Merge branch 'develop-with-release-1.1.0-merged-in' into feature/validator-api-tests

WIP
2022-11-09 10:15:54 +01:00 · 2022-11-09 10:05:47 +01:00 · 2022-11-08 16:22:39 +01:00 · 2022-11-08 12:30:27 +01:00 · 2022-11-07 18:37:31 +01:00 · 2022-11-07 17:36:21 +01:00
885 changed files with 21955 additions and 41540 deletions
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
    - cron: '5 9 * * *'
 jobs:
  cargo-deny:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -16,17 +16,14 @@ jobs:
      - name: Install cargo deny
        run: cargo install --locked cargo-deny
      - name: Run cargo deny
-        run: |
-          find . -name Cargo.toml -exec cargo deny --manifest-path {} check \
-            advisories -A advisory-not-detected  --hide-inclusion-graph \; &> \
-            >(uniq  &> .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/deny.message )
+        run: cargo deny check advisories --hide-inclusion-graph &> .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/deny.message
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: report
          path: .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/deny.message
  notification:
    needs: cargo-deny
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check out repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ jobs:
          override: true
          components: rustfmt, clippy

-      - name: Check formatting
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: fmt
-          args: --all -- --check
-
      - name: Build all binaries
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
        with:
@@ -54,6 +48,12 @@ jobs:
          command: test
          args: --workspace --all-features -- --ignored

+      - name: Check formatting
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: fmt
+          args: --all -- --check
+
      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
        name: Clippy checks
        with:
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ jobs:
          command: clippy
          args: --workspace -- -D warnings

-      # COCONUT stuff
-
      - name: Build all binaries with coconut enabled
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
        with:
@@ -84,4 +82,4 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
        with:
          command: clippy
-          args: --all-targets --features=coconut -- -D warnings
+          args: --features=coconut -- -D warnings
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [
  {
-    "os":"ubuntu-20.04",
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
    "rust":"stable",
    "runOnEvent":"always"
  },
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+name: Continuous integration on dispatch
+
+on: workflow_dispatch
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, custom-linux ]
+    # Enable sccache via environment variable
+    env:
+      RUSTC_WRAPPER: /home/ubuntu/.cargo/bin/sccache
+    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 squashfs-tools
+
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Install rust toolchain
+        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          profile: minimal
+          toolchain: stable
+          override: true
+          components: rustfmt, clippy
+
+      - name: Build all binaries
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: build
+          args: --workspace
+
+      - name: Run all tests
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: test
+          args: --workspace --all-features
+
+      - name: Check formatting
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: fmt
+          args: --all -- --check
+
+      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
+        name: Clippy checks
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          args: --all-features
+
+      - name: Run clippy
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: clippy
+          args: --workspace -- -D warnings
+
+      - name: Build all binaries with coconut enabled
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: build
+          args: --workspace --features=coconut
+
+      - name: Run all tests with coconut enabled
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: test
+          args: --workspace --features=coconut
+
+      - name: Run clippy with coconut enabled
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: clippy
+          args: --features=coconut -- -D warnings
@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 name: Build release of Nym smart contracts
 on:
  workflow_dispatch:
-  release:
-    types: [created]
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    working-directory: contracts

 jobs:
  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      
-      - name: Check the release tag starts with `nym-contracts-`
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/nym-contracts-') == false && github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
-        uses: actions/github-script@v3
-        with:
-          script: |
-            core.setFailed('Release tag did not start with nym-contracts-...')      

      - name: Install Rust stable
        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
@@ -26,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
          components: rustfmt, clippy

      - name: Build release contracts
-        run: make wasm
+        run: RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-s' cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown

      - name: Upload Mixnet Contract Artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
@@ -41,11 +36,3 @@ jobs:
          name: vesting_contract.wasm
          path: contracts/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/vesting_contract.wasm
          retention-days: 5
-
-      - name: Upload to release based on tag name
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
-        if: github.event_name == 'release'
-        with:
-          files: |
-            contracts/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/vesting_contract.wasm
-            contracts/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/mixnet_contract.wasm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
  matrix_prep:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
  contracts:
    # since it's going to be compiled into wasm, there's absolutely
    # no point in running CI on different OS-es
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.rust == 'nightly' }}
    needs: matrix_prep
    strategy:
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-name: CI for Network Explorer API
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  release:
-    types: [created]
-    
-env:
-  NETWORK: mainnet    
-
-jobs:
-  publish-nym:
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04]
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-      - 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
-
-      - name: Check the release tag starts with `nym-explorer-api-`
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/nym-explorer-api-') == false && github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
-        uses: actions/github-script@v3
-        with:
-          script: |
-            core.setFailed('Release tag did not start with nym-explorer-api-...')
-
-      - name: Install Rust stable
-        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
-        with:
-          toolchain: stable
-
-      - name: Build all explorer-api
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: build
-          args: --manifest-path explorer-api/Cargo.toml --workspace --release
-
-      - name: Upload Artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: my-artifact
-          path: |
-            target/release/explorer-api
-          retention-days: 30
-
-      - name: Upload to release based on tag name
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
-        if: github.event_name == 'release'
-        with:
-          files: |
-            target/release/explorer-api
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
    - cron: '14 1 * * *'
 jobs:
  matrix_prep:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
    steps:
      - name: Install Dependencies (Linux)
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev libudev-dev squashfs-tools
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04'
+        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'

      - name: Check out repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Reclaim some disk space
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04' }}
+        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
        with:
          command: clean

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ jobs:

  notification:
    needs: build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Collect jobs status
        uses: technote-space/workflow-conclusion-action@v2
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [
  {
-    "os":"ubuntu-20.04",
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
    "rust":"stable",
    "runOnEvent":"schedule"
  },
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  },

  {
-    "os":"ubuntu-20.04",
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
    "rust":"beta",
    "runOnEvent":"schedule"
  },
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  },

  {
-    "os":"ubuntu-20.04",
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
    "rust":"nightly",
    "runOnEvent":"schedule"
  },
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+[
+  {
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
+    "rust":"stable",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+
+  {
+    "os":"windows-latest",
+    "rust":"stable",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+  {
+    "os":"macos-latest",
+    "rust":"stable",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+
+  {
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
+    "rust":"beta",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+  {
+    "os":"windows-latest",
+    "rust":"beta",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+  {
+    "os":"macos-latest",
+    "rust":"beta",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+
+  {
+    "os":"ubuntu-latest",
+    "rust":"nightly",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+  {
+    "os":"windows-latest",
+    "rust":"nightly",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  },
+  {
+    "os":"macos-latest",
+    "rust":"nightly",
+    "runOnEvent":"workflow_dispatch"
+  }
+]
@@ -1,49 +1,32 @@
-name: Nightly builds on latest release
+name: Nightly builds on dispatch

-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '14 2 * * *'
+on: workflow_dispatch
 jobs:
  matrix_prep:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
      # creates the matrix strategy from nightly_build_matrix_includes.json
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - id: set-matrix
        uses: JoshuaTheMiller/conditional-build-matrix@main
        with:
-          inputFile: '.github/workflows/nightly_build_matrix_includes.json'
+          inputFile: '.github/workflows/nightly_build_matrix_on_dispatch.json'
          filter: '[?runOnEvent==`${{ github.event_name }}` || runOnEvent==`always`]'
-  get_release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    needs: matrix_prep
-    outputs:
-      output1: ${{ steps.step2.outputs.latest_release }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Check out repository code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Fetch all branches
-        run: git fetch --all
-      - name: Set output variable to latest release branch
-        id: step2
-        run: echo "latest_release=$(git branch -r | grep -E 'release/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | tail -n 1 | sed 's/  origin\///')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
  build:
-    needs: [get_release,matrix_prep]
+    needs: matrix_prep
    strategy:
      matrix: ${{fromJson(needs.matrix_prep.outputs.matrix)}}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.rust == 'nightly' || matrix.rust == 'beta' || matrix.rust == 'stable' }}
    steps:
      - name: Install Dependencies (Linux)
-        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev libudev-dev squashfs-tools
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04'
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev squashfs-tools
+        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'

-      - name: Check out latest release branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: ${{needs.get_release.outputs.output1}}
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Install rust toolchain
        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
@@ -59,12 +42,6 @@ jobs:
          command: build
          args: --workspace

-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
      - name: Run all tests
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
        with:
@@ -111,7 +88,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Reclaim some disk space
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04' }}
+        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
        with:
          command: clean

@@ -122,12 +99,6 @@ jobs:
          command: build
          args: --workspace --features=coconut

-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
      - name: Run all tests with coconut enabled
        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
        with:
@@ -174,13 +145,13 @@ jobs:
          args: --manifest-path nym-wallet/Cargo.toml --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings

  notification:
-    needs: [build,get_release]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Collect jobs status
        uses: technote-space/workflow-conclusion-action@v2
      - name: Check out repository code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Keybase - Node Install
        if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure'
        run: npm install
@@ -189,14 +160,14 @@ jobs:
        if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure'
        env:
          NYM_NOTIFICATION_KIND: nightly
-          NYM_PROJECT_NAME: "Nym nightly build on latest release"
+          NYM_PROJECT_NAME: "Nym nightly build"
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
          GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE: "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
-          GIT_BRANCH_NAME: "${{needs.get_release.outputs.output1}}"
+          GIT_BRANCH: "${GITHUB_REF##*/}"
          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME }}"
          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY }}"
-          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM }}"
-          KEYBASE_NYM_CHANNEL: "ci-nightly-release"
+          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMTECH_TEAM }}"
+          KEYBASE_NYM_CHANNEL: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_CHANNEL_DEV_CORE_ID }}"
          IS_SUCCESS: "${{ env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'success' }}"
        uses: docker://keybaseio/client:stable-node
        with:
@@ -1,203 +0,0 @@
-name: Nightly builds on second latest release
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '24 2 * * *'
-jobs:
-  matrix_prep:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    outputs:
-      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
-    steps:
-      # creates the matrix strategy from nightly_build_matrix_includes.json
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - id: set-matrix
-        uses: JoshuaTheMiller/conditional-build-matrix@main
-        with:
-          inputFile: '.github/workflows/nightly_build_matrix_includes.json'
-          filter: '[?runOnEvent==`${{ github.event_name }}` || runOnEvent==`always`]'
-  get_release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    needs: matrix_prep
-    outputs:
-      output1: ${{ steps.step2.outputs.latest_release }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Check out repository code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Fetch all branches
-        run: git fetch --all
-      - name: Set output variable to latest release branch
-        id: step2
-        run: echo "latest_release=$(git branch -r | grep -E 'release/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 | sed 's/  origin\///')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-  build:
-    needs: [get_release,matrix_prep]
-    strategy:
-      matrix: ${{fromJson(needs.matrix_prep.outputs.matrix)}}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.rust == 'nightly' || matrix.rust == 'beta' || matrix.rust == 'stable' }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Install Dependencies (Linux)
-        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev libudev-dev squashfs-tools
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04'
-
-      - name: Check out latest release branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: ${{needs.get_release.outputs.output1}}
-
-      - name: Install rust toolchain
-        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
-        with:
-          profile: minimal
-          toolchain: ${{ matrix.rust }}
-          override: true
-          components: rustfmt, clippy
-
-      - name: Build all binaries
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: build
-          args: --workspace
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      - name: Run all tests
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: test
-          args: --workspace
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      - name: Run expensive tests
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/develop' || github.event.pull_request.base.ref == 'develop' || github.event.pull_request.base.ref == 'master'
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: test
-          args: --workspace --all-features -- --ignored
-
-      - name: Check formatting
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: fmt
-          args: --all -- --check
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
-        name: Clippy checks
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          args: --all-features
-
-      - name: Run clippy
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.rust != 'nightly' }}
-        with:
-          command: clippy
-          args: --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      # COCONUT stuff
-      - name: Build all binaries with coconut enabled
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: build
-          args: --workspace --features=coconut
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      - name: Run all tests with coconut enabled
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: test
-          args: --workspace --features=coconut
-
-      - name: Reclaim some disk space (because Windows is being annoying)
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        with:
-          command: clean
-
-      - name: Run clippy with coconut enabled
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.rust != 'nightly' }}
-        with:
-          command: clippy
-          args: --workspace --all-targets --features=coconut -- -D warnings
-
-      # nym-wallet (the rust part)
-      - name: Build nym-wallet rust code
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: build
-          args: --manifest-path nym-wallet/Cargo.toml --workspace
-
-      - name: Run nym-wallet tests
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: test
-          args: --manifest-path nym-wallet/Cargo.toml --workspace
-
-      - name: Check nym-wallet formatting
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        with:
-          command: fmt
-          args: --manifest-path nym-wallet/Cargo.toml --all -- --check
-
-      - name: Run clippy for nym-wallet
-        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
-        if: ${{ matrix.rust != 'nightly' }}
-        with:
-          command: clippy
-          args: --manifest-path nym-wallet/Cargo.toml --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
-
-  notification:
-    needs: [build,get_release]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    steps:
-      - name: Collect jobs status
-        uses: technote-space/workflow-conclusion-action@v2
-      - name: Check out repository code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Keybase - Node Install
-        if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure'
-        run: npm install
-        working-directory: .github/workflows/support-files
-      - name: Keybase - Send Notification
-        if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure'
-        env:
-          NYM_NOTIFICATION_KIND: nightly
-          NYM_PROJECT_NAME: "Nym nightly build on latest release"
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
-          GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE: "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
-          GIT_BRANCH_NAME: "${{needs.get_release.outputs.output1}}"
-          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME }}"
-          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY }}"
-          KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM }}"
-          KEYBASE_NYM_CHANNEL: "ci-nightly-release"
-          IS_SUCCESS: "${{ env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'success' }}"
-        uses: docker://keybaseio/client:stable-node
-        with:
-          args: .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/entry_point.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04, windows-latest, macos-latest]
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04]
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest]

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
@@ -41,19 +41,19 @@ jobs:
    - name: Keybase - Node Install
      run: npm install
      working-directory: .github/workflows/support-files
-    - name: Keybase - Send Notification
-      env:
-        NYM_NOTIFICATION_KIND: nym-connect
-        NYM_PROJECT_NAME: "nym-connect"
-        NYM_CI_WWW_BASE: "${{ secrets.NYM_CI_WWW_BASE }}"
-        NYM_CI_WWW_LOCATION: "nym-connect-${{ env.GITHUB_REF_SLUG }}"
-        GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE: "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
-        GIT_BRANCH: "${GITHUB_REF##*/}"
-        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME }}"
-        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY }}"
-        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM }}"
-        KEYBASE_NYM_CHANNEL: "ci-nym-connect"
-        IS_SUCCESS: "${{ job.status == 'success' }}"
-      uses: docker://keybaseio/client:stable-node
-      with:
-        args: .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/entry_point.sh
+#    - name: Keybase - Send Notification
+#      env:
+#        NYM_NOTIFICATION_KIND: nym-connect
+#        NYM_PROJECT_NAME: "nym-connect"
+#        NYM_CI_WWW_BASE: "${{ secrets.NYM_CI_WWW_BASE }}"
+#        NYM_CI_WWW_LOCATION: "nym-connect-${{ env.GITHUB_REF_SLUG }}"
+#        GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE: "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
+#        GIT_BRANCH: "${GITHUB_REF##*/}"
+#        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_USERNAME }}"
+#        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_PAPERKEY }}"
+#        KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM: "${{ secrets.KEYBASE_NYMBOT_TEAM }}"
+#        KEYBASE_NYM_CHANNEL: "ci-nym-connect"
+#        IS_SUCCESS: "${{ job.status == 'success' }}"
+#      uses: docker://keybaseio/client:stable-node
+#      with:
+#        args: .github/workflows/support-files/notifications/entry_point.sh
@@ -19,15 +19,12 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04]
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest]

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

-      - 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
-
      - name: Check the release tag starts with `nym-binaries-`
        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/nym-binaries-') == false && github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
        uses: actions/github-script@v3
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04]
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest]

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-20.04]
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ defaults:
 jobs:
  test:
    name: wallet tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ async function getMessageBody(context) {
            ...
          ],
          check_run_url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/nymtech/nym/check-runs/5182940024',
-          labels: [ 'ubuntu-20.04' ],
+          labels: [ 'ubuntu-latest' ],
          runner_id: 1,
          runner_name: 'Hosted Agent',
          runner_group_id: 2,
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Tests for validator API
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "validator-api/tests/**"
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    working-directory: validator-api/tests
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: validator api tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Node v18
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: 18.1.0
+
+      - name: Install yarn
+        run: yarn install
+
+      - name: Run yarn
+        run: yarn
+
+      - name: Launch tests
+        run: yarn test
+        working-directory: validator-api/tests
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
  wasm:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

@@ -37,5 +37,4 @@ validator-config
 *.patch
 validator-api-config.toml
 dist
-storybook-static
-envs/qwerty.env
+storybook-static
@@ -2,147 +2,39 @@

 Post 1.0.0 release, the changelog format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

-## [Unreleased]
+## Unreleased

 ### Added

- socks5: send status message for service ready, and network-requester error response
-
-### Changed
-
- all-binaries: improved error logging ([#2686])
- native client: bring shutdown logic up to the same level as socks5-client
- nym-api, coconut-dkg contract: automatic, time-based dkg epoch state advancement ([#2670])
- all-binaries: standarised argument names (note: old names should still be accepted) ([#2762]
-
-### Fixed
-
- nym-api: should now correctly use `rewarding.enabled` config flag ([#2753])
-
-[#2686]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2686
-[#2670]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2670
-[#2753]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2753
-[#2762]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2762
-
-## [v1.1.4] (2022-12-20)
-
-This release adds multiple Single Use Reply Blocks (SURBs) to allow arbitrarily-sized anonymized replies.
-At the moment this is turned off by default, but available for use by application developers.
-We will need to wait for network-requesters to upgrade to this new release, after which multi-SURB anonymization will become the default setting for the SOCKS proxy clients.
-
-The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in the Coconut signing authority nodes.
-
-### Changed
-
- Feature/dkg contract threshold by @neacsu in https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1885
- Multi-surbs by @jstuczyn in https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2667
- Fix multi-surb backwards compatibility in pre 1.1.4 client config files by @jstuczyn in https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2703
- fix: ignore corrupted surb storage and instead create fresh one by @jstuczyn in https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/2711
- socks5: rework waiting in inbound.rs by @octol in https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1880
-
-## [v1.1.3] (2022-12-13)
-
-### Changed
-
- validator-api: can recover from shutdown during DKG process ([#1872])
- clients: deduplicate gateway inititialization, part of work towards a rust-sdk
- clients: keep all transmission lanes going at all times by making priority probabilistic
- clients: ability to use multi-reply SURBs to send arbitrarily long messages fully anonymously whilst requesting additional reply blocks whenever they're about to run out ([#1796], [#1801], [#1804], [#1835], [#1858], [#1883]))
-
-### Fixed
-
- network-requester: fix bug where websocket connection disconnect resulted in success error code
- clients: fix a few panics handling the gateway-client
- mixnode, gateway, validator-api: Use mainnet values as defaults for URLs and mixnet contract ([#1884])
- socks5: fixed bug where connections sometimes where closed too early
- clients: improve message logging when received message fails to get reconstructed ([#1803])
-
-[#1796]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1796
-[#1801]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1801
-[#1803]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1803
-[#1804]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1804
-[#1835]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1835
-[#1858]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1858
-[#1872]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1872
-[#1883]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1883
-[#1884]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1884
-
-## [v1.1.2]
-
-### Changed
-
- gateway: Renamed flag from `enabled/disabled_credentials_mode` to `only-coconut-credentials`
- "Family" feature for node families + layers
- Initial coconut functionality including credentials and distributed key generation
-
-## [v1.1.1](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/tree/v1.1.1) (2022-11-29)
-
-### Added
-
- binaries: add `-c` shortform for `--config-env-file`
- websocket-requests: add server response signalling current packet queue length in the client
- contracts: DKG contract that handles coconut key generation ([#1678][#1708][#1747])
- validator-api: generate coconut keys interactively, using DKG and multisig contracts ([#1678][#1708][#1747])
-
-### Changed
-
- clients: add concept of transmission lanes to better handle multiple data streams ([#1720])
- clients,validator-api: take coconut signers from the chain instead of specifying them via CLI ([#1747])
- multisig contract: add DKG contract to the list of addresses that can create proposals ([#1747])
- socks5-client: wait closing inbound connection until data is sent, and throttle incoming data in general ([#1783])
- nym-cli: improve error reporting/handling and changed `vesting-schedule` queries to use query client instead of signing client
-
-### Fixed
-
- gateway-client: fix decrypting stored messages on reconnect ([#1786])
-
-### Fixed
-
- gateway-client: fix decrypting stored messages on reconnect ([#1786])
- socks5-client: fix shutting down all tasks if anyone of them panics or errors out ([#1805])
-
-[#1678]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1678
-[#1708]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1708
-[#1720]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1720
-[#1747]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1747
-[#1783]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1783
-[#1786]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1786
-[#1805]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1805
-
-## [v1.1.0](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/tree/v1.1.0) (2022-11-09)
-
-### Added
-
- clients: add testing-only support for two more extended packet sizes (8kb and 16kb).
- common/ledger: new library for communicating with a Ledger device ([#1640])
- native-client/socks5-client/wasm-client: `disable_loop_cover_traffic_stream` Debug config option to disable the separate loop cover traffic stream ([#1666])
- native-client/socks5-client/wasm-client: `disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution` Debug config option to make the client ignore poisson distribution in the main packet stream and ONLY send real message (and as fast as they come) ([#1664])
- native-client/socks5-client/wasm-client: `use_extended_packet_size` Debug config option to make the client use 'ExtendedPacketSize' for its traffic (32kB as opposed to 2kB in 1.0.2) ([#1671])
- network-requester: added additional Blockstream Green wallet endpoint to `example.allowed.list` ([#1611])
- validator-api: add `interval_operating_cost` and `profit_margin_percent` to compute reward estimation endpoint
+- nym-cli: added CLI tool for interacting with the Nyx blockchain and Nym mixnet smart contracts ([#1577])
 - validator-client: added `query_contract_smart` and `query_contract_raw` on `NymdClient` ([#1558])
+- network-requester: added additional Blockstream Green wallet endpoint to `example.allowed.list` ([#1611](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1611))
+- common/ledger: new library for communicating with a Ledger device ([#1640])
+- native-client/socks5-client: `disable_loop_cover_traffic_stream` Debug config option to disable the separate loop cover traffic stream ([#1666])
+- native-client/socks5-client: `disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution` Debug config option to make the client ignore poisson distribution in the main packet stream and ONLY send real message (and as fast as they come) ([#1664])
+- native-client/socks5-client: `use_extended_packet_size` Debug config option to make the client use 'ExtendedPacketSize' for its traffic (32kB as opposed to 2kB in 1.0.2) ([#1671])
 - wasm-client: uses updated wasm-compatible `client-core` so that it's now capable of packet retransmission, cover traffic and poisson delay (among other things!) ([#1673])
+- validator-api: add `interval_operating_cost` and `profit_margin_percent` to cmpute reward estimation endpoint
+- native-client/socks5-client/network-requester: improve handling error cases ([#1713])
+- vesting-contract: optional locked token pledge cap per account ([#1687]), defaults to 100_000 NYM
+- clients: add testing-only support for two more extended packet sizes (8kb and 16kb).

