Re: First Vidalia Prototype including User Authorization on Hidden Services

[Ringo Kamens <2600denver@xxxxxxxxx>]

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This looks really cool, thanks for all of your hard work!
Comrade Ringo Kamens
Domenik Bork wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> a few of you may know me from IRC, ohers may not. I'm one of this years
> Google Summer of Code students. My project is about implementing Vidalia
> support for Hidden Services with User Authorization, according to the
> Tor proposal 121-hs-authorization of Karsten Loesing.
> A Hidden Service is a service that is reachable by a .onion adress, but
> the IP-Adress of the service provider is hidden. My goal is now to let
> Vidalia configure those Hidden Services, give a Service provider the
> possibility to create User Authorization data(.onion adress and a
> descriptor cookie) for each user he wants to access the service.
> Additionally there should be the option to store authorization data
> needed to access other hidden services in Vidalia. So a Service Provider
> has then the opportunity to create individual authorization data for
> single users and it would be no problem to exclude users from a service
> if he wants to let them no longer access the service.
> 
> As a few of you may have noticed I uploaded the first prototype of my
> Google Summer of Code Project. This prototype includes the complete
> functionality explained above with all the communication to/from Tor as
> well as persistent storage of the configuration.
> 
> Within this Mail I give you a little How2 for the installation of my
> Vidalia branch and the correct Tor branch you need to run it with User
> Authorization.
> 
> Here starts the little installation help:
> 
> Tor related:
> 1)Download the newest version of Karstens Tor branch (svn co
> https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/branches/121-hs-authorization/)
> 2)start a terminal and switch into the directory of 121-hs-authorization
> 3)type in the following command lines
>  1. ./autogen.sh [Enter]
>  2. ./configure [Enter]
>  3. make
>  4) if everything worked fine there shoul be the Tor binary in
> /121-hs-authorization/src/or/
> 
> Vidalia related:
> 1)Download the newest branch of my Vidalia branch (svn co
> https://svn.vidalia-project.net/svn/vidalia/branches/hidden-services)
> 2)start a terminal and switch into the directory of hidden-services branch
> 3)type in the following command lines
>  1. cmake . && make [Enter]
> 4)if everything worked fine there should be a Vidalia binary in
> hidden-services/src/vidalia/
> 5)click on the binary to start Vidalia
> 6)click on settings and then on „General“ to configure the path to the
> Tor executable in that way that it points to the 121-hs-authorization
> version
> 7)click on „Save“
> 8)click on „Stop Tor“
> 9)click on „Start Tor“
> 10)now the new Tor version should be started and you can start
> configuring Hidden Services with/without User Authorization etc by
> clicking on „Settings“ and then „Services“.
> 
> Possible configurations of Hidden Services:
> •    normal Hidden Service with one single adress for all users
> •    Hidden Service with User Authorization to easily include/exclude
> single users while the service is still reachable with the „old“ adress
> by other users who are configured.
> •    Store the Authorization Data you need to access Hidden Services.
> 
> I would really appreciate it if I can find a few people who are
> interested in testing it and giving me some feedback or/and bug reports.
> Remember, this is just the first prototype and there are bugs and things
> i'm going to change in the next weeks. So this test phase is thought to
> give some feedback about the look and feel, whether the communication
> to/from Tor works as it should etc.. GUI stuff.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - --Domenik
> 
> 

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