All agents use the same key

- remove assigned_agent column - remove logic which would stop agents with the same key to connect - as a safety measure, add cap to total no. of agents
Update cargo version
2024-11-21 00:21:14 +01:00 · 2024-11-20 17:43:36 +01:00 · 2024-11-20 15:42:59 +01:00 · 2024-11-20 15:42:02 +01:00 · 2024-11-20 12:31:26 +01:00 · 2024-11-20 12:31:17 +01:00
467 changed files with 10314 additions and 11270 deletions
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    env:
      CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
-      IPINFO_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.IPINFO_API_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - name: Install Dependencies (Linux)
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev libudev-dev squashfs-tools protobuf-compiler
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
  check-schema:
    name: Generate and check schema
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: arc-ubuntu-20.04
    env:
      CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
    steps:
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
  matrix_prep:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: arc-ubuntu-20.04
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
@@ -25,27 +25,31 @@ jobs:
          git config --global user.email "lawrence@nymtech.net"
          git config --global user.name "Lawrence Stalder"

-      - name: Get version from cargo.toml
-        uses: mikefarah/yq@v4.44.5
+      - name: Get version from package.json
+        uses: sergeysova/jq-action@v2
        id: get_version
        with:
-          cmd: yq -oy '.package.version' ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/nym-network-monitor/Cargo.toml
-          
+          cmd: jq -r '.version' ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/package.json
+
+      - name: Check if tag exists
+        run: |
+          if git rev-parse ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "Tag ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} already exists"
+          fi
+
      - name: Remove existing tag if exists
        run: |
-          echo "Checking if tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} exists..."
-          if git rev-parse ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "Tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} already exists"
-            git push --delete origin ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
-            git tag -d ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
+          if git rev-parse ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            git push --delete origin ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }}
+            git tag -d ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }}
          fi

      - name: Create tag
        run: |
-          git tag -a ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} -m "Version ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}"
-          git push origin ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
-          
+          git tag -a ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} -m "Version ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }}"
+          git push origin ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }}
+
      - name: BuildAndPushImageOnHarbor
        run: |
-          docker build -f nym-network-monitor.dockerfile ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }} -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest
-          docker push harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }} --all-tags
+          docker build -f nym-network-monitor.dockerfile ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }} -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest
+          docker push harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }} --all-tags
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
        description: Which gateway probe git ref to build the image with

 env:
-  WORKING_DIRECTORY: "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-agent"
+  WORKING_DIRECTORY: "nym-node-status-agent"
  CONTAINER_NAME: "node-status-agent"

 jobs:
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ jobs:
      - name: BuildAndPushImageOnHarbor
        run: |
          docker build --build-arg GIT_REF=${{ github.event.inputs.gateway_probe_git_ref }} -f ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/Dockerfile . -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}-${{ steps.cleanup_gateway_probe_ref.outputs.git_ref }}
-          docker push harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }} --all-tags
+          docker push harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }} --all-tags
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ on:
  workflow_dispatch:

 env:
-  WORKING_DIRECTORY: "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api"
+  WORKING_DIRECTORY: "nym-node-status-api"
  CONTAINER_NAME: "node-status-api"

 jobs:
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and upload Nyx Chain Watcher container to harbor.nymte.ch
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-env:
-  WORKING_DIRECTORY: "nyx-chain-watcher"
-  CONTAINER_NAME: "nyx-chain-watcher"
-
-jobs:
-  build-container:
-    runs-on: arc-ubuntu-22.04-dind
-    steps:
-      - name: Login to Harbor
-        uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: harbor.nymte.ch
-          username: ${{ secrets.HARBOR_ROBOT_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.HARBOR_ROBOT_SECRET }}
-
-      - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Configure git identity
-        run: |
-          git config --global user.email "lawrence@nymtech.net"
-          git config --global user.name "Lawrence Stalder"
-
-      - name: Get version from cargo.toml
-        uses: mikefarah/yq@v4.44.5
-        id: get_version
-        with:
-          cmd: yq -oy '.package.version' ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/Cargo.toml
-
-      - name: Check if tag exists
-        run: |
-          if git rev-parse ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "Tag ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.value }} already exists"
-          fi
-
-      - name: Remove existing tag if exists
-        run: |
-          if git rev-parse ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            git push --delete origin ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
-            git tag -d ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
-          fi
-
-      - name: Create tag
-        run: |
-          git tag -a ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} -m "Version ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}"
-          git push origin ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}-${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }}
-
-      - name: BuildAndPushImageOnHarbor
-        run: |
-          docker build -f ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/Dockerfile . -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.result }} -t harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest
-          docker push harbor.nymte.ch/nym/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }} --all-tags
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: mikefarah/yq@v4.44.5
        id: get_version
        with:
-          cmd: yq -oy '.package.version' ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/Cargo.toml
+          cmd: yq -oy '.package.version' ${{ env.WORKING_DIRECTORY }}/nym-credential-proxy/Cargo.toml

      - name: Remove existing tag if exists
        run: |
@@ -4,16 +4,6 @@ Post 1.0.0 release, the changelog format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://

 ## [Unreleased]

-## [2024.13-magura-drift] (2024-11-29)
-
- Optimised syncing bandwidth information to storage
-
-## [2024.13-magura-patched] (2024-11-22)
-
- [experimental] allow clients to change between deterministic route selection based on packet headers and a pseudorandom distribution
- Introduced a configurable limit on retransmission frequency of packets if ACKs are not received
- Filtered out invalid IP addresses on nym-api
-
 ## [2024.13-magura] (2024-11-18)

 - Limit race probability ([#5145])
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "macroific",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
 "serde",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ checksum = "16e62a023e7c117e27523144c5d2459f4397fcc3cab0085af8e2224f643a0193"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ checksum = "721cae7de5c34fbb2acd27e21e6d2cf7b886dce0c27388d46c4e6c47ea4318dd"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -430,14 +430,6 @@ version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0c4b4d0bd25bd0b74681c0ad21497610ce1b7c91b1022cd21c80c6fbdd9476b0"

-[[package]]
-name = "autodoc"
-version = "0.1.0"
-dependencies = [
- "env_logger 0.11.5",
- "log",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "axum"
 version = "0.6.20"
@@ -581,7 +573,7 @@ checksum = "57d123550fa8d071b7255cb0cc04dc302baa6c8c4a79f55701552684d8399bce"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -1148,7 +1140,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "heck 0.5.0",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -1798,7 +1790,7 @@ checksum = "f46882e17999c6cc590af592290432be3bce0428cb0d5f8b6715e4dc7b383eb3"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -1956,7 +1948,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
 "strsim 0.11.1",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -1978,7 +1970,7 @@ checksum = "733cabb43482b1a1b53eee8583c2b9e8684d592215ea83efd305dd31bc2f0178"
 dependencies = [
 "darling_core 0.20.9",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2029,7 +2021,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "macroific",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2072,7 +2064,7 @@ checksum = "67e77553c4162a157adbf834ebae5b415acbecbeafc7a74b0e886657506a7611"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2105,7 +2097,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "proc-macro2-diagnostics",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2173,7 +2165,7 @@ checksum = "487585f4d0c6655fe74905e2504d8ad6908e4db67f744eb140876906c2f3175d"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2362,19 +2354,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "termcolor",
 ]

-[[package]]
-name = "env_logger"
-version = "0.11.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e13fa619b91fb2381732789fc5de83b45675e882f66623b7d8cb4f643017018d"
-dependencies = [
- "anstream",
- "anstyle",
- "env_filter",
- "humantime 2.1.0",
- "log",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "envy"
 version = "0.4.2"
@@ -2449,7 +2428,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "explorer-api"
-version = "1.1.43"
+version = "1.1.42"
 dependencies = [
 "chrono",
 "clap 4.5.20",
@@ -2552,7 +2531,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "macroific",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2786,7 +2765,7 @@ checksum = "87750cf4b7a4c0625b1529e4c543c2182106e4dedc60a2a6455e00d212c489ac"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2881,7 +2860,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "proc-macro-error2",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -3269,12 +3248,6 @@ version = "1.0.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "df3b46402a9d5adb4c86a0cf463f42e19994e3ee891101b1841f30a545cb49a9"

-[[package]]
-name = "human-repr"
-version = "1.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f58b778a5761513caf593693f8951c97a5b610841e754788400f32102eefdff1"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "humantime"
 version = "1.3.0"
@@ -3849,9 +3822,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.167"
+version = "0.2.162"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09d6582e104315a817dff97f75133544b2e094ee22447d2acf4a74e189ba06fc"
+checksum = "18d287de67fe55fd7e1581fe933d965a5a9477b38e949cfa9f8574ef01506398"

 [[package]]
 name = "libm"
@@ -3977,7 +3950,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "cfg-if",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -3988,7 +3961,7 @@ checksum = "13198c120864097a565ccb3ff947672d969932b7975ebd4085732c9f09435e55"
 dependencies = [
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -4001,7 +3974,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "macroific_core",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -4155,21 +4128,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "wasm-utils",
 ]

-[[package]]
-name = "mixnet-connectivity-check"
-version = "0.1.0"
-dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
- "clap 4.5.20",
- "futures",
- "nym-bin-common",
- "nym-crypto",
- "nym-network-defaults",
- "nym-sdk",
- "tokio",
- "tracing",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "moka"
 version = "0.12.8"
@@ -4473,7 +4431,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "proc-macro-crate",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -4493,7 +4451,7 @@ checksum = "830b246a0e5f20af87141b25c173cd1b609bd7779a4617d6ec582abaf90870f3"

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-api"
-version = "1.1.47"
+version = "1.1.46"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "async-trait",
@@ -4512,7 +4470,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "cw2",
 "cw3",
 "cw4",
- "dashmap",
 "dirs",
 "futures",
 "getset",
@@ -4743,7 +4700,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-cli"
-version = "1.1.45"
+version = "1.1.44"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "base64 0.22.1",
@@ -4794,14 +4751,12 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-coconut-dkg-common",
 "nym-config",
 "nym-contracts-common",
- "nym-credential-proxy-requests",
 "nym-credential-storage",
 "nym-credential-utils",
 "nym-credentials",
 "nym-credentials-interface",
 "nym-crypto",
 "nym-ecash-contract-common",
- "nym-ecash-time",
 "nym-id",
 "nym-mixnet-contract-common",
 "nym-multisig-contract-common",
@@ -4826,7 +4781,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-client"
-version = "1.1.45"
+version = "1.1.43"
 dependencies = [
 "bs58",
 "clap 4.5.20",
@@ -4893,7 +4848,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-gateway-requests",
 "nym-id",
 "nym-metrics",
- "nym-mixnet-client",
 "nym-network-defaults",
 "nym-nonexhaustive-delayqueue",
 "nym-pemstore",
@@ -5052,6 +5006,16 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-multisig-contract-common",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "nym-common-models"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "bincode",
+ "nym-crypto",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nym-compact-ecash"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5486,7 +5450,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-mixnode-common",
 "nym-network-defaults",
 "nym-network-requester",
- "nym-node-metrics",
+ "nym-node-http-api",
 "nym-sdk",
 "nym-sphinx",
 "nym-statistics-common",
@@ -5578,11 +5542,8 @@ name = "nym-gateway-stats-storage"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "nym-credentials-interface",
- "nym-node-metrics",
 "nym-sphinx",
- "nym-statistics-common",
 "sqlx",
- "strum 0.26.3",
 "thiserror",
 "time",
 "tokio",
@@ -5593,6 +5554,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "nym-gateway-storage"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
 "bincode",
 "defguard_wireguard_rs",
 "log",
@@ -5785,11 +5747,11 @@ name = "nym-mixnet-client"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "futures",
+ "log",
 "nym-sphinx",
 "nym-task",
 "tokio",
 "tokio-util",
- "tracing",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -5816,6 +5778,35 @@ dependencies = [
 "utoipa",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "nym-mixnode"
+version = "1.1.37"
+dependencies = [
+ "colored",
+ "futures",
+ "nym-contracts-common",
+ "nym-crypto",
+ "nym-http-api-common",
+ "nym-metrics",
+ "nym-mixnet-client",
+ "nym-mixnode-common",
+ "nym-node-http-api",
+ "nym-nonexhaustive-delayqueue",
+ "nym-sphinx",
+ "nym-sphinx-params",
+ "nym-sphinx-types",
+ "nym-task",
+ "nym-topology",
+ "nym-types",
+ "nym-validator-client",
+ "thiserror",
+ "time",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "tracing",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nym-mixnode-common"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5824,9 +5815,11 @@ dependencies = [
 "futures",
 "humantime-serde",
 "log",
+ "nym-bin-common",
 "nym-crypto",
 "nym-metrics",
 "nym-network-defaults",
+ "nym-node-http-api",
 "nym-sphinx-acknowledgements",
 "nym-sphinx-addressing",
 "nym-sphinx-forwarding",
@@ -5834,6 +5827,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-sphinx-params",
 "nym-sphinx-types",
 "nym-task",
+ "nym-validator-client",
 "rand",
 "serde",
 "thiserror",
@@ -5874,7 +5868,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-network-monitor"
-version = "1.0.2"
+version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "axum 0.7.7",
@@ -5883,7 +5877,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "futures",
 "log",
 "nym-bin-common",
- "nym-client-core",
 "nym-crypto",
 "nym-network-defaults",
 "nym-sdk",
@@ -5905,7 +5898,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-network-requester"
-version = "1.1.46"
+version = "1.1.44"
 dependencies = [
 "addr",
 "anyhow",
@@ -5956,12 +5949,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "nym-node"
-version = "1.1.12"
+version = "1.1.10"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
- "async-trait",
- "axum 0.7.7",
- "axum-extra",
 "bip39",
 "bs58",
 "cargo_metadata 0.18.1",
@@ -5969,10 +5959,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "clap 4.5.20",
 "colored",
 "cupid",
- "dashmap",
- "futures",
- "headers",
- "human-repr",
 "humantime-serde",
 "ipnetwork 0.20.0",
 "nym-authenticator",
@@ -5981,60 +5967,63 @@ dependencies = [
 "nym-config",
 "nym-crypto",
 "nym-gateway",
- "nym-gateway-stats-storage",
- "nym-http-api-common",
 "nym-ip-packet-router",
- "nym-metrics",
- "nym-mixnet-client",
+ "nym-mixnode",
 "nym-network-requester",
- "nym-node-metrics",
- "nym-node-requests",
- "nym-nonexhaustive-delayqueue",
+ "nym-node-http-api",
 "nym-pemstore",
 "nym-sphinx-acknowledgements",
 "nym-sphinx-addressing",
- "nym-sphinx-forwarding",
- "nym-sphinx-framing",
- "nym-sphinx-types",
 "nym-task",
- "nym-topology",
 "nym-types",
 "nym-validator-client",
- "nym-verloc",
 "nym-wireguard",
 "nym-wireguard-types",
 "rand",
 "semver 1.0.23",
 "serde",
 "serde_json",
- "si-scale",
 "sysinfo",
 "thiserror",
- "time",
 "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
 "toml 0.8.14",
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+ "tower-http",
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+ "utoipa",
+ "utoipa-swagger-ui",
+ "x25519-dalek",
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+ "tokio-util",
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+version = "1.0.0-rc.1"
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+ "bincode",
 "chrono",
 "clap 4.5.20",
 "cosmwasm-std",
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 "futures-util",
 "moka",
 "nym-bin-common",
+ "nym-common-models",
 "nym-crypto",
 "nym-explorer-client",
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- "nym-node-metrics",
 "nym-node-requests",
- "nym-node-status-client",
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- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "tracing",
-]
-
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+version = "1.1.43"
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- "rand",
- "thiserror",
- "time",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
- "tracing",
- "url",
-]
-
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- "time",
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- "tracing",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "env_logger",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
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- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
 ]

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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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- "syn 2.0.90",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
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+ "syn 2.0.87",
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@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ members = [
    "common/ip-packet-requests",
    "common/ledger",
    "common/mixnode-common",
+    "common/models",
    "common/network-defaults",
    "common/node-tester-utils",
    "common/nonexhaustive-delayqueue",
@@ -98,12 +99,13 @@ members = [
    "common/wasm/utils",
    "common/wireguard",
    "common/wireguard-types",
-    "documentation/autodoc",
+    # "documentation/autodoc",
    "explorer-api",
    "explorer-api/explorer-api-requests",
    "explorer-api/explorer-client",
    "gateway",
    "integrations/bity",
+    "mixnode",
    "sdk/ffi/cpp",
    "sdk/ffi/go",
    "sdk/ffi/shared",
@@ -122,11 +124,10 @@ members = [
    "nym-data-observatory",
    "nym-network-monitor",
    "nym-node",
+    "nym-node/nym-node-http-api",
    "nym-node/nym-node-requests",
-    "nym-node/nym-node-metrics",
-    "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-agent",
-    "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api",
-    "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-client",
+    "nym-node-status-api",
+    "nym-node-status-agent",
    "nym-outfox",
    "nym-validator-rewarder",
    "tools/echo-server",
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-    "common/verloc",
-    "tools/internal/mixnet-connectivity-check",
 ]

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    "clients/native",
    "clients/socks5",
+    "common/models",
    "explorer-api",
+    "gateway",
+    "mixnode",
    "nym-api",
    "nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy",
    "nym-data-observatory",
    "nym-node",
-    "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-agent",
-    "nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api",
+    "nym-node-status-api",
    "nym-validator-rewarder",
+    "nym-node-status-api",
    "service-providers/authenticator",
    "service-providers/ip-packet-router",
    "service-providers/network-requester",
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@@ -3,23 +3,37 @@ Critical bug or security issue 💥
 If you're here because you're trying to figure out how to notify us of a security issue, send us a PGP encrypted email to:

 ```
-security@nym.com
+security@nymte.ch
 ```

 Encrypted with our public key which is available below in plain text and also on keyservers:

 ```
-sec   rsa4096/7C3C727F05090550 2023-10-30 [SC] [expire : 2026-10-29]
+pub   rsa4096 2023-10-30 [SC] [expire : 2026-10-29]
      24B2592E801A5AAA8666C8BA7C3C727F05090550
-uid                [  ultime ] Security Nym Technologies <security@nym.com>
-ssb   rsa4096/ACD0FBD79DC70ACC 2023-10-30 [E] [expire : 2026-10-29]
+uid          [  ultime ] Security Nym Technologies <security@nymte.ch>
+sub   rsa4096 2023-10-30 [E] [expire : 2026-10-29]

 ```

 The fingerprint of the key is on the second line above.

+If you need to chat __urgently__ to our team for a __critical__ security issue:
+
+go to Matrix, and alert the core engineers with a private direct message:
+
+    Jedrzej Stuczynski @jstuczyn:nymtech.chat
+    Mark Sinclair @mark:nymtech.chat
+    Raphaël Walther @raphael:nymtech.chat
+
 Please avoid opening public issues on GitHub that contain information about a potential security vulnerability as this makes it difficult to reduce the impact and harm of valid security issues.