 ### Fixed

+- validator-api, mixnode, gateway should now prefer values in config.toml over mainnet defaults ([#1645])
+- validator-api should now correctly update historical uptimes for all mixnodes and gateways every 24h ([#1721])
 - socks5-client: fix bug where in some cases packet reordering could trigger a connection being closed too early ([#1702],[#1724])
- validator-api: mixnode, gateway should now prefer values in config.toml over mainnet defaults ([#1645])
- validator-api: should now correctly update historical uptimes for all mixnodes and gateways every 24h ([#1721])

 ### Changed

- clients: bound the sphinx packet channel and reduce sending rate if gateway can't keep up ([#1703],[#1725])
- gateway-client: will attempt to read now as many as 8 websocket messages at once, assuming they're already available on the socket ([#1669])
- moved `Percent` struct to `contracts-common`, change affects explorer-api
- socks5 client: graceful shutdown should fix error on disconnect in nym-connect ([#1591])
- validator-api: changed error serialization on `inclusion_probability`, `stake-saturation` and `reward-estimation` endpoints to provide more accurate information ([#1681])
 - validator-client: made `fee` argument optional for `execute` and `execute_multiple` ([#1541])
+- socks5 client: graceful shutdown should fix error on disconnect in nym-connect ([#1591])
 - wasm-client: fixed build errors on MacOS and changed example JS code to use mainnet ([#1585])
- validator-api: changes to internal SQL schema due to the mixnet contract revamp ([#1472])
- validator-api: changes to internal data structures due to the mixnet contract revamp ([#1472])
- validator-api: split epoch-operations into multiple separate transactions ([#1472])
+- gateway-client: will attempt to read now as many as 8 websocket messages at once, assuming they're already available on the socket ([#1669])
+- validator-api: changed error serialization on `inclusion_probability`, `stake-saturation` and `reward-estimation` endpoints to provide more accurate information ([#1681]) 
+- moved `Percent` struct to to `contracts-common`, change affects explorer-api
+- clients: bound the sphinx packet channel and reduce sending rate if gateway can't keep up ([#1703],[#1725])

-[#1472]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1472
 [#1541]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1541
 [#1558]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1558
 [#1577]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1577
@@ -150,19 +42,21 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 [#1591]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1591
 [#1640]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1640
 [#1645]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1645
-[#1611]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1611
 [#1664]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1664
 [#1666]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1645
 [#1669]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1669
 [#1671]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1671
 [#1673]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1673
 [#1681]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1681
+[#1687]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1687
 [#1702]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1702
 [#1703]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1703
+[#1713]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1713
 [#1721]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1721
 [#1724]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1724
 [#1725]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1725

+
 ## [nym-binaries-1.0.2](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/tree/nym-binaries-1.0.2)

 ### Added
@@ -216,7 +110,8 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - gateway, network-statistics: include gateway id in the sent statistical data ([#1478])
 - network explorer: tweak how active set probability is shown ([#1503])
 - validator-api: rewarder set update fails without panicking on possible nymd queries ([#1520])
- network-requester, socks5 client (nym-connect): send and receive respectively a message error to be displayed about filter check failure ([#1576])
+- network-requester, socks5 client (nym-connect): send and receive respectively a message error to be displayed about filter check failure ([#1576]) 
+

 [#1249]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1249
 [#1256]: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1256
@@ -310,9 +205,9 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /clients/tauri-client [\#1163](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1163) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
 - Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /clients/webassembly/js-example [\#1162](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1162) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
 - Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /clients/native/examples/js-examples/websocket [\#1160](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1160) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
- Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /docker/typescript_client/upload_contract [\#1159](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1159) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /docker/typescript\_client/upload\_contract [\#1159](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1159) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
 - Feature/vesting full [\#1158](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1158) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
- get_current_epoch tauri [\#1156](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1156) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
+- get\_current\_epoch tauri [\#1156](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1156) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Cleanup [\#1155](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1155) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Feature flag reward payments [\#1154](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1154) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Add Query endpoints for calculating rewards [\#1152](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1152) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
@@ -321,7 +216,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - wallet: use Urls rather than Strings for validator urls [\#1148](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1148) ([octol](https://github.com/octol))
 - Change accumulated reward to Option, migrate delegations [\#1147](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1147) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - wallet: fetch validators url remotely if available [\#1146](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1146) ([octol](https://github.com/octol))
- Fix delegated_free calculation [\#1145](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1145) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
+- Fix delegated\_free calculation [\#1145](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1145) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Update Nym wallet dependencies to use `ts-packages` [\#1144](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1144) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
 - wallet: try validators one by one if available [\#1143](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1143) ([octol](https://github.com/octol))
 - Update Network Explorer Packages and add mix node identity key copy [\#1142](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1142) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
@@ -361,13 +256,14 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - feature/pedersen-commitments [\#1048](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/1048) ([danielementary](https://github.com/danielementary))
 - Feature/reuse init owner [\#970](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/970) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))

+
 ## [v0.12.1](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/tree/v0.12.1) (2021-12-23)

 [Full Changelog](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/compare/v0.12.0...v0.12.1)

 **Implemented enhancements:**

- Add version check to binaries [\#967](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/967)
+- Add version check to  binaries [\#967](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/967)

 **Fixed bugs:**

@@ -397,7 +293,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Bugfix/remove mixnode bonding overwrite [\#917](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/917) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Fixes crash condition in validator API when calculating last day uptime [\#909](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/909) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Bugfix/monitor initial values wait [\#907](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/907) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
- Bug fix: Network Explorer: Add freegeoip API key and split out tasks for country distributions [\#806](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/806) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
+- Bug fix: Network Explorer: Add freegeoip API key and split out tasks for country distributions  [\#806](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/806) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
 - Explorer API: port test now split out address resolution and add units tests [\#755](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/755) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))

 **Closed issues:**
@@ -412,7 +308,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - help!!! [\#712](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/712)
 - UX feature request: show all delegated nodes in wallet [\#711](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/711)
 - UX feature request: add current balance on wallet pages [\#710](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/710)
- got sign issue from bot [\#709](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/709)
+- got sign issue from bot  [\#709](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/709)
 - As a wallet user, I would like to be able to log out of the wallet [\#706](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/706)
 - As a wallet user, I would like to have a "receive" page where I can see my own wallet address [\#705](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/705)
 - Update native client/socks client/mixnode/gateway `upgrade` command [\#689](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/689)
@@ -422,7 +318,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - nym-socks5-client crash after opening Keybase team "Browse all channels" [\#494](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/494)
 - Mixed Content problem [\#400](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/400)
 - Gateway disk quota [\#137](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/137)
- Simplify message encapsulation with regards to topology [\#127](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/127)
+- Simplify message encapsulation with regards to topology  [\#127](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/127)
 - Create constants for cli argument names [\#115](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/115)
 - Using Blake3 as a hash function [\#103](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/103)
 - Validator should decide which layer a node is in [\#86](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/86)
@@ -478,10 +374,10 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Feature/pre cosmrs updates [\#935](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/935) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Feature/client on behalf [\#934](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/934) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Webpack wallet prod configuration [\#933](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/933) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
- Adding tx_hash to wallet response [\#932](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/932) ([futurechimp](https://github.com/futurechimp))
+- Adding tx\_hash to wallet response [\#932](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/932) ([futurechimp](https://github.com/futurechimp))
 - Release/1.0.0 pre1 [\#931](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/931) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Feature/identity verification [\#930](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/930) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
- Move cleaned up smart contracts to main code repo [\#929](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/929) ([mfahampshire](https://github.com/mfahampshire))
+- Move cleaned up smart contracts to main code repo  [\#929](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/929) ([mfahampshire](https://github.com/mfahampshire))
 - Feature/mixnet contract further adjustments [\#928](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/928) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - typo copy change for nodemap [\#926](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/926) ([Aid19801](https://github.com/Aid19801))
 - Feature/UI enhancements for Desktop Wallet [\#925](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/925) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
@@ -494,7 +390,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Feature/faucet page react [\#911](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/911) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Feature/mixnet contract refactor [\#910](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/910) ([futurechimp](https://github.com/futurechimp))
 - Update README.md [\#905](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/905) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
- BUG: Bond cell denom [\#904](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/904) ([Aid19801](https://github.com/Aid19801))
+- BUG: Bond cell denom  [\#904](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/904) ([Aid19801](https://github.com/Aid19801))
 - Explorer UI tests missing data-testid [\#903](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/903) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
 - Fix up Nym-Wallet README.md [\#899](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/899) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
 - Feature/batch delegator rewarding [\#898](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/898) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
@@ -512,7 +408,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Reverted gateway registration handshake to its 0.11.0 version [\#882](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/882) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Network Explorer [\#881](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/881) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
 - Feature/rewarding interval updates [\#880](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/880) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
- Put client_address and id in the correct order [\#875](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/875) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
+- Put client\_address and id in the correct order [\#875](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/875) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - remove gateway selection on delegation and undelegation pages [\#873](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/873) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Set MSRV on all binaries to 1.56 [\#872](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/872) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - add native window items \(copy/paste\) via tauri [\#871](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/871) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
@@ -528,7 +424,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Overflow checks in release [\#846](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/846) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - fix delegate success overflow [\#842](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/842) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Feature NYM wallet webdriverio test [\#841](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/841) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
- Update nym_wallet.yml [\#840](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/840) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
+- Update nym\_wallet.yml [\#840](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/840) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
 - Feature/vouchers [\#837](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/837) ([aniampio](https://github.com/aniampio))
 - Apply readable ids to elements on Nym Wallet [\#836](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/836) ([tommyv1987](https://github.com/tommyv1987))
 - Feature/removal of monitor good nodes [\#833](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/833) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
@@ -552,8 +448,8 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Created getters for AccountData [\#787](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/787) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Feature/migrate hidden delegations [\#786](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/786) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/persistent gateway storage [\#784](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/784) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
- Replaced unwrap_or_else with unwrap_or_default [\#780](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/780) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
- Add block_height method to Delegation [\#778](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/778) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
+- Replaced unwrap\_or\_else with unwrap\_or\_default [\#780](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/780) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
+- Add block\_height method to Delegation [\#778](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/778) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Make fee helpers public [\#777](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/777) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - re-enable bonding [\#776](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/776) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Explorer-api: add API resource to show the delegations for each mix node [\#774](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/774) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
@@ -562,14 +458,14 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Adding deps for building the Tauri wallet under Ubuntu [\#770](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/770) ([futurechimp](https://github.com/futurechimp))
 - remove alert [\#767](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/767) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Feature/consumable bandwidth [\#766](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/766) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
- Update coconut-rs and use hash_to_scalar from there [\#765](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/765) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
+- Update coconut-rs and use hash\_to\_scalar from there [\#765](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/765) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/active sets [\#764](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/764) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - add app alert banner [\#762](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/762) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
 - Updated cosmos-sdk [\#761](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/761) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Feature/bond blockstamp [\#760](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/760) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/revert migration code [\#759](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/759) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Bump next from 11.1.0 to 11.1.1 in /wallet-web [\#758](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/758) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
- Add block_height in the Delegation structure as well [\#757](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/757) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
+- Add block\_height in the Delegation structure as well [\#757](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/757) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/add blockstamp [\#756](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/756) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - NetworkMonitorBuilder - starting the monitor after rocket has launched [\#754](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/754) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Enabled validators api argument [\#753](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/753) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
@@ -581,7 +477,7 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Feature/more reliable uptime calculation [\#747](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/747) ([jstuczyn](https://github.com/jstuczyn))
 - Update template toml key [\#746](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/746) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/cred after handshake [\#745](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/745) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
- Reinstate the POST method blind_sign [\#744](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/744) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
+- Reinstate the POST method blind\_sign [\#744](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/744) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - explorer-api: add pending field to port check response [\#742](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/742) ([mmsinclair](https://github.com/mmsinclair))
 - Feature/use delegation rates [\#741](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/741) ([neacsu](https://github.com/neacsu))
 - Feature/copy to clipboard [\#740](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/740) ([fmtabbara](https://github.com/fmtabbara))
@@ -618,4 +514,6 @@ The release also include some additional work for distributed key generation in
 - Hang coconut issuance off the validator-api [\#679](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/679) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))
 - Update hmac and blake3 [\#673](https://github.com/nymtech/nym/pull/673) ([durch](https://github.com/durch))

-\* _This Changelog was automatically generated by [github_changelog_generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator)_
+
+
+\* *This Changelog was automatically generated by [github_changelog_generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator)*
@@ -26,13 +26,10 @@ members = [
    "common/client-libs/gateway-client",
    "common/client-libs/mixnet-client",
    "common/client-libs/validator-client",
-    "common/client-connections",
    "common/coconut-interface",
    "common/commands",
    "common/config",
-    "common/build-information",
    "common/cosmwasm-smart-contracts/coconut-bandwidth-contract",
-    "common/cosmwasm-smart-contracts/coconut-dkg",
    "common/cosmwasm-smart-contracts/contracts-common",
    "common/cosmwasm-smart-contracts/mixnet-contract",
    "common/cosmwasm-smart-contracts/multisig-contract",
@@ -75,9 +72,8 @@ members = [
    "mixnode",
    "service-providers/network-requester",
    "service-providers/network-statistics",
-    "nym-api",
-    "nym-api/nym-api-requests",
-    "nym-outfox",
+    "validator-api",
+    "validator-api/validator-api-requests",
    "tools/nym-cli",
    "tools/ts-rs-cli"
 ]
@@ -89,7 +85,7 @@ default-members = [
    "service-providers/network-requester",
    "service-providers/network-statistics",
    "mixnode",
-    "nym-api",
+    "validator-api",
    "explorer-api",
 ]

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ clippy-coconut:
 	cargo clippy --workspace --features coconut -- -D warnings

 clippy-wasm:
-	cargo clippy --manifest-path clients/webassembly/Cargo.toml --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --workspace -- -D warnings
+	cargo clippy --workspace --features wasm -- -D warnings


 clippy-all-contracts:
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ test-main:
 test-coconut:
 	cargo test --workspace --features coconut

+test-wasm:
+	cargo test --workspace --features wasm
+

 test-main-expensive:
 	cargo test --workspace -- --ignored
@@ -89,9 +92,6 @@ build-wallet:
 build-connect:
 	cargo build --manifest-path nym-connect/Cargo.toml --workspace

-build-explorer-api:
-	cargo build --manifest-path explorer-api/Cargo.toml --workspace
-
 build-wasm-client:
 	cargo build --manifest-path clients/webassembly/Cargo.toml --workspace --target wasm32-unknown-unknown

@@ -122,3 +122,6 @@ mixnet-opt: wasm
 generate-typescript:
 	cd tools/ts-rs-cli && cargo run && cd ../..
 	yarn types:lint:fix
+
+run-validator-tests:
+	cd validator-api/tests/functional_test && yarn test
@@ -1,31 +1,24 @@
 [package]
 name = "client-core"
-version = "1.1.4"
+version = "1.0.1"
 authors = ["Dave Hrycyszyn <futurechimp@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.66"

 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

 [dependencies]
-async-trait = { version = "0.1.58" }
 dirs = "4.0"
-dashmap = "5.4.0"
 futures = "0.3"
 humantime-serde = "1.0"
 log = "0.4"
 rand = { version = "0.7.3", features = ["wasm-bindgen"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1.0.89"
-tap = "1.0.1"
+sled = { version = "0.34", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0.34"
 url = { version ="2.2", features = ["serde"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["macros"]}
-time = "0.3.17"

 # internal
 config = { path = "../../common/config" }
-client-connections = { path = "../../common/client-connections" }
 crypto = { path = "../../common/crypto" }
 gateway-client = { path = "../../common/client-libs/gateway-client" }
 #gateway-client = { path = "../../common/client-libs/gateway-client", default-features = false, features = ["wasm", "coconut"] }
@@ -35,20 +28,9 @@ nymsphinx = { path = "../../common/nymsphinx" }
 pemstore = { path = "../../common/pemstore" }
 topology = { path = "../../common/topology" }
 validator-client = { path = "../../common/client-libs/validator-client", default-features = false }
-task = { path = "../../common/task" }
+tap = "1.0.1"

-[target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies.tokio-stream]
-version = "0.1.9"
-features = ["time"]
-
-[target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies.tokio]
-version = "1.21.2"
-features = ["time"]
-
-[target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies.sqlx]
-version = "0.6.2"
-features = ["runtime-tokio-rustls", "sqlite", "macros", "migrate"]
-optional = true
+tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["time", "macros"]}

 [target."cfg(target_arch = \"wasm32\")".dependencies.wasm-bindgen-futures]
 version = "0.4"
@@ -64,23 +46,14 @@ rev = "b9d1a54ad514c2f230a026afe0dde341e98cd7b6"
 version = "0.2.4"
 features = ["futures"]

-[target."cfg(target_arch = \"wasm32\")".dependencies.wasm-utils]
-path = "../../common/wasm-utils"
-
-[target."cfg(target_arch = \"wasm32\")".dependencies.time]
-version = "0.3.17"
-features = ["wasm-bindgen"]
+[target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies.task]
+path = "../../common/task"

 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.1.0"

