Sorry busy week. Will respond shortly. Mainly checkout the Intent calls in Orbot.java
On June 4, 2014 11:38:01 AM EDT, Yaron Goland <[email protected]> wrote: >Um... anyone? > > >________________________________ >From: Yaron Goland >Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 4:18 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Thali, Orbot and requests for help > > >I'm going to make the wacky assumption that many people on this list >are also on Tor Talk so rather than waste more electrons I'll just link >to my introduction for Thali that I posted there - >https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-May/033112.html > > >A core part of Thali is that we run a background service on Android >called the Thali Device Hub (TDH). The TDH is really just an embedded >CouchDB server that accepts connections over mutual SSL auth and has >some fun ACL logic, battery management and other logic. But the TDH is >intended to be reached as a Tor hidden service. > > >I started to work with Orbot and ran into some issues I really need >help with. > > >Issue #1 - How do I programmatically find the hidden service's name? - >Near as I can tell there is no way for the TDH to programmatically >figure out what the local hidden service's name is. I looked at >NetCipher/OrbotHelper.java and I don't see any mechanism to retrieve >the hidden service's .onion address. I dug around the Orbot code a bit >and I could only find the hidden service name accessed via a shared >preference stored in Orbot's context. I couldn't actually find a >programmatic way for the TDH to ask for the hidden service name. The >best I can come up with right now is to ask the user to please go over >to Orbot and copy the onion name and paste it in the TDH. Obviously >that isn't the best user experience so I figure I'm just slow and not >finding the right way. > > >Issue #2 - How does Orbot handle multiple hidden services? - Ideally we >would live in a happy world where people can easily run a hidden >service where and when necessary and appropriate. So this means that >different apps could run their own hidden services without interfering >with each other. But right now it looks like Orbot only supports having >a single hidden service mapped to a single port on the whole handset. >So if there are two apps that need hidden services then I guess who >ever asks first wins? Is this by design or am I missing something? > > >Thanks! > > > Yaron > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Guardian-dev mailing list > >Post: [email protected] >List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > >To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] >Or visit: >https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/nathan%40guardianproject.info > >You are subscribed as: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
