owenson/tor-research-framework

Tor research framework in Java

tor-research-framework's Issues

Persistent consensus / descriptor storage

Consensus.getDirectoryStream() could save the consensus in a local "tor[-research-framework] data" directory, and then check for existing files before looking them up over the network.

This would reduce the load on the authorities, which are consulted at least once for each (often short) run.

Issues:

• Filesystem Access / Java Sandbox
• Selection of [default] shared directory: access/security, persistence, storage limits
• /tmp won't do in many cases:
• Windows users would need platform agnostic path
• OS X sandbox provides per-process TMPDIRs (not shared)
• Handling of stale documents

Gareth, did you have a preferred strategy for this?

OnionRouter.toString() shows IPs with a slash prefix

Every IP displayed using OnionRouter.toString() shows IPs with a slash prefix.

I've tried searching OnionRouter, Consensus, and InetAddress, and I still have no idea why this is happening. But it appears to be cosmetic only.

The issue occurs for all OnionRouter IPs, whether the consensus is cached or not.
It does not occur in the consensus document itself.

Consensus Spec

"r" SP nickname SP identity SP digest SP publication SP IP SP ORPort
1578 SP DirPort NL

Ref: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt
Section 3.4.1, Line 1577

Consensus Example

r marvellous AAcif1htILdru0BO0qX7OwGVhAU e43chEQrRVfmfiTQedCqcn3zbNQ 2014-07-30 09:41:20 176.212.13.30 9001 9030

Ref: cached-consensus downloaded by ConsensusExample

Listing all bad exits

OnionRouter [name=Unnamed, ip=/192.254.168.26, orport=9001, identityhash=0cc9b8aa649881c39e948e70b662772d8695c2e9]

Ref: output of ConsensusExample