-[build-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
-sqlx = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["runtime-tokio-rustls", "sqlite", "macros", "migrate"] }
-
 [features]
-default = []
-fs-surb-storage = ["sqlx"]
+default = ["reply-surb"]
 wasm = ["gateway-client/wasm"]
 coconut = ["gateway-client/coconut", "gateway-requests/coconut"]
-
+reply-surb = ["sled"]
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn main() {
-    #[cfg(feature = "fs-surb-storage")]
-    {
-        use sqlx::{Connection, SqliteConnection};
-        use std::env;
-
-        let out_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
-        let database_path = format!("{}/fs-surbs-example.sqlite", out_dir);
-
-        let mut conn = SqliteConnection::connect(&format!("sqlite://{}?mode=rwc", database_path))
-            .await
-            .expect("Failed to create SQLx database connection");
-
-        sqlx::migrate!("./fs_surbs_migrations")
-            .run(&mut conn)
-            .await
-            .expect("Failed to perform SQLx migrations");
-
-        #[cfg(target_family = "unix")]
-        println!("cargo:rustc-env=DATABASE_URL=sqlite://{}", &database_path);
-
-        #[cfg(target_family = "windows")]
-        // for some strange reason we need to add a leading `/` to the windows path even though it's
-        // not a valid windows path... but hey, it works...
-        println!("cargo:rustc-env=DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///{}", &database_path);
-    }
-}
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-CREATE TABLE status
-(
-    flush_in_progress        INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    previous_flush_timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    client_in_use            INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE reply_surb_storage_metadata
-(
-    min_reply_surb_threshold INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    max_reply_surb_threshold INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE sender_tag
-(
-    recipient BLOB NOT NULL UNIQUE,
-    tag       BLOB NOT NULL UNIQUE
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE reply_key
-(
-    key_digest        BLOB    NOT NULL UNIQUE,
-    reply_key         BLOB    NOT NULL UNIQUE,
-    sent_at_timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE reply_surb_sender
-(
-    id                  INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
-    last_sent_timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    tag                 BLOB    NOT NULL UNIQUE
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE reply_surb
-(
-    reply_surb_sender_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    reply_surb           BLOB    NOT NULL,
-
-    FOREIGN KEY (reply_surb_sender_id) REFERENCES reply_surb_sender (id)
-);
@@ -1,496 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::cover_traffic_stream::LoopCoverTrafficStream;
-use crate::client::inbound_messages::{InputMessage, InputMessageReceiver, InputMessageSender};
-use crate::client::key_manager::KeyManager;
-use crate::client::mix_traffic::{BatchMixMessageSender, MixTrafficController};
-use crate::client::real_messages_control;
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::RealMessagesController;
-use crate::client::received_buffer::{
-    ReceivedBufferRequestReceiver, ReceivedBufferRequestSender, ReceivedMessagesBufferController,
-};
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::{ReplyControllerReceiver, ReplyControllerSender};
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{
-    CombinedReplyStorage, PersistentReplyStorage, ReplyStorageBackend, SentReplyKeys,
-};
-use crate::client::topology_control::{
-    TopologyAccessor, TopologyRefresher, TopologyRefresherConfig,
-};
-use crate::config::{Config, DebugConfig, GatewayEndpointConfig};
-use crate::error::ClientCoreError;
-use crate::spawn_future;
-use client_connections::{ConnectionCommandReceiver, ConnectionCommandSender, LaneQueueLengths};
-use crypto::asymmetric::{encryption, identity};
-use futures::channel::mpsc;
-use gateway_client::bandwidth::BandwidthController;
-use gateway_client::{
-    AcknowledgementReceiver, AcknowledgementSender, GatewayClient, MixnetMessageReceiver,
-    MixnetMessageSender,
-};
-use log::{debug, info};
-use nymsphinx::acknowledgements::AckKey;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::nodes::NodeIdentity;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::time::Duration;
-use tap::TapFallible;
-use task::{TaskClient, TaskManager};
-use url::Url;
-
-#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-pub mod non_wasm_helpers;
-
-pub struct ClientInput {
-    pub connection_command_sender: ConnectionCommandSender,
-    pub input_sender: InputMessageSender,
-}
-
-pub struct ClientOutput {
-    pub shared_lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-    pub received_buffer_request_sender: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
-}
-
-pub enum ClientInputStatus {
-    AwaitingProducer { client_input: ClientInput },
-    Connected,
-}
-
-impl ClientInputStatus {
-    pub fn register_producer(&mut self) -> ClientInput {
-        match std::mem::replace(self, ClientInputStatus::Connected) {
-            ClientInputStatus::AwaitingProducer { client_input } => client_input,
-            ClientInputStatus::Connected => panic!("producer was already registered before"),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub enum ClientOutputStatus {
-    AwaitingConsumer { client_output: ClientOutput },
-    Connected,
-}
-
-impl ClientOutputStatus {
-    pub fn register_consumer(&mut self) -> ClientOutput {
-        match std::mem::replace(self, ClientOutputStatus::Connected) {
-            ClientOutputStatus::AwaitingConsumer { client_output } => client_output,
-            ClientOutputStatus::Connected => panic!("consumer was already registered before"),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub struct BaseClientBuilder<'a, B> {
-    // due to wasm limitations I had to split it like this : (
-    gateway_config: &'a GatewayEndpointConfig,
-    debug_config: &'a DebugConfig,
-    disabled_credentials: bool,
-    nym_api_endpoints: Vec<Url>,
-    reply_storage_backend: B,
-
-    bandwidth_controller: Option<BandwidthController>,
-    key_manager: KeyManager,
-}
-
-impl<'a, B> BaseClientBuilder<'a, B>
-where
-    B: ReplyStorageBackend + Send + Sync + 'static,
-{
-    pub fn new_from_base_config<T>(
-        base_config: &'a Config<T>,
-        key_manager: KeyManager,
-        bandwidth_controller: Option<BandwidthController>,
-        reply_storage_backend: B,
-    ) -> BaseClientBuilder<'a, B> {
-        BaseClientBuilder {
-            gateway_config: base_config.get_gateway_endpoint_config(),
-            debug_config: base_config.get_debug_config(),
-            disabled_credentials: base_config.get_disabled_credentials_mode(),
-            nym_api_endpoints: base_config.get_nym_api_endpoints(),
-            bandwidth_controller,
-            reply_storage_backend,
-            key_manager,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn new(
-        gateway_config: &'a GatewayEndpointConfig,
-        debug_config: &'a DebugConfig,
-        key_manager: KeyManager,
-        bandwidth_controller: Option<BandwidthController>,
-        reply_storage_backend: B,
-        disabled_credentials: bool,
-        nym_api_endpoints: Vec<Url>,
-    ) -> BaseClientBuilder<'a, B> {
-        BaseClientBuilder {
-            gateway_config,
-            debug_config,
-            disabled_credentials,
-            nym_api_endpoints,
-            reply_storage_backend,
-            bandwidth_controller,
-            key_manager,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn as_mix_recipient(&self) -> Recipient {
-        Recipient::new(
-            *self.key_manager.identity_keypair().public_key(),
-            *self.key_manager.encryption_keypair().public_key(),
-            // TODO: below only works under assumption that gateway address == gateway id
-            // (which currently is true)
-            NodeIdentity::from_base58_string(&self.gateway_config.gateway_id).unwrap(),
-        )
-    }
-
-    // future constantly pumping loop cover traffic at some specified average rate
-    // the pumped traffic goes to the MixTrafficController
-    fn start_cover_traffic_stream(
-        debug_config: &DebugConfig,
-        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
-        self_address: Recipient,
-        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
-        mix_tx: BatchMixMessageSender,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        info!("Starting loop cover traffic stream...");
-
-        let mut stream = LoopCoverTrafficStream::new(
-            ack_key,
-            debug_config.average_ack_delay,
-            debug_config.average_packet_delay,
-            debug_config.loop_cover_traffic_average_delay,
-            mix_tx,
-            self_address,
-            topology_accessor,
-        );
-
-        if let Some(size) = debug_config.use_extended_packet_size {
-            log::debug!("Setting extended packet size: {:?}", size);
-            stream.set_custom_packet_size(size.into());
-        }
-
-        stream.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
-    }
-
-    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-    fn start_real_traffic_controller(
-        controller_config: real_messages_control::Config,
-        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
-        ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
-        input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
-        mix_sender: BatchMixMessageSender,
-        reply_storage: CombinedReplyStorage,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-        reply_controller_receiver: ReplyControllerReceiver,
-        lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-        client_connection_rx: ConnectionCommandReceiver,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        info!("Starting real traffic stream...");
-
-        RealMessagesController::new(
-            controller_config,
-            ack_receiver,
-            input_receiver,
-            mix_sender,
-            topology_accessor,
-            reply_storage,
-            reply_controller_sender,
-            reply_controller_receiver,
-            lane_queue_lengths,
-            client_connection_rx,
-        )
-        .start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
-    }
-
-    // buffer controlling all messages fetched from provider
-    // required so that other components would be able to use them (say the websocket)
-    fn start_received_messages_buffer_controller(
-        local_encryption_keypair: Arc<encryption::KeyPair>,
-        query_receiver: ReceivedBufferRequestReceiver,
-        mixnet_receiver: MixnetMessageReceiver,
-        reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        info!("Starting received messages buffer controller...");
-        ReceivedMessagesBufferController::new(
-            local_encryption_keypair,
-            query_receiver,
-            mixnet_receiver,
-            reply_key_storage,
-            reply_controller_sender,
-        )
-        .start_with_shutdown(shutdown)
-    }
-
-    async fn start_gateway_client(
-        &mut self,
-        mixnet_message_sender: MixnetMessageSender,
-        ack_sender: AcknowledgementSender,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) -> Result<GatewayClient, ClientCoreError> {
-        let gateway_id = self.gateway_config.gateway_id.clone();
-        if gateway_id.is_empty() {
-            return Err(ClientCoreError::GatewayIdUnknown);
-        }
-        let gateway_owner = self.gateway_config.gateway_owner.clone();
-        if gateway_owner.is_empty() {
-            return Err(ClientCoreError::GatewayOwnerUnknown);
-        }
-        let gateway_address = self.gateway_config.gateway_listener.clone();
-        if gateway_address.is_empty() {
-            return Err(ClientCoreError::GatwayAddressUnknown);
-        }
-
-        let gateway_identity = identity::PublicKey::from_base58_string(gateway_id)
-            .map_err(ClientCoreError::UnableToCreatePublicKeyFromGatewayId)?;
-
-        // disgusting wasm workaround since there's no key persistence there (nor `client init`)
-        let shared_key = if self.key_manager.gateway_key_set() {
-            Some(self.key_manager.gateway_shared_key())
-        } else {
-            None
-        };
-
-        let mut gateway_client = GatewayClient::new(
-            gateway_address,
-            self.key_manager.identity_keypair(),
-            gateway_identity,
-            gateway_owner,
-            shared_key,
-            mixnet_message_sender,
-            ack_sender,
-            self.debug_config.gateway_response_timeout,
-            self.bandwidth_controller.take(),
-            shutdown,
-        );
-
-        gateway_client.set_disabled_credentials_mode(self.disabled_credentials);
-
-        gateway_client
-            .authenticate_and_start()
-            .await
-            .tap_err(|err| {
-                log::error!("Could not authenticate and start up the gateway connection - {err}")
-            })?;
-        Ok(gateway_client)
-    }
-
-    // future responsible for periodically polling directory server and updating
-    // the current global view of topology
-    async fn start_topology_refresher(
-        nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
-        refresh_rate: Duration,
-        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) -> Result<(), ClientCoreError> {
-        let topology_refresher_config = TopologyRefresherConfig::new(
-            nym_api_urls,
-            refresh_rate,
-            env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").to_string(),
-        );
-        let mut topology_refresher =
-            TopologyRefresher::new(topology_refresher_config, topology_accessor);
-        // before returning, block entire runtime to refresh the current network view so that any
-        // components depending on topology would see a non-empty view
-        info!("Obtaining initial network topology");
-        topology_refresher.refresh().await;
-
-        if let Err(err) = topology_refresher.ensure_topology_is_routable().await {
-            log::error!(
-                "The current network topology seem to be insufficient to route any packets through \
-                - check if enough nodes and a gateway are online - source: {err}"
-            );
-            return Err(ClientCoreError::InsufficientNetworkTopology(err));
-        }
-
-        info!("Starting topology refresher...");
-        topology_refresher.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    // controller for sending sphinx packets to mixnet (either real traffic or cover traffic)
-    // TODO: if we want to send control messages to gateway_client, this CAN'T take the ownership
-    // over it. Perhaps GatewayClient needs to be thread-shareable or have some channel for
-    // requests?
-    fn start_mix_traffic_controller(
-        gateway_client: GatewayClient,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) -> BatchMixMessageSender {
-        info!("Starting mix traffic controller...");
-        let (mix_traffic_controller, mix_tx) = MixTrafficController::new(gateway_client);
-        mix_traffic_controller.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
-        mix_tx
-    }
-
-    async fn setup_persistent_reply_storage(
-        backend: B,
-        shutdown: TaskClient,
-    ) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, ClientCoreError>
-    where
-        <B as ReplyStorageBackend>::StorageError: Sync + Send,
-    {
-        let persistent_storage = PersistentReplyStorage::new(backend);
-        let mem_store = persistent_storage
-            .load_state_from_backend()
-            .await
-            .map_err(|err| ClientCoreError::SurbStorageError {
-                source: Box::new(err),
-            })?;
-
-        let store_clone = mem_store.clone();
-        spawn_future(async move {
-            persistent_storage
-                .flush_on_shutdown(store_clone, shutdown)
-                .await
-        });
-
-        Ok(mem_store)
-    }
-
-    pub async fn start_base(mut self) -> Result<BaseClient, ClientCoreError>
-    where
-        <B as ReplyStorageBackend>::StorageError: Sync + Send,
-    {
-        info!("Starting nym client");
-        // channels for inter-component communication
-        // TODO: make the channels be internally created by the relevant components
-        // rather than creating them here, so say for example the buffer controller would create the request channels
-        // and would allow anyone to clone the sender channel
-
-        // unwrapped_sphinx_sender is the transmitter of mixnet messages received from the gateway
-        // unwrapped_sphinx_receiver is the receiver for said messages - used by ReceivedMessagesBuffer
-        let (mixnet_messages_sender, mixnet_messages_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
-
-        // used for announcing connection or disconnection of a channel for pushing re-assembled messages to
-        let (received_buffer_request_sender, received_buffer_request_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
-
-        // channels responsible for controlling real messages
-        let (input_sender, input_receiver) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel::<InputMessage>(1);
-
-        // channels responsible for controlling ack messages
-        let (ack_sender, ack_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
-        let shared_topology_accessor = TopologyAccessor::new();
-
-        // Shutdown notifier for signalling tasks to stop
-        let task_manager = TaskManager::default();
-
-        // channels responsible for dealing with reply-related fun
-        let (reply_controller_sender, reply_controller_receiver) =
-            reply_controller::requests::new_control_channels();
-
-        let self_address = self.as_mix_recipient();
-
-        // the components are started in very specific order. Unless you know what you are doing,
-        // do not change that.
-        let gateway_client = self
-            .start_gateway_client(mixnet_messages_sender, ack_sender, task_manager.subscribe())
-            .await?;
-
-        let reply_storage = Self::setup_persistent_reply_storage(
-            self.reply_storage_backend,
-            task_manager.subscribe(),
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-        Self::start_topology_refresher(
-            self.nym_api_endpoints.clone(),
-            self.debug_config.topology_refresh_rate,
-            shared_topology_accessor.clone(),
-            task_manager.subscribe(),
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-        Self::start_received_messages_buffer_controller(
-            self.key_manager.encryption_keypair(),
-            received_buffer_request_receiver,
-            mixnet_messages_receiver,
-            reply_storage.key_storage(),
-            reply_controller_sender.clone(),
-            task_manager.subscribe(),
-        );
-
-        // The sphinx_message_sender is the transmitter for any component generating sphinx packets
-        // that are to be sent to the mixnet. They are used by cover traffic stream and real
-        // traffic stream.
-        // The MixTrafficController then sends the actual traffic
-        let sphinx_message_sender =
-            Self::start_mix_traffic_controller(gateway_client, task_manager.subscribe());
-
-        // Channels that the websocket listener can use to signal downstream to the real traffic
-        // controller that connections are closed.
-        let (client_connection_tx, client_connection_rx) = mpsc::unbounded();
-
-        // Shared queue length data. Published by the `OutQueueController` in the client, and used
-        // primarily to throttle incoming connections (e.g socks5 for attached network-requesters)
-        let shared_lane_queue_lengths = LaneQueueLengths::new();
-
-        let mut controller_config = real_messages_control::Config::new(
-            self.debug_config,
-            self.key_manager.ack_key(),
-            self_address,
-        );
-
-        if let Some(size) = self.debug_config.use_extended_packet_size {
-            log::debug!("Setting extended packet size: {:?}", size);
-            controller_config.set_custom_packet_size(size.into());
-        }
-
-        Self::start_real_traffic_controller(
-            controller_config,
-            shared_topology_accessor.clone(),
-            ack_receiver,
-            input_receiver,
-            sphinx_message_sender.clone(),
-            reply_storage,
-            reply_controller_sender.clone(),
-            reply_controller_receiver,
-            shared_lane_queue_lengths.clone(),
-            client_connection_rx,
-            task_manager.subscribe(),
-        );
-
-        if !self.debug_config.disable_loop_cover_traffic_stream {
-            Self::start_cover_traffic_stream(
-                self.debug_config,
-                self.key_manager.ack_key(),
-                self_address,
-                shared_topology_accessor,
-                sphinx_message_sender,
-                task_manager.subscribe(),
-            );
-        }
-
-        debug!("Core client startup finished!");
-        debug!("The address of this client is: {self_address}");
-
-        Ok(BaseClient {
-            client_input: ClientInputStatus::AwaitingProducer {
-                client_input: ClientInput {
-                    connection_command_sender: client_connection_tx,
-                    input_sender,
-                },
-            },
-            client_output: ClientOutputStatus::AwaitingConsumer {
-                client_output: ClientOutput {
-                    shared_lane_queue_lengths,
-                    received_buffer_request_sender,
-                },
-            },
-            reply_controller_sender,
-            task_manager,
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-pub struct BaseClient {
-    pub client_input: ClientInputStatus,
-    pub client_output: ClientOutputStatus,
-
-    // it feels very wrong to put this channel here, but I can't think of any other way of passing it to the native client
-    pub reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-
-    pub task_manager: TaskManager,
-}
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{
-    fs_backend, CombinedReplyStorage, ReplyStorageBackend,
-};
-use crate::config::DebugConfig;
-use crate::error::ClientCoreError;
-use log::{error, info};
-use std::path::Path;
-use std::{fs, io};
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-async fn setup_fresh_backend<P: AsRef<Path>>(
-    db_path: P,
-    debug_config: &DebugConfig,
-) -> Result<fs_backend::Backend, ClientCoreError> {
-    info!("creating fresh surb database");
-    let mut storage_backend = match fs_backend::Backend::init(db_path).await {
-        Ok(backend) => backend,
-        Err(err) => {
-            error!("failed to setup persistent storage backend for our reply needs: {err}");
-            return Err(ClientCoreError::SurbStorageError {
-                source: Box::new(err),
-            });
-        }
-    };
-
-    // while I kinda hate that we're going to be creating `CombinedReplyStorage` twice,
-    // it will only be happening on the very first run and in practice won't incur huge
-    // costs since the storage is going to be empty
-    let mem_store = CombinedReplyStorage::new(
-        debug_config.minimum_reply_surb_storage_threshold,
-        debug_config.maximum_reply_surb_storage_threshold,
-    );
-    storage_backend
-        .init_fresh(&mem_store)
-        .await
-        .map_err(|err| ClientCoreError::SurbStorageError {
-            source: Box::new(err),
-        })?;
-
-    Ok(storage_backend)
-}
-
-fn archive_corrupted_database<P: AsRef<Path>>(db_path: P) -> io::Result<()> {
-    let db_path = db_path.as_ref();
-    debug_assert!(db_path.exists());
-
-    let now = OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp();
-
-    let suffix = format!("_{now}.corrupted");
-
-    let new_extension =
-        if let Some(existing_extension) = db_path.extension().and_then(|ext| ext.to_str()) {
-            format!("{existing_extension}.{}", suffix)
-        } else {
-            suffix
-        };
-
-    let mut renamed = db_path.to_owned();
-    renamed.set_extension(new_extension);
-
-    fs::rename(db_path, renamed)
-}
-
-pub async fn setup_fs_reply_surb_backend<P: AsRef<Path>>(
-    db_path: P,
-    debug_config: &DebugConfig,
-) -> Result<fs_backend::Backend, ClientCoreError> {
-    // if the database file doesnt exist, initialise fresh storage, otherwise attempt to load the existing one
-    let db_path = db_path.as_ref();
-    if db_path.exists() {
-        info!("loading existing surb database");
-        match fs_backend::Backend::try_load(db_path).await {
-            Ok(backend) => Ok(backend),
-            Err(err) => {
-                error!("failed to setup persistent storage backend for our reply needs: {err}. We're going to create a fresh database instead. This behaviour might change in the future");
-
-                archive_corrupted_database(db_path)?;
-                setup_fresh_backend(db_path, debug_config).await
-            }
-        }
-    } else {
-        setup_fresh_backend(db_path, debug_config).await
-    }
-}
@@ -143,16 +143,6 @@ impl LoopCoverTrafficStream<OsRng> {
        self.packet_size = packet_size;
    }

-    fn set_next_delay(&mut self, amount: Duration) {
-        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-        let next_delay = Box::pin(time::sleep(amount));
-
-        #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-        let next_delay = Box::pin(wasm_timer::Delay::new(amount));
-
-        self.next_delay = next_delay;
-    }
-
    async fn on_new_message(&mut self) {
        trace!("next cover message!");

@@ -161,16 +151,15 @@ impl LoopCoverTrafficStream<OsRng> {
        // poisson delay, but is it really a problem?
        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
        // the ack is sent back to ourselves (and then ignored)
-        let topology_ref = match topology_permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(
+        let topology_ref_option = topology_permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(
            &self.our_full_destination,
            Some(&self.our_full_destination),
-        ) {
-            Ok(topology) => topology,
-            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("We're not going to send any loop cover message this time, as the current topology seem to be invalid - {err}");
-                return;
-            }
-        };
+        );
+        if topology_ref_option.is_none() {
+            warn!("No valid topology detected - won't send any loop cover message this time");
+            return;
+        }
+        let topology_ref = topology_ref_option.unwrap();

        let cover_message = generate_loop_cover_packet(
            &mut self.rng,
@@ -189,10 +178,6 @@ impl LoopCoverTrafficStream<OsRng> {
                    // This isn't a problem, if the channel is full means we're already sending the
                    // max amount of messages downstream can handle.
                    log::debug!("Failed to send cover message - channel full");
-                    // However it's still useful to alert the user that the gateway or the link to
-                    // the gateway can't keep up. Either due to insufficient bandwidth on the
-                    // client side, or that the gateway is overloaded.
-                    log::warn!("Failed to send sphinx packet - gateway or connection to gatway can't keep up");
                }
                TrySendError::Closed(_) => {
                    log::warn!("Failed to send cover message - channel closed");
@@ -213,11 +198,12 @@ impl LoopCoverTrafficStream<OsRng> {
        tokio::task::yield_now().await;
    }

-    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        // we should set initial delay only when we actually start the stream
        let sampled =
            sample_poisson_duration(&mut self.rng, self.average_cover_message_sending_delay);
-        self.set_next_delay(sampled);
+        self.next_delay = Box::pin(time::sleep(sampled));

        spawn_future(async move {
            debug!("Started LoopCoverTrafficStream with graceful shutdown support");
@@ -238,8 +224,24 @@ impl LoopCoverTrafficStream<OsRng> {
                    }
                }
            }
-            shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+            assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
            log::debug!("LoopCoverTrafficStream: Exiting");
        })
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub fn start(mut self) {
+        // we should set initial delay only when we actually start the stream
+        let sampled =
+            sample_poisson_duration(&mut self.rng, self.average_cover_message_sending_delay);
+        self.next_delay = Box::pin(wasm_timer::Delay::new(sampled));
+
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            debug!("Started LoopCoverTrafficStream without graceful shutdown support");
+
+            while self.next().await.is_some() {
+                self.on_new_message().await;
+            }
+        })
+    }
 }
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-mod non_wasm;
-
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-mod wasm;
-
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-pub use non_wasm::*;
-
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-pub use wasm::*;
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-pub use tokio::time::*;
-pub type IntervalStream = tokio_stream::wrappers::IntervalStream;
-
-pub(crate) fn get_time_now() -> Instant {
-    Instant::now()
-}
-
-pub(crate) fn new_interval_stream(polling_rate: Duration) -> IntervalStream {
-    tokio_stream::wrappers::IntervalStream::new(tokio::time::interval(polling_rate))
-}
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use std::time::Duration;
-use wasm_timer;
-
-pub use wasm_timer::*;
-pub type IntervalStream = gloo_timers::future::IntervalStream;
-
-pub(crate) fn get_time_now() -> Instant {
-    wasm_timer::Instant::now()
-}
-
-pub(crate) fn new_interval_stream(polling_rate: Duration) -> IntervalStream {
-    gloo_timers::future::IntervalStream::new(polling_rate.as_millis() as u32)
-}
@@ -1,80 +1,33 @@
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
+use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;

-pub type InputMessageSender = tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<InputMessage>;
-pub type InputMessageReceiver = tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver<InputMessage>;
+pub type InputMessageSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<InputMessage>;
+pub type InputMessageReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<InputMessage>;

 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum InputMessage {
-    /// The simplest message variant where no additional information is attached.
-    /// You're simply sending your `data` to specified `recipient` without any tagging.
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Plain` variant
-    Regular {
+    Fresh {
        recipient: Recipient,
        data: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
+        with_reply_surb: bool,
    },
-
-    /// Creates a message used for a duplex anonymous communication where the recipient
-    /// will never learn of our true identity. This is achieved by carefully sending `reply_surbs`.
-    ///
-    /// Note that if reply_surbs is set to zero then
-    /// this variant requires the client having sent some reply_surbs in the past
-    /// (and thus the recipient also knowing our sender tag).
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Repliable` variant
-    Anonymous {
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    },
-
-    /// Attempt to use our internally received and stored `ReplySurb` to send the message back
-    /// to specified recipient whilst not knowing its full identity (or even gateway).
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Reply` variant
    Reply {
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
+        reply_surb: ReplySurb,
        data: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
    },
 }

 impl InputMessage {
-    pub fn new_regular(recipient: Recipient, data: Vec<u8>, lane: TransmissionLane) -> Self {
-        InputMessage::Regular {
+    pub fn new_fresh(recipient: Recipient, data: Vec<u8>, with_reply_surb: bool) -> Self {
+        InputMessage::Fresh {
            recipient,
            data,
-            lane,
+            with_reply_surb,
        }
    }

-    pub fn new_anonymous(
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Self {
-        InputMessage::Anonymous {
-            recipient,
-            data,
-            reply_surbs,
-            lane,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn new_reply(
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Self {
-        InputMessage::Reply {
-            recipient_tag,
-            data,
-            lane,
-        }
+    pub fn new_reply(reply_surb: ReplySurb, data: Vec<u8>) -> Self {
+        InputMessage::Reply { reply_surb, data }
    }
 }
@@ -149,10 +149,6 @@ impl KeyManager {
        )
    }

-    pub fn gateway_key_set(&self) -> bool {
-        self.gateway_shared_key.is_some()
-    }
-
    /// Gets an atomically reference counted pointer to [`AckKey`].
    pub fn ack_key(&self) -> Arc<AckKey> {
        Arc::clone(&self.ack_key)
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ impl MixTrafficController {
        };

        match result {
-            Err(err) => {
-                error!("Failed to send sphinx packet(s) to the gateway! - {err}");
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Failed to send sphinx packet(s) to the gateway! - {:?}", e);
                self.consecutive_gateway_failure_count += 1;
                if self.consecutive_gateway_failure_count == MAX_FAILURE_COUNT {
                    // todo: in the future this should initiate a 'graceful' shutdown or try
@@ -67,11 +67,12 @@ impl MixTrafficController {
        }
    }

-    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        spawn_future(async move {
            debug!("Started MixTrafficController with graceful shutdown support");

-            loop {
+            while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
                tokio::select! {
                    mix_packets = self.mix_rx.recv() => match mix_packets {
                        Some(mix_packets) => {
@@ -82,14 +83,24 @@ impl MixTrafficController {
                            break;
                        }
                    },
-                    _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                    _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                        log::trace!("MixTrafficController: Received shutdown");
-                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
-            shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+            assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
            log::debug!("MixTrafficController: Exiting");
        })
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub fn start(mut self) {
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            debug!("Started MixTrafficController without graceful shutdown support");
+
+            while let Some(mix_packets) = self.mix_rx.recv().await {
+                self.on_messages(mix_packets).await;
+            }
+        })
+    }
 }
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+use std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool;

-pub mod base_client;
 pub mod cover_traffic_stream;
-pub(crate) mod helpers;
 pub mod inbound_messages;
 pub mod key_manager;
 pub mod mix_traffic;
 pub mod real_messages_control;
 pub mod received_buffer;
-pub mod replies;
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+pub mod reply_key_storage;
 pub mod topology_control;
-pub(crate) mod transmission_buffer;
+
+// This is *NOT* used to signal shutdown.
+// It's critical that we don't have any tasks finishing early, this is an additional safety check
+// that tasks exiting are doing so because shutdown has been signalled, and no other reason.
+// In particular for tasks that rely on their associated channel being closed to signal shutdown,
+// and don't have access to a shutdown listener channel.
+pub static SHUTDOWN_HAS_BEEN_SIGNALLED: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(false);
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use super::action_controller::{AckActionSender, Action};
+use super::action_controller::{Action, ActionSender};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use gateway_client::AcknowledgementReceiver;
 use log::*;
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 pub(super) struct AcknowledgementListener {
    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
    ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
-    action_sender: AckActionSender,
+    action_sender: ActionSender,
 }

 impl AcknowledgementListener {
    pub(super) fn new(
        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
        ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
-        action_sender: AckActionSender,
+        action_sender: ActionSender,
    ) -> Self {
        AcknowledgementListener {
            ack_key,
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ impl AcknowledgementListener {
    }

    async fn on_ack(&mut self, ack_content: Vec<u8>) {
-        trace!("Received an ack");
+        debug!("Received an ack");
        let frag_id = match recover_identifier(&self.ack_key, &ack_content)
            .map(FragmentIdentifier::try_from_bytes)
        {
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ impl AcknowledgementListener {
        if frag_id == COVER_FRAG_ID {
            trace!("Received an ack for a cover message - no need to do anything");
            return;
+        } else if frag_id.is_reply() {
+            info!("Received an ack for a reply message - no need to do anything! (don't know what to do!)");
+            // TODO: probably there will need to be some extra procedure here, something to notify
+            // user that his reply reached the recipient (since we got an ack)
+            return;
        }

        trace!("Received {} from the mix network", frag_id);
@@ -65,7 +70,8 @@ impl AcknowledgementListener {
        }
    }

-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started AcknowledgementListener with graceful shutdown support");

        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
@@ -77,12 +83,21 @@ impl AcknowledgementListener {
                        break;
                    }
                },
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("AcknowledgementListener: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
        }
-        shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("AcknowledgementListener: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started AcknowledgementListener without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(acks) = self.ack_receiver.next().await {
+            self.handle_ack_receiver_item(acks).await
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@

 use super::PendingAcknowledgement;
 use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::RetransmissionRequestSender;
-use futures::channel::mpsc;
+use futures::channel::mpsc::{self, UnboundedReceiver, UnboundedSender};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use log::*;
 use nonexhaustive_delayqueue::{Expired, NonExhaustiveDelayQueue, QueueKey};
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;

-pub(crate) type AckActionSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<Action>;
-pub(crate) type AckActionReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<Action>;
+pub(crate) type ActionSender = UnboundedSender<Action>;

 // The actual data being sent off as well as potential key to the delay queue
 type PendingAckEntry = (Arc<PendingAcknowledgement>, Option<QueueKey>);
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ pub(super) struct ActionController {
    pending_acks_timers: NonExhaustiveDelayQueue<FragmentIdentifier>,

    /// Channel for receiving `Action`s from other modules.
-    incoming_actions: AckActionReceiver,
+    incoming_actions: UnboundedReceiver<Action>,

