I have reviewed the application of: https://briarproject.org/
I have it installed and I see that when using its own Tor daemon it conflicts with Orbor and I think that is a problem. The people of briarproject could configure their application not to conflict with Orbot but I do not think that is a solution in the long term if it is intended that more applications use self-managed hidden services with ability to back up the service so as not to lose it between device changes . In my opinion extend the Orbot api for hidden services to open these to the development of applications that use them intensively would be a great idea. 2016-11-14 15:29 GMT+01:00 arrase <[email protected]>: > > > 2016-11-14 14:53 GMT+01:00 Nathan of Guardian <[email protected] > >: > >> I'm happy to improve the hidden service API that Orbot offers to make it >> work for you. It is trivial for us to add support for requesting a >> completely new hidden service. >> >> > In general terms and in my modest opinion I believe that extending the > support of hidden services as you say is a good way to take Orbot to the > next level. > > Personally and I'm not an expert, I think the option of including Tor > built in an application is not the best option for several reasons, i think > Orbot should be the standard for building Tor applications on phones but > needs to be more flexible with the configuration of hidden services. > > I believe in the benefits of hidden services, for me it is the best Tor > has :) and I think they are a great vector to popularize Tor on mobile > devices. > > Orbot can also support the temporary hidden service capability in tor, >> where you generate and provide the .onion key yourself. The issue is >> that you have to do that each time tor is restarted. >> >> > I have not used ephemeral services since for now I have not found them > practical use so I do not know much about them, just that they exist and > how they are configured, i'm sorry. > > As Hans said, Briar is already doing quite a bit with HS management with >> their built in Tor, but I do hope many apps will support HS without >> building in tor as well. >> >> You can also see what the Thali Project from Microsoft did here: >> http://thaliproject.org/ThaliAndTorOnionProxy/ >> >> > As Hans said the Briar project seems to be very similar to my idea, > maybe I can help instead of duplicating efforts, thanks for the clue. > >
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