i2p: add support for creating transient sessions

Instead of providing our destination (private key) to the I2P proxy when
creating the session, ask it to generate one for us and do not save it
on disk.

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/src/i2p.cpp b/src/i2p.cpp
index c45bcc15d2..9aa1ad0f47 100644
--- a/src/i2p.cpp
+++ b/src/i2p.cpp
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
 #include <netaddress.h>
 #include <netbase.h>
 #include <random.h>
-#include <util/strencodings.h>
 #include <tinyformat.h>
 #include <util/readwritefile.h>
 #include <util/sock.h>
 #include <util/spanparsing.h>
+#include <util/strencodings.h>
 #include <util/system.h>
 
 #include <chrono>
@@ -115,8 +115,19 @@ namespace sam {
 Session::Session(const fs::path& private_key_file,
                  const CService& control_host,
                  CThreadInterrupt* interrupt)
-    : m_private_key_file(private_key_file), m_control_host(control_host), m_interrupt(interrupt),
-      m_control_sock(std::make_unique<Sock>(INVALID_SOCKET))
+    : m_private_key_file{private_key_file},
+      m_control_host{control_host},
+      m_interrupt{interrupt},
+      m_control_sock{std::make_unique<Sock>(INVALID_SOCKET)},
+      m_transient{false}
+{
+}
+
+Session::Session(const CService& control_host, CThreadInterrupt* interrupt)
+    : m_control_host{control_host},
+      m_interrupt{interrupt},
+      m_control_sock{std::make_unique<Sock>(INVALID_SOCKET)},
+      m_transient{true}
 {
 }
 
@@ -355,29 +366,47 @@ void Session::CreateIfNotCreatedAlready()
         return;
     }
 
-    Log("Creating SAM session with %s", m_control_host.ToString());
+    const auto session_type = m_transient ? "transient" : "persistent";
+    const auto session_id = GetRandHash().GetHex().substr(0, 10); // full is overkill, too verbose in the logs
+
+    Log("Creating %s SAM session %s with %s", session_type, session_id, m_control_host.ToString());
 
     auto sock = Hello();
 
-    const auto& [read_ok, data] = ReadBinaryFile(m_private_key_file);
-    if (read_ok) {
-        m_private_key.assign(data.begin(), data.end());
+    if (m_transient) {
+        // The destination (private key) is generated upon session creation and returned
+        // in the reply in DESTINATION=.
+        const Reply& reply = SendRequestAndGetReply(
+            *sock,
+            strprintf("SESSION CREATE STYLE=STREAM ID=%s DESTINATION=TRANSIENT", session_id));
+
+        m_private_key = DecodeI2PBase64(reply.Get("DESTINATION"));
     } else {
-        GenerateAndSavePrivateKey(*sock);
-    }
+        // Read our persistent destination (private key) from disk or generate
+        // one and save it to disk. Then use it when creating the session.
+        const auto& [read_ok, data] = ReadBinaryFile(m_private_key_file);
+        if (read_ok) {
+            m_private_key.assign(data.begin(), data.end());
+        } else {
+            GenerateAndSavePrivateKey(*sock);
+        }
 
-    const std::string& session_id = GetRandHash().GetHex().substr(0, 10); // full is an overkill, too verbose in the logs
-    const std::string& private_key_b64 = SwapBase64(EncodeBase64(m_private_key));
+        const std::string& private_key_b64 = SwapBase64(EncodeBase64(m_private_key));
 
-    SendRequestAndGetReply(*sock, strprintf("SESSION CREATE STYLE=STREAM ID=%s DESTINATION=%s",
-                                            session_id, private_key_b64));
+        SendRequestAndGetReply(*sock,
+                               strprintf("SESSION CREATE STYLE=STREAM ID=%s DESTINATION=%s",
+                                         session_id,
+                                         private_key_b64));
+    }
 
     m_my_addr = CService(DestBinToAddr(MyDestination()), I2P_SAM31_PORT);
     m_session_id = session_id;
     m_control_sock = std::move(sock);
 
-    LogPrintfCategory(BCLog::I2P, "SAM session created: session id=%s, my address=%s\n",
-                      m_session_id, m_my_addr.ToString());
+    Log("%s SAM session %s created, my address=%s",
+        Capitalize(session_type),
+        m_session_id,
+        m_my_addr.ToString());
 }
 
 std::unique_ptr<Sock> Session::StreamAccept()