avant

Simple and fast onion balancing.

avant

fetches descriptors for all backend onions, then

takes all the introduction points from them, then

reassembles these introduction points into new descriptors, then

signs the descriptors with frontend onion key, then

publishes them to HSDir.

So it goes.

Install

$ go get -u github.com/nogoegst/avant/cmd/...

Generate a private key:

 $ openssl genrsa -out key.pem 1024

Steal all intropoints from Facebook:

 $ avant -keyfile=key.pem facebookcorewwwi

Now your onion service is alive.

avant is capabale of creating distinct descriptors (-distinct-descs flag) in order to fit up to 6x10=60 introduction points per onion service.

avant can upload a set of descriptors with specified replica:

-replica-mask 010101 - upload descriptors only with replica={1,3,5}

-replica-mask 000000 - upload descriptors only with replica={}, i.e. nothing.

avant avants only once. If you want to do it regulary, there is cron for that. Consult rend-spec.txt about the upload intervals.