[guardian-dev] Patches to improve mobile hidden service performance

[Nathan of Guardian]

Wow, can't wait to try these out!

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014, at 02:36 PM, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I've been experimenting with small changes to Tor to improve the
> performance of mobile hidden services. Attached are patches for Tor
> (https://git.torproject.org/tor.git, tor-0.2.24 tag) and jtorctl
> (https://github.com/guardianproject/jtorctl.git, master branch) that
> make two performance improvements:
> 
> 1. Each time the network's enabled, don't try to build introduction
> circuits until we've successfully built a circuit. This avoids a
> problem where we'd try to build introduction circuits immediately, all
> the circuits would fail, and we'd wait for 5 minutes before trying again.
> 
> 2. Added a command to the control protocol to purge any cached state
> relating to a specified hidden service. This command can be used
> before trying to connect to the service to force Tor to download a
> fresh descriptor.
> 
> I've only done small-scale testing of these patches so far. I'd be
> interested to know whether they improve performance for your apps. If
> they seem to be useful I'll submit them upstream.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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