Allow authentication of Onion Services on Android

Design estimate

• Complexity: small (1 day)
• Uncertainty: moderate (1.5)
• Total: 1.5 days
• Actual:

User story

As a user of Tor Browser for Android
I want to be able to authenticate Onion Services
So I can access them

Context

Tor Browser for Android currently doesn't support Onion Services authentication, which prevent the browser's mobile users from accessing Onion Sites, for example.

Problem statement

Although available on its desktop version, Tor Browser doesn't have authentication of Onion Services on Android. We should make this feature available for mobile users so they can use Onion Services on their phones, without the need of a desktop device.

Scope

• Design a UI for Onion Services authentication on Android

Out of scope

• Web or any other type of authentication

References

Useful links

• HTTP authentication: https://blog.staging.torproject.net/
• Onion authentication: http://pierovlcy7baatz7xcaccbf2kanct3hvkhcgedz4cbrmcg2ybmjalxad.onion/
• List of links to test onion sites
• Client authorization

Screenshots

HTML authentication:


Onion authentication on desktop:

Mockups

TBD

Acceptance criteria

TBD