    /// Channel for notifying `RetransmissionRequestListener` about expired acknowledgements.
    retransmission_sender: RetransmissionRequestSender,
@@ -106,15 +105,18 @@ impl ActionController {
    pub(super) fn new(
        config: Config,
        retransmission_sender: RetransmissionRequestSender,
-        incoming_actions: AckActionReceiver,
-    ) -> Self {
-        ActionController {
-            config,
-            pending_acks_data: HashMap::new(),
-            pending_acks_timers: NonExhaustiveDelayQueue::new(),
-            incoming_actions,
-            retransmission_sender,
-        }
+    ) -> (Self, ActionSender) {
+        let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
+        (
+            ActionController {
+                config,
+                pending_acks_data: HashMap::new(),
+                pending_acks_timers: NonExhaustiveDelayQueue::new(),
+                incoming_actions: receiver,
+                retransmission_sender,
+            },
+            sender,
+        )
    }

    fn handle_insert(&mut self, pending_acks: Vec<PendingAcknowledgement>) {
@@ -136,18 +138,13 @@ impl ActionController {
        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
-            // retransmission procedure
-            //
-            // (it can happen as timer is started when ack expires to make sure it's not stuck in memory
-            // and the second instance can be fired when we finally get reply surbs for data we failed to retransmit)
-
-            // if queue_key.is_some() {
-            //     // this branch should be IMPOSSIBLE under ANY condition. It would imply starting
-            //     // timer TWICE for the SAME PendingAcknowledgement
-            //     panic!("Tried to start an already started ack timer!")
-            // }
-            let timeout = (pending_ack_data.delay * self.config.ack_wait_multiplier).to_duration()
+            if queue_key.is_some() {
+                // this branch should be IMPOSSIBLE under ANY condition. It would imply starting
+                // timer TWICE for the SAME PendingAcknowledgement
+                panic!("Tried to start an already started ack timer!")
+            }
+            let timeout = (pending_ack_data.delay.clone() * self.config.ack_wait_multiplier)
+                .to_duration()
                + self.config.ack_wait_addition;

            let new_queue_key = self.pending_acks_timers.insert(frag_id, timeout);
@@ -195,8 +192,7 @@ impl ActionController {
        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) {
-            // this Action is triggered by `RetransmissionRequestListener` (for 'normal' packets)
-            // or `ReplyController` (for 'reply' packets) which held the other potential
+            // this Action is triggered by `RetransmissionRequestListener` which held the other potential
            // 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();
@@ -249,7 +245,8 @@ impl ActionController {
        }
    }

-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started ActionController with graceful shutdown support");

        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
@@ -270,15 +267,24 @@ impl ActionController {
                        break;
                    }
                },
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("ActionController: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
        }
-        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), shutdown.recv())
-            .await
-            .expect("Task stopped without shutdown called");
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("ActionController: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started ActionController without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        loop {
+            tokio::select! {
+                action = self.incoming_actions.next() => self.process_action(action.unwrap()),
+                expired_ack = self.pending_acks_timers.next() => self.handle_expired_ack_timer(expired_ack.unwrap())
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use crate::client::inbound_messages::{InputMessage, InputMessageReceiver};
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::message_handler::MessageHandler;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::ReplyControllerSender;
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
+use super::action_controller::{Action, ActionSender};
+use super::PendingAcknowledgement;
+use crate::client::{
+    inbound_messages::{InputMessage, InputMessageReceiver},
+    real_messages_control::real_traffic_stream::{BatchRealMessageSender, RealMessage},
+    topology_control::TopologyAccessor,
+};
+use futures::StreamExt;
 use log::*;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
+use nymsphinx::preparer::MessagePreparer;
+use nymsphinx::{acknowledgements::AckKey, addressing::clients::Recipient};
 use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use crate::client::reply_key_storage::ReplyKeyStorage;

 /// Module responsible for dealing with the received messages: splitting them, creating acknowledgements,
 /// putting everything into sphinx packets, etc.
@@ -17,9 +26,15 @@ pub(super) struct InputMessageListener<R>
 where
    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
 {
+    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+    ack_recipient: Recipient,
    input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
-    message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
-    reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+    message_preparer: MessagePreparer<R>,
+    action_sender: ActionSender,
+    real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
+    topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
+    #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+    reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
 }

 impl<R> InputMessageListener<R>
@@ -30,91 +45,156 @@ where
    // some considerable refactoring
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub(super) fn new(
+        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+        ack_recipient: Recipient,
        input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
-        message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+        message_preparer: MessagePreparer<R>,
+        action_sender: ActionSender,
+        real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
+        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")] reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
    ) -> Self {
        InputMessageListener {
+            ack_key,
+            ack_recipient,
            input_receiver,
-            message_handler,
-            reply_controller_sender,
+            message_preparer,
+            action_sender,
+            real_message_sender,
+            topology_access,
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+            reply_key_storage,
        }
    }

-    async fn handle_reply(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        // offload reply handling to the dedicated task
-        self.reply_controller_sender
-            .send_reply(recipient_tag, data, lane)
+    // we require topology for replies to generate surb_acks
+    async fn handle_reply(&mut self, reply_surb: ReplySurb, data: Vec<u8>) -> Option<RealMessage> {
+        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
+        let topology = match topology_permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(&self.ack_recipient, None) {
+            Some(topology_ref) => topology_ref,
+            None => {
+                warn!("Could not process the message - the network topology is invalid");
+                return None;
+            }
+        };
+
+        match self
+            .message_preparer
+            .prepare_reply_for_use(data, reply_surb, topology, &self.ack_key)
+            .await
+        {
+            Ok((mix_packet, reply_id)) => {
+                // TODO: later probably write pending ack here
+                // and deal with them....
+                // ... somehow
+                Some(RealMessage::new(mix_packet, reply_id))
+            }
+            Err(err) => {
+                // TODO: should we have some mechanism to indicate to the user that the `reply_surb`
+                // could be reused since technically it wasn't used up here?
+                warn!("failed to deal with received reply surb - {:?}", err);
+                None
+            }
+        }
    }

-    async fn handle_plain_message(
+    async fn handle_fresh_message(
        &mut self,
        recipient: Recipient,
        content: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        if let Err(err) = self
-            .message_handler
-            .try_send_plain_message(recipient, content, lane)
-            .await
+        with_reply_surb: bool,
+    ) -> Option<Vec<RealMessage>> {
+        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
+        let topology = match topology_permit
+            .try_get_valid_topology_ref(&self.ack_recipient, Some(&recipient))
        {
-            warn!("failed to send a plain message - {err}")
-        }
-    }
+            Some(topology_ref) => topology_ref,
+            None => {
+                warn!("Could not process the message - the network topology is invalid");
+                return None;
+            }
+        };

-    async fn handle_repliable_message(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        content: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        if let Err(err) = self
-            .message_handler
-            .try_send_message_with_reply_surbs(recipient, content, reply_surbs, lane)
-            .await
-        {
-            warn!("failed to send a repliable message - {err}")
+        // split the message, attach optional reply surb
+        let (split_message, reply_key) = self
+            .message_preparer
+            .prepare_and_split_message(content, with_reply_surb, topology)
+            .expect("somehow the topology was invalid after all!");
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+        if let Some(reply_key) = reply_key {
+            self.reply_key_storage
+                .insert_encryption_key(reply_key)
+                .expect("Failed to insert surb reply key to the store!")
        }
+
+        #[cfg(not(feature = "reply-surb"))]
+        let _reply_key = reply_key;
+
+        // encrypt chunks, put them inside sphinx packets and generate acks
+        let mut pending_acks = Vec::with_capacity(split_message.len());
+        let mut real_messages = Vec::with_capacity(split_message.len());
+        for message_chunk in split_message {
+            // we need to clone it because we need to keep it in memory in case we had to retransmit
+            // it. And then we'd need to recreate entire ACK again.
+            let chunk_clone = message_chunk.clone();
+            let prepared_fragment = self
+                .message_preparer
+                .prepare_chunk_for_sending(chunk_clone, topology, &self.ack_key, &recipient)
+                .unwrap();
+
+            real_messages.push(RealMessage::new(
+                prepared_fragment.mix_packet,
+                message_chunk.fragment_identifier(),
+            ));
+
+            pending_acks.push(PendingAcknowledgement::new(
+                message_chunk,
+                prepared_fragment.total_delay,
+                recipient,
+            ));
+        }
+
+        // tells the controller to put this into the hashmap
+        self.action_sender
+            .unbounded_send(Action::new_insert(pending_acks))
+            .unwrap();
+
+        Some(real_messages)
    }

    async fn on_input_message(&mut self, msg: InputMessage) {
-        match msg {
-            InputMessage::Regular {
+        let real_messages = match msg {
+            InputMessage::Fresh {
                recipient,
                data,
-                lane,
-            } => self.handle_plain_message(recipient, data, lane).await,
-            InputMessage::Anonymous {
-                recipient,
-                data,
-                reply_surbs,
-                lane,
+                with_reply_surb,
            } => {
-                self.handle_repliable_message(recipient, data, reply_surbs, lane)
+                self.handle_fresh_message(recipient, data, with_reply_surb)
                    .await
            }
-            InputMessage::Reply {
-                recipient_tag,
-                data,
-                lane,
-            } => {
-                self.handle_reply(recipient_tag, data, lane).await;
-            }
+            InputMessage::Reply { reply_surb, data } => self
+                .handle_reply(reply_surb, data)
+                .await
+                .map(|message| vec![message]),
        };
+
+        // there's no point in trying to send nothing
+        if let Some(real_messages) = real_messages {
+            // tells real message sender (with the poisson timer) to send this to the mix network
+            self.real_message_sender
+                .unbounded_send(real_messages)
+                .unwrap();
+        }
    }

-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started InputMessageListener with graceful shutdown support");

        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
            tokio::select! {
-                input_msg = self.input_receiver.recv() => match input_msg {
+                input_msg = self.input_receiver.next() => match input_msg {
                    Some(input_msg) => {
                        self.on_input_message(input_msg).await;
                    },
@@ -123,12 +203,20 @@ where
                        break;
                    }
                },
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("InputMessageListener: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
        }
-        shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("InputMessageListener: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started InputMessageListener without graceful shutdown support");
+        while let Some(input_msg) = self.input_receiver.next().await {
+            self.on_input_message(input_msg).await;
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -7,20 +7,18 @@ use self::{
    retransmission_request_listener::RetransmissionRequestListener,
    sent_notification_listener::SentNotificationListener,
 };
-use crate::client::inbound_messages::InputMessageReceiver;
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::message_handler::MessageHandler;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::ReplyControllerSender;
+use super::real_traffic_stream::BatchRealMessageSender;
+use crate::client::{inbound_messages::InputMessageReceiver, topology_control::TopologyAccessor};
 use crate::spawn_future;
-use action_controller::AckActionReceiver;
 use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use gateway_client::AcknowledgementReceiver;
 use log::*;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
 use nymsphinx::params::PacketSize;
 use nymsphinx::{
    acknowledgements::AckKey,
    addressing::clients::Recipient,
    chunking::fragment::{Fragment, FragmentIdentifier},
+    preparer::MessagePreparer,
    Delay as SphinxDelay,
 };
 use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
@@ -29,7 +27,8 @@ use std::{
    time::Duration,
 };

-pub(crate) use action_controller::{AckActionSender, Action};
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use crate::client::reply_key_storage::ReplyKeyStorage;

 mod acknowledgement_listener;
 mod action_controller;
@@ -51,64 +50,24 @@ pub(super) type SentPacketNotificationSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<FragmentIde
 /// that it is about to be sent to the mix network and its timeout timer should be started.
 type SentPacketNotificationReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<FragmentIdentifier>;

-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub(crate) enum PacketDestination {
-    Anonymous {
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        // special flag to indicate whether this was an ack for requesting additional surbs,
-        // in that case we have to do everything we can to get it through, even if it means going
-        // below our stored reply surb threshold
-        extra_surb_request: bool,
-    },
-    KnownRecipient(Box<Recipient>),
-}
-
 /// Structure representing a data `Fragment` that is on-route to the specified `Recipient`
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) struct PendingAcknowledgement {
    message_chunk: Fragment,
    delay: SphinxDelay,
-    destination: PacketDestination,
+    recipient: Recipient,
 }

 impl PendingAcknowledgement {
    /// Creates new instance of `PendingAcknowledgement` using the provided data.
-    pub(crate) fn new_known(
-        message_chunk: Fragment,
-        delay: SphinxDelay,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-    ) -> Self {
+    fn new(message_chunk: Fragment, delay: SphinxDelay, recipient: Recipient) -> Self {
        PendingAcknowledgement {
            message_chunk,
            delay,
-            destination: PacketDestination::KnownRecipient(recipient.into()),
+            recipient,
        }
    }

-    pub(crate) fn new_anonymous(
-        message_chunk: Fragment,
-        delay: SphinxDelay,
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        extra_surb_request: bool,
-    ) -> Self {
-        PendingAcknowledgement {
-            message_chunk,
-            delay,
-            destination: PacketDestination::Anonymous {
-                recipient_tag,
-                extra_surb_request,
-            },
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn inner_fragment_identifier(&self) -> FragmentIdentifier {
-        self.message_chunk.fragment_identifier()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn fragment_data(&self) -> Fragment {
-        self.message_chunk.clone()
-    }
-
    fn update_delay(&mut self, new_delay: SphinxDelay) {
        self.delay = new_delay;
    }
@@ -117,6 +76,10 @@ impl PendingAcknowledgement {
 /// AcknowledgementControllerConnectors represents set of channels for communication with
 /// other parts of the system in order to support acknowledgements and retransmission.
 pub(super) struct AcknowledgementControllerConnectors {
+    /// Channel used for forwarding prepared sphinx messages into the poisson sender
+    /// to be sent to the mix network.
+    real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
+
    /// Channel used for receiving raw messages from a client. The messages need to be put
    /// into sphinx packets first.
    input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
@@ -128,28 +91,20 @@ pub(super) struct AcknowledgementControllerConnectors {

    /// Channel used for receiving acknowledgements from the mix network.
    ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
-
-    /// Channel used for sending request to `ActionController` to deal with anything ack-related,
-    ack_action_sender: AckActionSender,
-
-    /// Channel used for receiving request by `ActionController` to deal with anything ack-related,
-    ack_action_receiver: AckActionReceiver,
 }

 impl AcknowledgementControllerConnectors {
    pub(super) fn new(
+        real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
        input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
        sent_notifier: SentPacketNotificationReceiver,
        ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
-        ack_action_sender: AckActionSender,
-        ack_action_receiver: AckActionReceiver,
    ) -> Self {
        AcknowledgementControllerConnectors {
+            real_message_sender,
            input_receiver,
            sent_notifier,
            ack_receiver,
-            ack_action_sender,
-            ack_action_receiver,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -162,15 +117,28 @@ pub(super) struct Config {
    /// Given ack timeout in the form a * BASE_DELAY + b, it specifies the multiplier `a`
    ack_wait_multiplier: f64,

+    /// Average delay an acknowledgement packet is going to get delayed at a single mixnode.
+    average_ack_delay: Duration,
+
+    /// Average delay a data packet is going to get delayed at a single mixnode.
+    average_packet_delay: Duration,
+
    /// Predefined packet size used for the encapsulated messages.
    packet_size: PacketSize,
 }

 impl Config {
-    pub(super) fn new(ack_wait_addition: Duration, ack_wait_multiplier: f64) -> Self {
+    pub(super) fn new(
+        ack_wait_addition: Duration,
+        ack_wait_multiplier: f64,
+        average_ack_delay: Duration,
+        average_packet_delay: Duration,
+    ) -> Self {
        Config {
            ack_wait_addition,
            ack_wait_multiplier,
+            average_ack_delay,
+            average_packet_delay,
            packet_size: Default::default(),
        }
    }
@@ -194,51 +162,68 @@ where

 impl<R> AcknowledgementController<R>
 where
-    R: 'static + CryptoRng + Rng + Clone + Send + Sync,
+    R: 'static + CryptoRng + Rng + Clone + Send,
 {
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub(super) fn new(
        config: Config,
+        rng: R,
+        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+        ack_recipient: Recipient,
        connectors: AcknowledgementControllerConnectors,
-        message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")] reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
    ) -> Self {
        let (retransmission_tx, retransmission_rx) = mpsc::unbounded();

        let action_config =
            action_controller::Config::new(config.ack_wait_addition, config.ack_wait_multiplier);
-        let action_controller = ActionController::new(
-            action_config,
-            retransmission_tx,
-            connectors.ack_action_receiver,
-        );
+        let (action_controller, action_sender) =
+            ActionController::new(action_config, retransmission_tx);
+
+        let message_preparer = MessagePreparer::new(
+            rng,
+            ack_recipient,
+            config.average_packet_delay,
+            config.average_ack_delay,
+        )
+        .with_custom_real_message_packet_size(config.packet_size);

        // will listen for any acks coming from the network
        let acknowledgement_listener = AcknowledgementListener::new(
            Arc::clone(&ack_key),
            connectors.ack_receiver,
-            connectors.ack_action_sender.clone(),
+            action_sender.clone(),
        );

        // will listen for any new messages from the client
        let input_message_listener = InputMessageListener::new(
+            Arc::clone(&ack_key),
+            ack_recipient,
            connectors.input_receiver,
-            message_handler.clone(),
-            reply_controller_sender.clone(),
+            message_preparer.clone(),
+            action_sender.clone(),
+            connectors.real_message_sender.clone(),
+            topology_access.clone(),
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+            reply_key_storage,
        );

        // will listen for any ack timeouts and trigger retransmission
        let retransmission_request_listener = RetransmissionRequestListener::new(
-            connectors.ack_action_sender.clone(),
-            message_handler,
+            Arc::clone(&ack_key),
+            ack_recipient,
+            message_preparer,
+            action_sender.clone(),
+            connectors.real_message_sender,
            retransmission_rx,
-            reply_controller_sender,
+            topology_access,
        );

        // will listen for events indicating the packet was sent through the network so that
        // the retransmission timer should be started.
        let sent_notification_listener =
-            SentNotificationListener::new(connectors.sent_notifier, connectors.ack_action_sender);
+            SentNotificationListener::new(connectors.sent_notifier, action_sender);

        AcknowledgementController {
            acknowledgement_listener,
@@ -249,7 +234,8 @@ where
        }
    }

-    pub(super) fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        let mut acknowledgement_listener = self.acknowledgement_listener;
        let mut input_message_listener = self.input_message_listener;
        let mut retransmission_request_listener = self.retransmission_request_listener;
@@ -293,4 +279,34 @@ where
            debug!("The controller has finished execution!");
        });
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) fn start(self) {
+        let mut acknowledgement_listener = self.acknowledgement_listener;
+        let mut input_message_listener = self.input_message_listener;
+        let mut retransmission_request_listener = self.retransmission_request_listener;
+        let mut sent_notification_listener = self.sent_notification_listener;
+        let mut action_controller = self.action_controller;
+
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            acknowledgement_listener.run().await;
+            error!("The acknowledgement listener has finished execution!");
+        });
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            input_message_listener.run().await;
+            error!("The input listener has finished execution!");
+        });
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            retransmission_request_listener.run().await;
+            error!("The retransmission request listener has finished execution!");
+        });
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            sent_notification_listener.run().await;
+            error!("The sent notification listener has finished execution!");
+        });
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            action_controller.run().await;
+            error!("The controller has finished execution!");
+        });
+    }
 }
@@ -1,101 +1,78 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use super::{
-    action_controller::{AckActionSender, Action},
-    PendingAcknowledgement, RetransmissionRequestReceiver,
+use super::action_controller::{Action, ActionSender};
+use super::PendingAcknowledgement;
+use super::RetransmissionRequestReceiver;
+use crate::client::{
+    real_messages_control::real_traffic_stream::{BatchRealMessageSender, RealMessage},
+    topology_control::TopologyAccessor,
 };
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::PacketDestination;
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::message_handler::{MessageHandler, PreparationError};
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::real_traffic_stream::RealMessage;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::ReplyControllerSender;
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use log::*;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::Fragment;
-use nymsphinx::preparer::PreparedFragment;
+use nymsphinx::preparer::MessagePreparer;
+use nymsphinx::{acknowledgements::AckKey, addressing::clients::Recipient};
 use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};

 // responsible for packet retransmission upon fired timer
-pub(super) struct RetransmissionRequestListener<R> {
-    action_sender: AckActionSender,
-    message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
+pub(super) struct RetransmissionRequestListener<R>
+where
+    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
+{
+    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+    ack_recipient: Recipient,
+    message_preparer: MessagePreparer<R>,
+    action_sender: ActionSender,
+    real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
    request_receiver: RetransmissionRequestReceiver,
-    reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+    topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
 }

 impl<R> RetransmissionRequestListener<R>
 where
    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
 {
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub(super) fn new(
-        action_sender: AckActionSender,
-        message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
+        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+        ack_recipient: Recipient,
+        message_preparer: MessagePreparer<R>,
+        action_sender: ActionSender,
+        real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
        request_receiver: RetransmissionRequestReceiver,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
    ) -> Self {
        RetransmissionRequestListener {
+            ack_key,
+            ack_recipient,
+            message_preparer,
            action_sender,
-            message_handler,
+            real_message_sender,
            request_receiver,
-            reply_controller_sender,
+            topology_access,
        }
    }

-    async fn prepare_normal_retransmission_chunk(
-        &mut self,
-        packet_recipient: Recipient,
-        chunk_data: Fragment,
-    ) -> Result<PreparedFragment, PreparationError> {
-        debug!("retransmitting normal packet...");
-
-        self.message_handler
-            .try_prepare_single_chunk_for_sending(packet_recipient, chunk_data)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    async fn on_retransmission_request(
-        &mut self,
-        weak_timed_out_ack: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-    ) {
-        let timed_out_ack = match weak_timed_out_ack.upgrade() {
+    async fn on_retransmission_request(&mut self, timed_out_ack: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>) {
+        let timed_out_ack = match timed_out_ack.upgrade() {
            Some(timed_out_ack) => timed_out_ack,
            None => {
                debug!("We received an ack JUST as we were about to retransmit [1]");
                return;
            }
        };
+        let packet_recipient = &timed_out_ack.recipient;
+        let chunk_clone = timed_out_ack.message_chunk.clone();
+        let frag_id = chunk_clone.fragment_identifier();

-        let maybe_prepared_fragment = match &timed_out_ack.destination {
-            PacketDestination::Anonymous {
-                recipient_tag,
-                extra_surb_request,
-            } => {
-                // if this is retransmission for reply, offload it to the dedicated task
-                // that deals with all the surbs
-                return self.reply_controller_sender.send_retransmission_data(
-                    *recipient_tag,
-                    weak_timed_out_ack,
-                    *extra_surb_request,
-                );
-            }
-            PacketDestination::KnownRecipient(recipient) => {
-                self.prepare_normal_retransmission_chunk(
-                    **recipient,
-                    timed_out_ack.message_chunk.clone(),
-                )
-                .await
-            }
-        };
-
-        let frag_id = timed_out_ack.message_chunk.fragment_identifier();
-
-        let prepared_fragment = match maybe_prepared_fragment {
-            Ok(prepared_fragment) => prepared_fragment,
-            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("Could not retransmit the packet - {err}");
+        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
+        let topology_ref = match topology_permit
+            .try_get_valid_topology_ref(&self.ack_recipient, Some(packet_recipient))
+        {
+            Some(topology_ref) => topology_ref,
+            None => {
+                warn!("Could not retransmit the packet - the network topology is invalid");
                // we NEED to start timer here otherwise we will have this guy permanently stuck in memory
                self.action_sender
                    .unbounded_send(Action::new_start_timer(frag_id))
@@ -104,6 +81,11 @@ where
            }
        };

+        let prepared_fragment = self
+            .message_preparer
+            .prepare_chunk_for_sending(chunk_clone, topology_ref, &self.ack_key, packet_recipient)
+            .unwrap();
+
        // if we have the ONLY strong reference to the ack data, it means it was removed from the
        // pending acks
        if Arc::strong_count(&timed_out_ack) == 1 {
@@ -115,6 +97,7 @@ where
        // we no longer need the reference - let's drop it so that if somehow `UpdateTimer` action
        // reached the controller before this function terminated, the controller would not panic.
        drop(timed_out_ack);
+
        let new_delay = prepared_fragment.total_delay;

        // We know this update will be reflected by the `StartTimer` Action performed when this
@@ -129,15 +112,16 @@ where
            .unwrap();