+If you don't know what Matrix is, you can follow this documentation to create an account on this federation of instant messaging servers:
+
+[Matrix for Instant Messaging](https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/)
+
+
+
 ```
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "nym-client"
-version = "1.1.45"
+version = "1.1.43"
 authors = ["Dave Hrycyszyn <futurechimp@users.noreply.github.com>", "Jędrzej Stuczyński <andrew@nymtech.net>"]
 description = "Implementation of the Nym Client"
 edition = "2021"
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "nym-socks5-client"
-version = "1.1.45"
+version = "1.1.43"
 authors = ["Dave Hrycyszyn <futurechimp@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "A SOCKS5 localhost proxy that converts incoming messages to Sphinx and sends them to a Nym address"
 edition = "2021"
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ nym-sphinx = { path = "../nymsphinx" }
 nym-statistics-common = { path = "../statistics" }
 nym-pemstore = { path = "../pemstore" }
 nym-topology = { path = "../topology", features = ["serializable"] }
-nym-mixnet-client = { path = "../client-libs/mixnet-client", default-features = false }
 nym-validator-client = { path = "../client-libs/validator-client", default-features = false }
 nym-task = { path = "../task" }
 nym-credentials-interface = { path = "../credentials-interface" }
@@ -393,20 +393,13 @@ pub struct Traffic {
    /// poisson distribution.
    pub disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: bool,

-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    pub deterministic_route_selection: bool,
-
-    /// Specify how many times particular packet can be retransmitted
-    /// None - no limit
-    pub maximum_number_of_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
-
    /// Specifies the packet size used for sent messages.
    /// Do not override it unless you understand the consequences of that change.
    pub primary_packet_size: PacketSize,

    /// Specifies the optional auxiliary packet size for optimizing message streams.
    /// Note that its use decreases overall anonymity.
-    /// Do not set it unless you understand the consequences of that change.
+    /// Do not set it it unless you understand the consequences of that change.
    pub secondary_packet_size: Option<PacketSize>,

    pub packet_type: PacketType,
@@ -431,8 +424,6 @@ impl Default for Traffic {
            average_packet_delay: DEFAULT_AVERAGE_PACKET_DELAY,
            message_sending_average_delay: DEFAULT_MESSAGE_STREAM_AVERAGE_DELAY,
            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: false,
-            deterministic_route_selection: false,
-            maximum_number_of_retransmissions: None,
            primary_packet_size: PacketSize::RegularPacket,
            secondary_packet_size: None,
            packet_type: PacketType::Mix,
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ impl From<ConfigV5> for Config {
                    primary_packet_size: value.debug.traffic.primary_packet_size,
                    secondary_packet_size: value.debug.traffic.secondary_packet_size,
                    packet_type: value.debug.traffic.packet_type,
-                    ..Default::default()
                },
                cover_traffic: CoverTraffic {
                    loop_cover_traffic_average_delay: value
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use std::os::raw::c_int as RawFd;
 use thiserror::Error;

 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-use futures::channel::oneshot;
+use futures::channel::{mpsc, oneshot};

 // we need to type erase the error type since we can't have dynamic associated types alongside dynamic dispatch
 #[derive(Debug, Error)]
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ pub struct LocalGateway {

    // 'sender' part
    /// Channel responsible for taking mix packets and forwarding them further into the further mixnet layers.
-    packet_forwarder: nym_mixnet_client::forwarder::MixForwardingSender,
+    packet_forwarder: mpsc::UnboundedSender<MixPacket>,

    // 'receiver' part
    packet_router_tx: Option<oneshot::Sender<PacketRouter>>,
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ pub struct LocalGateway {
 impl LocalGateway {
    pub fn new(
        local_identity: identity::PublicKey,
-        packet_forwarder: nym_mixnet_client::forwarder::MixForwardingSender,
+        packet_forwarder: mpsc::UnboundedSender<MixPacket>,
        packet_router_tx: oneshot::Sender<PacketRouter>,
    ) -> Self {
        LocalGateway {
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ mod nonwasm_sealed {
    impl GatewaySender for LocalGateway {
        async fn send_mix_packet(&mut self, packet: MixPacket) -> Result<(), ErasedGatewayError> {
            self.packet_forwarder
-                .forward_packet(packet)
+                .unbounded_send(packet)
+                .map_err(|err| err.into_send_error())
                .map_err(erase_err)
        }
    }
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ pub(crate) enum Action {
    InsertPending(Vec<PendingAcknowledgement>),

    /// Removes given `PendingAcknowledgement` from the 'shared' state. Also cancels the retransmission timer.
-    /// Initiated by `AcknowledgementListener` upon receiving the acknowledgement. Also by `RetransmissionRequestListener`
-    /// upon deciding to abandon the data.
+    /// Initiated by `AcknowledgementListener`
    RemovePending(FragmentIdentifier),

    /// Starts the retransmission timer on given `PendingAcknowledgement` with the `Duration` based on
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ pub(crate) enum Action {

    /// Updates the expected delay of given `PendingAcknowledgement` with the new provided `SphinxDelay`.
    /// Initiated by `RetransmissionRequestListener`
-    UpdatePendingAck(FragmentIdentifier, SphinxDelay),
+    UpdateDelay(FragmentIdentifier, SphinxDelay),
 }

 impl Action {
@@ -58,8 +57,8 @@ impl Action {
        Action::StartTimer(frag_id)
    }

-    pub(crate) fn new_update_pending_ack(frag_id: FragmentIdentifier, delay: SphinxDelay) -> Self {
-        Action::UpdatePendingAck(frag_id, delay)
+    pub(crate) fn new_update_delay(frag_id: FragmentIdentifier, delay: SphinxDelay) -> Self {
+        Action::UpdateDelay(frag_id, delay)
    }
 }

@@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ impl ActionController {
    }

    fn handle_start_timer(&mut self, frag_id: FragmentIdentifier) {
-        trace!("{frag_id} is starting its timer");
+        trace!("{} is starting its timer", frag_id);

        if let Some((pending_ack_data, queue_key)) = self.pending_acks_data.get_mut(&frag_id) {
            // the fact that this branch is now POSSIBLE is a sign of a need to refactor this whole
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ impl ActionController {

    // initiated basically as a first step of retransmission. At first data has its delay updated
    // (as new sphinx packet was created with new expected delivery time)
-    fn handle_update_pending_ack(&mut self, frag_id: FragmentIdentifier, delay: SphinxDelay) {
+    fn handle_update_delay(&mut self, frag_id: FragmentIdentifier, delay: SphinxDelay) {
        trace!("{} is updating its delay", frag_id);
        // TODO: is it possible to solve this without either locking or temporarily removing the value?
        if let Some((pending_ack_data, queue_key)) = self.pending_acks_data.remove(&frag_id) {
@@ -203,7 +202,7 @@ impl ActionController {
            // reference to this Arc. HOWEVER, before the Action was pushed onto the queue, the reference
            // was dropped hence this unwrap is safe.
            let mut inner_data = Arc::try_unwrap(pending_ack_data).unwrap();
-            inner_data.update_retransmitted(delay);
+            inner_data.update_delay(delay);

            self.pending_acks_data
                .insert(frag_id, (Arc::new(inner_data), queue_key));
@@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ impl ActionController {
        // about it. Perhaps just reschedule it at later point?
        let frag_id = expired_ack.into_inner();

-        trace!("{frag_id} has expired");
+        trace!("{} has expired", frag_id);

        if let Some((pending_ack_data, queue_key)) = self.pending_acks_data.get_mut(&frag_id) {
            if queue_key.is_none() {
@@ -259,9 +258,7 @@ impl ActionController {
            Action::InsertPending(pending_acks) => self.handle_insert(pending_acks),
            Action::RemovePending(frag_id) => self.handle_remove(frag_id),
            Action::StartTimer(frag_id) => self.handle_start_timer(frag_id),
-            Action::UpdatePendingAck(frag_id, delay) => {
-                self.handle_update_pending_ack(frag_id, delay)
-            }
+            Action::UpdateDelay(frag_id, delay) => self.handle_update_delay(frag_id, delay),
        }
    }

@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ pub(crate) struct PendingAcknowledgement {
    delay: SphinxDelay,
    destination: PacketDestination,
    mix_hops: Option<u8>,
-    retransmissions: u32,
 }

 impl PendingAcknowledgement {
@@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ impl PendingAcknowledgement {
            delay,
            destination: PacketDestination::KnownRecipient(recipient.into()),
            mix_hops,
-            retransmissions: 0,
        }
    }

@@ -107,7 +105,6 @@ impl PendingAcknowledgement {
            // Messages sent using SURBs are using the number of mix hops set by the recipient when
            // they provided the SURBs, so it doesn't make sense to include it here.
            mix_hops: None,
-            retransmissions: 0,
        }
    }

@@ -119,9 +116,8 @@ impl PendingAcknowledgement {
        self.message_chunk.clone()
    }

-    fn update_retransmitted(&mut self, new_delay: SphinxDelay) {
+    fn update_delay(&mut self, new_delay: SphinxDelay) {
        self.delay = new_delay;
-        self.retransmissions += 1;
    }
 }

@@ -167,9 +163,6 @@ impl AcknowledgementControllerConnectors {

 /// Configurable parameters of the `AcknowledgementController`
 pub(super) struct Config {
-    /// Specify how many times particular packet can be retransmitted
-    maximum_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
-
    /// Given ack timeout in the form a * BASE_DELAY + b, it specifies the additive part `b`
    ack_wait_addition: Duration,

@@ -181,13 +174,8 @@ pub(super) struct Config {
 }

 impl Config {
-    pub(super) fn new(
-        maximum_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
-        ack_wait_addition: Duration,
-        ack_wait_multiplier: f64,
-    ) -> Self {
+    pub(super) fn new(ack_wait_addition: Duration, ack_wait_multiplier: f64) -> Self {
        Config {
-            maximum_retransmissions,
            ack_wait_addition,
            ack_wait_multiplier,
            packet_size: Default::default(),
@@ -250,7 +238,6 @@ where

        // will listen for any ack timeouts and trigger retransmission
        let retransmission_request_listener = RetransmissionRequestListener::new(
-            config.maximum_retransmissions,
            connectors.ack_action_sender.clone(),
            message_handler,
            retransmission_rx,
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};

 // responsible for packet retransmission upon fired timer
 pub(super) struct RetransmissionRequestListener<R> {
-    maximum_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
    action_sender: AckActionSender,
    message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
    request_receiver: RetransmissionRequestReceiver,
@@ -32,14 +31,12 @@ where
    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
 {
    pub(super) fn new(
-        maximum_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
        action_sender: AckActionSender,
        message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
        request_receiver: RetransmissionRequestReceiver,
        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
    ) -> Self {
        RetransmissionRequestListener {
-            maximum_retransmissions,
            action_sender,
            message_handler,
            request_receiver,
@@ -80,18 +77,6 @@ where
            }
        };

-        let frag_id = timed_out_ack.message_chunk.fragment_identifier();
-
-        if let Some(limit) = self.maximum_retransmissions {
-            if timed_out_ack.retransmissions >= limit {
-                warn!("reached maximum number of allowed retransmissions for the packet");
-                self.action_sender
-                    .unbounded_send(Action::new_remove(frag_id))
-                    .unwrap();
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-
        let maybe_prepared_fragment = match &timed_out_ack.destination {
            PacketDestination::Anonymous {
                recipient_tag,
@@ -116,6 +101,8 @@ where
            }
        };

+        let frag_id = timed_out_ack.message_chunk.fragment_identifier();
+
        let prepared_fragment = match maybe_prepared_fragment {
            Ok(prepared_fragment) => prepared_fragment,
            Err(err) => {
@@ -149,7 +136,7 @@ where
        // with the additional poisson delay.
        // And since Actions are executed in order `UpdateTimer` will HAVE TO be executed before `StartTimer`
        self.action_sender
-            .unbounded_send(Action::new_update_pending_ack(frag_id, new_delay))
+            .unbounded_send(Action::new_update_delay(frag_id, new_delay))
            .unwrap();

        // send to `OutQueueControl` to eventually send to the mix network
@@ -91,9 +91,6 @@ pub(crate) struct Config {
    /// and surb-based are going to be sent.
    sender_address: Recipient,

-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    deterministic_route_selection: bool,
-
    /// Average delay a data packet is going to get delay at a single mixnode.
    average_packet_delay: Duration,

@@ -117,12 +114,10 @@ impl Config {
        sender_address: Recipient,
        average_packet_delay: Duration,
        average_ack_delay: Duration,
-        deterministic_route_selection: bool,
    ) -> Self {
        Config {
            ack_key,
            sender_address,
-            deterministic_route_selection,
            average_packet_delay,
            average_ack_delay,
            num_mix_hops: DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS,
@@ -181,7 +176,6 @@ where
    {
        let message_preparer = MessagePreparer::new(
            rng,
-            config.deterministic_route_selection,
            config.sender_address,
            config.average_packet_delay,
            config.average_ack_delay,
@@ -640,7 +634,7 @@ where

    pub(crate) fn update_ack_delay(&self, id: FragmentIdentifier, new_delay: Delay) {
        self.action_sender
-            .unbounded_send(Action::UpdatePendingAck(id, new_delay))
+            .unbounded_send(Action::UpdateDelay(id, new_delay))
            .expect("action control task has died")
    }

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ pub struct Config {
 impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for acknowledgement_control::Config {
    fn from(cfg: &'a Config) -> Self {
        acknowledgement_control::Config::new(
-            cfg.traffic.maximum_number_of_retransmissions,
            cfg.acks.ack_wait_addition,
            cfg.acks.ack_wait_multiplier,
        )
@@ -98,7 +97,6 @@ impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for message_handler::Config {
            cfg.self_recipient,
            cfg.traffic.average_packet_delay,
            cfg.acks.average_ack_delay,
-            cfg.traffic.deterministic_route_selection,
        )
        .with_custom_primary_packet_size(cfg.traffic.primary_packet_size)
        .with_custom_secondary_packet_size(cfg.traffic.secondary_packet_size)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pub struct TopologyReadPermit<'a> {
    permit: RwLockReadGuard<'a, Option<NymTopology>>,
 }

-impl Deref for TopologyReadPermit<'_> {
+impl<'a> Deref for TopologyReadPermit<'a> {
    type Target = Option<NymTopology>;

    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ pub(crate) fn ws_fd(_conn: &WsConn) -> Option<RawFd> {
    #[cfg(unix)]
    match _conn.get_ref() {
        MaybeTlsStream::Plain(stream) => Some(stream.as_raw_fd()),
-        MaybeTlsStream::Rustls(tls_stream) => Some(tls_stream.as_raw_fd()),
-        _ => None,
+        &_ => None,
    }
    #[cfg(not(unix))]
    None
@@ -9,14 +9,10 @@ license.workspace = true

 [dependencies]
 futures = { workspace = true }
-tracing = { workspace = true }
-tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["time"] }
-tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["codec"], optional = true }
+log = { workspace = true }
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["time", "net", "rt"] }
+tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["codec"] }

 # internal
 nym-sphinx = { path = "../../nymsphinx" }
-nym-task = { path = "../../task", optional = true }
-
-[features]
-default = ["client"]
-client = ["tokio-util", "nym-task", "tokio/net", "tokio/rt"]
+nym-task = { path = "../../task" }
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@

 use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use futures::StreamExt;
+use log::*;
 use nym_sphinx::addressing::nodes::NymNodeRoutingAddress;
 use nym_sphinx::framing::codec::NymCodec;
 use nym_sphinx::framing::packet::FramedNymPacket;
@@ -17,14 +18,13 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
 use tokio::time::sleep;
 use tokio_util::codec::Framed;
-use tracing::*;

-#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
 pub struct Config {
    initial_reconnection_backoff: Duration,
    maximum_reconnection_backoff: Duration,
    initial_connection_timeout: Duration,
    maximum_connection_buffer_size: usize,
+    use_legacy_version: bool,
 }

 impl Config {
@@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ impl Config {
        maximum_reconnection_backoff: Duration,
        initial_connection_timeout: Duration,
        maximum_connection_buffer_size: usize,
+        use_legacy_version: bool,
    ) -> Self {
        Config {
            initial_reconnection_backoff,
            maximum_reconnection_backoff,
            initial_connection_timeout,
            maximum_connection_buffer_size,
+            use_legacy_version,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -198,8 +200,9 @@ impl SendWithoutResponse for Client {
        packet: NymPacket,
        packet_type: PacketType,
    ) -> io::Result<()> {
-        trace!("Sending packet to {address:?}");
-        let framed_packet = FramedNymPacket::new(packet, packet_type);
+        trace!("Sending packet to {:?}", address);
+        let framed_packet =
+            FramedNymPacket::new(packet, packet_type, self.config.use_legacy_version);

        if let Some(sender) = self.conn_new.get_mut(&address) {
            if let Err(err) = sender.channel.try_send(framed_packet) {
@@ -257,6 +260,7 @@ mod tests {
            maximum_reconnection_backoff: Duration::from_millis(300_000),
            initial_connection_timeout: Duration::from_millis(1_500),
            maximum_connection_buffer_size: 128,
+            use_legacy_version: false,
        })
    }

@@ -1,72 +1,77 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

+use crate::client::{Client, Config, SendWithoutResponse};
 use futures::channel::mpsc;
-use futures::channel::mpsc::SendError;
+use futures::StreamExt;
+use log::*;
 use nym_sphinx::forwarding::packet::MixPacket;
-use tokio::time::Instant;
+use std::time::Duration;

-pub fn mix_forwarding_channels() -> (MixForwardingSender, MixForwardingReceiver) {
-    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::unbounded();
-    (tx.into(), rx)
+pub type MixForwardingSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<MixPacket>;
+type MixForwardingReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<MixPacket>;
+
+/// A specialisation of client such that it forwards any received packets on the channel into the
+/// mix network immediately, i.e. will not try to listen for any responses.
+pub struct PacketForwarder {
+    mixnet_client: Client,
+    packet_receiver: MixForwardingReceiver,
+    shutdown: nym_task::TaskClient,
 }

-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct MixForwardingSender(mpsc::UnboundedSender<PacketToForward>);
+impl PacketForwarder {
+    pub fn new(
+        initial_reconnection_backoff: Duration,
+        maximum_reconnection_backoff: Duration,
+        initial_connection_timeout: Duration,
+        maximum_connection_buffer_size: usize,
+        use_legacy_version: bool,
+        shutdown: nym_task::TaskClient,
+    ) -> (PacketForwarder, MixForwardingSender) {
+        let client_config = Config::new(
+            initial_reconnection_backoff,
+            maximum_reconnection_backoff,
+            initial_connection_timeout,
+            maximum_connection_buffer_size,
+            use_legacy_version,
+        );

-impl From<mpsc::UnboundedSender<PacketToForward>> for MixForwardingSender {
-    fn from(tx: mpsc::UnboundedSender<PacketToForward>) -> Self {
-        MixForwardingSender(tx)
-    }
-}
+        let (packet_sender, packet_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();

-impl MixForwardingSender {
-    pub fn forward_packet(&self, packet: impl Into<PacketToForward>) -> Result<(), SendError> {
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(packet.into())
-            .map_err(|err| err.into_send_error())
+        (
+            PacketForwarder {
+                mixnet_client: Client::new(client_config),
+                packet_receiver,
+                shutdown,
+            },
+            packet_sender,
+        )
    }

-    #[allow(clippy::len_without_is_empty)]
-    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.0.len()
-    }
-}
+    pub async fn run(&mut self) {
+        while !self.shutdown.is_shutdown() {
+            tokio::select! {
+                biased;
+                _ = self.shutdown.recv() => {
+                    log::trace!("PacketForwarder: Received shutdown");
+                }
+                Some(mix_packet) = self.packet_receiver.next() => {
+                     trace!("Going to forward packet to {}", mix_packet.next_hop());

-pub type MixForwardingReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<PacketToForward>;
+                    let next_hop = mix_packet.next_hop();
+                    let packet_type = mix_packet.packet_type();
+                    let packet = mix_packet.into_packet();
+                    // we don't care about responses, we just want to fire packets
+                    // as quickly as possible

-pub struct PacketToForward {
-    pub packet: MixPacket,
-    pub forward_delay_target: Option<Instant>,
-}
-
-impl From<MixPacket> for PacketToForward {
-    fn from(packet: MixPacket) -> Self {
-        PacketToForward::new_no_delay(packet)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<(MixPacket, Option<Instant>)> for PacketToForward {
-    fn from((packet, delay_until): (MixPacket, Option<Instant>)) -> Self {
-        PacketToForward::new(packet, delay_until)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<(MixPacket, Instant)> for PacketToForward {
-    fn from((packet, delay_until): (MixPacket, Instant)) -> Self {
-        PacketToForward::new(packet, Some(delay_until))
-    }
-}
-
-impl PacketToForward {
-    pub fn new(packet: MixPacket, forward_delay_target: Option<Instant>) -> Self {
-        PacketToForward {
-            packet,
-            forward_delay_target,
+                    if let Err(err) =
+                        self.mixnet_client
+                            .send_without_response(next_hop, packet, packet_type)
+                    {
+                        debug!("failed to forward the packet - {err}")
+                    }
+                }
+            }
        }
    }
-
-    pub fn new_no_delay(packet: MixPacket) -> Self {
-        Self::new(packet, None)
-    }
 }
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-#[cfg(feature = "client")]
 pub mod client;
 pub mod forwarder;

-#[cfg(feature = "client")]
 pub use client::{Client, Config, SendWithoutResponse};
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ impl Div<GasPrice> for Coin {
    }
 }

-impl Div<GasPrice> for &Coin {
+impl<'a> Div<GasPrice> for &'a Coin {
    type Output = Gas;

    fn div(self, rhs: GasPrice) -> Self::Output {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub struct GasPrice {
    pub denom: String,
 }

-impl Mul<Gas> for &GasPrice {
+impl<'a> Mul<Gas> for &'a GasPrice {
    type Output = Coin;

    fn mul(self, gas_limit: Gas) -> Self::Output {
@@ -98,13 +98,6 @@ impl DirectSecp256k1HdWallet {
