Onion Service address discovery using Sauteed Onions - Tor Hackweek 2022¶

About¶

Sauteed Onions can be used for censorship circumvention and may also serve as another way of doing Onion Names. This Tor Hackweek 2022 project tries to contribute to the ongoing research.

Where to meet¶

IRC: #sauteed-onions on OFTC (also available as a Matrix bridge)
Sync meeting room
Project pad
Gitlab project

How to join¶

Just join the IRC channel and add your (nick)name in the section below :)

Goals¶

Having a proof-of-concept of the full circle would be a good (but maybe ambitious) roadmap for the week.

Proposed activities¶

See the issue board

Roadmap¶

Bootstrap (until June 27th).
Create a Sauteed Onion certificate (#1) (until June 28th).
Complete the reading list (#6) (until June 29th).
Play a bit more with the API and then tinker with code (#2 and #3) (until June 30th).
Document and discuss in parallel (#5, #7 and #4) (until July 1st).

Skills needed¶

What we'll do really depends on the aggregated skills in the team, such as:

System administration skills for test and deploy Sauteed Onions by creating Onion Services for existing sites, setting the Sauteed Onion DNS record (with a future x509v3 extension the DNS record not be needed, see the sauteed onion criteria for info) and generating TLS certificates with the Sauteed Onion Subject Alt Name for the site.
Coding skills depending on the tools to be developed.
UX skills.
People with experience with CT Logs :)