        // send to `OutQueueControl` to eventually send to the mix network
-        self.message_handler
-            .forward_messages(
-                vec![RealMessage::new(prepared_fragment.mix_packet, frag_id)],
-                TransmissionLane::Retransmission,
-            )
-            .await
+        self.real_message_sender
+            .unbounded_send(vec![RealMessage::new(
+                prepared_fragment.mix_packet,
+                frag_id,
+            )])
+            .unwrap();
    }

-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started RetransmissionRequestListener with graceful shutdown support");

        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
@@ -154,7 +138,16 @@ where
                }
            }
        }
-        shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("RetransmissionRequestListener: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started RetransmissionRequestListener without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(timed_out_ack) = self.request_receiver.next().await {
+            self.on_retransmission_request(timed_out_ack).await;
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use super::action_controller::{AckActionSender, Action};
+use super::action_controller::{Action, ActionSender};
 use super::SentPacketNotificationReceiver;
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use log::*;
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::{FragmentIdentifier, COVER_FRAG_ID};
 /// accidentally fire retransmission way quicker than we should have.
 pub(super) struct SentNotificationListener {
    sent_notifier: SentPacketNotificationReceiver,
-    action_sender: AckActionSender,
+    action_sender: ActionSender,
 }

 impl SentNotificationListener {
    pub(super) fn new(
        sent_notifier: SentPacketNotificationReceiver,
-        action_sender: AckActionSender,
+        action_sender: ActionSender,
    ) -> Self {
        SentNotificationListener {
            sent_notifier,
@@ -31,13 +31,19 @@ impl SentNotificationListener {
        if frag_id == COVER_FRAG_ID {
            trace!("sent off a cover message - no need to start retransmission timer!");
            return;
+        } else if frag_id.is_reply() {
+            debug!("sent off a reply message - no need to start retransmission timer!");
+            // TODO: probably there will need to be some extra procedure here, like it would
+            // be nice to know that our reply actually reached the recipient (i.e. we got the ack)
+            return;
        }
        self.action_sender
            .unbounded_send(Action::new_start_timer(frag_id))
            .unwrap();
    }

-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started SentNotificationListener with graceful shutdown support");

        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ impl SentNotificationListener {
                        break;
                    }
                },
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("SentNotificationListener: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
@@ -59,4 +65,13 @@ impl SentNotificationListener {
        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("SentNotificationListener: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started SentNotificationListener without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(frag_id) = self.sent_notifier.next().await {
+            self.on_sent_message(frag_id).await;
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -1,566 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::PendingAcknowledgement;
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::real_traffic_stream::{
-    BatchRealMessageSender, RealMessage,
-};
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::{AckActionSender, Action};
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{ReceivedReplySurbsMap, SentReplyKeys, UsedSenderTags};
-use crate::client::topology_control::{TopologyAccessor, TopologyReadPermit};
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
-use log::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};
-use nymsphinx::acknowledgements::AckKey;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::{AnonymousSenderTag, RepliableMessage, ReplyMessage};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::{ReplySurb, SurbEncryptionKey};
-use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::{Fragment, FragmentIdentifier};
-use nymsphinx::message::NymMessage;
-use nymsphinx::params::{PacketSize, DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS};
-use nymsphinx::preparer::{MessagePreparer, PreparedFragment};
-use nymsphinx::Delay;
-use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
-use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::time::Duration;
-use thiserror::Error;
-use topology::{NymTopology, NymTopologyError};
-
-// TODO: move that error elsewhere since it seems to be contaminating different files
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Error)]
-pub enum PreparationError {
-    #[error(transparent)]
-    NymTopologyError(#[from] NymTopologyError),
-
-    #[error("The received message cannot be sent using a single reply surb. It ended up getting split into {fragments} fragments.")]
-    MessageTooLongForSingleSurb { fragments: usize },
-
-    #[error("Not enough reply SURBs to send the message. We have {available} available and require at least {required}.")]
-    NotEnoughSurbs { available: usize, required: usize },
-}
-
-impl PreparationError {
-    fn return_surbs(self, returned_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>) -> SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-        SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-            source: self,
-            returned_surbs: Some(returned_surbs),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Error)]
-#[error("Failed to prepare packets - {source}. {} reply surbs will be returned", .returned_surbs.as_ref().map(|s| s.len()).unwrap_or_default())]
-pub struct SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-    #[source]
-    source: PreparationError,
-
-    returned_surbs: Option<Vec<ReplySurb>>,
-}
-
-impl<T> From<T> for SurbWrappedPreparationError
-where
-    T: Into<PreparationError>,
-{
-    fn from(err: T) -> Self {
-        SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-            source: err.into(),
-            returned_surbs: None,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-    pub(crate) fn return_unused_surbs(
-        self,
-        surb_storage: &ReceivedReplySurbsMap,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-    ) -> PreparationError {
-        if let Some(reply_surbs) = self.returned_surbs {
-            surb_storage.insert_surbs(target, reply_surbs)
-        }
-        self.source
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct Config {
-    /// Key used to decrypt contents of received SURBAcks
-    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
-
-    /// Address of this client which also represent an address to which all acknowledgements
-    /// and surb-based are going to be sent.
-    sender_address: Recipient,
-
-    /// Average delay a data packet is going to get delay at a single mixnode.
-    average_packet_delay: Duration,
-
-    /// Average delay an acknowledgement packet is going to get delay at a single mixnode.
-    average_ack_delay: Duration,
-
-    /// Number of mix hops each packet ('real' message, ack, reply) is expected to take.
-    /// Note that it does not include gateway hops.
-    num_mix_hops: u8,
-
-    /// Predefined packet size used for the encapsulated messages.
-    packet_size: PacketSize,
-}
-
-impl Config {
-    pub fn new(
-        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
-        sender_address: Recipient,
-        average_packet_delay: Duration,
-        average_ack_delay: Duration,
-    ) -> Self {
-        Config {
-            ack_key,
-            sender_address,
-            average_packet_delay,
-            average_ack_delay,
-            num_mix_hops: DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS,
-            packet_size: PacketSize::default(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Allows setting non-default number of expected mix hops in the network.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    pub fn with_mix_hops(mut self, hops: u8) -> Self {
-        self.num_mix_hops = hops;
-        self
-    }
-
-    /// Allows setting non-default size of the sphinx packets sent out.
-    pub fn with_custom_packet_size(mut self, packet_size: PacketSize) -> Self {
-        self.packet_size = packet_size;
-        self
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct MessageHandler<R> {
-    config: Config,
-    rng: R,
-    message_preparer: MessagePreparer<R>,
-    action_sender: AckActionSender,
-    real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
-    topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
-    reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-    tag_storage: UsedSenderTags,
-}
-
-impl<R> MessageHandler<R>
-where
-    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
-{
-    pub(crate) fn new(
-        config: Config,
-        rng: R,
-        action_sender: AckActionSender,
-        real_message_sender: BatchRealMessageSender,
-        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
-        reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-        tag_storage: UsedSenderTags,
-    ) -> Self
-    where
-        R: Copy,
-    {
-        let message_preparer = MessagePreparer::new(
-            rng,
-            config.sender_address,
-            config.average_packet_delay,
-            config.average_ack_delay,
-        )
-        .with_custom_real_message_packet_size(config.packet_size)
-        .with_mix_hops(config.num_mix_hops);
-
-        MessageHandler {
-            config,
-            rng,
-            message_preparer,
-            action_sender,
-            real_message_sender,
-            topology_access,
-            reply_key_storage,
-            tag_storage,
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn get_or_create_sender_tag(&mut self, recipient: &Recipient) -> AnonymousSenderTag {
-        if let Some(existing) = self.tag_storage.try_get_existing(recipient) {
-            trace!("we already had sender tag for {recipient}");
-            existing
-        } else {
-            info!("creating new sender tag for {recipient}");
-            let new_tag = AnonymousSenderTag::new_random(&mut self.rng);
-            self.tag_storage.insert_new(recipient, new_tag);
-            info!("we'll be using {new_tag} for all anonymous messages sent to {recipient}");
-            new_tag
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn get_topology<'a>(
-        &self,
-        permit: &'a TopologyReadPermit<'a>,
-    ) -> Result<&'a NymTopology, PreparationError> {
-        match permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(&self.config.sender_address, None) {
-            Ok(topology_ref) => Ok(topology_ref),
-            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("Could not process the packet - the network topology is invalid - {err}");
-                Err(err.into())
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn generate_reply_surbs_with_keys(
-        &mut self,
-        amount: usize,
-    ) -> Result<(Vec<ReplySurb>, Vec<SurbEncryptionKey>), PreparationError> {
-        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
-        let topology = self.get_topology(&topology_permit)?;
-
-        let reply_surbs = self
-            .message_preparer
-            .generate_reply_surbs(amount, topology)?;
-
-        let reply_keys = reply_surbs
-            .iter()
-            .map(|s| *s.encryption_key())
-            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-
-        Ok((reply_surbs, reply_keys))
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_single_surb_message(
-        &mut self,
-        target: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        message: ReplyMessage,
-        reply_surb: ReplySurb,
-        is_extra_surb_request: bool,
-    ) -> Result<(), SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        let mut fragment = self
-            .message_preparer
-            .pad_and_split_message(NymMessage::new_reply(message));
-        if fragment.len() > 1 {
-            // well, it's not a single surb message
-            return Err(SurbWrappedPreparationError {
-                source: PreparationError::MessageTooLongForSingleSurb {
-                    fragments: fragment.len(),
-                },
-                returned_surbs: Some(vec![reply_surb]),
-            });
-        }
-
-        let chunk = fragment.pop().unwrap();
-        let chunk_clone = chunk.clone();
-        let prepared_fragment = self
-            .try_prepare_single_reply_chunk_for_sending(reply_surb, chunk_clone)
-            .await?;
-
-        let real_messages =
-            RealMessage::new(prepared_fragment.mix_packet, chunk.fragment_identifier());
-        let delay = prepared_fragment.total_delay;
-        let pending_ack =
-            PendingAcknowledgement::new_anonymous(chunk, delay, target, is_extra_surb_request);
-
-        let lane = if is_extra_surb_request {
-            TransmissionLane::ReplySurbRequest
-        } else {
-            TransmissionLane::General
-        };
-
-        self.forward_messages(vec![real_messages], lane).await;
-        self.insert_pending_acks(vec![pending_ack]);
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_request_additional_reply_surbs(
-        &mut self,
-        from: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        reply_surb: ReplySurb,
-        amount: u32,
-    ) -> Result<(), SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        debug!("requesting {amount} reply SURBs from {from}");
-
-        let surbs_request =
-            ReplyMessage::new_surb_request_message(self.config.sender_address, amount);
-        self.try_send_single_surb_message(from, surbs_request, reply_surb, true)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    // // TODO: this will require additional argument to make it use different variant of `ReplyMessage`
-    pub(crate) fn split_reply_message(&mut self, message: Vec<u8>) -> Vec<Fragment> {
-        self.message_preparer
-            .pad_and_split_message(NymMessage::new_reply(ReplyMessage::new_data_message(
-                message,
-            )))
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn send_retransmission_reply_chunks(
-        &mut self,
-        prepared_fragments: Vec<PreparedFragment>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        let mut real_messages = Vec::with_capacity(prepared_fragments.len());
-
-        for prepared in prepared_fragments {
-            self.update_ack_delay(prepared.fragment_identifier, prepared.total_delay);
-            real_messages.push(prepared.into())
-        }
-
-        self.forward_messages(real_messages, lane).await;
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_reply_chunks_on_lane(
-        &mut self,
-        target: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        fragments: Vec<Fragment>,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Result<(), SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        // TODO: technically this is performing an unnecessary cloning, but in the grand scheme of things
-        // is it really that bad?
-        self.try_send_reply_chunks(
-            target,
-            fragments.into_iter().map(|f| (lane, f)).collect(),
-            reply_surbs,
-        )
-        .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_reply_chunks(
-        &mut self,
-        target: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        fragments: Vec<(TransmissionLane, Fragment)>,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-    ) -> Result<(), SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        let prepared_fragments = self
-            .prepare_reply_chunks_for_sending(
-                fragments.iter().map(|(_, f)| f.clone()).collect(),
-                reply_surbs,
-            )
-            .await?;
-
-        let mut pending_acks = Vec::with_capacity(fragments.len());
-        let mut to_forward: HashMap<_, Vec<_>> = HashMap::new();
-
-        for (raw, prepared) in fragments.into_iter().zip(prepared_fragments.into_iter()) {
-            let lane = raw.0;
-            let fragment = raw.1;
-
-            let real_message = RealMessage::new(prepared.mix_packet, prepared.fragment_identifier);
-            let delay = prepared.total_delay;
-            let pending_ack = PendingAcknowledgement::new_anonymous(fragment, delay, target, false);
-
-            let entry = to_forward.entry(lane).or_default();
-            entry.push(real_message);
-            pending_acks.push(pending_ack);
-        }
-
-        for (lane, real_messages) in to_forward {
-            self.forward_messages(real_messages, lane).await;
-        }
-
-        self.insert_pending_acks(pending_acks);
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_plain_message(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Result<(), PreparationError> {
-        let message = NymMessage::new_plain(message);
-        self.try_split_and_send_non_reply_message(message, recipient, lane)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_split_and_send_non_reply_message(
-        &mut self,
-        message: NymMessage,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Result<(), PreparationError> {
-        // TODO: I really dislike existence of this assertion, it implies code has to be re-organised
-        debug_assert!(!matches!(message, NymMessage::Reply(_)));
-
-        // TODO2: it's really annoying we have to get topology permit again here due to borrow-checker
-        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
-        let topology = self.get_topology(&topology_permit)?;
-
-        let fragments = self.message_preparer.pad_and_split_message(message);
-
-        let mut pending_acks = Vec::with_capacity(fragments.len());
-        let mut real_messages = Vec::with_capacity(fragments.len());
-        for fragment in fragments {
-            // we need to clone it because we need to keep it in memory in case we had to retransmit
-            // it. And then we'd need to recreate entire ACK again.
-            let chunk_clone = fragment.clone();
-            let prepared_fragment = self.message_preparer.prepare_chunk_for_sending(
-                chunk_clone,
-                topology,
-                &self.config.ack_key,
-                &recipient,
-            )?;
-
-            let real_message =
-                RealMessage::new(prepared_fragment.mix_packet, fragment.fragment_identifier());
-            let delay = prepared_fragment.total_delay;
-            let pending_ack = PendingAcknowledgement::new_known(fragment, delay, recipient);
-
-            real_messages.push(real_message);
-            pending_acks.push(pending_ack);
-        }
-
-        self.insert_pending_acks(pending_acks);
-        self.forward_messages(real_messages, lane).await;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_additional_reply_surbs(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        amount: u32,
-    ) -> Result<(), PreparationError> {
-        let sender_tag = self.get_or_create_sender_tag(&recipient);
-        let (reply_surbs, reply_keys) =
-            self.generate_reply_surbs_with_keys(amount as usize).await?;
-
-        let message = NymMessage::new_repliable(RepliableMessage::new_additional_surbs(
-            sender_tag,
-            reply_surbs,
-        ));
-
-        self.try_split_and_send_non_reply_message(
-            message,
-            recipient,
-            TransmissionLane::AdditionalReplySurbs,
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-        log::trace!("storing {} reply keys", reply_keys.len());
-        self.reply_key_storage.insert_multiple(reply_keys);
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_send_message_with_reply_surbs(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        num_reply_surbs: u32,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) -> Result<(), SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        let sender_tag = self.get_or_create_sender_tag(&recipient);
-        let (reply_surbs, reply_keys) = self
-            .generate_reply_surbs_with_keys(num_reply_surbs as usize)
-            .await?;
-
-        let message =
-            NymMessage::new_repliable(RepliableMessage::new_data(message, sender_tag, reply_surbs));
-
-        self.try_split_and_send_non_reply_message(message, recipient, lane)
-            .await?;
-
-        log::trace!("storing {} reply keys", reply_keys.len());
-        self.reply_key_storage.insert_multiple(reply_keys);
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_prepare_single_chunk_for_sending(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        chunk: Fragment,
-    ) -> Result<PreparedFragment, PreparationError> {
-        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
-        let topology = self.get_topology(&topology_permit)?;
-
-        let prepared_fragment = self
-            .message_preparer
-            .prepare_chunk_for_sending(chunk, topology, &self.config.ack_key, &recipient)
-            .unwrap();
-
-        Ok(prepared_fragment)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn prepare_reply_chunks_for_sending(
-        &mut self,
-        fragments: Vec<Fragment>,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<PreparedFragment>, SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        debug_assert_ne!(
-            fragments.len(),
-            reply_surbs.len(),
-            "attempted to send {} fragments with {} reply surbs",
-            fragments.len(),
-            reply_surbs.len()
-        );
-
-        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
-        let topology = match self.get_topology(&topology_permit) {
-            Ok(topology) => topology,
-            Err(err) => return Err(err.return_surbs(reply_surbs)),
-        };
-
-        Ok(fragments
-            .into_iter()
-            .zip(reply_surbs.into_iter())
-            .map(|(fragment, reply_surb)| {
-                // unwrap here is fine as we know we have a valid topology
-                self.message_preparer
-                    .prepare_reply_chunk_for_sending(
-                        fragment,
-                        topology,
-                        &self.config.ack_key,
-                        reply_surb,
-                    )
-                    .unwrap()
-            })
-            .collect())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn try_prepare_single_reply_chunk_for_sending(
-        &mut self,
-        reply_surb: ReplySurb,
-        chunk: Fragment,
-    ) -> Result<PreparedFragment, SurbWrappedPreparationError> {
-        let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
-        let topology = match self.get_topology(&topology_permit) {
-            Ok(topology) => topology,
-            Err(err) => return Err(err.return_surbs(vec![reply_surb])),
-        };
-
-        let prepared_fragment = self
-            .message_preparer
-            .prepare_reply_chunk_for_sending(chunk, topology, &self.config.ack_key, reply_surb)
-            .unwrap();
-
-        Ok(prepared_fragment)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn update_ack_delay(&self, id: FragmentIdentifier, new_delay: Delay) {
-        self.action_sender
-            .unbounded_send(Action::UpdateDelay(id, new_delay))
-            .expect("action control task has died")
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn insert_pending_acks(&self, pending_acks: Vec<PendingAcknowledgement>) {
-        self.action_sender
-            .unbounded_send(Action::new_insert(pending_acks))
-            .expect("action control task has died")
-    }
-
-    // tells real message sender (with the poisson timer) to send this to the mix network
-    pub(crate) async fn forward_messages(
-        &self,
-        messages: Vec<RealMessage>,
-        transmission_lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        self.real_message_sender
-            .send((messages, transmission_lane))
-            .await
-            .expect("real message receiver task (OutQueueControl) has died");
-    }
-}
@@ -8,20 +8,12 @@
 use self::{
    acknowledgement_control::AcknowledgementController, real_traffic_stream::OutQueueControl,
 };
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::message_handler::MessageHandler;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::{
-    ReplyController, ReplyControllerReceiver, ReplyControllerSender,
+use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::AcknowledgementControllerConnectors;
+use crate::client::{
+    inbound_messages::InputMessageReceiver, mix_traffic::BatchMixMessageSender,
+    topology_control::TopologyAccessor,
 };
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::CombinedReplyStorage;
-use crate::{
-    client::{
-        inbound_messages::InputMessageReceiver, mix_traffic::BatchMixMessageSender,
-        real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::AcknowledgementControllerConnectors,
-        topology_control::TopologyAccessor,
-    },
-    spawn_future,
-};
-use client_connections::{ConnectionCommandReceiver, LaneQueueLengths};
+use crate::spawn_future;
 use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use gateway_client::AcknowledgementReceiver;
 use log::*;
@@ -32,13 +24,11 @@ use rand::{rngs::OsRng, CryptoRng, Rng};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;

-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller;
-use crate::config;
-pub(crate) use acknowledgement_control::{AckActionSender, Action};
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use crate::client::reply_key_storage::ReplyKeyStorage;

-pub(crate) mod acknowledgement_control;
-pub(crate) mod message_handler;
-pub(crate) mod real_traffic_stream;
+mod acknowledgement_control;
+mod real_traffic_stream;

 // TODO: ack_key and self_recipient shouldn't really be part of this config
 pub struct Config {
@@ -69,102 +59,31 @@ pub struct Config {

    /// Predefined packet size used for the encapsulated messages.
    packet_size: PacketSize,
-
-    /// Defines the minimum number of reply surbs the client would request.
-    minimum_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines the maximum number of reply surbs the client would request.
-    maximum_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines the maximum number of reply surbs a remote party is allowed to request from this client at once.
-    maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time the client is going to wait for reply surbs before explicitly asking
-    /// for more even though in theory they wouldn't need to.
-    maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period: Duration,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time given reply surb is going to be valid for.
-    /// This is going to be superseded by key rotation once implemented.
-    maximum_reply_surb_age: Duration,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time given reply key is going to be valid for.
-    /// This is going to be superseded by key rotation once implemented.
-    maximum_reply_key_age: Duration,
-}
-
-impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for acknowledgement_control::Config {
-    fn from(cfg: &'a Config) -> Self {
-        acknowledgement_control::Config::new(cfg.ack_wait_addition, cfg.ack_wait_multiplier)
-            .with_custom_packet_size(cfg.packet_size)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for real_traffic_stream::Config {
-    fn from(cfg: &'a Config) -> Self {
-        real_traffic_stream::Config::new(
-            Arc::clone(&cfg.ack_key),
-            cfg.self_recipient,
-            cfg.average_ack_delay_duration,
-            cfg.average_packet_delay_duration,
-            cfg.average_message_sending_delay,
-            cfg.disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
-        )
-        .with_custom_cover_packet_size(cfg.packet_size)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for reply_controller::Config {
-    fn from(cfg: &'a Config) -> Self {
-        reply_controller::Config::new(
-            cfg.minimum_reply_surb_request_size,
-            cfg.maximum_reply_surb_request_size,
-            cfg.maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size,
-            cfg.maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period,
-            cfg.maximum_reply_surb_age,
-            cfg.maximum_reply_key_age,
-        )
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'a> From<&'a Config> for message_handler::Config {
-    fn from(cfg: &'a Config) -> Self {
-        message_handler::Config::new(
-            Arc::clone(&cfg.ack_key),
-            cfg.self_recipient,
-            cfg.average_packet_delay_duration,
-            cfg.average_ack_delay_duration,
-        )
-        .with_custom_packet_size(cfg.packet_size)
-    }
 }

 impl Config {
+    // TODO: change the config into a builder
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub fn new(
-        base_client_debug_config: &config::DebugConfig,
        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+        ack_wait_multiplier: f64,
+        ack_wait_addition: Duration,
+        average_ack_delay_duration: Duration,
+        average_message_sending_delay: Duration,
+        average_packet_delay_duration: Duration,
+        disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: bool,
        self_recipient: Recipient,
    ) -> Self {
        Config {
            ack_key,
+            ack_wait_addition,
+            ack_wait_multiplier,
            self_recipient,
+            average_message_sending_delay,
+            average_packet_delay_duration,
+            average_ack_delay_duration,
+            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
            packet_size: Default::default(),
-            ack_wait_addition: base_client_debug_config.ack_wait_addition,
-            ack_wait_multiplier: base_client_debug_config.ack_wait_multiplier,
-            average_message_sending_delay: base_client_debug_config.message_sending_average_delay,
-            average_packet_delay_duration: base_client_debug_config.average_packet_delay,
-            average_ack_delay_duration: base_client_debug_config.average_ack_delay,
-            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: base_client_debug_config
-                .disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
-            minimum_reply_surb_request_size: base_client_debug_config
-                .minimum_reply_surb_request_size,
-            maximum_reply_surb_request_size: base_client_debug_config
-                .maximum_reply_surb_request_size,
-            maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: base_client_debug_config
-                .maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size,
-            maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period: base_client_debug_config
-                .maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period,
-            maximum_reply_surb_age: base_client_debug_config.maximum_reply_surb_age,
-            maximum_reply_key_age: base_client_debug_config.maximum_reply_key_age,
        }
    }

@@ -173,112 +92,103 @@ impl Config {
    }
 }

-pub(crate) struct RealMessagesController<R>
+pub struct RealMessagesController<R>
 where
    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
 {
    out_queue_control: OutQueueControl<R>,
    ack_control: AcknowledgementController<R>,
-    reply_control: ReplyController<R>,
 }

