = circ.send('RELAY_DATA', 'GET /tor/server/authority
HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n', stream_id = 1).data
circ.close()
print(desc)
Which then provides…
% python demo.py HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:42:41 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: identity Expires: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:42:41 GMT router Unnamed 97.113.177.53 12345 0 23456 identity-ed25519 -----BEGIN ED25519 CERT----- AQQABm/qAazUltT1iUUbIMw8VNNhGb50FDHKJz6S94FLQNxL0LObAQAgBAAapbO9 iLFD0l9SEiEMFQWIT2VnbLyCZKvbrxTs5ULC1l1hQPoui6Y/lEd3yjrQhIs/vl6R 1S6FbwSFDmiXOzq47mFrse4C71ht3TpLOD0F3wiyjWtsqU1k7iPmmpejUgs= -----END ED25519 CERT----- master-key-ed25519 GqWzvYixQ9JfUhIhDBUFiE
Fallback Directory v2
Tim and I also worked together on a second iteration for our Fallback Directories. Expanded with additional data and a specification, Stem now supports the new format.