        Ok((private_key, public_key))
    }

-    pub fn derive_extended_private_key(
-        &self,
-        hd_path: &DerivationPath,
-    ) -> Result<XPrv, DirectSecp256k1HdWalletError> {
-        Ok(XPrv::derive_from_path(self.seed, hd_path)?)
-    }
-
    pub fn try_derive_accounts(&self) -> Result<Vec<AccountData>, DirectSecp256k1HdWalletError> {
        let mut accounts = Vec::with_capacity(self.accounts.len());
        for derivation_info in &self.accounts {
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ nym-vesting-contract-common = { path = "../cosmwasm-smart-contracts/vesting-cont
 nym-coconut-dkg-common = { path = "../cosmwasm-smart-contracts/coconut-dkg" }
 nym-multisig-contract-common = { path = "../cosmwasm-smart-contracts/multisig-contract" }
 nym-ecash-contract-common = { path = "../cosmwasm-smart-contracts/ecash-contract" }
-nym-ecash-time = { path = "../../common/ecash-time" }
 nym-sphinx = { path = "../../common/nymsphinx" }
 nym-client-core = { path = "../../common/client-core" }
 nym-config = { path = "../../common/config" }
@@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ nym-credentials-interface = { path = "../../common/credentials-interface" }
 nym-credential-storage = { path = "../../common/credential-storage" }
 nym-credential-utils = { path = "../../common/credential-utils" }
 nym-id = { path = "../nym-id" }
-nym-credential-proxy-requests = { path = "../../nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy-requests" }

 nym-pemstore = { path = "../../common/pemstore", version = "0.3.0" }
 nym-types = { path = "../../common/types" }
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use clap::Parser;
-use log::trace;
-use nym_credentials_interface::{generate_keypair_user, generate_keypair_user_from_seed, Base58};
-use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use std::io::stdout;
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub struct Bs58EncodedKeys {
-    pub secret_key: String,
-    pub public_key: String,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Parser)]
-pub struct Args {
-    /// Secret value that's used for deriving underlying ecash keypair
-    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) bs58_encoded_client_secret: Option<String>,
-}
-
-pub fn generate_ecash_keypair(args: Args) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    trace!("args: {args:?}");
-
-    let keypair = if let Some(secret) = args.bs58_encoded_client_secret {
-        let seed = bs58::decode(&secret).into_vec()?;
-        generate_keypair_user_from_seed(&seed)
-    } else {
-        generate_keypair_user()
-    };
-
-    let encoded = Bs58EncodedKeys {
-        secret_key: keypair.secret_key().to_bs58(),
-        public_key: keypair.public_key().to_bs58(),
-    };
-
-    serde_json::to_writer_pretty(stdout(), &encoded)?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use clap::{Args, Subcommand};
-
-pub mod generate_keypair;
-pub mod withdrawal_request;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Args)]
-#[clap(args_conflicts_with_subcommands = true, subcommand_required = true)]
-pub struct InternalEcash {
-    #[clap(subcommand)]
-    pub command: InternalEcashCommands,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Subcommand)]
-pub enum InternalEcashCommands {
-    /// Generate a dummy withdrawal request
-    GenerateWithdrawalRequest(withdrawal_request::Args),
-
-    /// Generate dummy ecash keypair
-    GenerateKeypair(generate_keypair::Args),
-}
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use clap::Parser;
-use log::trace;
-use nym_credential_proxy_requests::api::v1::ticketbook::models::TicketbookRequest;
-use nym_credentials_interface::{
-    generate_keypair_user, withdrawal_request, Base58, SecretKeyUser, TicketType,
-};
-use nym_ecash_time::{ecash_default_expiration_date, EcashTime};
-use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use std::io::stdout;
-use time::macros::format_description;
-use time::Date;
-use zeroize::Zeroizing;
-
-fn parse_date(raw: &str) -> Result<Date, time::error::Parse> {
-    let format = format_description!("[year]-[month]-[day]");
-    Date::parse(raw, &format)
-}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub struct Bs58EncodedOutput {
-    pub ecash_proxy_request: TicketbookRequest,
-    pub ecash_secret: String,
-
-    /// Needed to later unblind shares
-    pub ecash_request_info_bs58: String,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Parser)]
-pub struct Args {
-    /// Specify which type of ticketbook
-    #[clap(long, default_value_t = TicketType::V1MixnetEntry)]
-    pub(crate) ticketbook_type: TicketType,
-
-    /// Set expiration date for the ticketbook
-    #[clap(long, value_parser = parse_date, default_value_t = ecash_default_expiration_date())]
-    pub(crate) expiration_date: Date,
-
-    /// Provide ecash secret key (or generate a fresh one)
-    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) ecash_secret_key_bs58: Option<String>,
-}
-
-pub async fn generate_withdrawal_request(args: Args) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    trace!("args: {args:?}");
-
-    let ecash_keypair = if let Some(secret_key) = args.ecash_secret_key_bs58 {
-        let secret_key = Zeroizing::new(bs58::decode(Zeroizing::new(secret_key)).into_vec()?);
-        let sk = SecretKeyUser::from_bytes(&secret_key)?;
-        sk.into()
-    } else {
-        generate_keypair_user()
-    };
-
-    let (withdrawal_request, request_info) = withdrawal_request(
-        ecash_keypair.secret_key(),
-        args.expiration_date.ecash_unix_timestamp(),
-        args.ticketbook_type.encode(),
-    )?;
-
-    let encoded = Bs58EncodedOutput {
-        ecash_proxy_request: TicketbookRequest {
-            withdrawal_request: withdrawal_request.into(),
-            ecash_pubkey: ecash_keypair.public_key(),
-            expiration_date: args.expiration_date,
-            ticketbook_type: args.ticketbook_type,
-            is_freepass_request: false,
-        },
-        ecash_secret: ecash_keypair.secret_key().to_bs58(),
-        ecash_request_info_bs58: request_info.to_bs58(),
-    };
-
-    serde_json::to_writer_pretty(stdout(), &encoded)?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use clap::{Args, Subcommand};
-
-pub mod ecash;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Args)]
-#[clap(args_conflicts_with_subcommands = true, subcommand_required = true)]
-pub struct Internal {
-    #[clap(subcommand)]
-    pub command: InternalCommands,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Subcommand)]
-pub enum InternalCommands {
-    /// Ecash related internal commands
-    Ecash(ecash::InternalEcash),
-}
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@

 pub mod context;
 pub mod ecash;
-pub mod internal;
 pub mod utils;
 pub mod validator;
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub(crate) mod string_rfc3339_offset_date_time {

    struct Rfc3339OffsetDateTimeVisitor;

-    impl Visitor<'_> for Rfc3339OffsetDateTimeVisitor {
+    impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for Rfc3339OffsetDateTimeVisitor {
        type Value = OffsetDateTime;

        fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use crate::ClientBandwidth;
 use nym_credentials::ecash::utils::ecash_today;
 use nym_credentials_interface::Bandwidth;
 use nym_gateway_requests::ServerResponse;
-use nym_gateway_storage::GatewayStorage;
+use nym_gateway_storage::Storage;
 use si_scale::helpers::bibytes2;
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use tracing::*;
@@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ use tracing::*;
 const FREE_TESTNET_BANDWIDTH_VALUE: Bandwidth = Bandwidth::new_unchecked(64 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024); // 64GB

 #[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct BandwidthStorageManager {
-    pub(crate) storage: GatewayStorage,
+pub struct BandwidthStorageManager<S> {
+    pub(crate) storage: S,
    pub(crate) client_bandwidth: ClientBandwidth,
    pub(crate) client_id: i64,
    pub(crate) bandwidth_cfg: BandwidthFlushingBehaviourConfig,
    pub(crate) only_coconut_credentials: bool,
 }

-impl BandwidthStorageManager {
+impl<S: Storage + Clone + 'static> BandwidthStorageManager<S> {
    pub fn new(
-        storage: GatewayStorage,
+        storage: S,
        client_bandwidth: ClientBandwidth,
        client_id: i64,
        bandwidth_cfg: BandwidthFlushingBehaviourConfig,
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ impl BandwidthStorageManager {
    }

    #[instrument(level = "trace", skip_all)]
-    pub async fn sync_storage_bandwidth(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+    async fn sync_storage_bandwidth(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
        trace!("syncing client bandwidth with the underlying storage");
        let updated = self
            .storage
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use tokio::sync::RwLock;

-const DEFAULT_CLIENT_BANDWIDTH_MAX_FLUSHING_RATE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5 * 60); // 5 minutes
-const DEFAULT_CLIENT_BANDWIDTH_MAX_DELTA_FLUSHING_AMOUNT: i64 = 5 * 1024 * 1024; // 5MB
+const DEFAULT_CLIENT_BANDWIDTH_MAX_FLUSHING_RATE: Duration = Duration::from_millis(5);
+const DEFAULT_CLIENT_BANDWIDTH_MAX_DELTA_FLUSHING_AMOUNT: i64 = 512 * 1024; // 512kB

 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub struct BandwidthFlushingBehaviourConfig {
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use nym_api_requests::constants::MIN_BATCH_REDEMPTION_DELAY;
 use nym_api_requests::ecash::models::{BatchRedeemTicketsBody, VerifyEcashTicketBody};
 use nym_credentials_interface::Bandwidth;
 use nym_credentials_interface::{ClientTicket, TicketType};
+use nym_gateway_storage::Storage;
 use nym_validator_client::nym_api::EpochId;
 use nym_validator_client::nyxd::contract_traits::{
    EcashSigningClient, MultisigQueryClient, MultisigSigningClient, PagedMultisigQueryClient,
@@ -125,18 +126,21 @@ pub struct CredentialHandlerConfig {
    pub maximum_time_between_redemption: Duration,
 }

-pub(crate) struct CredentialHandler {
+pub(crate) struct CredentialHandler<St: Storage> {
    config: CredentialHandlerConfig,
    multisig_threshold: f32,
    ticket_receiver: UnboundedReceiver<ClientTicket>,
-    shared_state: SharedState,
+    shared_state: SharedState<St>,
    pending_tickets: Vec<PendingVerification>,
    pending_redemptions: Vec<PendingRedemptionVote>,
 }

-impl CredentialHandler {
+impl<St> CredentialHandler<St>
+where
+    St: Storage + Clone + 'static,
+{
    async fn rebuild_pending_tickets(
-        shared_state: &SharedState,
+        shared_state: &SharedState<St>,
    ) -> Result<Vec<PendingVerification>, EcashTicketError> {
        // 1. get all tickets that were not fully verified
        let unverified = shared_state.storage.get_all_unverified_tickets().await?;
@@ -184,7 +188,7 @@ impl CredentialHandler {
    }

    async fn rebuild_pending_votes(
-        shared_state: &SharedState,
+        shared_state: &SharedState<St>,
    ) -> Result<Vec<PendingRedemptionVote>, EcashTicketError> {
        // 1. get all tickets that were not fully verified
        let unverified = shared_state.storage.get_all_unresolved_proposals().await?;
@@ -255,7 +259,7 @@ impl CredentialHandler {
    pub(crate) async fn new(
        config: CredentialHandlerConfig,
        ticket_receiver: UnboundedReceiver<ClientTicket>,
-        shared_state: SharedState,
+        shared_state: SharedState<St>,
    ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
        let multisig_threshold = shared_state
            .nyxd_client
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use nym_gateway_storage::error::GatewayStorageError;
+use nym_gateway_storage::error::StorageError;
 use nym_validator_client::coconut::EcashApiError;
 use nym_validator_client::nym_api::EpochId;
 use nym_validator_client::nyxd::error::NyxdError;
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ pub enum EcashTicketError {
    #[error("could not handle the ecash ticket due to internal storage failure: {source}")]
    InternalStorageFailure {
        #[from]
-        source: GatewayStorageError,
+        source: StorageError,
    },

    #[error("failed to create ticket redemption proposal: {source}")]
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use error::EcashTicketError;
 use futures::channel::mpsc::{self, UnboundedSender};
 use nym_credentials::CredentialSpendingData;
 use nym_credentials_interface::{ClientTicket, CompactEcashError, NymPayInfo, VerificationKeyAuth};
-use nym_gateway_storage::GatewayStorage;
+use nym_gateway_storage::Storage;
 use nym_validator_client::nym_api::EpochId;
 use nym_validator_client::DirectSigningHttpRpcNyxdClient;
 use state::SharedState;
@@ -23,21 +23,24 @@ mod state;

 pub const TIME_RANGE_SEC: i64 = 30;

-pub struct EcashManager {
-    shared_state: SharedState,
+pub struct EcashManager<S> {
+    shared_state: SharedState<S>,

    pk_bytes: [u8; 32], // bytes representation of a pub key representing the verifier
    pay_infos: Mutex<Vec<NymPayInfo>>,
    cred_sender: UnboundedSender<ClientTicket>,
 }

-impl EcashManager {
+impl<S> EcashManager<S>
+where
+    S: Storage + Clone + 'static,
+{
    pub async fn new(
        credential_handler_cfg: CredentialHandlerConfig,
        nyxd_client: DirectSigningHttpRpcNyxdClient,
        pk_bytes: [u8; 32],
        shutdown: nym_task::TaskClient,
-        storage: GatewayStorage,
+        storage: S,
    ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
        let shared_state = SharedState::new(nyxd_client, storage).await?;

@@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ impl EcashManager {
        self.shared_state.verification_key(epoch_id).await
    }

-    pub fn storage(&self) -> &GatewayStorage {
+    pub fn storage(&self) -> &S {
        &self.shared_state.storage
    }

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use crate::Error;
 use cosmwasm_std::{from_binary, CosmosMsg, WasmMsg};
 use nym_credentials_interface::VerificationKeyAuth;
 use nym_ecash_contract_common::msg::ExecuteMsg;
-use nym_gateway_storage::GatewayStorage;
+use nym_gateway_storage::Storage;
 use nym_validator_client::coconut::all_ecash_api_clients;
 use nym_validator_client::nym_api::EpochId;
 use nym_validator_client::nyxd::contract_traits::{
@@ -23,17 +23,20 @@ use tracing::{error, trace, warn};

 // state shared by different subtasks dealing with credentials
 #[derive(Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct SharedState {
+pub(crate) struct SharedState<S> {
    pub(crate) nyxd_client: Arc<RwLock<DirectSigningHttpRpcNyxdClient>>,
    pub(crate) address: AccountId,
    pub(crate) epoch_data: Arc<RwLock<BTreeMap<EpochId, EpochState>>>,
-    pub(crate) storage: GatewayStorage,
+    pub(crate) storage: S,
 }

-impl SharedState {
+impl<S> SharedState<S>
+where
+    S: Storage + Clone,
+{
    pub(crate) async fn new(
        nyxd_client: DirectSigningHttpRpcNyxdClient,
-        storage: GatewayStorage,
+        storage: S,
    ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
        let address = nyxd_client.address();

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub enum Error {
    OutOfBandwidth { required: i64, available: i64 },

    #[error("Internal gateway storage error")]
-    StorageError(#[from] nym_gateway_storage::error::GatewayStorageError),
+    StorageError(#[from] nym_gateway_storage::error::StorageError),

    #[error("{0}")]
    UnknownTicketType(#[from] nym_credentials_interface::UnknownTicketType),
@@ -2,15 +2,17 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use bandwidth_storage_manager::BandwidthStorageManager;
-use ecash::EcashManager;
-use nym_credentials::ecash::utils::{cred_exp_date, ecash_today, EcashTime};
-use nym_credentials_interface::{Bandwidth, ClientTicket, TicketType};
-use nym_gateway_requests::models::CredentialSpendingRequest;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use time::{Date, OffsetDateTime};
 use tracing::*;

+use nym_credentials::ecash::utils::{cred_exp_date, ecash_today, EcashTime};
+use nym_credentials_interface::{Bandwidth, ClientTicket, TicketType};
+use nym_gateway_requests::models::CredentialSpendingRequest;
+use nym_gateway_storage::Storage;
+
 pub use client_bandwidth::*;
+use ecash::EcashManager;
 pub use error::*;

 pub mod bandwidth_storage_manager;
@@ -18,17 +20,17 @@ mod client_bandwidth;
 pub mod ecash;
 pub mod error;

-pub struct CredentialVerifier {
+pub struct CredentialVerifier<S> {
    credential: CredentialSpendingRequest,
-    ecash_verifier: Arc<EcashManager>,
-    bandwidth_storage_manager: BandwidthStorageManager,
+    ecash_verifier: Arc<EcashManager<S>>,
+    bandwidth_storage_manager: BandwidthStorageManager<S>,
 }

-impl CredentialVerifier {
+impl<S: Storage + Clone + 'static> CredentialVerifier<S> {
    pub fn new(
        credential: CredentialSpendingRequest,
-        ecash_verifier: Arc<EcashManager>,
-        bandwidth_storage_manager: BandwidthStorageManager,
+        ecash_verifier: Arc<EcashManager<S>>,
+        bandwidth_storage_manager: BandwidthStorageManager<S>,
    ) -> Self {
        CredentialVerifier {
            credential,
@@ -221,15 +221,7 @@ impl From<PayInfo> for NymPayInfo {
 }

 #[derive(
-    Copy,
-    Clone,
-    Debug,
-    PartialEq,
-    Serialize,
-    Deserialize,
-    strum::Display,
-    strum::EnumString,
-    strum::EnumIter,
+    Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, strum::Display, strum::EnumString,
 )]
 #[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
 #[strum(serialize_all = "kebab-case")]
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ const PARALLEL_RUNS: usize = 32;
 /// `lambda` ($\lambda$) in the DKG paper
 const SECURITY_PARAMETER: usize = 256;

+// note: ceiling in integer division can be achieved via q = (x + y - 1) / y;
 /// ceil(SECURITY_PARAMETER / PARALLEL_RUNS) in the paper
-const NUM_CHALLENGE_BITS: usize = SECURITY_PARAMETER.div_ceil(PARALLEL_RUNS);
+const NUM_CHALLENGE_BITS: usize = (SECURITY_PARAMETER + PARALLEL_RUNS - 1) / PARALLEL_RUNS;

 // type alias for ease of use
 type FirstChallenge = Vec<Vec<Vec<u64>>>;
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ impl<'b> Add<&'b Polynomial> for Polynomial {
    }
 }

-impl Add<Polynomial> for &Polynomial {
+impl<'a> Add<Polynomial> for &'a Polynomial {
    type Output = Polynomial;

    fn add(self, rhs: Polynomial) -> Polynomial {
@@ -212,10 +212,10 @@ impl Add<Polynomial> for Polynomial {
    }
 }

-impl<'a> Add<&'a Polynomial> for &Polynomial {
+impl<'a, 'b> Add<&'b Polynomial> for &'a Polynomial {
    type Output = Polynomial;

-    fn add(self, rhs: &'a Polynomial) -> Self::Output {
+    fn add(self, rhs: &'b Polynomial) -> Self::Output {
        let len = self.coefficients.len();
        let rhs_len = rhs.coefficients.len();

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ pub struct GatewayHandshake<'a> {
    handshake_future: BoxFuture<'a, Result<SharedGatewayKey, HandshakeError>>,
 }

-impl Future for GatewayHandshake<'_> {
+impl<'a> Future for GatewayHandshake<'a> {
    type Output = Result<SharedGatewayKey, HandshakeError>;

    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
@@ -16,15 +16,12 @@ sqlx = { workspace = true, features = [
    "migrate",
    "time",
 ] }
-strum = { workspace = true }
 time = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }

 nym-sphinx = { path = "../nymsphinx" }
 nym-credentials-interface = { path = "../credentials-interface" }
-nym-node-metrics = { path = "../../nym-node/nym-node-metrics" }
-nym-statistics-common = { path = "../statistics" }


 [build-dependencies]
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only

 use error::StatsStorageError;
-use models::StoredFinishedSession;
-use nym_node_metrics::entry::{ActiveSession, FinishedSession, SessionType};
+use models::{ActiveSession, FinishedSession, SessionType, StoredFinishedSession};
 use nym_sphinx::DestinationAddressBytes;
 use sessions::SessionManager;
 use sqlx::ConnectOptions;
@@ -71,8 +70,8 @@ impl PersistentStatsStorage {
            .session_manager
            .insert_finished_session(
                date,
-                session.duration.as_millis() as i64,
-                session.typ.to_string(),
+                session.duration.whole_milliseconds() as i64,
+                session.typ.to_string().into(),
            )
            .await?)
    }
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ impl PersistentStatsStorage {
            .insert_active_session(
                client_address.as_base58_string(),
                session.start,
-                session.typ.to_string(),
+                session.typ.to_string().into(),
            )
            .await?)
    }
@@ -138,7 +137,10 @@ impl PersistentStatsStorage {
    ) -> Result<(), StatsStorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .session_manager
-            .update_active_session_type(client_address.as_base58_string(), session_type.to_string())
+            .update_active_session_type(
+                client_address.as_base58_string(),
+                session_type.to_string().into(),
+            )
            .await?)
    }

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 // Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only

-use nym_node_metrics::entry::{ActiveSession, FinishedSession, SessionType};
+use nym_credentials_interface::TicketType;
 use sqlx::prelude::FromRow;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-pub use nym_credentials_interface::TicketType;
+use time::{Duration, OffsetDateTime};

 #[derive(FromRow)]
 pub struct StoredFinishedSession {
@@ -13,26 +11,52 @@ pub struct StoredFinishedSession {
    typ: String,
 }

-impl From<StoredFinishedSession> for FinishedSession {
-    fn from(value: StoredFinishedSession) -> Self {
-        FinishedSession {
-            duration: std::time::Duration::from_millis(value.duration_ms as u64),
-            typ: SessionType::from_string(value.typ),
+impl StoredFinishedSession {
+    pub fn serialize(&self) -> (u64, String) {
+        (
+            self.duration_ms as u64, //we are sure that it fits in a u64, see `fn end_at`
+            self.typ.clone(),
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct FinishedSession {
+    pub duration: Duration,
+    pub typ: SessionType,
+}
+
+#[derive(PartialEq)]
+pub enum SessionType {
+    Vpn,
+    Mixnet,
+    Unknown,
+}
+
+impl SessionType {
+    pub fn to_string(&self) -> &str {
+        match self {
+            Self::Vpn => "vpn",
+            Self::Mixnet => "mixnet",
+            Self::Unknown => "unknown",
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn from_string(s: &str) -> Self {
+        match s {
+            "vpn" => Self::Vpn,
+            "mixnet" => Self::Mixnet,
+            _ => Self::Unknown,
        }
    }
 }

-pub trait ToSessionType {
-    fn to_session_type(&self) -> SessionType;
-}
-
-impl ToSessionType for TicketType {
-    fn to_session_type(&self) -> SessionType {
-        match self {
-            TicketType::V1MixnetEntry => SessionType::Mixnet,
-            TicketType::V1MixnetExit => SessionType::Mixnet,
-            TicketType::V1WireguardEntry => SessionType::Vpn,
-            TicketType::V1WireguardExit => SessionType::Vpn,
+impl From<TicketType> for SessionType {
+    fn from(value: TicketType) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            TicketType::V1MixnetEntry => Self::Mixnet,
+            TicketType::V1MixnetExit => Self::Mixnet,
+            TicketType::V1WireguardEntry => Self::Vpn,
+            TicketType::V1WireguardExit => Self::Vpn,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -43,6 +67,38 @@ pub(crate) struct StoredActiveSession {
    typ: String,
 }

+pub struct ActiveSession {
+    pub start: OffsetDateTime,
+    pub typ: SessionType,
+}
+
+impl ActiveSession {
+    pub fn new(start_time: OffsetDateTime) -> Self {
+        ActiveSession {
+            start: start_time,
+            typ: SessionType::Unknown,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn set_type(&mut self, ticket_type: TicketType) {
+        self.typ = ticket_type.into();
+    }
+
+    pub fn end_at(self, stop_time: OffsetDateTime) -> Option<FinishedSession> {
+        let session_duration = stop_time - self.start;
+        //ensure duration is positive to fit in a u64
+        //u64::max milliseconds is 500k millenia so no overflow issue
+        if session_duration > Duration::ZERO {
+            Some(FinishedSession {
+                duration: session_duration,
+                typ: self.typ,
+            })
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 impl From<StoredActiveSession> for ActiveSession {
    fn from(value: StoredActiveSession) -> Self {
        ActiveSession {
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true