 // obviously when we finally make shared rng that is on 'higher' level, this should become
 // generic `R`
 impl RealMessagesController<OsRng> {
-    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-    pub(crate) fn new(
+    pub fn new(
        config: Config,
        ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
        input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
        mix_sender: BatchMixMessageSender,
        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
-        reply_storage: CombinedReplyStorage,
-        // so much refactoring needed, but this is temporary just to test things out
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-        reply_controller_receiver: ReplyControllerReceiver,
-        lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-        client_connection_rx: ConnectionCommandReceiver,
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")] reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
    ) -> Self {
        let rng = OsRng;

-        // create channels for inter-task communication
-        let (real_message_sender, real_message_receiver) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(1);
+        let (real_message_sender, real_message_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
        let (sent_notifier_tx, sent_notifier_rx) = mpsc::unbounded();
-        let (ack_action_tx, ack_action_rx) = mpsc::unbounded();
+
        let ack_controller_connectors = AcknowledgementControllerConnectors::new(
+            real_message_sender,
            input_receiver,
            sent_notifier_rx,
            ack_receiver,
-            ack_action_tx.clone(),
-            ack_action_rx,
        );

-        // create all configs for the components
-        let ack_control_config = (&config).into();
-        let out_queue_config = (&config).into();
-        let reply_controller_config = (&config).into();
-        let message_handler_config = (&config).into();
-
-        // create the actual components
-        let message_handler = MessageHandler::new(
-            message_handler_config,
-            rng,
-            ack_action_tx,
-            real_message_sender,
-            topology_access.clone(),
-            reply_storage.key_storage(),
-            reply_storage.tags_storage(),
-        );
+        let ack_control_config = acknowledgement_control::Config::new(
+            config.ack_wait_addition,
+            config.ack_wait_multiplier,
+            config.average_ack_delay_duration,
+            config.average_packet_delay_duration,
+        )
+        .with_custom_packet_size(config.packet_size);

        let ack_control = AcknowledgementController::new(
            ack_control_config,
+            rng,
+            topology_access.clone(),
            Arc::clone(&config.ack_key),
+            config.self_recipient,
            ack_controller_connectors,
-            message_handler.clone(),
-            reply_controller_sender,
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+            reply_key_storage,
        );

-        let reply_control = ReplyController::new(
-            reply_controller_config,
-            message_handler,
-            reply_storage,
-            reply_controller_receiver,
-        );
+        let out_queue_config = real_traffic_stream::Config::new(
+            config.average_ack_delay_duration,
+            config.average_packet_delay_duration,
+            config.average_message_sending_delay,
+            config.disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution,
+        )
+        .with_custom_cover_packet_size(config.packet_size);

        let out_queue_control = OutQueueControl::new(
            out_queue_config,
-            rng,
+            Arc::clone(&config.ack_key),
            sent_notifier_tx,
            mix_sender,
            real_message_receiver,
+            rng,
+            config.self_recipient,
            topology_access,
-            lane_queue_lengths,
-            client_connection_rx,
        );

        RealMessagesController {
            out_queue_control,
            ack_control,
-            reply_control,
        }
    }

-    pub fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        let mut out_queue_control = self.out_queue_control;
        let ack_control = self.ack_control;
-        let mut reply_control = self.reply_control;

        let shutdown_handle = shutdown.clone();
        spawn_future(async move {
            out_queue_control.run_with_shutdown(shutdown_handle).await;
            debug!("The out queue controller has finished execution!");
        });
-        let shutdown_handle = shutdown.clone();
-        spawn_future(async move {
-            reply_control.run_with_shutdown(shutdown_handle).await;
-            debug!("The reply controller has finished execution!");
-        });
-
        ack_control.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub fn start(self) {
+        let mut out_queue_control = self.out_queue_control;
+        let ack_control = self.ack_control;
+
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            out_queue_control.run().await;
+            debug!("The out queue controller has finished execution!");
+        });
+        ack_control.start();
+    }
 }
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use self::sending_delay_controller::SendingDelayController;
 use crate::client::mix_traffic::BatchMixMessageSender;
 use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::SentPacketNotificationSender;
 use crate::client::topology_control::TopologyAccessor;
-use crate::client::transmission_buffer::TransmissionBuffer;
-use client_connections::{
-    ConnectionCommand, ConnectionCommandReceiver, ConnectionId, LaneQueueLengths, TransmissionLane,
-};
+use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use futures::task::{Context, Poll};
 use futures::{Future, Stream, StreamExt};
 use log::*;
@@ -18,9 +14,9 @@ use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::FragmentIdentifier;
 use nymsphinx::cover::generate_loop_cover_packet;
 use nymsphinx::forwarding::packet::MixPacket;
 use nymsphinx::params::PacketSize;
-use nymsphinx::preparer::PreparedFragment;
 use nymsphinx::utils::sample_poisson_duration;
 use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
+use std::collections::VecDeque;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -31,16 +27,25 @@ use tokio::time;
 #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
 use wasm_timer;

-mod sending_delay_controller;
+// The minimum time between increasing the average delay between packets. If we hit the ceiling in
+// the available buffer space we want to take somewhat swift action, but we still need to give a
+// short time to give the channel a chance reduce pressure.
+const INCREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS: u64 = 1;
+// The minimum time between decreasing the average delay between packets. We don't want to change
+// to quickly to keep things somewhat stable. Also there are buffers downstreams meaning we need to
+// wait a little to see the effect before we decrease further.
+const DECREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS: u64 = 30;
+// If we enough time passes without any sign of backpressure in the channel, we can consider
+// lowering the average delay. The goal is to keep somewhat stable, rather than maxing out
+// bandwidth at all times.
+const ACCEPTABLE_TIME_WITHOUT_BACKPRESSURE_SECS: u64 = 30;
+// The maximum multiplier we apply to the base average Poisson delay.
+const MAX_DELAY_MULTIPLIER: u32 = 6;
+// The minium multiplier we apply to the base average Poisson delay.
+const MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER: u32 = 1;

 /// Configurable parameters of the `OutQueueControl`
 pub(crate) struct Config {
-    /// Key used to encrypt and decrypt content of an ACK packet.
-    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
-
-    /// Represents full address of this client.
-    our_full_destination: Recipient,
-
    /// Average delay an acknowledgement packet is going to get delay at a single mixnode.
    average_ack_delay: Duration,

@@ -60,16 +65,12 @@ pub(crate) struct Config {

 impl Config {
    pub(crate) fn new(
-        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
-        our_full_destination: Recipient,
        average_ack_delay: Duration,
        average_packet_delay: Duration,
        average_message_sending_delay: Duration,
        disable_poisson_packet_distribution: bool,
    ) -> Self {
        Config {
-            ack_key,
-            our_full_destination,
            average_ack_delay,
            average_packet_delay,
            average_message_sending_delay,
@@ -84,6 +85,101 @@ impl Config {
    }
 }

+struct SendingDelayController {
+    /// Multiply the average sending delay.
+    /// This is normally set to unity, but if we detect backpressure we increase this
+    /// multiplier. We use discrete steps.
+    current_multiplier: u32,
+
+    /// Maximum delay multiplier
+    upper_bound: u32,
+
+    /// Minimum delay multiplier
+    lower_bound: u32,
+
+    /// To make sure we don't change the multiplier to fast, we limit a change to some duration
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    time_when_changed: time::Instant,
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    time_when_changed: wasm_timer::Instant,
+
+    /// If we have a long enough time without any backpressure detected we try reducing the sending
+    /// delay multiplier
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    time_when_backpressure_detected: time::Instant,
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    time_when_backpressure_detected: wasm_timer::Instant,
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+fn get_time_now() -> time::Instant {
+    time::Instant::now()
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+fn get_time_now() -> wasm_timer::Instant {
+    wasm_timer::Instant::now()
+}
+
+impl SendingDelayController {
+    fn new(lower_bound: u32, upper_bound: u32) -> Self {
+        assert!(lower_bound <= upper_bound);
+        let now = get_time_now();
+        SendingDelayController {
+            current_multiplier: MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER,
+            upper_bound,
+            lower_bound,
+            time_when_changed: now,
+            time_when_backpressure_detected: now,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn current_multiplier(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.current_multiplier
+    }
+
+    fn increase_delay_multiplier(&mut self) {
+        self.current_multiplier =
+            (self.current_multiplier + 1).clamp(self.lower_bound, self.upper_bound);
+        self.time_when_changed = get_time_now();
+        log::debug!(
+            "Increasing sending delay multiplier to: {}",
+            self.current_multiplier
+        );
+    }
+
+    fn decrease_delay_multiplier(&mut self) {
+        self.current_multiplier =
+            (self.current_multiplier - 1).clamp(self.lower_bound, self.upper_bound);
+        self.time_when_changed = get_time_now();
+        log::debug!(
+            "Decreasing sending delay multiplier to: {}",
+            self.current_multiplier
+        );
+    }
+
+    fn record_backpressure_detected(&mut self) {
+        self.time_when_backpressure_detected = get_time_now();
+    }
+
+    fn not_increased_delay_recently(&self) -> bool {
+        get_time_now()
+            > self.time_when_changed + Duration::from_secs(INCREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS)
+    }
+
+    fn is_sending_reliable(&self) -> bool {
+        let now = get_time_now();
+        let delay_change_interval = Duration::from_secs(DECREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS);
+        let acceptable_time_without_backpressure =
+            Duration::from_secs(ACCEPTABLE_TIME_WITHOUT_BACKPRESSURE_SECS);
+
+        now > self.time_when_backpressure_detected + acceptable_time_without_backpressure
+            && now > self.time_when_changed + delay_change_interval
+    }
+}
+
 pub(crate) struct OutQueueControl<R>
 where
    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
@@ -91,6 +187,9 @@ where
    /// Configurable parameters of the `ActionController`
    config: Config,

+    /// Key used to encrypt and decrypt content of an ACK packet.
+    ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
+
    /// Channel used for notifying of a real packet being sent out. Used to start up retransmission timer.
    sent_notifier: SentPacketNotificationSender,

@@ -104,7 +203,7 @@ where

    // To make sure we don't overload the mix_tx channel, we limit the rate we are pushing
    // messages.
-    sending_delay_controller: SendingDelayController,
+    sending_rate_controller: SendingDelayController,

    /// Channel used for sending prepared sphinx packets to `MixTrafficController` that sends them
    /// out to the network without any further delays.
@@ -114,45 +213,25 @@ where
    /// before being sent out into the network.
    real_receiver: BatchRealMessageReceiver,

+    /// Represents full address of this client.
+    our_full_destination: Recipient,
+
    /// Instance of a cryptographically secure random number generator.
    rng: R,

    /// Accessor to the common instance of network topology.
    topology_access: TopologyAccessor,

-    /// Buffer containing all incoming real messages keyed by transmission lane, that we will send
-    /// out to the mixnet.
-    transmission_buffer: TransmissionBuffer<RealMessage>,
-
-    /// Incoming channel for being notified of closed connections, so that we can close lanes
-    /// corresponding to connections. To avoid sending traffic unnecessary
-    client_connection_rx: ConnectionCommandReceiver,
-
-    /// Report queue lengths so that upstream can backoff sending data, and keep connections open.
-    lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
+    /// Buffer containing all real messages received. It is first exhausted before more are pulled.
+    received_buffer: VecDeque<RealMessage>,
 }

-#[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) struct RealMessage {
    mix_packet: MixPacket,
    fragment_id: FragmentIdentifier,
-    // TODO: add info about it being constructed with reply-surb
-}
-
-impl From<PreparedFragment> for RealMessage {
-    fn from(fragment: PreparedFragment) -> Self {
-        RealMessage {
-            mix_packet: fragment.mix_packet,
-            fragment_id: fragment.fragment_identifier,
-        }
-    }
 }

 impl RealMessage {
-    pub(crate) fn packet_size(&self) -> usize {
-        self.mix_packet.sphinx_packet().len()
-    }
-
    pub(crate) fn new(mix_packet: MixPacket, fragment_id: FragmentIdentifier) -> Self {
        RealMessage {
            mix_packet,
@@ -163,9 +242,8 @@ impl RealMessage {

 // messages are already prepared, etc. the real point of it is to forward it to mix_traffic
 // after sufficient delay
-pub(crate) type BatchRealMessageSender =
-    tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<(Vec<RealMessage>, TransmissionLane)>;
-type BatchRealMessageReceiver = tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver<(Vec<RealMessage>, TransmissionLane)>;
+pub(crate) type BatchRealMessageSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<Vec<RealMessage>>;
+type BatchRealMessageReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<Vec<RealMessage>>;

 pub(crate) enum StreamMessage {
    Cover,
@@ -181,26 +259,29 @@ where
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub(crate) fn new(
        config: Config,
-        rng: R,
+        ack_key: Arc<AckKey>,
        sent_notifier: SentPacketNotificationSender,
        mix_tx: BatchMixMessageSender,
        real_receiver: BatchRealMessageReceiver,
+        rng: R,
+        our_full_destination: Recipient,
        topology_access: TopologyAccessor,
-        lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-        client_connection_rx: ConnectionCommandReceiver,
    ) -> Self {
        OutQueueControl {
            config,
+            ack_key,
            sent_notifier,
            next_delay: None,
-            sending_delay_controller: Default::default(),
+            sending_rate_controller: SendingDelayController::new(
+                MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER,
+                MAX_DELAY_MULTIPLIER,
+            ),
            mix_tx,
            real_receiver,
+            our_full_destination,
            rng,
            topology_access,
-            transmission_buffer: TransmissionBuffer::new(),
-            client_connection_rx,
-            lane_queue_lengths,
+            received_buffer: VecDeque::with_capacity(0), // we won't be putting any data into this guy directly
        }
    }

@@ -222,23 +303,24 @@ where
                // poisson delay, but is it really a problem?
                let topology_permit = self.topology_access.get_read_permit().await;
                // the ack is sent back to ourselves (and then ignored)
-                let topology_ref = match topology_permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(
-                    &self.config.our_full_destination,
-                    Some(&self.config.our_full_destination),
-                ) {
-                    Ok(topology) => topology,
-                    Err(err) => {
-                        warn!("We're not going to send any loop cover message this time, as the current topology seem to be invalid - {err}");
-                        return;
-                    }
-                };
+                let topology_ref_option = topology_permit.try_get_valid_topology_ref(
+                    &self.our_full_destination,
+                    Some(&self.our_full_destination),
+                );
+                if topology_ref_option.is_none() {
+                    warn!(
+                        "No valid topology detected - won't send any loop cover message this time"
+                    );
+                    return;
+                }
+                let topology_ref = topology_ref_option.unwrap();

                (
                    generate_loop_cover_packet(
                        &mut self.rng,
                        topology_ref,
-                        &self.config.ack_key,
-                        &self.config.our_full_destination,
+                        &self.ack_key,
+                        &self.our_full_destination,
                        self.config.average_ack_delay,
                        self.config.average_packet_delay,
                        self.config.cover_packet_size,
@@ -255,7 +337,7 @@ where
        };

        if let Err(err) = self.mix_tx.send(vec![next_message]).await {
-            log::error!("Failed to send: {err}");
+            log::error!("Failed to send - channel closed: {}", err);
        }

        // notify ack controller about sending our message only after we actually managed to push it
@@ -264,10 +346,6 @@ where
            self.sent_notify(fragment_id);
        }

-        // In addition to closing connections on receiving messages throught client_connection_rx,
-        // also close connections when sufficiently stale.
-        self.transmission_buffer.prune_stale_connections();
-
        // JS: Not entirely sure why or how it fixes stuff, but without the yield call,
        // the UnboundedReceiver [of mix_rx] will not get a chance to read anything
        // JS2: Basically it was the case that with high enough rate, the stream had already a next value
@@ -279,73 +357,44 @@ where
        tokio::task::yield_now().await;
    }

-    fn on_close_connection(&mut self, connection_id: ConnectionId) {
-        log::debug!("Removing lane for connection: {connection_id}");
-        self.transmission_buffer
-            .remove(&TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id));
-    }
-
    fn current_average_message_sending_delay(&self) -> Duration {
        self.config.average_message_sending_delay
-            * self.sending_delay_controller.current_multiplier()
+            * self.sending_rate_controller.current_multiplier()
    }

    fn adjust_current_average_message_sending_delay(&mut self) {
        let used_slots = self.mix_tx.max_capacity() - self.mix_tx.capacity();
        log::trace!(
            "used_slots: {used_slots}, current_multiplier: {}",
-            self.sending_delay_controller.current_multiplier()
+            self.sending_rate_controller.current_multiplier()
        );

        // Even just a single used slot is enough to signal backpressure
        if used_slots > 0 {
            log::trace!("Backpressure detected");
-            self.sending_delay_controller.record_backpressure_detected();
+            self.sending_rate_controller.record_backpressure_detected();
        }

        // If the buffer is running out, slow down the sending rate
        if self.mix_tx.capacity() == 0
-            && self.sending_delay_controller.not_increased_delay_recently()
+            && self.sending_rate_controller.not_increased_delay_recently()
        {
-            self.sending_delay_controller.increase_delay_multiplier();
+            self.sending_rate_controller.increase_delay_multiplier();
        }

        // Very carefully step up the sending rate in case it seems like we can solidly handle the
        // current rate.
-        if self.sending_delay_controller.is_sending_reliable() {
-            self.sending_delay_controller.decrease_delay_multiplier();
+        if self.sending_rate_controller.is_sending_reliable() {
+            self.sending_rate_controller.decrease_delay_multiplier();
        }
    }

-    fn pop_next_message(&mut self) -> Option<RealMessage> {
-        // Pop the next message from the transmission buffer
-        let (lane, real_next) = self
-            .transmission_buffer
-            .pop_next_message_at_random(&mut self.rng)?;
-
-        // Update the published queue length
-        let lane_length = self.transmission_buffer.lane_length(&lane);
-        self.lane_queue_lengths.set(&lane, lane_length);
-
-        Some(real_next)
-    }
-
    fn poll_poisson(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<StreamMessage>> {
        // The average delay could change depending on if backpressure in the downstream channel
        // (mix_tx) was detected.
        self.adjust_current_average_message_sending_delay();
        let avg_delay = self.current_average_message_sending_delay();

-        // Start by checking if we have any incoming messages about closed connections
-        // NOTE: this feels a bit iffy, the `OutQueueControl` is getting ripe for a rewrite to
-        // something simpler.
-        if let Poll::Ready(Some(id)) = Pin::new(&mut self.client_connection_rx).poll_next(cx) {
-            match id {
-                ConnectionCommand::Close(id) => self.on_close_connection(id),
-                ConnectionCommand::ActiveConnections(_) => panic!(),
-            }
-        }
-
        if let Some(ref mut next_delay) = &mut self.next_delay {
            // it is not yet time to return a message
            if next_delay.as_mut().poll(cx).is_pending() {
@@ -370,32 +419,28 @@ where
                next_delay.as_mut().reset(next_poisson_delay);
            }

-            // On every iteration we get new messages from upstream. Given that these come bunched
-            // in `Vec`, this ensures that on average we will fetch messages faster than we can
-            // send, which is a condition for being able to multiplex sphinx packets from multiple
-            // data streams.
-            match Pin::new(&mut self.real_receiver).poll_recv(cx) {
+            // check if we have anything immediately available
+            if let Some(real_available) = self.received_buffer.pop_front() {
+                return Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_available))));
+            }
+
+            // decide what kind of message to send
+            match Pin::new(&mut self.real_receiver).poll_next(cx) {
                // in the case our real message channel stream was closed, we should also indicate we are closed
                // (and whoever is using the stream should panic)
                Poll::Ready(None) => Poll::Ready(None),

-                Poll::Ready(Some((real_messages, conn_id))) => {
-                    log::trace!("handling real_messages: size: {}", real_messages.len());
-
-                    self.transmission_buffer.store(&conn_id, real_messages);
-                    let real_next = self.pop_next_message().expect("Just stored one");
-
-                    Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_next))))
+                // if there are more messages available, return first one and store the rest
+                Poll::Ready(Some(real_messages)) => {
+                    self.received_buffer = real_messages.into();
+                    // we MUST HAVE received at least ONE message
+                    Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(
+                        self.received_buffer.pop_front().unwrap(),
+                    ))))
                }

-                Poll::Pending => {
-                    if let Some(real_next) = self.pop_next_message() {
-                        Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_next))))
-                    } else {
-                        // otherwise construct a dummy one
-                        Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Cover))
-                    }
-                }
+                // otherwise construct a dummy one
+                Poll::Pending => Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Cover)),
            }
        } else {
            // we never set an initial delay - let's do it now
@@ -417,36 +462,32 @@ where
    }

    fn poll_immediate(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<StreamMessage>> {
-        // Start by checking if we have any incoming messages about closed connections
-        if let Poll::Ready(Some(id)) = Pin::new(&mut self.client_connection_rx).poll_next(cx) {
-            match id {
-                ConnectionCommand::Close(id) => self.on_close_connection(id),
-                ConnectionCommand::ActiveConnections(_) => panic!(),
+        // check if we have anything immediately available
+        if let Some(real_available) = self.received_buffer.pop_front() {
+            // if there are more messages immediately available, notify the runtime
+            // because we should be polled again
+            if !self.received_buffer.is_empty() {
+                cx.waker().wake_by_ref()
            }
+            return Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_available))));
        }

-        match Pin::new(&mut self.real_receiver).poll_recv(cx) {
+        match Pin::new(&mut self.real_receiver).poll_next(cx) {
            // in the case our real message channel stream was closed, we should also indicate we are closed
            // (and whoever is using the stream should panic)
            Poll::Ready(None) => Poll::Ready(None),

-            Poll::Ready(Some((real_messages, conn_id))) => {
-                log::trace!("handling real_messages: size: {}", real_messages.len());
-
-                // First store what we got for the given connection id
-                self.transmission_buffer.store(&conn_id, real_messages);
-                let real_next = self.pop_next_message().expect("we just added one");
-
-                Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_next))))
+            // if there are more messages available, return first one and store the rest
+            Poll::Ready(Some(real_messages)) => {
+                self.received_buffer = real_messages.into();
+                // we MUST HAVE received at least ONE message
+                Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(
+                    self.received_buffer.pop_front().unwrap(),
+                ))))
            }

-            Poll::Pending => {
-                if let Some(real_next) = self.pop_next_message() {
-                    Poll::Ready(Some(StreamMessage::Real(Box::new(real_next))))
-                } else {
-                    Poll::Pending
-                }
-            }
+            // if there's nothing, then there's nothing
+            Poll::Pending => Poll::Pending,
        }
    }

@@ -462,103 +503,38 @@ where
    }

    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    fn log_status(&self, shutdown: &mut task::TaskClient) {
-        use crate::error::ClientCoreStatusMessage;
-
-        let packets = self.transmission_buffer.total_size();
-        let backlog = self.transmission_buffer.total_size_in_bytes() as f64 / 1024.0;
-        let lanes = self.transmission_buffer.num_lanes();
-        let mult = self.sending_delay_controller.current_multiplier();
-        let delay = self.current_average_message_sending_delay().as_millis();
-        let status_str = if self.config.disable_poisson_packet_distribution {
-            format!(
-                "Status: {lanes} lanes, backlog: {:.2} kiB ({packets}), no delay",
-                backlog
-            )
-        } else {
-            format!(
-                "Status: {lanes} lanes, backlog: {:.2} kiB ({packets}), avg delay: {}ms ({mult})",
-                backlog, delay
-            )
-        };
-        if packets > 1000 {
-            log::warn!("{status_str}");
-        } else if packets > 0 {
-            log::info!("{status_str}");
-        } else {
-            log::debug!("{status_str}");
-        }
-
-        // Send status message to whoever is listening (possibly UI)
-        if mult == self.sending_delay_controller.max_multiplier() {
-            shutdown.send_status_msg(Box::new(ClientCoreStatusMessage::GatewayIsVerySlow));
-        } else if mult > self.sending_delay_controller.min_multiplier() {
-            shutdown.send_status_msg(Box::new(ClientCoreStatusMessage::GatewayIsSlow));
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    fn log_status_infrequent(&self) {
-        if self.sending_delay_controller.current_multiplier() > 1 {
-            log::warn!(
-                "Unable to send packets at the default rate - rate reduced by setting the delay multiplier set to: {}",
-                self.sending_delay_controller.current_multiplier()
-            );
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    pub(super) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started OutQueueControl with graceful shutdown support");

