Hi Dominik. Sounds good, we should keep this simple (at least for the first version) so lets go with #2 and #3. Developing this should be pretty straight forward...

1. Add "sendNewnym", "isNewnymAvailable", and "getNewnymWait" methods to 'src/util/torTools.py'. All of these should be very easy.

2. Add a handler for sending a newnym in 'src/cli/headerPanel.py'. This is done by overwriting the "handleKey(self, key)" method - for an example see just about any of the other panels. I'm currently working on another feature for the header panel (reattaching to tor instances) so there might be a handler here by the time you start.

I'm fine with F5. From the curses documentation it sounds like you can compare the keycode to the curses.KEY_F5 constant.

3. Adding the newnym to the header panel - this will be the hardest part (but still not too difficult). This will only be visible when we're a non-relay, and involves filling in... https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/blob/HEAD:/src/cli/headerPanel.py#l259

Normally this could say something like "Press F5 for a new identity", then after they send a newnym instead display "Building circuits (newnym signal unavailable for X seconds)".

4. Coordinate with Kamran for the menu option. Maybe we want to somehow make it disabled while sending a newnym is unavailable?

• mumble with krkhan (and you?)

I'm looking forward to it. We should be able to set this up next week.

Cheers! -Damian

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:04 AM, dominik d.schuetzdeller@gmx.de wrote:

hello atagar, im sorry for not sending this email yesterday. my vserver hoster has reset the wrong vserver and caused some trouble =( ... anyway

i had 3 ideas realizing this:

1. build a new "page"

that page should contain possibilities for adding nodes to use (entry or bridges, relay and exit). it should also contain   some informations about flags from that nodes; especially if that node is a known bad node. there should also be a   new identity button. 2. implement it within the menues krkhan is working on   as i now heard krkhan is working on a menu, what would be the best and user friendliest way for implementing the   stuff in there and create some masks for the according informations to be put in there. 3. using a hotkey for some things like "new identity"   first of all i thought about using the "f5"-button as a hotkey for using new circuits. i like the idea of using the same hotkey   as it is used in the browser. that new identity thing how ever needs to have a check whether the node where it runs on is a client or some other thing.

ok... before you are going to ask how i am going further - this is what my todo list says:

• delete torsh from monitoring programs in the thesis
• describe whether there is a magical setup for nagios for ~6 different

nodes or not ...

• describe and edit features for arm
• search an elegant way for recreating a new circuit in pytorctl
• mumble with krkhan (and you?)
• based on the things said i am going to begin implementations (from

saturday on fulltime)

after all my decision of working on arm after my thesis still is the same... even if python3 has a weird utf8 handling. i will also work on torsh as a fun project

best regards dominik