Re: [tor-dev] A way to connect quickly to a newly-online hidden service?

2023-02-23 Thread Michael Rogers
Hi Holmes, The Briar team has been working on a new app that creates a hidden service when the app is first launched. What we've found during testing is that the newly published hidden service is usually reachable in the first connection attempt (with a timeout of 2 minutes, based on Tor's in

[tor-dev] A way to connect quickly to a newly-online hidden service?

2023-02-23 Thread Holmes Wilson
Hi everyone, In the p2p messaging app we're building, Quiet, users exchange some information out-of-band (an onion address) and use that to connect to each other over Tor, as they would for direct messages in Ricochet Refresh or Cwtch. One UX failure we see now is that newly-online hidden servi