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Have waited too long for some next-generation encrypted P2P network, like
telehash to emerge. Time to stop waiting; tor hidden services are not as
cutting edge, but should work. Updated the [[design|design/assistant/telehash]]
and started implementation in the `tor` branch.

Unfortunately, Tor's default configuration does not enable the ControlPort.
And, changing that in the configuration could be problimatic. This
makes it harder than it ought to be to register a tor hidden service.
So, I implemented a `git annex enable-tor` command, which can be run as root
to set it up. The webapp will probably use `su-to-root` or `gksu` to run it. 
There's some Linux-specific parts in there, and it uses a socket for
communication between tor and the hidden service, which may cause problems
for Windows porting later.

Next step will be to get `git annex remotedaemon` to run as a tor hidden
service.

Also made a `no-xmpp` branch which removes xmpp support from the assistant.
That will remove 3000 lines of code when it's merged. Will probably wait
until after tor hidden services are working.

Today's work was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on
[Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/joeyh/).