-        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-        {
-            let mut status_timer = tokio::time::interval(Duration::from_secs(5));
-            let mut infrequent_status_timer = tokio::time::interval(Duration::from_secs(60));
-
-            while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
-                tokio::select! {
-                    biased;
-                    _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
-                        log::trace!("OutQueueControl: Received shutdown");
-                    }
-                    _ = status_timer.tick() => {
-                        self.log_status(&mut shutdown);
-                    }
-                    _ = infrequent_status_timer.tick() => {
-                        self.log_status_infrequent();
-                    }
-                    next_message = self.next() => if let Some(next_message) = next_message {
-                        self.on_message(next_message).await;
-                    } else {
-                        log::trace!("OutQueueControl: Stopping since channel closed");
-                        break;
-                    }
+        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
+            tokio::select! {
+                biased;
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
+                    log::trace!("OutQueueControl: Received shutdown");
                }
-            }
-            tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), shutdown.recv())
-                .await
-                .expect("Task stopped without shutdown called");
-        }
-
-        #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-        {
-            while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
-                tokio::select! {
-                    biased;
-                    _ = shutdown.recv() => {
-                        log::trace!("OutQueueControl: Received shutdown");
-                    }
-                    next_message = self.next() => if let Some(next_message) = next_message {
+                next_message = self.next() => match next_message {
+                    Some(next_message) => {
                        self.on_message(next_message).await;
-                    } else {
+                    },
+                    None => {
                        log::trace!("OutQueueControl: Stopping since channel closed");
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("OutQueueControl: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub(super) async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started OutQueueControl without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(next_message) = self.next().await {
+            self.on_message(next_message).await;
+        }
+    }
 }

 impl<R> Stream for OutQueueControl<R>
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::helpers::{get_time_now, Instant};
-use std::time::Duration;
-
-// The minimum time between increasing the average delay between packets. If we hit the ceiling in
-// the available buffer space we want to take somewhat swift action, but we still need to give a
-// short time to give the channel a chance reduce pressure.
-const INCREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS: u64 = 1;
-// The minimum time between decreasing the average delay between packets. We don't want to change
-// to quickly to keep things somewhat stable. Also there are buffers downstreams meaning we need to
-// wait a little to see the effect before we decrease further.
-const DECREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS: u64 = 30;
-// If we enough time passes without any sign of backpressure in the channel, we can consider
-// lowering the average delay. The goal is to keep somewhat stable, rather than maxing out
-// bandwidth at all times.
-const ACCEPTABLE_TIME_WITHOUT_BACKPRESSURE_SECS: u64 = 30;
-// The maximum multiplier we apply to the base average Poisson delay.
-const MAX_DELAY_MULTIPLIER: u32 = 6;
-// The minium multiplier we apply to the base average Poisson delay.
-const MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER: u32 = 1;
-
-pub(crate) struct SendingDelayController {
-    /// Multiply the average sending delay.
-    /// This is normally set to unity, but if we detect backpressure we increase this
-    /// multiplier. We use discrete steps.
-    current_multiplier: u32,
-
-    /// Maximum delay multiplier
-    upper_bound: u32,
-
-    /// Minimum delay multiplier
-    lower_bound: u32,
-
-    /// To make sure we don't change the multiplier to fast, we limit a change to some duration
-    time_when_changed: Instant,
-
-    /// If we have a long enough time without any backpressure detected we try reducing the sending
-    /// delay multiplier
-    time_when_backpressure_detected: Instant,
-}
-
-impl Default for SendingDelayController {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        SendingDelayController::new(MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER, MAX_DELAY_MULTIPLIER)
-    }
-}
-
-impl SendingDelayController {
-    pub(crate) fn new(lower_bound: u32, upper_bound: u32) -> Self {
-        assert!(lower_bound <= upper_bound);
-        let now = get_time_now();
-        SendingDelayController {
-            current_multiplier: MIN_DELAY_MULTIPLIER,
-            upper_bound,
-            lower_bound,
-            time_when_changed: now,
-            time_when_backpressure_detected: now,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn current_multiplier(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.current_multiplier
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    pub(crate) fn min_multiplier(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.lower_bound
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    pub(crate) fn max_multiplier(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.upper_bound
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn increase_delay_multiplier(&mut self) {
-        if self.current_multiplier < self.upper_bound {
-            self.current_multiplier =
-                (self.current_multiplier + 1).clamp(self.lower_bound, self.upper_bound);
-            self.time_when_changed = get_time_now();
-            log::warn!(
-                "Increasing sending delay multiplier to: {}",
-                self.current_multiplier
-            );
-        } else {
-            log::warn!("Trying to increase delay multipler higher than allowed");
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn decrease_delay_multiplier(&mut self) {
-        if self.current_multiplier > self.lower_bound {
-            self.current_multiplier =
-                (self.current_multiplier - 1).clamp(self.lower_bound, self.upper_bound);
-            self.time_when_changed = get_time_now();
-            log::debug!(
-                "Decreasing sending delay multiplier to: {}",
-                self.current_multiplier
-            );
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn record_backpressure_detected(&mut self) {
-        self.time_when_backpressure_detected = get_time_now();
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn not_increased_delay_recently(&self) -> bool {
-        get_time_now()
-            > self.time_when_changed + Duration::from_secs(INCREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn is_sending_reliable(&self) -> bool {
-        let now = get_time_now();
-        let delay_change_interval = Duration::from_secs(DECREASE_DELAY_MIN_CHANGE_INTERVAL_SECS);
-        let acceptable_time_without_backpressure =
-            Duration::from_secs(ACCEPTABLE_TIME_WITHOUT_BACKPRESSURE_SECS);
-
-        now > self.time_when_backpressure_detected + acceptable_time_without_backpressure
-            && now > self.time_when_changed + delay_change_interval
-    }
-}
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use crate::client::replies::reply_controller::ReplyControllerSender;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::SentReplyKeys;
 use crate::spawn_future;
 use crypto::asymmetric::encryption;
-use crypto::Digest;
 use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use futures::lock::Mutex;
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use gateway_client::MixnetMessageReceiver;
 use log::*;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::{
-    RepliableMessage, RepliableMessageContent, ReplyMessage, ReplyMessageContent,
-};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::{encryption_key::EncryptionKeyDigest, SurbEncryptionKey};
-use nymsphinx::message::{NymMessage, PlainMessage};
-use nymsphinx::params::ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm;
 use nymsphinx::receiver::{MessageReceiver, MessageRecoveryError, ReconstructedMessage};
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::sync::Arc;

+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use crate::client::reply_key_storage::ReplyKeyStorage;
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use crypto::{symmetric::stream_cipher, Digest};
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::{encryption_key::EncryptionKeyDigest, SurbEncryptionKey};
+#[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+use nymsphinx::params::{ReplySurbEncryptionAlgorithm, ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm};
+
 // Buffer Requests to say "hey, send any reconstructed messages to this channel"
 // or to say "hey, I'm going offline, don't send anything more to me. Just buffer them instead"
 pub type ReceivedBufferRequestSender = mpsc::UnboundedSender<ReceivedBufferMessage>;
@@ -46,15 +46,26 @@ struct ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
 }

 impl ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
-    fn recover_from_fragment(&mut self, fragment_data: &[u8]) -> Option<NymMessage> {
-        if nymsphinx::cover::is_cover(fragment_data) {
+    fn process_received_fragment(&mut self, raw_fragment: Vec<u8>) -> Option<ReconstructedMessage> {
+        let fragment_data = match self
+            .message_receiver
+            .recover_plaintext(self.local_encryption_keypair.private_key(), raw_fragment)
+        {
+            Err(e) => {
+                warn!("failed to recover fragment data: {:?}. The whole underlying message might be corrupted and unrecoverable!", e);
+                return None;
+            }
+            Ok(frag_data) => frag_data,
+        };
+
+        if nymsphinx::cover::is_cover(&fragment_data) {
            trace!("The message was a loop cover message! Skipping it");
            return None;
        }

-        let fragment = match self.message_receiver.recover_fragment(fragment_data) {
-            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("failed to recover fragment from raw data: {err}. The whole underlying message might be corrupted and unrecoverable!");
+        let fragment = match self.message_receiver.recover_fragment(&fragment_data) {
+            Err(e) => {
+                warn!("failed to recover fragment from raw data: {:?}. The whole underlying message might be corrupted and unrecoverable!", e);
                return None;
            }
            Ok(frag) => frag,
@@ -68,10 +79,9 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
        // if we returned an error the underlying message is malformed in some way
        match self.message_receiver.insert_new_fragment(fragment) {
            Err(err) => match err {
-                MessageRecoveryError::MalformedReconstructedMessage { source, used_sets } => {
-                    error!("message reconstruction failed - {source}. Attempting to re-use the message sets...");
+                MessageRecoveryError::MalformedReconstructedMessage(message_sets) => {
                    // TODO: should we really insert reconstructed sets? could this be abused for some attack?
-                    for set_id in used_sets {
+                    for set_id in message_sets {
                        if !self.recently_reconstructed.insert(set_id) {
                            // or perhaps we should even panic at this point?
                            error!("Reconstructed another message containing already used set id!")
@@ -97,34 +107,6 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
            },
        }
    }
-
-    fn process_received_reply(
-        &mut self,
-        reply_ciphertext: &mut [u8],
-        reply_key: SurbEncryptionKey,
-    ) -> Option<NymMessage> {
-        // note: this performs decryption IN PLACE without extra allocation
-        self.message_receiver
-            .recover_plaintext_from_reply(reply_ciphertext, reply_key);
-        let fragment_data = reply_ciphertext;
-
-        self.recover_from_fragment(fragment_data)
-    }
-
-    fn process_received_regular_packet(&mut self, mut raw_fragment: Vec<u8>) -> Option<NymMessage> {
-        let fragment_data = match self.message_receiver.recover_plaintext_from_regular_packet(
-            self.local_encryption_keypair.private_key(),
-            &mut raw_fragment,
-        ) {
-            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("failed to recover fragment data: {err}. The whole underlying message might be corrupted and unrecoverable!");
-                return None;
-            }
-            Ok(frag_data) => frag_data,
-        };
-
-        self.recover_from_fragment(fragment_data)
-    }
 }

 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -132,15 +114,17 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
 // You should always use .clone() to create additional instances
 struct ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
    inner: Arc<Mutex<ReceivedMessagesBufferInner>>,
-    reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-    reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+
+    /// Storage containing keys to all [`ReplySURB`]s ever sent out that we did not receive back.
+    // There's no need to put it behind a Mutex since it's already properly concurrent
+    #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+    reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
 }

 impl ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
    fn new(
        local_encryption_keypair: Arc<encryption::KeyPair>,
-        reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")] reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
    ) -> Self {
        ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
            inner: Arc::new(Mutex::new(ReceivedMessagesBufferInner {
@@ -150,8 +134,8 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
                message_sender: None,
                recently_reconstructed: HashSet::new(),
            })),
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
            reply_key_storage,
-            reply_controller_sender,
        }
    }

@@ -193,143 +177,38 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
        guard.message_sender = Some(sender);
    }

-    fn handle_reconstructed_plain_messages(
-        &mut self,
-        msgs: Vec<PlainMessage>,
-    ) -> Vec<ReconstructedMessage> {
-        msgs.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect()
+    async fn add_reconstructed_messages(&mut self, msgs: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>) {
+        debug!("Adding {:?} new messages to the buffer!", msgs.len());
+        trace!("Adding new messages to the buffer! {:?}", msgs);
+        self.inner.lock().await.messages.extend(msgs)
    }

-    fn handle_reconstructed_repliable_messages(
-        &mut self,
-        msgs: Vec<RepliableMessage>,
-    ) -> Vec<ReconstructedMessage> {
-        let mut reconstructed = Vec::new();
-        for msg in msgs {
-            let (reply_surbs, from_surb_request) = match msg.content {
-                RepliableMessageContent::Data {
-                    message,
-                    reply_surbs,
-                } => {
-                    trace!(
-                        "received message that also contained additional {} reply surbs from {:?}!",
-                        reply_surbs.len(),
-                        msg.sender_tag
-                    );
+    #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+    fn process_received_reply(
+        reply_ciphertext: &[u8],
+        reply_key: SurbEncryptionKey,
+    ) -> Option<ReconstructedMessage> {
+        let zero_iv = stream_cipher::zero_iv::<ReplySurbEncryptionAlgorithm>();

-                    reconstructed.push(ReconstructedMessage::new(message, msg.sender_tag));
-
-                    (reply_surbs, false)
-                }
-                RepliableMessageContent::AdditionalSurbs { reply_surbs } => {
-                    trace!(
-                        "received additional {} reply surbs from {:?}!",
-                        reply_surbs.len(),
-                        msg.sender_tag
-                    );
-                    (reply_surbs, true)
-                }
-                RepliableMessageContent::Heartbeat {
-                    additional_reply_surbs,
-                } => {
-                    error!("received a repliable heartbeat message - we don't know how to handle it yet (and we won't know until future PRs)");
-                    (additional_reply_surbs, false)
-                }
-            };
-
-            self.reply_controller_sender.send_additional_surbs(
-                msg.sender_tag,
-                reply_surbs,
-                from_surb_request,
-            )
-        }
-        reconstructed
-    }
-
-    fn handle_reconstructed_reply_messages(
-        &mut self,
-        msgs: Vec<ReplyMessage>,
-    ) -> Vec<ReconstructedMessage> {
-        let mut reconstructed = Vec::new();
-        for msg in msgs {
-            match msg.content {
-                ReplyMessageContent::Data { message } => reconstructed.push(message.into()),
-                ReplyMessageContent::SurbRequest { recipient, amount } => {
-                    debug!("received request for {amount} additional reply SURBs from {recipient}");
-                    self.reply_controller_sender
-                        .send_additional_surbs_request(*recipient, amount);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        reconstructed
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_reconstructed_messages(&mut self, msgs: Vec<NymMessage>) {
-        if msgs.is_empty() {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        let mut plain_messages = Vec::new();
-        let mut repliable_messages = Vec::new();
-        let mut reply_messages = Vec::new();
-
-        for msg in msgs {
-            match msg {
-                NymMessage::Plain(plain) => plain_messages.push(plain),
-                NymMessage::Repliable(repliable) => repliable_messages.push(repliable),
-                NymMessage::Reply(reply) => reply_messages.push(reply),
-            }
-        }
-
-        let mut reconstructed_messages = self.handle_reconstructed_plain_messages(plain_messages);
-        reconstructed_messages
-            .append(&mut self.handle_reconstructed_repliable_messages(repliable_messages));
-        reconstructed_messages
-            .append(&mut self.handle_reconstructed_reply_messages(reply_messages));
-
-        let mut inner_guard = self.inner.lock().await;
-        debug!(
-            "Adding {:?} new messages to the buffer!",
-            reconstructed_messages.len()
+        let mut reply_msg = stream_cipher::decrypt::<ReplySurbEncryptionAlgorithm>(
+            reply_key.inner(),
+            &zero_iv,
+            reply_ciphertext,
        );
-
-        if let Some(sender) = &inner_guard.message_sender {
-            trace!("Sending reconstructed messages to announced sender");
-            if let Err(err) = sender.unbounded_send(reconstructed_messages) {
-                warn!("The reconstructed message receiver went offline without explicit notification (relevant error: - {err})");
-                inner_guard.message_sender = None;
-                inner_guard.messages.extend(err.into_inner());
-            }
+        if let Err(err) = MessageReceiver::remove_padding(&mut reply_msg) {
+            warn!("Received reply had malformed padding! - {:?}", err);
+            None
        } else {
-            trace!("No sender available - buffering reconstructed messages");
-            inner_guard.messages.extend(reconstructed_messages)
-        }
-    }
-
-    // this function doesn't really belong here...
-    fn get_reply_key<'a>(
-        &self,
-        raw_message: &'a mut [u8],
-    ) -> Option<(SurbEncryptionKey, &'a mut [u8])> {
-        let reply_surb_digest_size = ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm::output_size();
-        if raw_message.len() < reply_surb_digest_size {
-            return None;
-        }
-
-        let possible_key_digest =
-            EncryptionKeyDigest::clone_from_slice(&raw_message[..reply_surb_digest_size]);
-        self.reply_key_storage
-            .try_pop(possible_key_digest)
-            .map(|reply_encryption_key| {
-                (
-                    *reply_encryption_key,
-                    &mut raw_message[reply_surb_digest_size..],
-                )
+            // TODO: perhaps having to say it doesn't have a surb an indication the type should be changed?
+            Some(ReconstructedMessage {
+                message: reply_msg,
+                reply_surb: None,
            })
+        }
    }

    async fn handle_new_received(&mut self, msgs: Vec<Vec<u8>>) {
-        trace!(
+        debug!(
            "Processing {:?} new message that might get added to the buffer!",
            msgs.len()
        );
@@ -338,27 +217,69 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBuffer {
        let mut inner_guard = self.inner.lock().await;

        // first check if this is a reply or a chunked message
-        // note: there's a possible information leakage associated with this check https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/296
-        for mut msg in msgs {
-            // check first `HasherOutputSize` bytes if they correspond to known encryption key
-            // if yes - this is a reply message
-            let completed_message =
-                if let Some((reply_key, reply_message)) = self.get_reply_key(&mut msg) {
-                    inner_guard.process_received_reply(reply_message, reply_key)
-                } else {
-                    inner_guard.process_received_regular_packet(msg)
-                };
+        // TODO: verify with @AP if this way of doing it is safe or whether it could
+        // cause some attacks due to, I don't know, stupid edge case collisions?
+        // Update: this DOES introduce a possible leakage: https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/296
+        for msg in msgs {
+            // TODO:
+            // 1. make it nicer
+            // 2. make it not feature-locked

-            if let Some(completed) = completed_message {
-                info!("received {completed}");
-                completed_messages.push(completed)
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
+            {
+                let reply_surb_digest_size = ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm::output_size();
+
+                let possible_key_digest =
+                    EncryptionKeyDigest::clone_from_slice(&msg[..reply_surb_digest_size]);
+
+                // check first `HasherOutputSize` bytes if they correspond to known encryption key
+                // if yes - this is a reply message
+
+                // TODO: this might be a bottleneck - since the keys are stored on disk we, presumably,
+                // are doing a disk operation every single received fragment
+                if let Some(reply_encryption_key) = self
+                    .reply_key_storage
+                    .get_and_remove_encryption_key(possible_key_digest)
+                    .expect("storage operation failed!")
+                {
+                    if let Some(completed_message) = Self::process_received_reply(
+                        &msg[reply_surb_digest_size..],
+                        reply_encryption_key,
+                    ) {
+                        completed_messages.push(completed_message)
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    // otherwise - it's a 'normal' message
+                    if let Some(completed_message) = inner_guard.process_received_fragment(msg) {
+                        completed_messages.push(completed_message)
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            #[cfg(not(feature = "reply-surb"))]
+            if let Some(completed_message) = inner_guard.process_received_fragment(msg) {
+                completed_messages.push(completed_message)
            }
        }

-        drop(inner_guard);
-
        if !completed_messages.is_empty() {
-            self.handle_reconstructed_messages(completed_messages).await
+            if let Some(sender) = &inner_guard.message_sender {
+                trace!("Sending reconstructed messages to announced sender");
+                if let Err(err) = sender.unbounded_send(completed_messages) {
+                    warn!("The reconstructed message receiver went offline without explicit notification (relevant error: - {:?})", err);
+                    // make sure to drop the lock to not deadlock
+                    // (it is required by `add_reconstructed_messages`)
+                    inner_guard.message_sender = None;
+                    drop(inner_guard);
+                    self.add_reconstructed_messages(err.into_inner()).await;
+                }
+            } else {
+                // make sure to drop the lock to not deadlock
+                // (it is required by `add_reconstructed_messages`)
+                drop(inner_guard);
+                trace!("No sender available - buffering reconstructed messages");
+                self.add_reconstructed_messages(completed_messages).await;
+            }
        }
    }
 }
@@ -399,27 +320,38 @@ impl RequestReceiver {
        }
    }

-    async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started RequestReceiver with graceful shutdown support");
        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
            tokio::select! {
                biased;
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("RequestReceiver: Received shutdown");
                }
                request = self.query_receiver.next() => {
-                    if let Some(message) = request {
-                        self.handle_message(message).await
-                    } else {
-                        log::trace!("RequestReceiver: Stopping since channel closed");
-                        break;
+                    match request {
+                        Some(message) => self.handle_message(message).await,
+                        None => {
+                            log::trace!("RequestReceiver: Stopping since channel closed");
+                            break;
+                        },
                    }
                },
            }
        }
-        shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("RequestReceiver: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started RequestReceiver without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(message) = self.query_receiver.next().await {
+            self.handle_message(message).await
+        }
+    }
 }

 struct FragmentedMessageReceiver {
@@ -438,45 +370,55 @@ impl FragmentedMessageReceiver {
        }
    }

-    async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        debug!("Started FragmentedMessageReceiver with graceful shutdown support");
        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
            tokio::select! {
-                new_messages = self.mixnet_packet_receiver.next() => {
-                    if let Some(new_messages) = new_messages {
+                new_messages = self.mixnet_packet_receiver.next() => match new_messages {
+                    Some(new_messages) => {
                        self.received_buffer.handle_new_received(new_messages).await;
-                    } else {
+                    }
+                    None => {
                        log::trace!("FragmentedMessageReceiver: Stopping since channel closed");
                        break;
                    }
                },
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
+                _ = shutdown.recv() => {
                    log::trace!("FragmentedMessageReceiver: Received shutdown");
                }
            }
        }
-        shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
        log::debug!("FragmentedMessageReceiver: Exiting");
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    async fn run(&mut self) {
+        debug!("Started FragmentedMessageReceiver without graceful shutdown support");
+
+        while let Some(new_messages) = self.mixnet_packet_receiver.next().await {
+            self.received_buffer.handle_new_received(new_messages).await;
+        }
+    }
 }

-pub(crate) struct ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
+pub struct ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
    fragmented_message_receiver: FragmentedMessageReceiver,
    request_receiver: RequestReceiver,
 }

 impl ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
-    pub(crate) fn new(
+    pub fn new(
        local_encryption_keypair: Arc<encryption::KeyPair>,
        query_receiver: ReceivedBufferRequestReceiver,
        mixnet_packet_receiver: MixnetMessageReceiver,
-        reply_key_storage: SentReplyKeys,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+        #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")] reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
    ) -> Self {
        let received_buffer = ReceivedMessagesBuffer::new(
            local_encryption_keypair,
+            #[cfg(feature = "reply-surb")]
            reply_key_storage,
-            reply_controller_sender,
        );

        ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
@@ -488,7 +430,8 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
        }
    }

-    pub fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub fn start_with_shutdown(self, shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        let mut fragmented_message_receiver = self.fragmented_message_receiver;
        let mut request_receiver = self.request_receiver;