 [dependencies]
+async-trait = { workspace = true }
 bincode = { workspace = true }
 defguard_wireguard_rs = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 use thiserror::Error;

 #[derive(Error, Debug)]
-pub enum GatewayStorageError {
+pub enum StorageError {
    #[error("Database experienced an internal error: {0}")]
    InternalDatabaseError(#[from] sqlx::Error),

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 // Copyright 2020 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only

+use async_trait::async_trait;
 use bandwidth::BandwidthManager;
 use clients::{ClientManager, ClientType};
+use error::StorageError;
 use inboxes::InboxManager;
 use models::{
    Client, PersistedBandwidth, PersistedSharedKeys, RedemptionProposal, StoredMessage,
@@ -27,11 +29,237 @@ mod shared_keys;
 mod tickets;
 mod wireguard_peers;

-pub use error::GatewayStorageError;
+#[async_trait]
+pub trait Storage: Send + Sync {
+    async fn get_mixnet_client_id(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Inserts provided derived shared keys into the database.
+    /// If keys previously existed for the provided client, they are overwritten with the new data.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: base58-encoded address of the client
+    /// * `shared_keys`:
+    ///     - legacy: shared encryption (AES128CTR) and mac (hmac-blake3) derived shared keys to store.
+    ///     - current: shared AES256-GCM-SIV keys
+    async fn insert_shared_keys(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+        shared_keys: &SharedGatewayKey,
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Tries to retrieve shared keys stored for the particular client.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    async fn get_shared_keys(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedSharedKeys>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Removes from the database shared keys derived with the particular client.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    // currently there is no code flow that causes removal (not overwriting)
+    // of the stored keys. However, retain the function for consistency and completion sake
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    async fn remove_shared_keys(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Tries to retrieve a particular client.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_id`: id of the client
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    async fn get_client(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<Option<Client>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Inserts new message to the storage for an offline client for future retrieval.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    /// * `message`: raw message to store.
+    async fn store_message(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+        message: Vec<u8>,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Retrieves messages stored for the particular client specified by the provided address.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    /// * `start_after`: optional starting id of the messages to grab
+    ///
+    /// returns the retrieved messages alongside optional id of the last message retrieved if
+    /// there are more messages to retrieve.
+    async fn retrieve_messages(
+        &self,
+        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
+        start_after: Option<i64>,
+    ) -> Result<(Vec<StoredMessage>, Option<i64>), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Removes messages with the specified ids
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `ids`: ids of the messages to remove
+    async fn remove_messages(&self, ids: Vec<i64>) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Creates a new bandwidth entry for the particular client.
+    async fn create_bandwidth_entry(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Set the freepass expiration date of the particular client to the provided date.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    /// * `expiration`: the expiration date of the associated free pass.
+    async fn set_expiration(
+        &self,
+        client_id: i64,
+        expiration: OffsetDateTime,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Reset all the bandwidth
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `client_address`: address of the client
+    async fn reset_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    /// Tries to retrieve available bandwidth for the particular client.
+    async fn get_available_bandwidth(
+        &self,
+        client_id: i64,
+    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedBandwidth>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Increases specified client's bandwidth by the provided amount and returns the current value.
+    async fn increase_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64, amount: i64) -> Result<i64, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn revoke_ticket_bandwidth(
+        &self,
+        ticket_id: i64,
+        amount: i64,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    /// Decreases specified client's bandwidth by the provided amount and returns the current value.
+    async fn decrease_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64, amount: i64) -> Result<i64, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn insert_epoch_signers(
+        &self,
+        epoch_id: i64,
+        signer_ids: Vec<i64>,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn insert_received_ticket(
+        &self,
+        client_id: i64,
+        received_at: OffsetDateTime,
+        serial_number: Vec<u8>,
+        data: Vec<u8>,
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError>;
+
+    // note: this only checks very recent tickets that haven't yet been redeemed
+    // (but it's better than nothing)
+    /// Check if the ticket with the provided serial number if already present in the storage.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `serial_number`: the unique serial number embedded in the ticket
+    async fn contains_ticket(&self, serial_number: &[u8]) -> Result<bool, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn insert_ticket_verification(
+        &self,
+        ticket_id: i64,
+        signer_id: i64,
+        verified_at: OffsetDateTime,
+        accepted: bool,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn update_rejected_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn update_verified_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn remove_verified_ticket_binary_data(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn get_all_verified_tickets_with_sn(&self) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, StorageError>;
+    async fn get_all_proposed_tickets_with_sn(
+        &self,
+        proposal_id: u32,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn insert_redemption_proposal(
+        &self,
+        tickets: &[VerifiedTicket],
+        proposal_id: u32,
+        created_at: OffsetDateTime,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn clear_post_proposal_data(
+        &self,
+        proposal_id: u32,
+        resolved_at: OffsetDateTime,
+        rejected: bool,
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+
+    async fn latest_proposal(&self) -> Result<Option<RedemptionProposal>, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn get_all_unverified_tickets(&self) -> Result<Vec<ClientTicket>, StorageError>;
+    async fn get_all_unresolved_proposals(&self) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError>;
+    async fn get_votes(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError>;
+
+    async fn get_signers(&self, epoch_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Insert a wireguard peer in the storage.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `peer`: wireguard peer data to be stored
+    /// * `with_client_id`: if the peer should have a corresponding client_id
+    ///   (created with entry wireguard ticket) or live without one (or with an
+    ///   exiting one), for temporary backwards compatibility.
+    async fn insert_wireguard_peer(
+        &self,
+        peer: &defguard_wireguard_rs::host::Peer,
+        with_client_id: bool,
+    ) -> Result<Option<i64>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Tries to retrieve available bandwidth for the particular peer.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `peer_public_key`: wireguard public key of the peer to be retrieved.
+    async fn get_wireguard_peer(
+        &self,
+        peer_public_key: &str,
+    ) -> Result<Option<WireguardPeer>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Retrieves all wireguard peers.
+    async fn get_all_wireguard_peers(&self) -> Result<Vec<WireguardPeer>, StorageError>;
+
+    /// Remove a wireguard peer from the storage.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `peer_public_key`: wireguard public key of the peer to be removed.
+    async fn remove_wireguard_peer(&self, peer_public_key: &str) -> Result<(), StorageError>;
+}

 // note that clone here is fine as upon cloning the same underlying pool will be used
 #[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct GatewayStorage {
+pub struct PersistentStorage {
    client_manager: ClientManager,
    shared_key_manager: SharedKeysManager,
    inbox_manager: InboxManager,
@@ -40,7 +268,7 @@ pub struct GatewayStorage {
    wireguard_peer_manager: wireguard_peers::WgPeerManager,
 }

-impl GatewayStorage {
+impl PersistentStorage {
    /// Initialises `PersistentStorage` using the provided path.
    ///
    /// # Arguments
@@ -50,7 +278,7 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
    pub async fn init<P: AsRef<Path> + Send>(
        database_path: P,
        message_retrieval_limit: i64,
-    ) -> Result<Self, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Self, StorageError> {
        debug!(
            "Attempting to connect to database {:?}",
            database_path.as_ref().as_os_str()
@@ -79,7 +307,7 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        }

        // the cloning here are cheap as connection pool is stored behind an Arc
-        Ok(GatewayStorage {
+        Ok(PersistentStorage {
            client_manager: clients::ClientManager::new(connection_pool.clone()),
            wireguard_peer_manager: wireguard_peers::WgPeerManager::new(connection_pool.clone()),
            shared_key_manager: SharedKeysManager::new(connection_pool.clone()),
@@ -90,22 +318,23 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
    }
 }

-impl GatewayStorage {
-    pub async fn get_mixnet_client_id(
+#[async_trait]
+impl Storage for PersistentStorage {
+    async fn get_mixnet_client_id(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
-    ) -> Result<i64, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .shared_key_manager
            .client_id(&client_address.as_base58_string())
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn insert_shared_keys(
+    async fn insert_shared_keys(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
        shared_keys: &SharedGatewayKey,
-    ) -> Result<i64, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError> {
        let client_address_bs58 = client_address.as_base58_string();
        let client_id = match self
            .shared_key_manager
@@ -130,10 +359,10 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(client_id)
    }

-    pub async fn get_shared_keys(
+    async fn get_shared_keys(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
-    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedSharedKeys>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedSharedKeys>, StorageError> {
        let keys = self
            .shared_key_manager
            .get_shared_keys(&client_address.as_base58_string())
@@ -142,37 +371,37 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
    }

    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    pub async fn remove_shared_keys(
+    async fn remove_shared_keys(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.shared_key_manager
            .remove_shared_keys(&client_address.as_base58_string())
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn get_client(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<Option<Client>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_client(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<Option<Client>, StorageError> {
        let client = self.client_manager.get_client(client_id).await?;
        Ok(client)
    }

-    pub async fn store_message(
+    async fn store_message(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
        message: Vec<u8>,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.inbox_manager
            .insert_message(&client_address.as_base58_string(), message)
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn retrieve_messages(
+    async fn retrieve_messages(
        &self,
        client_address: DestinationAddressBytes,
        start_after: Option<i64>,
-    ) -> Result<(Vec<StoredMessage>, Option<i64>), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(Vec<StoredMessage>, Option<i64>), StorageError> {
        let messages = self
            .inbox_manager
            .get_messages(&client_address.as_base58_string(), start_after)
@@ -180,95 +409,87 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(messages)
    }

-    pub async fn remove_messages(&self, ids: Vec<i64>) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn remove_messages(&self, ids: Vec<i64>) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        for id in ids {
            self.inbox_manager.remove_message(id).await?;
        }
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn create_bandwidth_entry(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn create_bandwidth_entry(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.bandwidth_manager.insert_new_client(client_id).await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn set_expiration(
+    async fn set_expiration(
        &self,
        client_id: i64,
        expiration: OffsetDateTime,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.bandwidth_manager
            .set_expiration(client_id, expiration)
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn reset_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn reset_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.bandwidth_manager.reset_bandwidth(client_id).await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn get_available_bandwidth(
+    async fn get_available_bandwidth(
        &self,
        client_id: i64,
-    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedBandwidth>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<PersistedBandwidth>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .bandwidth_manager
            .get_available_bandwidth(client_id)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn increase_bandwidth(
-        &self,
-        client_id: i64,
-        amount: i64,
-    ) -> Result<i64, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn increase_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64, amount: i64) -> Result<i64, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .bandwidth_manager
            .increase_bandwidth(client_id, amount)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn revoke_ticket_bandwidth(
+    async fn revoke_ticket_bandwidth(
        &self,
        ticket_id: i64,
        amount: i64,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .bandwidth_manager
            .revoke_ticket_bandwidth(ticket_id, amount)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn decrease_bandwidth(
-        &self,
-        client_id: i64,
-        amount: i64,
-    ) -> Result<i64, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn decrease_bandwidth(&self, client_id: i64, amount: i64) -> Result<i64, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .bandwidth_manager
            .decrease_bandwidth(client_id, amount)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn insert_epoch_signers(
+    async fn insert_epoch_signers(
        &self,
        epoch_id: i64,
        signer_ids: Vec<i64>,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.ticket_manager
            .insert_ecash_signers(epoch_id, signer_ids)
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn insert_received_ticket(
+    async fn insert_received_ticket(
        &self,
        client_id: i64,
        received_at: OffsetDateTime,
        serial_number: Vec<u8>,
        data: Vec<u8>,
-    ) -> Result<i64, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<i64, StorageError> {
        // technically if we crash between those 2 calls we'll have a bit of data inconsistency,
        // but nothing too tragic. we just won't get paid for a single ticket
        let ticket_id = self
@@ -282,24 +503,24 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(ticket_id)
    }

-    pub async fn contains_ticket(&self, serial_number: &[u8]) -> Result<bool, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn contains_ticket(&self, serial_number: &[u8]) -> Result<bool, StorageError> {
        Ok(self.ticket_manager.has_ticket_data(serial_number).await?)
    }

-    pub async fn insert_ticket_verification(
+    async fn insert_ticket_verification(
        &self,
        ticket_id: i64,
        signer_id: i64,
        verified_at: OffsetDateTime,
        accepted: bool,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.ticket_manager
            .insert_ticket_verification(ticket_id, signer_id, verified_at, accepted)
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn update_rejected_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn update_rejected_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        // set the ticket as rejected
        self.ticket_manager.set_rejected_ticket(ticket_id).await?;

@@ -310,7 +531,7 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn update_verified_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn update_verified_ticket(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        // 1. insert into verified table
        self.ticket_manager
            .insert_verified_ticket(ticket_id)
@@ -324,41 +545,36 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn remove_verified_ticket_binary_data(
-        &self,
-        ticket_id: i64,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn remove_verified_ticket_binary_data(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.ticket_manager
            .remove_binary_ticket_data(ticket_id)
            .await?;
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn get_all_verified_tickets_with_sn(
-        &self,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_all_verified_tickets_with_sn(&self) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .ticket_manager
            .get_all_verified_tickets_with_sn()
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn get_all_proposed_tickets_with_sn(
+    async fn get_all_proposed_tickets_with_sn(
        &self,
        proposal_id: u32,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Vec<VerifiedTicket>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .ticket_manager
            .get_all_proposed_tickets_with_sn(proposal_id as i64)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn insert_redemption_proposal(
+    async fn insert_redemption_proposal(
        &self,
        tickets: &[VerifiedTicket],
        proposal_id: u32,
        created_at: OffsetDateTime,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        // if we crash between those, there might a bit of an issue. we should revisit it later

        // 1. insert the actual proposal
@@ -376,12 +592,12 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn clear_post_proposal_data(
+    async fn clear_post_proposal_data(
        &self,
        proposal_id: u32,
        resolved_at: OffsetDateTime,
        rejected: bool,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        // 1. update proposal metadata
        self.ticket_manager
            .update_redemption_proposal(proposal_id as i64, resolved_at, rejected)
@@ -400,13 +616,11 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn latest_proposal(&self) -> Result<Option<RedemptionProposal>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn latest_proposal(&self) -> Result<Option<RedemptionProposal>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self.ticket_manager.get_latest_redemption_proposal().await?)
    }

-    pub async fn get_all_unverified_tickets(
-        &self,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<ClientTicket>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_all_unverified_tickets(&self) -> Result<Vec<ClientTicket>, StorageError> {
        self.ticket_manager
            .get_unverified_tickets()
            .await?
@@ -415,37 +629,29 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
            .collect()
    }

-    pub async fn get_all_unresolved_proposals(&self) -> Result<Vec<i64>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_all_unresolved_proposals(&self) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .ticket_manager
            .get_all_unresolved_redemption_proposal_ids()
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn get_votes(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_votes(&self, ticket_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self
            .ticket_manager
            .get_verification_votes(ticket_id)
            .await?)
    }

-    pub async fn get_signers(&self, epoch_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_signers(&self, epoch_id: i64) -> Result<Vec<i64>, StorageError> {
        Ok(self.ticket_manager.get_epoch_signers(epoch_id).await?)
    }

-    /// Insert a wireguard peer in the storage.
-    ///
-    /// # Arguments
-    ///
-    /// * `peer`: wireguard peer data to be stored
-    /// * `with_client_id`: if the peer should have a corresponding client_id
-    ///   (created with entry wireguard ticket) or live without one (or with an
-    ///   exiting one), for temporary backwards compatibility.
-    pub async fn insert_wireguard_peer(
+    async fn insert_wireguard_peer(
        &self,
        peer: &defguard_wireguard_rs::host::Peer,
        with_client_id: bool,
-    ) -> Result<Option<i64>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<i64>, StorageError> {
        let client_id = match self
            .wireguard_peer_manager
            .retrieve_peer(&peer.public_key.to_string())
@@ -470,15 +676,10 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(client_id)
    }

-    /// Tries to retrieve available bandwidth for the particular peer.
-    ///
-    /// # Arguments
-    ///
-    /// * `peer_public_key`: wireguard public key of the peer to be retrieved.
-    pub async fn get_wireguard_peer(
+    async fn get_wireguard_peer(
        &self,
        peer_public_key: &str,
-    ) -> Result<Option<WireguardPeer>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<WireguardPeer>, StorageError> {
        let peer = self
            .wireguard_peer_manager
            .retrieve_peer(peer_public_key)
@@ -486,21 +687,12 @@ impl GatewayStorage {
        Ok(peer)
    }

-    /// Retrieves all wireguard peers.
-    pub async fn get_all_wireguard_peers(&self) -> Result<Vec<WireguardPeer>, GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn get_all_wireguard_peers(&self) -> Result<Vec<WireguardPeer>, StorageError> {
        let ret = self.wireguard_peer_manager.retrieve_all_peers().await?;
        Ok(ret)
    }

-    /// Remove a wireguard peer from the storage.
-    ///
-    /// # Arguments
-    ///
-    /// * `peer_public_key`: wireguard public key of the peer to be removed.
-    pub async fn remove_wireguard_peer(
-        &self,
-        peer_public_key: &str,
-    ) -> Result<(), GatewayStorageError> {
+    async fn remove_wireguard_peer(&self, peer_public_key: &str) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
        self.wireguard_peer_manager
            .remove_peer(peer_public_key)
            .await?;
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021-2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only

-use crate::error::GatewayStorageError;
+use crate::error::StorageError;
 use nym_credentials_interface::{AvailableBandwidth, ClientTicket, CredentialSpendingData};
 use nym_gateway_requests::shared_key::{LegacySharedKeys, SharedGatewayKey, SharedSymmetricKey};
 use sqlx::FromRow;
@@ -24,24 +24,24 @@ pub struct PersistedSharedKeys {
 }

 impl TryFrom<PersistedSharedKeys> for SharedGatewayKey {
-    type Error = GatewayStorageError;
+    type Error = StorageError;

    fn try_from(value: PersistedSharedKeys) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
        match (
            &value.derived_aes256_gcm_siv_key,
            &value.derived_aes128_ctr_blake3_hmac_keys_bs58,
        ) {
-            (None, None) => Err(GatewayStorageError::MissingSharedKey {
+            (None, None) => Err(StorageError::MissingSharedKey {
                id: value.client_id,
            }),
            (Some(aes256gcm_siv), _) => {
                let current_key = SharedSymmetricKey::try_from_bytes(aes256gcm_siv)
-                    .map_err(|source| GatewayStorageError::DataCorruption(source.to_string()))?;
+                    .map_err(|source| StorageError::DataCorruption(source.to_string()))?;
                Ok(SharedGatewayKey::Current(current_key))
            }
            (None, Some(aes128ctr_hmac)) => {
                let legacy_key = LegacySharedKeys::try_from_base58_string(aes128ctr_hmac)
-                    .map_err(|source| GatewayStorageError::DataCorruption(source.to_string()))?;
+                    .map_err(|source| StorageError::DataCorruption(source.to_string()))?;
                Ok(SharedGatewayKey::Legacy(legacy_key))
            }
        }
@@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ pub struct UnverifiedTicketData {
 }

 impl TryFrom<UnverifiedTicketData> for ClientTicket {
-    type Error = GatewayStorageError;
+    type Error = StorageError;

    fn try_from(value: UnverifiedTicketData) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
        Ok(ClientTicket {
            spending_data: CredentialSpendingData::try_from_bytes(&value.data).map_err(|_| {
-                GatewayStorageError::MalformedStoredTicketData {
+                StorageError::MalformedStoredTicketData {
                    ticket_id: value.ticket_id,
                }
            })?,
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ impl From<defguard_wireguard_rs::host::Peer> for WireguardPeer {
 }

 impl TryFrom<WireguardPeer> for defguard_wireguard_rs::host::Peer {
-    type Error = crate::error::GatewayStorageError;
+    type Error = crate::error::StorageError;

    fn try_from(value: WireguardPeer) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
        Ok(Self {
@@ -282,48 +282,6 @@ impl Client {
        }
    }

-    pub async fn create_delete_request<K, V>(
-        &self,
-        path: PathSegments<'_>,
-        params: Params<'_, K, V>,
-    ) -> RequestBuilder
-    where
-        K: AsRef<str>,
-        V: AsRef<str>,
-    {
-        let url = sanitize_url(&self.base_url, path, params);
-        self.reqwest_client.delete(url)
-    }
-
-    pub async fn send_delete_request<K, V, E>(
-        &self,
-        path: PathSegments<'_>,
-        params: Params<'_, K, V>,
-    ) -> Result<Response, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        K: AsRef<str>,
-        V: AsRef<str>,
-        E: Display,
-    {
-        tracing::trace!("Sending DELETE request");
-        let url = sanitize_url(&self.base_url, path, params);
-
-        #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-        {
-            Ok(wasmtimer::tokio::timeout(
-                self.request_timeout,
-                self.reqwest_client.delete(url).send(),
-            )
-            .await
-            .map_err(|_timeout| HttpClientError::RequestTimeout)??)
-        }
-
-        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-        {
-            Ok(self.reqwest_client.delete(url).send().await?)
-        }
-    }
-
    #[instrument(level = "debug", skip_all)]
    pub async fn get_json<T, K, V, E>(
        &self,
@@ -357,21 +315,6 @@ impl Client {
        parse_response(res, true).await
    }

-    pub async fn delete_json<T, K, V, E>(
-        &self,
-        path: PathSegments<'_>,
-        params: Params<'_, K, V>,
-    ) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        K: AsRef<str>,
-        V: AsRef<str>,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
-    {
-        let res = self.send_delete_request(path, params).await?;
-        parse_response(res, false).await
-    }
-
    #[instrument(level = "debug", skip_all)]
    pub async fn get_json_endpoint<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
    where
@@ -437,35 +380,6 @@ impl Client {

        parse_response(res, true).await
    }
-
-    pub async fn delete_json_endpoint<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
-        S: AsRef<str>,
-    {
-        #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-        let res = {
-            wasmtimer::tokio::timeout(
-                self.request_timeout,
-                self.reqwest_client
-                    .delete(self.base_url.join(endpoint.as_ref())?)
-                    .send(),
-            )
-            .await
-            .map_err(|_timeout| HttpClientError::RequestTimeout)??
-        };
-
-        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-        let res = {
-            self.reqwest_client
-                .delete(self.base_url.join(endpoint.as_ref())?)
-                .send()
-                .await?
-        };
-
-        parse_response(res, false).await
-    }
 }

 // define those methods on the trait for nicer extensions (and not having to type the thing twice)
@@ -498,17 +412,6 @@ pub trait ApiClient {
        V: AsRef<str> + Sync,
        E: Display + DeserializeOwned;

-    async fn delete_json<T, K, V, E>(
-        &self,
-        path: PathSegments<'_>,
-        params: Params<'_, K, V>,
-    ) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        K: AsRef<str> + Sync,
-        V: AsRef<str> + Sync,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned;
-
    /// `get` json data from the provided absolute endpoint, i.e. for example `"/api/v1/mixnodes?since=12345"`
    async fn get_json_from<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
    where
@@ -526,12 +429,6 @@ pub trait ApiClient {
        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
        S: AsRef<str> + Sync + Send;
-
-    async fn delete_json_from<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
-        S: AsRef<str> + Sync + Send;
 }

 #[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", async_trait(?Send))]
@@ -567,20 +464,6 @@ impl ApiClient for Client {
        self.post_json(path, params, json_body).await
    }

-    async fn delete_json<T, K, V, E>(
-        &self,
-        path: PathSegments<'_>,
-        params: Params<'_, K, V>,
-    ) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        K: AsRef<str> + Sync,
-        V: AsRef<str> + Sync,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
-    {
-        self.delete_json(path, params).await
-    }
-
    async fn get_json_from<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
    where
        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
@@ -603,15 +486,6 @@ impl ApiClient for Client {
    {
        self.post_json_endpoint(endpoint, json_body).await
    }
-
-    async fn delete_json_from<T, S, E>(&self, endpoint: S) -> Result<T, HttpClientError<E>>
-    where
-        for<'a> T: Deserialize<'a>,
-        E: Display + DeserializeOwned,
-        S: AsRef<str> + Sync + Send,
-    {
-        self.delete_json_endpoint(endpoint).await
-    }
 }

 // utility function that should solve the double slash problem in API urls forever.
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ use std::fmt;

 use http::HeaderValue;
 use nym_bin_common::build_information::{BinaryBuildInformation, BinaryBuildInformationOwned};
-use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct UserAgent {
    pub application: String,
    pub version: String,
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ url = { workspace = true }
 time.workspace = true
 thiserror = { workspace = true }

-nym-crypto = { path = "../crypto", features = ["asymmetric"] }
+nym-crypto = { path = "../crypto" }
 nym-network-defaults = { path = "../network-defaults" }
 nym-sphinx-acknowledgements = { path = "../nymsphinx/acknowledgements" }
 nym-sphinx-addressing = { path = "../nymsphinx/addressing" }
@@ -35,5 +35,7 @@ nym-sphinx-framing = { path = "../nymsphinx/framing" }
 nym-sphinx-params = { path = "../nymsphinx/params" }
 nym-sphinx-types = { path = "../nymsphinx/types" }
 nym-task = { path = "../task" }
+nym-validator-client = { path = "../client-libs/validator-client" }
+nym-bin-common = { path = "../bin-common" }
 nym-metrics = { path = "../nym-metrics" }
-
+nym-node-http-api = { path = "../../nym-node/nym-node-http-api" } 
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
 pub mod packet_processor;
+pub mod verloc;
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+use std::fmt::{self, Display, Formatter};
+use std::io;
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum RttError {
+    UnexpectedEchoPacketSize,
+    UnexpectedReplyPacketSize,
+
+    MalformedSenderIdentity,
+
+    MalformedEchoSignature,
+    MalformedReplySignature,
+
+    InvalidEchoSignature,
+    InvalidReplySignature,
+
+    UnreachableNode(String, io::Error),
+    UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite(String, io::Error),
+    UnexpectedConnectionFailureRead(String, io::Error),
+    ConnectionReadTimeout(String),
+    ConnectionWriteTimeout(String),
+
+    UnexpectedReplySequence,
+
+    ShutdownReceived,
+}
+
+impl Display for RttError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            RttError::UnexpectedEchoPacketSize => {
+                write!(f, "The received echo packet had unexpected size")
+            }
+            RttError::UnexpectedReplyPacketSize => {
+                write!(f, "The received reply packet had unexpected size")
+            }
+            RttError::MalformedSenderIdentity => {
+                write!(f, "The received echo packet had malformed sender")
+            }
+            RttError::MalformedEchoSignature => {
+                write!(f, "The received echo packet had malformed signature")
+            }
+            RttError::MalformedReplySignature => {
+                write!(f, "The received reply packet had malformed signature")
+            }
+            RttError::InvalidEchoSignature => {
+                write!(f, "The received echo packet had invalid signature")
+            }
+            RttError::InvalidReplySignature => {
+                write!(f, "The received reply packet had invalid signature")
+            }
+            RttError::UnreachableNode(id, err) => {
+                write!(f, "Could not establish connection to {id} - {err}")
+            }
+            RttError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite(id, err) => {
+                write!(f, "Failed to write echo packet to {id} - {err}")
+            }
+            RttError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureRead(id, err) => {
+                write!(f, "Failed to read reply packet from {id} - {err}")
+            }
+            RttError::ConnectionReadTimeout(id) => {
+                write!(f, "Timed out while trying to read reply packet from {id}")
+            }
+            RttError::ConnectionWriteTimeout(id) => {
+                write!(f, "Timed out while trying to write echo packet to {id}")
+            }
+            RttError::UnexpectedReplySequence => write!(
+                f,
+                "The received reply packet had an unexpected sequence number"
+            ),
+            RttError::ShutdownReceived => {
+                write!(f, "Shutdown signal received")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for RttError {}
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use crate::error::VerlocError;
-use crate::measurements::packet::{EchoPacket, ReplyPacket};
+use crate::verloc::error::RttError;
+use crate::verloc::packet::{EchoPacket, ReplyPacket};
 use bytes::{BufMut, BytesMut};
 use futures::StreamExt;
+use log::*;
 use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity;
 use nym_task::TaskClient;
+use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::{io, process};
-use thiserror::Error;
+use std::{fmt, io, process};
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
 use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
 use tokio_util::codec::{Decoder, Encoder, Framed};
-use tracing::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};

-pub struct PacketListener {
+pub(crate) struct PacketListener {
    address: SocketAddr,
    connection_handler: Arc<ConnectionHandler>,
    shutdown: TaskClient,
 }

 impl PacketListener {
-    pub fn new(
+    pub(crate) fn new(
        address: SocketAddr,
        identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
        shutdown: TaskClient,
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ impl PacketListener {
 }

 impl PacketListener {
-    pub async fn run(self: Arc<Self>) {
+    pub(super) async fn run(self: Arc<Self>) {
        let listener = match TcpListener::bind(self.address).await {
            Ok(listener) => listener,
            Err(err) => {
                error!(
-                    "Failed to bind to {}: {err}. Are you sure nothing else is running on the specified port and your user has sufficient permission to bind to the requested address?",
-                    self.address
+                    "Failed to bind to {} - {}. Are you sure nothing else is running on the specified port and your user has sufficient permission to bind to the requested address?",
+                    self.address, err
                );
                process::exit(1);
            }
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ impl PacketListener {
                    }
                },
                _ = shutdown_listener.recv() => {
-                    trace!("PacketListener: Received shutdown");
+                    log::trace!("PacketListener: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
        }
@@ -137,18 +137,28 @@ impl ConnectionHandler {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+#[derive(Debug)]
 enum EchoPacketCodecError {
-    #[error("encountered io error {0}")]
-    IoError(#[from] io::Error),
-
-    #[error("failed to correctly decode an echo packet: {0}")]
-    PacketRecoveryError(Box<VerlocError>),
+    IoError(io::Error),
+    PacketRecoveryError(RttError),
 }

-impl From<VerlocError> for EchoPacketCodecError {
-    fn from(value: VerlocError) -> Self {
-        EchoPacketCodecError::PacketRecoveryError(Box::new(value))
+impl Display for EchoPacketCodecError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            EchoPacketCodecError::IoError(err) => write!(f, "encountered io error - {err}"),
+            EchoPacketCodecError::PacketRecoveryError(err) => {
+                write!(f, "failed to correctly decode an echo packet - {err}")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for EchoPacketCodecError {}
+
+impl From<io::Error> for EchoPacketCodecError {
+    fn from(err: io::Error) -> Self {
+        EchoPacketCodecError::IoError(err)
    }
 }

@@ -178,7 +188,10 @@ impl Decoder for EchoPacketCodec {

        let packet_bytes = src.split_to(EchoPacket::SIZE);

-        let echo_packet = EchoPacket::try_from_bytes(&packet_bytes)?;
+        let echo_packet = match EchoPacket::try_from_bytes(&packet_bytes) {
+            Ok(packet) => packet,
+            Err(err) => return Err(EchoPacketCodecError::PacketRecoveryError(err)),
+        };

        // reserve enough bytes for the next frame
        src.reserve(EchoPacket::SIZE);
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// Copyright 2021-2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+use nym_node_http_api::state::metrics::{SharedVerlocStats, VerlocNodeResult};
+use std::mem;
+use time::OffsetDateTime;
+
+pub(crate) trait VerlocStatsUpdateExt {
+    async fn start_new_measurements(&self, nodes_to_test: usize);
+
+    async fn append_measurement_results(&self, new_data: Vec<VerlocNodeResult>);
+
+    async fn finish_measurements(&self);
+}
+
+impl VerlocStatsUpdateExt for SharedVerlocStats {
+    async fn start_new_measurements(&self, nodes_to_test: usize) {
+        let mut guard = self.write().await;
+        guard.previous_run_data = mem::take(&mut guard.current_run_data);
+        guard.current_run_data.nodes_tested = nodes_to_test;
+    }
+
+    async fn append_measurement_results(&self, mut new_data: Vec<VerlocNodeResult>) {
+        let mut write_permit = self.write().await;
+        write_permit.current_run_data.results.append(&mut new_data);
+        // make sure the data always stays in order.
+        // TODO: considering the front of the results is guaranteed to be sorted, should perhaps
+        // a non-default sorting algorithm be used?
+        write_permit.current_run_data.results.sort()
+    }
+
+    async fn finish_measurements(&self) {
+        self.write().await.current_run_data.run_finished = Some(OffsetDateTime::now_utc())
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,383 @@
+// Copyright 2021-2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+use crate::verloc::listener::PacketListener;
+use crate::verloc::sender::{PacketSender, TestedNode};
+use futures::stream::FuturesUnordered;
+use futures::StreamExt;
+use log::*;
+use nym_bin_common::version_checker::{self, parse_version};
+use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity;
+use nym_network_defaults::mainnet::NYM_API;
+use nym_node_http_api::state::metrics::{SharedVerlocStats, VerlocNodeResult};
+use nym_task::TaskClient;
+use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
+use rand::thread_rng;
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
+use tokio::time::sleep;
+use url::Url;
+
+use measurement::VerlocStatsUpdateExt;
+
+// pub use crate::verloc::measurement::{AtomicVerlocResult, Verloc, VerlocResult};
+
+pub mod error;
+pub(crate) mod listener;
+pub(crate) mod measurement;
+pub(crate) mod packet;
+pub(crate) mod sender;
+
+// TODO: MUST BE UPDATED BEFORE ACTUAL RELEASE!!
+pub const MINIMUM_NODE_VERSION: &str = "0.10.1";
+
+// by default all of those are overwritten by config data from mixnodes directly
+const DEFAULT_VERLOC_PORT: u16 = 1790;
+const DEFAULT_PACKETS_PER_NODE: usize = 100;
+const DEFAULT_PACKET_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(1500);
+const DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(5000);
+const DEFAULT_DELAY_BETWEEN_PACKETS: Duration = Duration::from_millis(50);
+const DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 50;
+const DEFAULT_TESTING_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60 * 60 * 12);
+const DEFAULT_RETRY_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60 * 30);
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct Config {
+    /// Minimum semver version of a node (gateway or mixnode) that is capable of replying to echo packets.
+    minimum_compatible_node_version: version_checker::Version,
+
+    /// Socket address of this node on which it will be listening for the measurement packets.
+    listening_address: SocketAddr,
+
+    /// Specifies number of echo packets sent to each node during a measurement run.
+    packets_per_node: usize,
+
+    /// Specifies maximum amount of time to wait for the reply packet to arrive before abandoning the test.
+    packet_timeout: Duration,
+
+    /// Specifies maximum amount of time to wait for the connection to get established.
+    connection_timeout: Duration,
+
+    /// Specifies delay between subsequent test packets being sent (after receiving a reply).
+    delay_between_packets: Duration,
+
+    /// Specifies number of nodes being tested at once.
+    tested_nodes_batch_size: usize,
+
+    /// Specifies delay between subsequent test runs.
+    testing_interval: Duration,
+
+    /// Specifies delay between attempting to run the measurement again if the previous run failed
+    /// due to being unable to get the list of nodes.
+    retry_timeout: Duration,
+
+    /// URLs to the nym apis for obtaining network topology.
+    nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
+}
+
+impl Config {
+    pub fn build() -> ConfigBuilder {
+        ConfigBuilder::new()
+    }
+}
+
+#[must_use]
+pub struct ConfigBuilder(Config);
+
+impl ConfigBuilder {
+    pub fn new() -> ConfigBuilder {
+        Self::default()
+    }
+
+    pub fn minimum_compatible_node_version(mut self, version: version_checker::Version) -> Self {
+        self.0.minimum_compatible_node_version = version;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn listening_address(mut self, listening_address: SocketAddr) -> Self {
+        self.0.listening_address = listening_address;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn packets_per_node(mut self, packets_per_node: usize) -> Self {
+        self.0.packets_per_node = packets_per_node;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn packet_timeout(mut self, packet_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
+        self.0.packet_timeout = packet_timeout;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn connection_timeout(mut self, connection_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
+        self.0.connection_timeout = connection_timeout;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn delay_between_packets(mut self, delay_between_packets: Duration) -> Self {
+        self.0.delay_between_packets = delay_between_packets;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn tested_nodes_batch_size(mut self, tested_nodes_batch_size: usize) -> Self {
+        self.0.tested_nodes_batch_size = tested_nodes_batch_size;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn testing_interval(mut self, testing_interval: Duration) -> Self {
+        self.0.testing_interval = testing_interval;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn retry_timeout(mut self, retry_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
+        self.0.retry_timeout = retry_timeout;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn nym_api_urls(mut self, nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>) -> Self {
+        self.0.nym_api_urls = nym_api_urls;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn build(self) -> Config {
+        // panics here are fine as those are only ever constructed at the initial setup
+        assert!(
+            !self.0.nym_api_urls.is_empty(),
+            "at least one validator endpoint must be provided",
+        );
+        self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl Default for ConfigBuilder {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        ConfigBuilder(Config {
+            minimum_compatible_node_version: parse_version(MINIMUM_NODE_VERSION).unwrap(),
+            listening_address: format!("[::]:{DEFAULT_VERLOC_PORT}").parse().unwrap(),
+            packets_per_node: DEFAULT_PACKETS_PER_NODE,
+            packet_timeout: DEFAULT_PACKET_TIMEOUT,
+            connection_timeout: DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
+            delay_between_packets: DEFAULT_DELAY_BETWEEN_PACKETS,
+            tested_nodes_batch_size: DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE,
+            testing_interval: DEFAULT_TESTING_INTERVAL,
+            retry_timeout: DEFAULT_RETRY_TIMEOUT,
+            nym_api_urls: vec![NYM_API.parse().expect("Invalid default API URL")],
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct VerlocMeasurer {
+    config: Config,
+    packet_sender: Arc<PacketSender>,
+    packet_listener: Arc<PacketListener>,
+    shutdown_listener: TaskClient,
+
+    currently_used_api: usize,
+
+    // Note: this client is only fine here as it does not maintain constant connection to the validator.
+    // It only does bunch of REST queries. If we update it at some point to a more sophisticated (maybe signing) client,
+    // then it definitely cannot be constructed here and probably will need to be passed from outside,
+    // as mixnodes/gateways would already be using an instance of said client.
+    validator_client: nym_validator_client::NymApiClient,
+    state: SharedVerlocStats,
+}
+
+impl VerlocMeasurer {
+    pub fn new(
+        mut config: Config,
+        identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
+        shutdown_listener: TaskClient,
+    ) -> Self {
+        config.nym_api_urls.shuffle(&mut thread_rng());
+
+        VerlocMeasurer {
+            packet_sender: Arc::new(PacketSender::new(
+                Arc::clone(&identity),
+                config.packets_per_node,
+                config.packet_timeout,
+                config.connection_timeout,
+                config.delay_between_packets,
+                shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocPacketSender"),
+            )),
+            packet_listener: Arc::new(PacketListener::new(
+                config.listening_address,
+                Arc::clone(&identity),
+                shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocPacketListener"),
+            )),
+            shutdown_listener,
+            currently_used_api: 0,
+            validator_client: nym_validator_client::NymApiClient::new(
+                config.nym_api_urls[0].clone(),
+            ),
+            config,
+            state: SharedVerlocStats::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn set_shared_state(&mut self, state: SharedVerlocStats) {
+        self.state = state;
+    }
+
+    fn use_next_nym_api(&mut self) {
+        if self.config.nym_api_urls.len() == 1 {
+            warn!("There's only a single validator API available - it won't be possible to use a different one");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        self.currently_used_api = (self.currently_used_api + 1) % self.config.nym_api_urls.len();
+        self.validator_client
+            .change_nym_api(self.config.nym_api_urls[self.currently_used_api].clone())
+    }
+
+    fn start_listening(&self) -> JoinHandle<()> {
+        let packet_listener = Arc::clone(&self.packet_listener);
+        tokio::spawn(packet_listener.run())
+    }
+
+    async fn perform_measurement(&self, nodes_to_test: Vec<TestedNode>) -> MeasurementOutcome {
+        log::trace!("Performing measurements");
+        if nodes_to_test.is_empty() {
+            log::debug!("there are no nodes to measure");
+            return MeasurementOutcome::Done;
+        }
+
+        let mut shutdown_listener = self.shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocMeasurement");
+        shutdown_listener.disarm();
+
+        for chunk in nodes_to_test.chunks(self.config.tested_nodes_batch_size) {
+            let mut chunk_results = Vec::with_capacity(chunk.len());
+
+            let mut measurement_chunk = chunk
+                .iter()
+                .map(|node| {
+                    let node = *node;
+                    let packet_sender = Arc::clone(&self.packet_sender);
+                    // TODO: there's a potential issue here. if we make the measurement go into separate
+                    // task, we risk biasing results with the bunch of context switches overhead
+                    // but if we don't do it, it will take ages to complete
+
+                    // TODO: check performance difference when it's not spawned as a separate task
+                    tokio::spawn(async move {
+                        (
+                            packet_sender.send_packets_to_node(node).await,
+                            node.identity,
+                        )
+                    })
+                })
+                .collect::<FuturesUnordered<_>>();
+
+            // exhaust the results
+            while !shutdown_listener.is_shutdown() {
+                tokio::select! {
+                    measurement_result = measurement_chunk.next() => {
+                        let Some(result) = measurement_result else {
+                            // if the stream has finished, it means we got everything we could have gotten
+                            break
+                        };
+
+                        // if we receive JoinError it means the task failed to get executed, so either there's a bigger issue with tokio
+                        // or there was a panic inside the task itself. In either case, we should just terminate ourselves.
+                        let execution_result = result.expect("the measurement task panicked!");
+                        let identity = execution_result.1;
+
+                        let measurement_result = match execution_result.0 {
+                            Err(err) => {
+                                debug!("Failed to perform measurement for {identity}: {err}");
+                                None
+                            }
+                            Ok(result) => Some(result),
+                        };
+                        chunk_results.push(VerlocNodeResult::new(identity, measurement_result));
+                    },
+                    _ = shutdown_listener.recv() => {
+                        trace!("Shutdown received while measuring");
+                        return MeasurementOutcome::Shutdown;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // update the results vector with chunks as they become available (by default every 50 nodes)
+            self.state.append_measurement_results(chunk_results).await;
+        }
+
+        MeasurementOutcome::Done
+    }
+
+    pub async fn run(&mut self) {
+        self.start_listening();
+
+        while !self.shutdown_listener.is_shutdown() {
+            info!("Starting verloc measurements");
+            // TODO: should we also measure gateways?
+
+            let all_mixes = match self.validator_client.get_all_described_nodes().await {
+                Ok(nodes) => nodes,
+                Err(err) => {
+                    error!(
+                        "failed to obtain list of mixnodes from the validator - {}. Going to attempt to use another validator API in the next run",
+                        err
+                    );
+                    self.use_next_nym_api();
+                    sleep(self.config.retry_timeout).await;
+                    continue;
+                }
+            };
+            if all_mixes.is_empty() {
+                warn!("There does not seem there are any nodes to measure...")
+            }
+
+            // we only care about address and identity
+            let tested_nodes = all_mixes
+                .into_iter()
+                .filter(|n| n.description.declared_role.mixnode)
+                .filter_map(|node| {
+                    // try to parse the identity and host
+                    let node_identity = node.ed25519_identity_key();
+
+                    let ip = node.description.host_information.ip_address.first()?;
+                    let verloc_port = node.description.verloc_port();
+                    let verloc_host = SocketAddr::new(*ip, verloc_port);
+
+                    // TODO: possible problem in the future, this does name resolution and theoretically
+                    // if a lot of nodes maliciously mis-configured themselves, it might take a while to resolve them all
+                    // However, maybe it's not a problem as if they are misconfigured, they will eventually be
+                    // pushed out of the network and on top of that, verloc is done in separate task that runs
+                    // only every few hours.
+                    Some(TestedNode::new(verloc_host, node_identity))
+                })
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+            // on start of each run remove old results
+            self.state.start_new_measurements(tested_nodes.len()).await;
+
+            if let MeasurementOutcome::Shutdown = self.perform_measurement(tested_nodes).await {
+                log::trace!("Shutting down after aborting measurements");
+                break;
+            }
+
+            // write current time to "run finished" field
+            self.state.finish_measurements().await;
+
+            info!(
+                "Finished performing verloc measurements. The next one will happen in {:?}",
+                self.config.testing_interval
+            );
+
+            tokio::select! {
+                _ = sleep(self.config.testing_interval) => {},
+                _ = self.shutdown_listener.recv() => {
+                    log::trace!("Shutdown received while sleeping");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        log::trace!("Verloc: Exiting");
+    }
+}
+
+enum MeasurementOutcome {
+    Done,
+    Shutdown,
+}
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use crate::error::VerlocError;
-use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519::{self, PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH, SIGNATURE_LENGTH};
+use crate::verloc::error::RttError;
+use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity::{self, PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH, SIGNATURE_LENGTH};

-pub struct EchoPacket {
+pub(crate) struct EchoPacket {
    sequence_number: u64,
-    sender: ed25519::PublicKey,
+    sender: identity::PublicKey,

-    signature: ed25519::Signature,
+    signature: identity::Signature,
 }

 impl EchoPacket {
    pub(crate) const SIZE: usize = 8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH + SIGNATURE_LENGTH;

-    pub(crate) fn new(sequence_number: u64, keys: &ed25519::KeyPair) -> Self {
+    pub(crate) fn new(sequence_number: u64, keys: &identity::KeyPair) -> Self {
        let bytes_to_sign = sequence_number
            .to_be_bytes()
            .iter()
@@ -42,22 +42,20 @@ impl EchoPacket {
            .collect()
    }

-    pub(crate) fn try_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, VerlocError> {
+    pub(crate) fn try_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, RttError> {
        if bytes.len() != Self::SIZE {
-            return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedEchoPacketSize);
+            return Err(RttError::UnexpectedEchoPacketSize);
        }

-        // SAFETY: we have ensured our packet has correct size
-        #[allow(clippy::unwrap_used)]
        let sequence_number = u64::from_be_bytes(bytes[..8].try_into().unwrap());
-        let sender = ed25519::PublicKey::from_bytes(&bytes[8..8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH])
-            .map_err(|_| VerlocError::MalformedSenderIdentity)?;
-        let signature = ed25519::Signature::from_bytes(&bytes[8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH..])
-            .map_err(|_| VerlocError::MalformedEchoSignature)?;
+        let sender = identity::PublicKey::from_bytes(&bytes[8..8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH])
+            .map_err(|_| RttError::MalformedSenderIdentity)?;
+        let signature = identity::Signature::from_bytes(&bytes[8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH..])
+            .map_err(|_| RttError::MalformedEchoSignature)?;

        sender
            .verify(&bytes[..Self::SIZE - SIGNATURE_LENGTH], &signature)
-            .map_err(|_| VerlocError::InvalidEchoSignature)?;
+            .map_err(|_| RttError::InvalidEchoSignature)?;

        Ok(EchoPacket {
            sequence_number,
@@ -66,7 +64,7 @@ impl EchoPacket {
        })
    }

-    pub(crate) fn construct_reply(self, private_key: &ed25519::PrivateKey) -> ReplyPacket {
+    pub(crate) fn construct_reply(self, private_key: &identity::PrivateKey) -> ReplyPacket {
        let bytes = self.to_bytes();
        let signature = private_key.sign(bytes);
        ReplyPacket {
@@ -76,9 +74,9 @@ impl EchoPacket {
    }
 }

-pub struct ReplyPacket {
+pub(crate) struct ReplyPacket {
    base_packet: EchoPacket,
-    signature: ed25519::Signature,
+    signature: identity::Signature,
 }

 impl ReplyPacket {
@@ -98,21 +96,21 @@ impl ReplyPacket {

    pub(crate) fn try_from_bytes(
        bytes: &[u8],
-        remote_ed25519: &ed25519::PublicKey,
-    ) -> Result<Self, VerlocError> {
+        remote_identity: &identity::PublicKey,
+    ) -> Result<Self, RttError> {
        if bytes.len() != Self::SIZE {
-            return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedReplyPacketSize);
+            return Err(RttError::UnexpectedReplyPacketSize);
        }

        let base_packet =
            EchoPacket::try_from_bytes(&bytes[..8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH + SIGNATURE_LENGTH])?;
        let signature =
-            ed25519::Signature::from_bytes(&bytes[8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH + SIGNATURE_LENGTH..])
-                .map_err(|_| VerlocError::MalformedReplySignature)?;
+            identity::Signature::from_bytes(&bytes[8 + PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH + SIGNATURE_LENGTH..])
+                .map_err(|_| RttError::MalformedReplySignature)?;

-        remote_ed25519
+        remote_identity
            .verify(&bytes[..Self::SIZE - SIGNATURE_LENGTH], &signature)
-            .map_err(|_| VerlocError::InvalidReplySignature)?;
+            .map_err(|_| RttError::InvalidReplySignature)?;

        Ok(ReplyPacket {
            base_packet,
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 // Copyright 2021-2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use crate::error::VerlocError;
-use crate::measurements::packet::{EchoPacket, ReplyPacket};
-use crate::models::VerlocMeasurement;
-use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519;
+use crate::verloc::error::RttError;
+use crate::verloc::packet::{EchoPacket, ReplyPacket};
+use log::*;
+use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity;
+use nym_node_http_api::state::metrics::VerlocMeasurement;
 use nym_task::TaskClient;
 use rand::{thread_rng, Rng};
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
@@ -14,16 +15,15 @@ use std::{fmt, io};
 use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
 use tokio::time::sleep;
-use tracing::{debug, trace};

 #[derive(Copy, Clone)]
 pub(crate) struct TestedNode {
    pub(crate) address: SocketAddr,
-    pub(crate) identity: ed25519::PublicKey,
+    pub(crate) identity: identity::PublicKey,
 }

 impl TestedNode {
-    pub(crate) fn new(address: SocketAddr, identity: ed25519::PublicKey) -> Self {
+    pub(crate) fn new(address: SocketAddr, identity: identity::PublicKey) -> Self {
        TestedNode { address, identity }
    }
 }
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ impl fmt::Display for TestedNode {
    }
 }

-pub struct PacketSender {
-    identity: Arc<ed25519::KeyPair>,
+pub(crate) struct PacketSender {
+    identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
    // timeout for receiving before sending new one
    packets_per_node: usize,
    packet_timeout: Duration,
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ pub struct PacketSender {
 }

 impl PacketSender {
-    pub fn new(
-        identity: Arc<ed25519::KeyPair>,
+    pub(super) fn new(
+        identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
        packets_per_node: usize,
        packet_timeout: Duration,
        connection_timeout: Duration,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ impl PacketSender {
    pub(super) async fn send_packets_to_node(
        self: Arc<Self>,
        tested_node: TestedNode,
-    ) -> Result<VerlocMeasurement, VerlocError> {
+    ) -> Result<VerlocMeasurement, RttError> {
        let mut shutdown_listener = self.shutdown_listener.fork(tested_node.address.to_string());
        shutdown_listener.disarm();

@@ -93,18 +93,16 @@ impl PacketSender {
        .await
        {
            Err(_timeout) => {
-                return Err(VerlocError::UnreachableNode {
-                    identity: tested_node.identity.to_string(),
-                    err: io::ErrorKind::TimedOut.into(),
-                    address: tested_node.address,
-                })
+                return Err(RttError::UnreachableNode(
+                    tested_node.identity.to_base58_string(),
+                    io::ErrorKind::TimedOut.into(),
+                ))
            }
            Ok(Err(err)) => {
-                return Err(VerlocError::UnreachableNode {
-                    identity: tested_node.identity.to_string(),
+                return Err(RttError::UnreachableNode(
+                    tested_node.identity.to_base58_string(),
                    err,
-                    address: tested_node.address,
-                })
+                ))
            }
            Ok(Ok(conn)) => conn,
        };
@@ -123,34 +121,33 @@ impl PacketSender {
                write = tokio::time::timeout(self.packet_timeout, conn.write_all(packet_bytes.as_ref())) => {
                    match write {
                        Err(_timeout) => {
-                            let identity = tested_node.identity;
+                            let identity_string = tested_node.identity.to_base58_string();
                            debug!(
-                                "failed to write echo packet to {identity} within {:?}. Stopping the test.",
-                                self.packet_timeout
+                                "failed to write echo packet to {} within {:?}. Stopping the test.",
+                                identity_string, self.packet_timeout
                            );
-                            return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite{
-                                identity: identity.to_string(),
-                                err:io::ErrorKind::TimedOut.into(),
-                                address: tested_node.address
-                            });
+                            return Err(RttError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite(
+                                identity_string,
+                                io::ErrorKind::TimedOut.into(),
+                            ));
                        }
                        Ok(Err(err)) => {
-                            let identity = tested_node.identity;
+                            let identity_string = tested_node.identity.to_base58_string();
                            debug!(
-                                "failed to write echo packet to {identity}: {err}. Stopping the test.",
+                                "failed to write echo packet to {} - {}. Stopping the test.",
+                                identity_string, err
                            );
-                            return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite{
-                                identity: identity.to_string(),
+                            return Err(RttError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite(
+                                identity_string,
                                err,
-                                address: tested_node.address
-                            });
+                            ));
                        }
                        Ok(Ok(_)) => {}
                        }
                },
                _ = shutdown_listener.recv() => {
-                    trace!("PacketSender: Received shutdown while sending");
-                    return Err(VerlocError::ShutdownReceived);
+                    log::trace!("PacketSender: Received shutdown while sending");
+                    return Err(RttError::ShutdownReceived);
                },
            }

@@ -159,15 +156,15 @@ impl PacketSender {
            let reply_packet_future = async {
                let mut buf = [0u8; ReplyPacket::SIZE];
                if let Err(err) = conn.read_exact(&mut buf).await {
-                    let identity = tested_node.identity;
                    debug!(
-                        "failed to read reply packet from {identity}: {err}. Stopping the test.",
+                        "failed to read reply packet from {} - {}. Stopping the test.",
+                        tested_node.identity.to_base58_string(),
+                        err
                    );
-                    return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureRead {
-                        identity: identity.to_string(),
+                    return Err(RttError::UnexpectedConnectionFailureRead(
+                        tested_node.identity.to_base58_string(),
                        err,
-                        address: tested_node.address,
-                    });
+                    ));
                }
                ReplyPacket::try_from_bytes(&buf, &tested_node.identity)
            };
@@ -183,16 +180,15 @@ impl PacketSender {
                                "failed to receive reply to our echo packet within {:?}. Stopping the test",
                                self.packet_timeout
                            );
-                            return Err(VerlocError::ConnectionReadTimeout{
-                                identity: tested_node.identity.to_string(),
-                                address: tested_node.address
-                            });
+                            return Err(RttError::ConnectionReadTimeout(
+                                tested_node.identity.to_base58_string(),
+                            ));
                        }
                    }
                },
                _ = shutdown_listener.recv() => {
-                    trace!("PacketSender: Received shutdown while waiting for reply");
-                    return Err(VerlocError::ShutdownReceived);
+                    log::trace!("PacketSender: Received shutdown while waiting for reply");
+                    return Err(RttError::ShutdownReceived);
                }
            };

@@ -202,7 +198,7 @@ impl PacketSender {
            // we have received the previous one
            if reply_packet.base_sequence_number() != seq {
                debug!("Received reply packet with invalid sequence number! Got {} expected {}. Stopping the test", reply_packet.base_sequence_number(), seq);
-                return Err(VerlocError::UnexpectedReplySequence);
+                return Err(RttError::UnexpectedReplySequence);
            }

            let time_taken = tokio::time::Instant::now().duration_since(start);
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[package]
+name = "nym-common-models"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+homepage.workspace = true
+documentation.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+rust-version.workspace = true
+readme.workspace = true
+
+[dependencies]
+anyhow = { workspace = true }
+bincode = { workspace = true }
+nym-crypto = { path = "../crypto", features = ["asymmetric", "serde"] }
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pub mod ns_api;
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519::{PublicKey, Signature};
+use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519::{PublicKey, Signature, SignatureError};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

 pub mod get_testrun {
-    use crate::auth::SignedRequest;
-
    use super::*;
    #[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize)]
    pub struct Payload {
@@ -42,8 +40,6 @@ pub struct TestrunAssignment {
 }

 pub mod submit_results {
-    use crate::auth::SignedRequest;
-
    use super::*;
    #[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize)]
    pub struct Payload {
@@ -74,3 +70,32 @@ pub mod submit_results {
        }
    }
 }
+
+pub trait SignedRequest {
+    type Payload: serde::Serialize;
+
+    fn public_key(&self) -> &PublicKey;
+    fn signature(&self) -> &Signature;
+    fn payload(&self) -> &Self::Payload;
+}
+
+pub trait VerifiableRequest: SignedRequest {
+    type Error: From<bincode::Error> + From<SignatureError>;
+
+    fn verify_signature(&self) -> Result<(), Self::Error> {
+        bincode::serialize(self.payload())
+            .map_err(Self::Error::from)
+            .and_then(|serialized| {
+                self.public_key()
+                    .verify(serialized, self.signature())
+                    .map_err(Self::Error::from)
+            })
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> VerifiableRequest for T
+where
+    T: SignedRequest,
+{
+    type Error = anyhow::Error;
+}
@@ -157,46 +157,6 @@ impl NymNetworkDetails {
        }
    }

-    #[rustfmt::skip]
-    #[cfg(feature = "env")]
-    pub fn export_to_env(self) {
-        use crate::var_names;
-        use std::env::set_var;
-
-        fn set_optional_var(var_name: &str, value: Option<String>) {
-            if let Some(value) = value {
-                set_var(var_name, value);
-            }
-        }
-
-        set_var(var_names::NETWORK_NAME, self.network_name);
-        set_var(var_names::BECH32_PREFIX, self.chain_details.bech32_account_prefix);
-
-        set_var(var_names::MIX_DENOM, self.chain_details.mix_denom.base);
-        set_var(var_names::MIX_DENOM_DISPLAY, self.chain_details.mix_denom.display);
-
-        set_var(var_names::STAKE_DENOM, self.chain_details.stake_denom.base);
-        set_var(var_names::STAKE_DENOM_DISPLAY, self.chain_details.stake_denom.display);
-
-        set_var(var_names::DENOMS_EXPONENT, self.chain_details.mix_denom.display_exponent.to_string());
-
-        if let Some(e) = self.endpoints.first() {
-            set_var(var_names::NYXD, e.nyxd_url.clone());
-            set_optional_var(var_names::NYM_API, e.api_url.clone());
-            set_optional_var(var_names::NYXD_WEBSOCKET, e.websocket_url.clone());
-        }
-
-        set_optional_var(var_names::MIXNET_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.mixnet_contract_address);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::VESTING_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.vesting_contract_address);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::ECASH_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.ecash_contract_address);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::GROUP_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.group_contract_address);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::MULTISIG_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.multisig_contract_address);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::COCONUT_DKG_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, self.contracts.coconut_dkg_contract_address);
-
-        set_optional_var(var_names::EXPLORER_API, self.explorer_api);
-        set_optional_var(var_names::NYM_VPN_API, self.nym_vpn_api_url);
-    }
-
    pub fn default_gas_price_amount(&self) -> f64 {
        GAS_PRICE_AMOUNT
    }
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ pub struct NodeTester<R> {

    packet_size: PacketSize,

-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    deterministic_route_selection: bool,
-
    /// Average delay a data packet is going to get delay at a single mixnode.
    average_packet_delay: Duration,

@@ -51,13 +48,11 @@ impl<R> NodeTester<R>
 where
    R: Rng + CryptoRng,
 {
-    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub fn new(
        rng: R,
        base_topology: NymTopology,
        self_address: Option<Recipient>,
        packet_size: PacketSize,
-        deterministic_route_selection: bool,
        average_packet_delay: Duration,
        average_ack_delay: Duration,
        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
@@ -67,7 +62,6 @@ where
            base_topology,
            self_address,
            packet_size,
-            deterministic_route_selection,
            average_packet_delay,
            average_ack_delay,
            num_mix_hops: DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS,
@@ -295,18 +289,10 @@ where
 impl<R: CryptoRng + Rng> FragmentPreparer for NodeTester<R> {
    type Rng = R;

-    fn deterministic_route_selection(&self) -> bool {
-        self.deterministic_route_selection
-    }
-
    fn rng(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Rng {
        &mut self.rng
    }

-    fn nonce(&self) -> i32 {
-        1
-    }
-
    fn num_mix_hops(&self) -> u8 {
        self.num_mix_hops
    }
@@ -318,4 +304,8 @@ impl<R: CryptoRng + Rng> FragmentPreparer for NodeTester<R> {
    fn average_ack_delay(&self) -> Duration {
        self.average_ack_delay
    }
+
+    fn nonce(&self) -> i32 {
+        1
+    }
 }
@@ -324,6 +324,18 @@ pub fn unchecked_aggregate_indices_signatures(
    _aggregate_indices_signatures(params, vk, signatures_shares, false)
 }

+/// Generates parameters for the scheme setup.
+///
+/// # Arguments
+///
+/// * `total_coins` - it is the number of coins in a freshly generated wallet. It is the public parameter of the scheme.
+///
+/// # Returns
+///
+/// A `Parameters` struct containing group parameters, public key, the number of signatures (`total_coins`),
+/// and a map of signatures for each index `l`.
+///
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ impl<'b> Add<&'b VerificationKeyAuth> for VerificationKeyAuth {
    }
 }

-impl Mul<Scalar> for &VerificationKeyAuth {
+impl<'a> Mul<Scalar> for &'a VerificationKeyAuth {
    type Output = VerificationKeyAuth;

    #[inline]
@@ -530,15 +530,6 @@ impl From<KeyPairUser> for SecretKeyUser {
    }
 }

-impl From<SecretKeyUser> for KeyPairUser {
-    fn from(value: SecretKeyUser) -> Self {
-        KeyPairUser {
-            public_key: value.public_key(),
-            secret_key: value,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl KeyPairUser {
    #[allow(clippy::new_without_default)]
    pub fn new() -> Self {
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ pub struct SerialNumberRef<'a> {
    pub(crate) inner: &'a [G1Projective],
 }

-impl SerialNumberRef<'_> {
+impl<'a> SerialNumberRef<'a> {
    pub fn to_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
        let ss_len = self.inner.len();
        let mut bytes: Vec<u8> = Vec::with_capacity(ss_len * 48);
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ impl Deref for PublicKey {
    }
 }

-impl<'a> Mul<&'a Scalar> for &PublicKey {
+impl<'a, 'b> Mul<&'b Scalar> for &'a PublicKey {
    type Output = G1Projective;

-    fn mul(self, rhs: &'a Scalar) -> Self::Output {
+    fn mul(self, rhs: &'b Scalar) -> Self::Output {
        self.0 * rhs
    }
 }
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ impl<'b> Add<&'b VerificationKey> for VerificationKey {
    }
 }

-impl Mul<Scalar> for &VerificationKey {
+impl<'a> Mul<Scalar> for &'a VerificationKey {
    type Output = VerificationKey;

    #[inline]
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Recipient {
    {
        struct RecipientVisitor;

-        impl Visitor<'_> for RecipientVisitor {
+        impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for RecipientVisitor {
            type Value = Recipient;

            fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-//! Encoding and decoding node routing information.
-//!
-//! This module is responsible for encoding and decoding node routing information, so that
-//! they could be later put into an appropriate field in a sphinx header.
-//! Currently, that routing information is an IP address, but in principle it can be anything
-//!  for as long as it's going to fit in the field.
-
 use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity;
 use nym_sphinx_types::{NodeAddressBytes, NODE_ADDRESS_LENGTH};

@@ -19,6 +12,13 @@ use thiserror::Error;
 pub type NodeIdentity = identity::PublicKey;
 pub const NODE_IDENTITY_SIZE: usize = identity::PUBLIC_KEY_LENGTH;

+/// Encodoing and decoding node routing information.
+///
+/// This module is responsible for encoding and decoding node routing information, so that
+/// they could be later put into an appropriate field in a sphinx header.
+/// Currently, that routing information is an IP address, but in principle it can be anything
+/// for as long as it's going to fit in the field.
+
 /// MAX_UNPADDED_LEN represents maximum length an unpadded address could have.
 /// In this case it's an ipv6 socket address (with version prefix)
 pub const MAX_NODE_ADDRESS_UNPADDED_LEN: usize = 19;
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for ReplySurb {
    {
        struct ReplySurbVisitor;

-        impl Visitor<'_> for ReplySurbVisitor {
+        impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for ReplySurbVisitor {
            type Value = ReplySurb;

            fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
@@ -18,13 +18,19 @@ pub struct FramedNymPacket {
 }

 impl FramedNymPacket {
-    pub fn new(packet: NymPacket, packet_type: PacketType) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(packet: NymPacket, packet_type: PacketType, use_legacy_version: bool) -> Self {
        // If this fails somebody is using the library in a super incorrect way, because they
        // already managed to somehow create a sphinx packet
        let packet_size = PacketSize::get_type(packet.len()).unwrap();

+        let use_legacy = if packet_type == PacketType::Outfox {
+            false
+        } else {
+            use_legacy_version
+        };
+
        let header = Header {
-            packet_version: PacketVersion::new(),
+            packet_version: PacketVersion::new(use_legacy),
            packet_size,
            packet_type,
        };
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@ pub enum PacketVersion {
 }

 impl PacketVersion {
-    pub fn new() -> Self {
-        Self::new_versioned(CURRENT_PACKET_VERSION_NUMBER)
+    pub fn new(use_legacy: bool) -> Self {
+        if use_legacy {
+            Self::new_legacy()
+        } else {
+            Self::new_versioned(CURRENT_PACKET_VERSION_NUMBER)
+        }
    }

    pub fn new_legacy() -> Self {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use nym_sphinx_params::{PacketType, ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm, DEFAULT_NUM_MIX
 use nym_sphinx_types::{Delay, NymPacket};
 use nym_topology::{NymTopology, NymTopologyError};
 use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng, SeedableRng};
-use rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng;
+use rand_chacha::ChaCha20Rng;

 use nym_sphinx_chunking::monitoring;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ impl From<PreparedFragment> for MixPacket {
 pub trait FragmentPreparer {
    type Rng: CryptoRng + Rng;

-    fn deterministic_route_selection(&self) -> bool;
    fn rng(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Rng;
    fn nonce(&self) -> i32;
    fn num_mix_hops(&self) -> u8;
@@ -202,7 +201,9 @@ pub trait FragmentPreparer {
        // could perform diffie-hellman with its own keys followed by a kdf to re-derive
        // the packet encryption key

-        let fragment_header = fragment.header();
+        let seed = fragment.seed().wrapping_mul(self.nonce());
+        let mut rng = ChaCha20Rng::seed_from_u64(seed as u64);
+
        let destination = packet_recipient.gateway();
        let hops = mix_hops.unwrap_or(self.num_mix_hops());
        monitoring::fragment_sent(&fragment, self.nonce(), *destination, hops);
@@ -240,18 +241,8 @@ pub trait FragmentPreparer {
        };

        // generate pseudorandom route for the packet
-        log::trace!("Preparing chunk for sending with {hops} mix hops");
-        let route = if self.deterministic_route_selection() {
-            log::trace!("using deterministic route selection");
-            let seed = fragment_header.seed().wrapping_mul(self.nonce());
-            let mut rng = ChaCha8Rng::seed_from_u64(seed as u64);
-            topology.random_route_to_gateway(&mut rng, hops, destination)?
-        } else {
-            log::trace!("using pseudorandom route selection");
-            let mut rng = self.rng();
-            topology.random_route_to_gateway(&mut rng, hops, destination)?
-        };
-
+        log::trace!("Preparing chunk for sending with {} mix hops", hops);
+        let route = topology.random_route_to_gateway(&mut rng, hops, destination)?;
        let destination = packet_recipient.as_sphinx_destination();

        // including set of delays
@@ -322,9 +313,6 @@ pub struct MessagePreparer<R> {
    /// Instance of a cryptographically secure random number generator.
    rng: R,

-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    deterministic_route_selection: bool,
-
    /// Address of this client which also represent an address to which all acknowledgements
    /// and surb-based are going to be sent.
    sender_address: Recipient,
@@ -348,7 +336,6 @@ where
 {
    pub fn new(
        rng: R,
-        deterministic_route_selection: bool,
        sender_address: Recipient,
        average_packet_delay: Duration,
        average_ack_delay: Duration,
@@ -357,7 +344,6 @@ where
        let nonce = rng.gen();
        MessagePreparer {
            rng,
-            deterministic_route_selection,
            sender_address,
            average_packet_delay,
            average_ack_delay,
@@ -471,18 +457,10 @@ where
 impl<R: CryptoRng + Rng> FragmentPreparer for MessagePreparer<R> {
    type Rng = R;

-    fn deterministic_route_selection(&self) -> bool {
-        self.deterministic_route_selection
-    }
-
    fn rng(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Rng {
        &mut self.rng
    }

-    fn nonce(&self) -> i32 {
-        self.nonce
-    }
-
    fn num_mix_hops(&self) -> u8 {
        self.num_mix_hops
    }
@@ -494,6 +472,10 @@ impl<R: CryptoRng + Rng> FragmentPreparer for MessagePreparer<R> {
    fn average_ack_delay(&self) -> Duration {
        self.average_ack_delay
    }
+
+    fn nonce(&self) -> i32 {
+        self.nonce
+    }
 }

 /*
@@ -253,15 +253,25 @@ impl Socks5RequestContent {
    /// Deserialize the request type, connection id, destination address and port,
    /// and the request body from bytes.
    ///
+    // TODO: this was already inaccurate
+    // /// Serialized bytes looks like this:
+    // ///
+    // /// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // ///  request_flag | connection_id | address_length | remote_address_bytes | request_data |
+    // ///        1      |       8       |      2         |    address_length    |    ...       |
+    // /// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    ///
    /// The request_flag tells us whether this is a new connection request (`new_connect`),
    /// an already-established connection we should send up (`new_send`), or
    /// a request to close an established connection (`new_close`).
+
    // connect:
    // RequestFlag::Connect || CONN_ID || ADDR_LEN || ADDR || <RETURN_ADDR>
    //
    // send:
    // RequestFlag::Send || CONN_ID || LOCAL_CLOSED || DATA
    // where DATA: SEQ || TRUE_DATA
+
    pub fn try_from_bytes(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Socks5RequestContent, RequestDeserializationError> {
        // each request needs to at least contain flag and ConnectionId
        if b.is_empty() {
@@ -26,4 +26,3 @@ nym-sphinx = { path = "../nymsphinx" }
 nym-credentials-interface = { path = "../credentials-interface" }
 nym-metrics = { path = "../nym-metrics" }
 nym-task = { path = "../task" }
-
@@ -31,12 +31,40 @@ impl GatewayStatsReporter {
 /// Gateway Statistics events
 pub enum GatewayStatsEvent {
    /// Events in the lifecycle of an established client tunnel
-    SessionStatsEvent(GatewaySessionEvent),
+    SessionStatsEvent(SessionEvent),
+}
+
+impl GatewayStatsEvent {
+    /// A new session between this gateway and the client remote has successfully opened
+    pub fn new_session_start(client: DestinationAddressBytes) -> GatewayStatsEvent {
+        GatewayStatsEvent::SessionStatsEvent(SessionEvent::SessionStart {
+            start_time: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
+            client,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// An existing session with the client remote has ended
+    pub fn new_session_stop(client: DestinationAddressBytes) -> GatewayStatsEvent {
+        GatewayStatsEvent::SessionStatsEvent(SessionEvent::SessionStop {
+            stop_time: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
+            client,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// A new ecash ticket has been added / requested
+    pub fn new_ecash_ticket(
+        client: DestinationAddressBytes,
+        ticket_type: TicketType,
+    ) -> GatewayStatsEvent {
+        GatewayStatsEvent::SessionStatsEvent(SessionEvent::EcashTicket {
+            ticket_type,
+            client,
+        })
+    }
 }

 /// Events in the lifecycle of an established client tunnel
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
-pub enum GatewaySessionEvent {
+pub enum SessionEvent {
    /// A new session between this gateway and the client remote has successfully opened
    SessionStart {
        /// The timestamp of the session open event
@@ -59,32 +87,3 @@ pub enum GatewaySessionEvent {
        client: DestinationAddressBytes,
    },
 }
-
-impl GatewaySessionEvent {
-    /// A new session between this gateway and the client remote has successfully opened
-    pub fn new_session_start(client: DestinationAddressBytes) -> GatewaySessionEvent {
-        GatewaySessionEvent::SessionStart {
-            start_time: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-            client,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// An existing session with the client remote has ended
-    pub fn new_session_stop(client: DestinationAddressBytes) -> GatewaySessionEvent {
-        GatewaySessionEvent::SessionStop {
-            stop_time: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-            client,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// A new ecash ticket has been added / requested
-    pub fn new_ecash_ticket(
-        client: DestinationAddressBytes,
-        ticket_type: TicketType,
-    ) -> GatewaySessionEvent {
-        GatewaySessionEvent::EcashTicket {
-            ticket_type,
-            client,
-        }
-    }
-}
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #![warn(clippy::dbg_macro)]

 use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519;
-use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
+use sha2::Digest;

 /// Client specific statistics interfaces and events.
 pub mod clients;
@@ -36,7 +36,3 @@ fn generate_stats_id<M: AsRef<[u8]>>(prefix: &str, id_seed: M) -> String {
    let output = hasher.finalize();
    format!("{:x}", output)
 }
-
-pub fn hash_identifier<M: AsRef<[u8]>>(identifier: M) -> String {
-    format!("{:x}", Sha256::digest(identifier))
-}
@@ -455,10 +455,6 @@ impl TaskClient {
        self.mode.set_should_not_signal_on_drop();
    }

-    pub fn rearm(&mut self) {
-        self.mode.set_should_signal_on_drop();
-    }
-
    pub fn send_we_stopped(&mut self, err: SentError) {
        if self.mode.is_dummy() {
            return;
@@ -486,7 +482,7 @@ impl Drop for TaskClient {
        if !self.mode.should_signal_on_drop() {
            self.log(
                Level::Trace,
-                "the task client is getting dropped but instructed to not signal: this is expected during client shutdown",
+                "the task client is getting dropped but inststructed to not signal: this is expected during client shutdown",
            );
            return;
        } else {
@@ -531,14 +527,6 @@ impl ClientOperatingMode {
        }
    }

-    fn set_should_signal_on_drop(&mut self) {
-        use ClientOperatingMode::{Dummy, Listening, ListeningButDontReportHalt};
-        *self = match &self {
-            ListeningButDontReportHalt | Listening => Listening,
-            Dummy => Dummy,
-        };
-    }
-
    fn set_should_not_signal_on_drop(&mut self) {
        use ClientOperatingMode::{Dummy, Listening, ListeningButDontReportHalt};
        *self = match &self {
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-[package]
-name = "nym-verloc"
-version = "0.1.0"
-authors.workspace = true
-repository.workspace = true
-homepage.workspace = true
-documentation.workspace = true
-edition.workspace = true
-license.workspace = true
-rust-version.workspace = true
-readme.workspace = true
-
-[dependencies]
-bytes = { workspace = true }
-futures = { workspace = true }
-humantime = { workspace = true }
-tracing = { workspace = true }
-time = { workspace = true }
-tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["sync", "net", "rt-multi-thread", "io-util"] }
-tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["codec"] }
-thiserror = { workspace = true }
-rand = { workspace = true }
-url = { workspace = true }
-
-nym-crypto = { path = "../crypto", features = ["asymmetric"] }
-nym-task = { path = "../task" }
-nym-validator-client = { path = "../client-libs/validator-client" }
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use std::io;
-use std::net::SocketAddr;
-use thiserror::Error;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Error)]
-pub enum VerlocError {
-    #[error("the received echo packet had unexpected size")]
-    UnexpectedEchoPacketSize,
-
-    #[error("the received reply packet had unexpected size")]
-    UnexpectedReplyPacketSize,
-
-    #[error("the received echo packet had malformed sender")]
-    MalformedSenderIdentity,
-
-    #[error("the received echo packet had malformed signature")]
-    MalformedEchoSignature,
-
-    #[error("the received reply packet had malformed signature")]
-    MalformedReplySignature,
-
-    #[error("the received echo packet had invalid signature")]
-    InvalidEchoSignature,
-
-    #[error("the received reply packet had invalid signature")]
-    InvalidReplySignature,
-
-    #[error("could not establish connection to {identity} on {address}: {err}")]
-    UnreachableNode {
-        identity: String,
-        address: SocketAddr,
-        #[source]
-        err: io::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to write echo packet to {identity} on {address}: {err}")]
-    UnexpectedConnectionFailureWrite {
-        identity: String,
-        address: SocketAddr,
-        #[source]
-        err: io::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to read reply packet from {identity} on {address}: {err}")]
-    UnexpectedConnectionFailureRead {
-        identity: String,
-        address: SocketAddr,
-        #[source]
-        err: io::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("timed out while trying to read reply packet from {identity} on {address}")]
-    ConnectionReadTimeout {
-        identity: String,
-        address: SocketAddr,
-    },
-
-    #[error("timed out while trying to write echo packet to {identity} on {address}")]
-    ConnectionWriteTimeout {
-        identity: String,
-        address: SocketAddr,
-    },
-
-    #[error("the received reply packet had an unexpected sequence number")]
-    UnexpectedReplySequence,
-
-    #[error("shutdown signal received")]
-    ShutdownReceived,
-}
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-#![warn(clippy::expect_used)]
-#![warn(clippy::unwrap_used)]
-#![warn(clippy::todo)]
-#![warn(clippy::dbg_macro)]
-
-pub mod error;
-pub mod measurements;
-pub mod models;
@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use nym_validator_client::UserAgent;
-use std::net::{IpAddr, Ipv6Addr, SocketAddr};
-use std::time::Duration;
-use url::Url;
-
-// by default all of those are overwritten by config data from nym-node directly
-const DEFAULT_VERLOC_PORT: u16 = 1790;
-const DEFAULT_PACKETS_PER_NODE: usize = 100;
-const DEFAULT_PACKET_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(1500);
-const DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(5000);
-const DEFAULT_DELAY_BETWEEN_PACKETS: Duration = Duration::from_millis(50);
-const DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 50;
-const DEFAULT_TESTING_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60 * 60 * 12);
-const DEFAULT_RETRY_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60 * 30);
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct Config {
-    /// Socket address of this node on which it will be listening for the measurement packets.
-    pub listening_address: SocketAddr,
-
-    /// Specifies number of echo packets sent to each node during a measurement run.
-    pub packets_per_node: usize,
-
-    /// Specifies maximum amount of time to wait for the reply packet to arrive before abandoning the test.
-    pub packet_timeout: Duration,
-
-    /// Specifies maximum amount of time to wait for the connection to get established.
-    pub connection_timeout: Duration,
-
-    /// Specifies delay between subsequent test packets being sent (after receiving a reply).
-    pub delay_between_packets: Duration,
-
-    /// Specifies number of nodes being tested at once.
-    pub tested_nodes_batch_size: usize,
-
-    /// Specifies delay between subsequent test runs.
-    pub testing_interval: Duration,
-
-    /// Specifies delay between attempting to run the measurement again if the previous run failed
-    /// due to being unable to get the list of nodes.
-    pub retry_timeout: Duration,
-
-    /// URLs to the nym apis for obtaining network topology.
-    pub nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
-
-    /// User agent used for querying the nym-api
-    pub user_agent: UserAgent,
-}
-
-impl Config {
-    pub fn build(nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>, user_agent: impl Into<UserAgent>) -> ConfigBuilder {
-        ConfigBuilder::new(nym_api_urls, user_agent)
-    }
-}
-
-#[must_use]
-pub struct ConfigBuilder(Config);
-
-impl ConfigBuilder {
-    pub fn new(nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>, user_agent: impl Into<UserAgent>) -> ConfigBuilder {
-        ConfigBuilder(Config {
-            // '[::]:port'
-            listening_address: SocketAddr::new(
-                IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
-                DEFAULT_VERLOC_PORT,
-            ),
-            packets_per_node: DEFAULT_PACKETS_PER_NODE,
-            packet_timeout: DEFAULT_PACKET_TIMEOUT,
-            connection_timeout: DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
-            delay_between_packets: DEFAULT_DELAY_BETWEEN_PACKETS,
-            tested_nodes_batch_size: DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE,
-            testing_interval: DEFAULT_TESTING_INTERVAL,
-            retry_timeout: DEFAULT_RETRY_TIMEOUT,
-            nym_api_urls,
-            user_agent: user_agent.into(),
-        })
-    }
-
-    pub fn listening_address(mut self, listening_address: SocketAddr) -> Self {
-        self.0.listening_address = listening_address;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn packets_per_node(mut self, packets_per_node: usize) -> Self {
-        self.0.packets_per_node = packets_per_node;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn packet_timeout(mut self, packet_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
-        self.0.packet_timeout = packet_timeout;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn connection_timeout(mut self, connection_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
-        self.0.connection_timeout = connection_timeout;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn delay_between_packets(mut self, delay_between_packets: Duration) -> Self {
-        self.0.delay_between_packets = delay_between_packets;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn tested_nodes_batch_size(mut self, tested_nodes_batch_size: usize) -> Self {
-        self.0.tested_nodes_batch_size = tested_nodes_batch_size;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn testing_interval(mut self, testing_interval: Duration) -> Self {
-        self.0.testing_interval = testing_interval;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn retry_timeout(mut self, retry_timeout: Duration) -> Self {
-        self.0.retry_timeout = retry_timeout;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn nym_api_urls(mut self, nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>) -> Self {
-        self.0.nym_api_urls = nym_api_urls;
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn build(self) -> Config {
-        // panics here are fine as those are only ever constructed at the initial setup
-        assert!(
-            !self.0.nym_api_urls.is_empty(),
-            "at least one validator endpoint must be provided",
-        );
-        self.0
-    }
-}
@@ -1,225 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::measurements::metrics::SharedVerlocStats;
-use crate::measurements::sender::TestedNode;
-use crate::measurements::{Config, PacketListener, PacketSender};
-use crate::models::VerlocNodeResult;
-use futures::stream::FuturesUnordered;
-use futures::StreamExt;
-use nym_crypto::asymmetric::identity;
-use nym_task::TaskClient;
-use nym_validator_client::models::NymNodeDescription;
-use nym_validator_client::NymApiClient;
-use rand::prelude::SliceRandom;
-use rand::thread_rng;
-use std::net::SocketAddr;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
-use tokio::time::sleep;
-use tracing::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};
-
-pub struct VerlocMeasurer {
-    config: Config,
-    packet_sender: Arc<PacketSender>,
-    packet_listener: Arc<PacketListener>,
-    shutdown_listener: TaskClient,
-    state: SharedVerlocStats,
-}
-
-impl VerlocMeasurer {
-    pub fn new(
-        config: Config,
-        identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
-        shutdown_listener: TaskClient,
-    ) -> Self {
-        VerlocMeasurer {
-            packet_sender: Arc::new(PacketSender::new(
-                Arc::clone(&identity),
-                config.packets_per_node,
-                config.packet_timeout,
-                config.connection_timeout,
-                config.delay_between_packets,
-                shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocPacketSender"),
-            )),
-            packet_listener: Arc::new(PacketListener::new(
-                config.listening_address,
-                Arc::clone(&identity),
-                shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocPacketListener"),
-            )),
-            shutdown_listener,
-            config,
-            state: SharedVerlocStats::default(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn set_shared_state(&mut self, state: SharedVerlocStats) {
-        self.state = state;
-    }
-
-    fn start_listening(&self) -> JoinHandle<()> {
-        let packet_listener = Arc::clone(&self.packet_listener);
-        tokio::spawn(packet_listener.run())
-    }
-
-    async fn perform_measurement(&self, nodes_to_test: Vec<TestedNode>) -> MeasurementOutcome {
-        trace!("Performing measurements");
-        if nodes_to_test.is_empty() {
-            debug!("there are no nodes to measure");
-            return MeasurementOutcome::Done;
-        }
-
-        let mut shutdown_listener = self.shutdown_listener.clone().named("VerlocMeasurement");
-        shutdown_listener.disarm();
-
-        for chunk in nodes_to_test.chunks(self.config.tested_nodes_batch_size) {
-            let mut chunk_results = Vec::with_capacity(chunk.len());
-
-            let mut measurement_chunk = chunk
-                .iter()
-                .map(|node| {
-                    let node = *node;
-                    let packet_sender = Arc::clone(&self.packet_sender);
-                    // TODO: there's a potential issue here. if we make the measurement go into separate
-                    // task, we risk biasing results with the bunch of context switches overhead
-                    // but if we don't do it, it will take ages to complete
-
-                    // TODO: check performance difference when it's not spawned as a separate task
-                    tokio::spawn(async move {
-                        (
-                            packet_sender.send_packets_to_node(node).await,
-                            node.identity,
-                        )
-                    })
-                })
-                .collect::<FuturesUnordered<_>>();
-
-            // exhaust the results
-            while !shutdown_listener.is_shutdown() {
-                tokio::select! {
-                    measurement_result = measurement_chunk.next() => {
-                        let Some(result) = measurement_result else {
-                            // if the stream has finished, it means we got everything we could have gotten
-                            break
-                        };
-
-                        // if we receive JoinError it means the task failed to get executed, so either there's a bigger issue with tokio
-                        // or there was a panic inside the task itself. In either case, we should just terminate ourselves.
-                        let Ok(execution_result) = result else {
-                            error!("the verloc measurer has panicked!");
-                            continue
-                        };
-                        let identity = execution_result.1;
-
-                        let measurement_result = match execution_result.0 {
-                            Err(err) => {
-                                debug!("Failed to perform measurement for {identity}: {err}");
-                                None
-                            }
-                            Ok(result) => Some(result),
-                        };
-                        chunk_results.push(VerlocNodeResult::new(identity, measurement_result));
-                    },
-                    _ = shutdown_listener.recv() => {
-                        trace!("Shutdown received while measuring");
-                        return MeasurementOutcome::Shutdown;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            // update the results vector with chunks as they become available (by default every 50 nodes)
-            self.state.append_measurement_results(chunk_results).await;
-        }
-
-        MeasurementOutcome::Done
-    }
-
-    async fn get_list_of_nodes(&self) -> Option<Vec<NymNodeDescription>> {
-        let mut api_endpoints = self.config.nym_api_urls.clone();
-        api_endpoints.shuffle(&mut thread_rng());
-        for api_endpoint in api_endpoints {
-            let client = NymApiClient::new_with_user_agent(
-                api_endpoint.clone(),
-                self.config.user_agent.clone(),
-            );
-            match client.get_all_described_nodes().await {
-                Ok(res) => return Some(res),
-                Err(err) => {
-                    warn!("failed to get described nodes from {api_endpoint}: {err}")
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        None
-    }
-
-    pub async fn run(&mut self) {
-        self.start_listening();
-
-        while !self.shutdown_listener.is_shutdown() {
-            info!("Starting verloc measurements");
-            // TODO: should we also measure gateways?
-
-            let Some(all_nodes) = self.get_list_of_nodes().await else {
-                error!("failed to obtain list of all nodes from any available api endpoint");
-                sleep(self.config.retry_timeout).await;
-                continue;
-            };
-
-            if all_nodes.is_empty() {
-                warn!("it does not seem there are any nodes to measure...");
-                sleep(self.config.retry_timeout).await;
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            // we only care about address and identity
-            let tested_nodes = all_nodes
-                .into_iter()
-                .filter_map(|node| {
-                    // try to parse the identity and host
-                    let node_identity = node.ed25519_identity_key();
-
-                    let ip = node.description.host_information.ip_address.first()?;
-                    let verloc_port = node.description.verloc_port();
-                    let verloc_host = SocketAddr::new(*ip, verloc_port);
-
-                    // TODO: possible problem in the future, this does name resolution and theoretically
-                    // if a lot of nodes maliciously mis-configured themselves, it might take a while to resolve them all
-                    // However, maybe it's not a problem as if they are misconfigured, they will eventually be
-                    // pushed out of the network and on top of that, verloc is done in separate task that runs
-                    // only every few hours.
-                    Some(TestedNode::new(verloc_host, node_identity))
-                })
-                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-
-            // on start of each run remove old results
-            self.state.start_new_measurements(tested_nodes.len()).await;
-
-            if let MeasurementOutcome::Shutdown = self.perform_measurement(tested_nodes).await {
-                trace!("Shutting down after aborting measurements");
-                break;
-            }
-
-            // write current time to "run finished" field
-            self.state.finish_measurements().await;
-
-            info!(
-                "Finished performing verloc measurements. The next one will happen in {:?}",
-                self.config.testing_interval
-            );
-
-            tokio::select! {
-                _ = sleep(self.config.testing_interval) => {},
-                _ = self.shutdown_listener.recv() => {
-                    trace!("Shutdown received while sleeping");
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        trace!("Verloc: Exiting");
-    }
-}
-
-enum MeasurementOutcome {
-    Done,
-    Shutdown,
-}
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::models::{VerlocNodeResult, VerlocResultData};
-use std::mem;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-use tokio::sync::{RwLock, RwLockReadGuard, RwLockWriteGuard};
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
-pub struct SharedVerlocStats {
-    inner: Arc<RwLock<VerlocStatsState>>,
-}
-
-impl SharedVerlocStats {
-    pub(crate) async fn start_new_measurements(&self, nodes_to_test: usize) {
-        let mut guard = self.write().await;
-        guard.previous_run_data = mem::take(&mut guard.current_run_data);
-        guard.current_run_data.nodes_tested = nodes_to_test;
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn append_measurement_results(&self, mut new_data: Vec<VerlocNodeResult>) {
-        let mut write_permit = self.write().await;
-        write_permit.current_run_data.results.append(&mut new_data);
-        // make sure the data always stays in order.
-        // TODO: considering the front of the results is guaranteed to be sorted, should perhaps
-        // a non-default sorting algorithm be used?
-        write_permit.current_run_data.results.sort()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn finish_measurements(&self) {
-        self.write().await.current_run_data.run_finished = Some(OffsetDateTime::now_utc())
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
-pub struct VerlocStatsState {
-    pub current_run_data: VerlocResultData,
-    pub previous_run_data: VerlocResultData,
-}
-
-impl SharedVerlocStats {
-    pub async fn read(&self) -> RwLockReadGuard<'_, VerlocStatsState> {
-        self.inner.read().await
-    }
-
-    pub async fn write(&self) -> RwLockWriteGuard<'_, VerlocStatsState> {
-        self.inner.write().await
-    }
-}
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-pub mod config;
-pub mod listener;
-pub mod measurer;
-pub mod metrics;
-pub mod packet;
-pub mod sender;
-
-pub use config::{Config, ConfigBuilder};
-pub use listener::PacketListener;
-pub use measurer::VerlocMeasurer;
-pub use metrics::{SharedVerlocStats, VerlocStatsState};
-pub use packet::{EchoPacket, ReplyPacket};
-pub use sender::PacketSender;
@@ -1,225 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use nym_crypto::asymmetric::ed25519::{self};
-use std::cmp::Ordering;
-use std::fmt;
-use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
-use std::time::Duration;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct VerlocResultData {
-    pub nodes_tested: usize,
-
-    pub run_started: OffsetDateTime,
-
-    pub run_finished: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
-
-    pub results: Vec<VerlocNodeResult>,
-}
-
-impl Default for VerlocResultData {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        VerlocResultData {
-            nodes_tested: 0,
-            run_started: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-            run_finished: None,
-            results: vec![],
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl VerlocResultData {
-    pub fn run_finished(&self) -> bool {
-        self.run_finished.is_some()
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq)]
-pub struct VerlocNodeResult {
-    pub node_identity: ed25519::PublicKey,
-
-    pub latest_measurement: Option<VerlocMeasurement>,
-}
-
-impl VerlocNodeResult {
-    pub fn new(
-        node_identity: ed25519::PublicKey,
-        latest_measurement: Option<VerlocMeasurement>,
-    ) -> Self {
-        VerlocNodeResult {
-            node_identity,
-            latest_measurement,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl PartialOrd for VerlocNodeResult {
-    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
-        Some(self.cmp(other))
-    }
-}
-
-impl Ord for VerlocNodeResult {
-    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
-        // if both have measurement, compare measurements
-        // then if only one have measurement, prefer that one
-        // completely ignore identity as it makes no sense to order by it
-        if let Some(self_measurement) = &self.latest_measurement {
-            if let Some(other_measurement) = &other.latest_measurement {
-                self_measurement.cmp(other_measurement)
-            } else {
-                Ordering::Less
-            }
-        } else if other.latest_measurement.is_some() {
-            Ordering::Greater
-        } else {
-            Ordering::Equal
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct VerlocMeasurement {
-    /// Minimum RTT duration it took to receive an echo packet.
-    pub minimum: Duration,
-
-    /// Average RTT duration it took to receive the echo packets.
-    pub mean: Duration,
-
-    /// Maximum RTT duration it took to receive an echo packet.
-    pub maximum: Duration,
-
-    /// The standard deviation of the RTT duration it took to receive the echo packets.
-    pub standard_deviation: Duration,
-}
-
-impl VerlocMeasurement {
-    pub fn new(raw_results: &[Duration]) -> Self {
-        let minimum = raw_results.iter().min().copied().unwrap_or_default();
-        let maximum = raw_results.iter().max().copied().unwrap_or_default();
-
-        let mean = Self::duration_mean(raw_results);
-        let standard_deviation = Self::duration_standard_deviation(raw_results, mean);
-
-        VerlocMeasurement {
-            minimum,
-            mean,
-            maximum,
-            standard_deviation,
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn duration_mean(data: &[Duration]) -> Duration {
-        if data.is_empty() {
-            return Default::default();
-        }
-
-        let sum = data.iter().sum::<Duration>();
-        let count = data.len() as u32;
-
-        sum / count
-    }
-
-    fn duration_standard_deviation(data: &[Duration], mean: Duration) -> Duration {
-        if data.is_empty() {
-            return Default::default();
-        }
-
-        let variance_micros = data
-            .iter()
-            .map(|&value| {
-                // make sure we don't underflow
-                let diff = if mean > value {
-                    mean - value
-                } else {
-                    value - mean
-                };
-                // we don't need nanos precision
-                let diff_micros = diff.as_micros();
-                diff_micros * diff_micros
-            })
-            .sum::<u128>()
-            / data.len() as u128;
-
-        // we shouldn't really overflow as our differences shouldn't be larger than couple seconds at the worst possible case scenario
-        let std_deviation_micros = (variance_micros as f64).sqrt() as u64;
-        Duration::from_micros(std_deviation_micros)
-    }
-}
-
-impl Display for VerlocMeasurement {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        write!(
-            f,
-            "rtt min/avg/max/mdev = {} / {} / {} / {}",
-            humantime::format_duration(self.minimum),
-            humantime::format_duration(self.mean),
-            humantime::format_duration(self.maximum),
-            humantime::format_duration(self.standard_deviation)
-        )
-    }
-}
-
-impl PartialOrd for VerlocMeasurement {
-    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
-        Some(self.cmp(other))
-    }
-}
-
-impl Ord for VerlocMeasurement {
-    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
-        // minimum value is most important, then look at standard deviation, then mean and finally maximum
-        let min_cmp = self.minimum.cmp(&other.minimum);
-        if min_cmp != Ordering::Equal {
-            return min_cmp;
-        }
-        let std_dev_cmp = self.standard_deviation.cmp(&other.standard_deviation);
-        if std_dev_cmp != Ordering::Equal {
-            return std_dev_cmp;
-        }
-        let std_dev_cmp = self.mean.cmp(&other.mean);
-        if std_dev_cmp != Ordering::Equal {
-            return std_dev_cmp;
-        }
-        self.maximum.cmp(&other.maximum)
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use super::*;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn sorting_vec_of_verlocs() {
-        let some_identity =
-            ed25519::PublicKey::from_base58_string("Be9wH7xuXBRJAuV1pC7MALZv6a61RvWQ3SypsNarqTt")
-                .unwrap();
-        let no_measurement = VerlocNodeResult::new(some_identity, None);
-        let low_min = VerlocNodeResult::new(
-            some_identity,
-            Some(VerlocMeasurement {
-                minimum: Duration::from_millis(42),
-                mean: Duration::from_millis(43),
-                maximum: Duration::from_millis(44),
-                standard_deviation: Duration::from_millis(45),
-            }),
-        );
-        let higher_min = VerlocNodeResult::new(
-            some_identity,
-            Some(VerlocMeasurement {
-                minimum: Duration::from_millis(420),
-                mean: Duration::from_millis(430),
-                maximum: Duration::from_millis(440),
-                standard_deviation: Duration::from_millis(450),
-            }),
-        );
-
-        let mut vec_verloc = vec![no_measurement, low_min, no_measurement, higher_min];
-        vec_verloc.sort();
-
-        let expected_sorted = vec![low_min, higher_min, no_measurement, no_measurement];
-        assert_eq!(expected_sorted, vec_verloc);
-    }
-}
@@ -162,13 +162,6 @@ pub struct TrafficWasm {
    /// a loop cover message is sent instead in order to preserve the rate.
    pub message_sending_average_delay_ms: u32,

-    /// Specify how many times particular packet can be retransmitted
-    /// None - no limit
-    pub maximum_number_of_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
-
-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    pub deterministic_route_selection: bool,
-
    /// Controls whether the main packet stream constantly produces packets according to the predefined
    /// poisson distribution.
    pub disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: bool,
@@ -203,8 +196,6 @@ impl From<TrafficWasm> for ConfigTraffic {
            message_sending_average_delay: Duration::from_millis(
                traffic.message_sending_average_delay_ms as u64,
            ),
-            deterministic_route_selection: traffic.deterministic_route_selection,
-            maximum_number_of_retransmissions: traffic.maximum_number_of_retransmissions,
            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: traffic
                .disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
            primary_packet_size: PacketSize::RegularPacket,
@@ -220,8 +211,6 @@ impl From<ConfigTraffic> for TrafficWasm {
            average_packet_delay_ms: traffic.average_packet_delay.as_millis() as u32,
            message_sending_average_delay_ms: traffic.message_sending_average_delay.as_millis()
                as u32,
-            deterministic_route_selection: traffic.deterministic_route_selection,
-            maximum_number_of_retransmissions: traffic.maximum_number_of_retransmissions,
            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: traffic
                .disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
            use_extended_packet_size: traffic.secondary_packet_size.is_some(),
@@ -88,14 +88,6 @@ pub struct TrafficWasmOverride {
    #[tsify(optional)]
    pub message_sending_average_delay_ms: Option<u32>,

-    /// Specify how many times particular packet can be retransmitted
-    #[tsify(optional)]
-    pub maximum_number_of_retransmissions: Option<u32>,
-
-    /// Specify whether route selection should be determined by the packet header.
-    #[tsify(optional)]
-    pub deterministic_route_selection: Option<bool>,
-
    /// Controls whether the main packet stream constantly produces packets according to the predefined
    /// poisson distribution.
    #[tsify(optional)]
@@ -121,10 +113,6 @@ impl From<TrafficWasmOverride> for TrafficWasm {
            message_sending_average_delay_ms: value
                .message_sending_average_delay_ms
                .unwrap_or(def.message_sending_average_delay_ms),
-            maximum_number_of_retransmissions: value.maximum_number_of_retransmissions,
-            deterministic_route_selection: value
-                .deterministic_route_selection
-                .unwrap_or(def.deterministic_route_selection),
            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: value
                .disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution
                .unwrap_or(def.disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution),
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ log.workspace = true
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "net", "io-util"] }
 tokio-stream = { workspace = true }
-time = { workspace = true }
-tracing = { workspace = true }

 nym-authenticator-requests = { path = "../authenticator-requests" }
 nym-credential-verification = { path = "../credential-verification" }
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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
dynco-nym	d474a2840f	All agents use the same key - remove assigned_agent column - remove logic which would stop agents with the same key to connect - as a safety measure, add cap to total no. of agents	2024-11-21 00:21:14 +01:00
dynco-nym	bacf68697c	Update cargo version	2024-11-20 17:43:36 +01:00
dynco-nym	6c4333a962	Suppress ts-rs serde warnings	2024-11-20 15:42:59 +01:00
dynco-nym	03f40a9ce2	Uniform request authentication	2024-11-20 15:42:02 +01:00
dynco-nym	65f4c08050	Fix testrun cleanup bug - introduce a new column last_assigned which is different than created_at so that stale testruns get cleaned up based on last_assigned - created_at is still useful for determining the "oldest" testrun to be picked up	2024-11-20 12:31:26 +01:00
dynco-nym	1b52856fe5	Replay protection	2024-11-20 12:31:17 +01:00
dynco-nym	e4df6416f5	/request better authentication - moved agent API calls to Client struct	2024-11-20 12:29:29 +01:00
dynco-nym	f5ab647a7a	/submit with better auth - also adjust agent run script to authenticate, even in parallel	2024-11-20 12:24:39 +01:00
dynco-nym	ff53cd6e1d	Agents authenticate with NSAPI	2024-11-20 12:24:32 +01:00