@@ -502,4 +445,16 @@ impl ReceivedMessagesBufferController {
            request_receiver.run_with_shutdown(shutdown).await;
        });
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub fn start(self) {
+        let mut fragmented_message_receiver = self.fragmented_message_receiver;
+        let mut request_receiver = self.request_receiver;
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            fragmented_message_receiver.run().await;
+        });
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            request_receiver.run().await;
+        });
+    }
 }
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-pub mod reply_controller;
-pub mod reply_storage;
@@ -1,865 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::PendingAcknowledgement;
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::message_handler::{MessageHandler, PreparationError};
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::CombinedReplyStorage;
-use client_connections::{ConnectionId, TransmissionLane};
-use futures::channel::oneshot;
-use futures::StreamExt;
-use log::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
-use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::{Fragment, FragmentIdentifier};
-use rand::{CryptoRng, Rng};
-use std::cmp::{max, min};
-use std::collections::btree_map::Entry;
-use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap};
-use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};
-use std::time::Duration;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-use crate::client::helpers::new_interval_stream;
-use crate::client::transmission_buffer::TransmissionBuffer;
-pub(crate) use requests::{ReplyControllerMessage, ReplyControllerReceiver, ReplyControllerSender};
-
-pub mod requests;
-
-pub struct Config {
-    min_surb_request_size: u32,
-    max_surb_request_size: u32,
-    maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-    max_surb_waiting_period: Duration,
-    max_reply_surb_age: Duration,
-    max_reply_key_age: Duration,
-}
-
-impl Config {
-    pub(crate) fn new(
-        min_surb_request_size: u32,
-        max_surb_request_size: u32,
-        maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-        max_surb_waiting_period: Duration,
-        max_reply_surb_age: Duration,
-        max_reply_key_age: Duration,
-    ) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            min_surb_request_size,
-            max_surb_request_size,
-            maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size,
-            max_surb_waiting_period,
-            max_reply_surb_age,
-            max_reply_key_age,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-// the purpose of this task:
-// - buffers split messages from input message listener if there were insufficient surbs to send them
-// - upon getting extra surbs, resends them
-// - so I guess it will handle all 'RepliableMessage' and requests from 'ReplyMessage'
-// - replies to "give additional surbs" requests
-// - will reply to future heartbeats
-
-// TODO: this should be split into ingress and egress controllers
-// because currently its trying to perform two distinct jobs
-pub struct ReplyController<R> {
-    config: Config,
-
-    // TODO: incorporate that field at some point
-    // and use binomial distribution to determine the expected required number
-    // of surbs required to send the message through
-    // expected_reliability: f32,
-    request_receiver: ReplyControllerReceiver,
-    pending_replies: HashMap<AnonymousSenderTag, TransmissionBuffer<Fragment>>,
-
-    /// Retransmission packets that have already timed out and are waiting for additional reply SURBs
-    /// so that they could be sent back to the network. Once we receive more SURBs, we should send them ASAP.
-    // TODO: when purging stale entries, we must take extra care to also purge all pending ACK data!!
-    pending_retransmissions:
-        HashMap<AnonymousSenderTag, BTreeMap<FragmentIdentifier, Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>>>,
-
-    message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
-    full_reply_storage: CombinedReplyStorage,
-}
-
-impl<R> ReplyController<R>
-where
-    R: CryptoRng + Rng,
-{
-    pub(crate) fn new(
-        config: Config,
-        message_handler: MessageHandler<R>,
-        full_reply_storage: CombinedReplyStorage,
-        request_receiver: ReplyControllerReceiver,
-    ) -> Self {
-        ReplyController {
-            config,
-            request_receiver,
-            pending_replies: HashMap::new(),
-            pending_retransmissions: HashMap::new(),
-            message_handler,
-            full_reply_storage,
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn insert_pending_replies<I: IntoIterator<Item = Fragment>>(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        fragments: I,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        self.pending_replies
-            .entry(*recipient)
-            .or_insert_with(TransmissionBuffer::new)
-            .store(&lane, fragments)
-    }
-
-    fn re_insert_pending_replies(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        fragments: Vec<(TransmissionLane, Fragment)>,
-    ) {
-        // the buffer should ALWAYS exist at this point, if it doesn't, it's a bug...
-        self.pending_replies
-            .entry(*recipient)
-            .or_insert_with(TransmissionBuffer::new)
-            .store_multiple(fragments)
-    }
-
-    fn re_insert_pending_retransmission(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        data: Vec<Arc<PendingAcknowledgement>>,
-    ) {
-        // the underlying entry MUST exist as we've just got data from there
-        let map_entry = self
-            .pending_retransmissions
-            .get_mut(recipient)
-            .expect("our pending retransmission entry is somehow gone!");
-
-        for pending in data {
-            // if it's 0, we don't need to do anything - we just got that ack!
-            if Arc::strong_count(&pending) > 1 {
-                let id = pending.inner_fragment_identifier();
-                let downgraded = Arc::downgrade(&pending);
-                map_entry.insert(id, downgraded);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn should_request_more_surbs(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) -> bool {
-        trace!("checking if we should request more surbs from {:?}", target);
-
-        let pending_queue_size = self
-            .pending_replies
-            .get(target)
-            .map(|pending_queue| pending_queue.total_size())
-            .unwrap_or_default();
-
-        let retransmission_queue = self
-            .pending_retransmissions
-            .get(target)
-            .map(|pending_queue| pending_queue.len())
-            .unwrap_or_default();
-
-        let total_queue = pending_queue_size + retransmission_queue;
-
-        // simple as that - there's absolutely nothing to retransmit
-        if total_queue == 0 {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        let available_surbs = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .available_surbs(target);
-        let pending_surbs = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .pending_reception(target) as usize;
-        let min_surbs_threshold = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .min_surb_threshold();
-        let max_surbs_threshold = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .max_surb_threshold();
-
-        debug!("total queue size: {total_queue} = pending data {pending_queue_size} + pending retransmission {retransmission_queue}, available surbs: {available_surbs} pending surbs: {pending_surbs} threshold range: {min_surbs_threshold}..{max_surbs_threshold}");
-
-        (pending_surbs + available_surbs) < max_surbs_threshold
-            && (pending_surbs + available_surbs) < (total_queue + min_surbs_threshold)
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_send_reply(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        if !self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .contains_surbs_for(&recipient_tag)
-        {
-            warn!("received reply request for {:?} but we don't have any surbs stored for that recipient!", recipient_tag);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        trace!("handling reply to {:?}", recipient_tag);
-        let mut fragments = self.message_handler.split_reply_message(data);
-        let total_size = fragments.len();
-        trace!("This reply requires {:?} SURBs", total_size);
-
-        let available_surbs = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .available_surbs(&recipient_tag);
-        let min_surbs_threshold = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .min_surb_threshold();
-
-        let max_to_send = if available_surbs > min_surbs_threshold {
-            min(fragments.len(), available_surbs - min_surbs_threshold)
-        } else {
-            0
-        };
-
-        if max_to_send > 0 {
-            let (surbs, _surbs_left) = self
-                .full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .get_reply_surbs(&recipient_tag, max_to_send);
-
-            if let Some(reply_surbs) = surbs {
-                let to_send = fragments.drain(..max_to_send).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-                if let Err(err) = self
-                    .message_handler
-                    .try_send_reply_chunks_on_lane(
-                        recipient_tag,
-                        to_send.clone(),
-                        reply_surbs,
-                        lane,
-                    )
-                    .await
-                {
-                    let err = err.return_unused_surbs(
-                        self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref(),
-                        &recipient_tag,
-                    );
-                    warn!("failed to send reply to {recipient_tag}: {err}");
-                    self.insert_pending_replies(&recipient_tag, to_send, lane);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        // if there's leftover data we didn't send because we didn't have enough (or any) surbs - buffer it
-        if !fragments.is_empty() {
-            self.insert_pending_replies(&recipient_tag, fragments, lane);
-        }
-
-        if self.should_request_more_surbs(&recipient_tag) {
-            self.request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(recipient_tag)
-                .await;
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn request_additional_reply_surbs(
-        &mut self,
-        target: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        amount: u32,
-    ) -> Result<(), PreparationError> {
-        let reply_surb = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .get_reply_surb_ignoring_threshold(&target)
-            .and_then(|(reply_surb, _)| reply_surb)
-            .ok_or(PreparationError::NotEnoughSurbs {
-                available: 0,
-                required: 1,
-            })?;
-
-        if let Err(err) = self
-            .message_handler
-            .try_request_additional_reply_surbs(target, reply_surb, amount)
-            .await
-        {
-            let err = err.return_unused_surbs(self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref(), &target);
-            warn!(
-                "failed to request additional surbs from {:?} - {err}",
-                target
-            );
-            return Err(err);
-        } else {
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .increment_pending_reception(&target, amount);
-        }
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn try_clear_pending_retransmission(&mut self, target: AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        trace!("trying to clear pending retransmission queue");
-        let available_surbs = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .available_surbs(&target);
-        let min_surbs_threshold = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .min_surb_threshold();
-
-        let max_to_clear = if available_surbs > min_surbs_threshold {
-            available_surbs - min_surbs_threshold
-        } else {
-            trace!("we don't have enough surbs for retransmission queue clearing...");
-            return;
-        };
-        trace!("we can clear up to {max_to_clear} entries");
-
-        let Some(pending) = self.pending_retransmissions.get_mut(&target) else {
-            trace!("there are no pending retransmissions for {target}!");
-            return;
-        };
-
-        let mut to_take = Vec::new();
-
-        while to_take.len() < max_to_clear {
-            if let Some((_, data)) = pending.pop_first() {
-                // no need to do anything if we failed to upgrade the reference,
-                // it means we got the ack while the data was waiting in the queue
-                if let Some(upgraded) = data.upgrade() {
-                    to_take.push(upgraded)
-                }
-            } else {
-                // our map is empty!
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if to_take.is_empty() {
-            // no need to do anything
-            return;
-        }
-
-        let (surbs_for_reply, _) = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .get_reply_surbs(&target, to_take.len());
-
-        let Some(surbs_for_reply) = surbs_for_reply else {
-            error!("somehow different task has stolen our reply surbs! - this should have been impossible");
-            self.re_insert_pending_retransmission(&target, to_take);
-            return;
-        };
-
-        let to_send_vec = to_take.iter().map(|ack| ack.fragment_data()).collect();
-
-        let prepared_fragments = match self
-            .message_handler
-            .prepare_reply_chunks_for_sending(to_send_vec, surbs_for_reply)
-            .await
-        {
-            Ok(prepared) => prepared,
-            Err(err) => {
-                let err =
-                    err.return_unused_surbs(self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref(), &target);
-                self.re_insert_pending_retransmission(&target, to_take);
-
-                warn!(
-                    "failed to clear pending retransmission queue for {:?} - {err}",
-                    target
-                );
-                return;
-            }
-        };
-
-        // we can't fail at this point, so drop all references to acks so that timer updates wouldn't blow up
-        drop(to_take);
-
-        self.message_handler
-            .send_retransmission_reply_chunks(prepared_fragments, TransmissionLane::Retransmission)
-            .await;
-    }
-
-    fn pop_at_most_pending_replies(
-        &mut self,
-        from: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        amount: usize,
-    ) -> Option<Vec<(TransmissionLane, Fragment)>> {
-        // if possible, pop all pending replies, if not, pop only entries for which we'd have a reply surb
-        let total = self.pending_replies.get(from)?.total_size();
-        trace!("pending queue has {total} elements");
-        if total == 0 {
-            return None;
-        }
-        self.pending_replies
-            .get_mut(from)?
-            .pop_at_most_n_next_messages_at_random(amount)
-    }
-
-    async fn try_clear_pending_queue(&mut self, target: AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        trace!("trying to clear pending queue");
-        let available_surbs = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .available_surbs(&target);
-        let min_surbs_threshold = self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .min_surb_threshold();
-
-        let max_to_clear = if available_surbs > min_surbs_threshold {
-            available_surbs - min_surbs_threshold
-        } else {
-            trace!("we don't have enough surbs for queue clearing...");
-            return;
-        };
-        trace!("we can clear up to {max_to_clear} entries");
-
-        // we're guaranteed to not get more entries than we have reply surbs for
-        if let Some(to_send) = self.pop_at_most_pending_replies(&target, max_to_clear) {
-            let to_send_clone = to_send.clone();
-
-            if to_send_clone.is_empty() {
-                panic!(
-                    "please let the devs know if you ever see this message (reply_controller.rs)"
-                );
-            }
-
-            let (surbs_for_reply, _) = self
-                .full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .get_reply_surbs(&target, to_send_clone.len());
-
-            let Some(surbs_for_reply) = surbs_for_reply else {
-                error!("somehow different task has stolen our reply surbs! - this should have been impossible");
-                self.re_insert_pending_replies(&target, to_send);
-                return;
-            };
-
-            if let Err(err) = self
-                .message_handler
-                .try_send_reply_chunks(target, to_send_clone, surbs_for_reply)
-                .await
-            {
-                let err =
-                    err.return_unused_surbs(self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref(), &target);
-                self.re_insert_pending_replies(&target, to_send);
-                warn!("failed to clear pending queue for {:?} - {err}", target);
-            }
-        } else {
-            trace!("the pending queue is empty");
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_received_surbs(
-        &mut self,
-        from: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-        from_surb_request: bool,
-    ) {
-        trace!("handling received surbs");
-
-        // clear the requesting flag since we should have been asking for surbs
-        self.full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .reset_surbs_last_received_at(&from);
-        if from_surb_request {
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .decrement_pending_reception(&from, reply_surbs.len() as u32);
-        }
-
-        // store received surbs
-        self.full_reply_storage
-            .surbs_storage_ref()
-            .insert_surbs(&from, reply_surbs);
-
-        // use as many as we can for clearing pending retransmission queue
-        self.try_clear_pending_retransmission(from).await;
-
-        // use as many as we can for clearing pending 'normal' queue
-        self.try_clear_pending_queue(from).await;
-
-        // if we have to, request more
-        if self.should_request_more_surbs(&from) {
-            self.request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(from).await;
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_surb_request(&mut self, recipient: Recipient, mut amount: u32) {
-        // 1. check whether we sent any surbs in the past to this recipient, otherwise
-        // they have no business in asking for more
-        if !self
-            .full_reply_storage
-            .tags_storage_ref()
-            .exists(&recipient)
-        {
-            warn!("{recipient} asked us for reply SURBs even though we never sent them any anonymous messages before!");
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // 2. check whether the requested amount is within sane range
-        if amount > self.config.maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size {
-            warn!("The requested reply surb amount is larger than our maximum allowed ({amount} > {}). Lowering it to a more sane value...", self.config.maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size);
-            amount = self.config.maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size;
-        }
-
-        // 3. construct and send the surbs away
-        // (send them in smaller batches to make the experience a bit smoother
-        let mut remaining = amount;
-        while remaining > 0 {
-            let to_send = min(remaining, 100);
-            if let Err(err) = self
-                .message_handler
-                .try_send_additional_reply_surbs(recipient, to_send)
-                .await
-            {
-                warn!("failed to send additional surbs to {recipient} - {err}");
-            } else {
-                trace!("sent {to_send} reply SURBs to {recipient}");
-            }
-
-            remaining -= to_send;
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn buffer_pending_ack(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        ack_ref: Arc<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-        weak_ack_ref: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-    ) {
-        let frag_id = ack_ref.inner_fragment_identifier();
-        if let Some(existing) = self.pending_retransmissions.get_mut(&recipient) {
-            if let Entry::Vacant(e) = existing.entry(frag_id) {
-                e.insert(weak_ack_ref);
-            } else {
-                warn!("we're already trying to retransmit {frag_id}. We must be really behind in surbs!");
-            }
-        } else {
-            let mut inner = BTreeMap::new();
-            inner.insert(frag_id, weak_ack_ref);
-            self.pending_retransmissions.insert(recipient, inner);
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_reply_retransmission(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        timed_out_ack: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-        extra_surbs_request: bool,
-    ) {
-        // seems we got the ack in the end
-        let ack_ref = match timed_out_ack.upgrade() {
-            Some(ack) => ack,
-            None => {
-                debug!("we received the ack for one of the reply packets as we were putting it in the retransmission queue");
-                return;
-            }
-        };
-
-        // if this is retransmission for obtaining additional reply surbs,
-        // we can dip below the storage threshold
-        let (maybe_reply_surb, _) = if extra_surbs_request {
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .get_reply_surb_ignoring_threshold(&recipient_tag)
-        } else {
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .get_reply_surb(&recipient_tag)
-        }
-        .expect("attempted to retransmit a packet to an unknown recipient - we shouldn't have sent the original packet in the first place!");
-
-        if let Some(reply_surb) = maybe_reply_surb {
-            match self
-                .message_handler
-                .try_prepare_single_reply_chunk_for_sending(reply_surb, ack_ref.fragment_data())
-                .await
-            {
-                Ok(prepared) => {
-                    // drop the ack ref so that controller would not panic on `UpdateTimer` if that task
-                    // got to handle the action before this function terminated (which is very much
-                    // possible if `forward_messages` takes a while)
-                    drop(ack_ref);
-
-                    self.message_handler
-                        .update_ack_delay(prepared.fragment_identifier, prepared.total_delay);
-                    self.message_handler
-                        .forward_messages(vec![prepared.into()], TransmissionLane::Retransmission)
-                        .await;
-                }
-                Err(err) => {
-                    let err = err.return_unused_surbs(
-                        self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref(),
-                        &recipient_tag,
-                    );
-                    warn!("failed to prepare message for retransmission - {err}");
-                    // we buffer that packet and to try another day
-                    self.buffer_pending_ack(recipient_tag, ack_ref, timed_out_ack);
-
-                    if self.should_request_more_surbs(&recipient_tag) {
-                        self.request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(recipient_tag)
-                            .await;
-                    }
-                }
-            };
-        } else {
-            self.buffer_pending_ack(recipient_tag, ack_ref, timed_out_ack);
-
-            if self.should_request_more_surbs(&recipient_tag) {
-                self.request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(recipient_tag)
-                    .await;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // to be honest this doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of `connection_id`,
-    // it should really be asked per tag
-    fn handle_lane_queue_length(
-        &self,
-        connection_id: ConnectionId,
-        response_channel: oneshot::Sender<usize>,
-    ) {
-        // TODO: if we ever have duplicate ids for different senders, it means our rng is super weak
-        // thus I don't think we have to worry about it?
-        let lane = TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id);
-        for buf in self.pending_replies.values() {
-            if let Some(length) = buf.lane_length(&lane) {
-                if response_channel.send(length).is_err() {
-                    error!("the requester for lane queue length has dropped the response channel!")
-                }
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-        // make sure that if we didn't find that lane, we reply with 0
-        if response_channel.send(0).is_err() {
-            error!("the requester for lane queue length has dropped the response channel!")
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_request(&mut self, request: ReplyControllerMessage) {
-        match request {
-            ReplyControllerMessage::RetransmitReply {
-                recipient,
-                timed_out_ack,
-                extra_surb_request,
-            } => {
-                self.handle_reply_retransmission(recipient, timed_out_ack, extra_surb_request)
-                    .await
-            }
-            ReplyControllerMessage::SendReply {
-                recipient,
-                message,
-                lane,
-            } => self.handle_send_reply(recipient, message, lane).await,
-            ReplyControllerMessage::AdditionalSurbs {
-                sender_tag,
-                reply_surbs,
-                from_surb_request,
-            } => {
-                self.handle_received_surbs(sender_tag, reply_surbs, from_surb_request)
-                    .await
-            }
-            ReplyControllerMessage::LaneQueueLength {
-                connection_id,
-                response_channel,
-            } => self.handle_lane_queue_length(connection_id, response_channel),
-            ReplyControllerMessage::AdditionalSurbsRequest { recipient, amount } => {
-                self.handle_surb_request(*recipient, amount).await
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // TODO: modify this method to more accurately determine the amount of surbs it needs to request
-    // it should take into consideration the average latency, sending rate and queue size.
-    // it should request as many surbs as it takes to saturate its sending rate before next batch arrives
-    async fn request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(&mut self, target: AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        trace!("requesting surbs for queues clearing");
-
-        let pending_queue_size = self
-            .pending_replies
-            .get(&target)
-            .map(|pending_queue| pending_queue.total_size())
-            .unwrap_or_default();
-
-        let retransmission_queue = self
-            .pending_retransmissions
-            .get(&target)
-            .map(|pending_queue| pending_queue.len())
-            .unwrap_or_default();
-
-        let total_queue = (pending_queue_size + retransmission_queue) as u32;
-
-        if total_queue == 0 {
-            trace!("the pending queues for {:?} are already empty", target);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        let request_size = min(
-            self.config.max_surb_request_size,
-            max(total_queue, self.config.min_surb_request_size),
-        );
-
-        if let Err(err) = self
-            .request_additional_reply_surbs(target, request_size)
-            .await
-        {
-            warn!("failed to request additional surbs... - {err}")
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn inspect_stale_entries(&mut self) {
-        let mut to_request = Vec::new();
-        let mut to_remove = Vec::new();
-
-        let now = OffsetDateTime::now_utc();
-        for (pending_reply_target, vals) in &self.pending_replies {
-            if vals.is_empty() {
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            let Some(last_received) = self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref().surbs_last_received_at(pending_reply_target) else {
-                error!("we have {} pending replies for {pending_reply_target}, but we somehow never received any reply surbs from them!", vals.total_size());
-                to_remove.push(*pending_reply_target);
-                continue;
-            };
-
-            // this should never ever happen (famous last words, eh?), but in case it DOES happen eventually
-            // purge that malformed data
-            let Ok(last_received_time) = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(last_received) else {
-                error!("somehow our stored timestamp ({last_received}) for surbs from {pending_reply_target} is corrupted!. Going to remove all the associated entries");
-                to_remove.push(*pending_reply_target);
-                continue;
-            };
-
-            let diff = now - last_received_time;
-
-            if diff > self.config.max_surb_waiting_period {
-                warn!("We haven't received any surbs in {:?} from {pending_reply_target}. Going to explicitly ask for more", diff);
-                to_request.push(*pending_reply_target);
-            }
-        }
-
-        for pending_reply_target in to_request {
-            self.request_reply_surbs_for_queue_clearing(pending_reply_target)
-                .await;
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .reset_pending_reception(&pending_reply_target)
-        }
-        for to_remove in to_remove {
-            self.pending_replies.remove(&to_remove);
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn invalidate_old_data(&self) {
-        let now = OffsetDateTime::now_utc();
-
-        let mut to_remove_surbs = Vec::new();
-        let mut to_remove_keys = Vec::new();
-        for map_ref in self.full_reply_storage.surbs_storage_ref().as_raw_iter() {
-            let (sender, received) = map_ref.pair();
-            // TODO: handle the following edge case:
-            // there's a malicious client sending us exactly one reply surb just before we should have invalidated
-            // the data thus making us keep everything in memory
-            // possible solution: keep timestamp PER reply surb (but that seems like an overkill)
-            // but I doubt this is ever going to be a problem...
-            // ...
-            // However, if you're reading this message, it probably became a legit problem,
-            // so I guess add timestamp per surb then? chop-chop.
-
-            let last_received = received.surbs_last_received_at();
-            // this should never ever happen (famous last words, eh?), but in case it DOES happen eventually
-            // purge that malformed data
-            let Ok(last_received_time) = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(last_received) else {
-                error!("somehow our stored timestamp ({last_received}) for surbs from {sender} is corrupted!. Going to remove all the associated entries");
-                to_remove_surbs.push(*sender);
-                continue;
-            };
-            let diff = now - last_received_time;
-
-            if diff > self.config.max_reply_surb_age {
-                info!("it's been {diff:?} since we last received any reply surb from {sender}. Going to remove all stored entries...");
-
-                to_remove_surbs.push(*sender);
-            }
-        }
-
-        for map_ref in self.full_reply_storage.key_storage_ref().as_raw_iter() {
-            let (digest, reply_key) = map_ref.pair();
-
-            // this should never ever happen (famous last words, eh?), but in case it DOES happen eventually
-            // purge that malformed data
-            let Ok(sent_at) = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(reply_key.sent_at_timestamp) else {
-                error!("somehow our stored timestamp ({}) for one of our reply key is corrupted!. Going to remove all the entry", reply_key.sent_at_timestamp);
-                to_remove_keys.push(*digest);
-                continue;
-            };
-
-            let diff = now - sent_at;
-
-            if diff > self.config.max_reply_key_age {
-                debug!("it's been {diff:?} since we created this reply key. it's probably never going to get used, so we're going to purge it...");
-                to_remove_keys.push(*digest);
-            }
-        }
-
-        for to_remove in to_remove_surbs {
-            self.full_reply_storage
-                .surbs_storage_ref()
-                .remove(&to_remove);
-        }
-
-        for to_remove in to_remove_keys {
-            self.full_reply_storage.key_storage().remove(to_remove)
-        }
-    }
-
-    // #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    // async fn log_status(&self) {
-    //     todo!()
-    // }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn run_with_shutdown(&mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
-        debug!("Started ReplyController with graceful shutdown support");
-
-        let polling_rate = Duration::from_secs(5);
-        let mut stale_inspection = new_interval_stream(polling_rate);
-
-        // this is in the order of hours/days so we don't have to poll it that often
-        let polling_rate = Duration::from_secs(self.config.max_reply_surb_age.as_secs() / 10);
-        let mut invalidation_inspection = new_interval_stream(polling_rate);
-
-        while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
-            tokio::select! {
-                biased;
-                _ = shutdown.recv_with_delay() => {
-                    log::trace!("ReplyController: Received shutdown");
-                },
-                req = self.request_receiver.next() => match req {
-                    Some(req) => self.handle_request(req).await,
-                    None => {
-                        log::trace!("ReplyController: Stopping since channel closed");
-                        break;
-                    }
-                },
-                _ = stale_inspection.next() => {
-                    self.inspect_stale_entries().await
-                },
-                _ = invalidation_inspection.next() => {
-                    self.invalidate_old_data().await
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
-        log::debug!("ReplyController: Exiting");
-    }
-}
@@ -1,136 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::acknowledgement_control::PendingAcknowledgement;
-use client_connections::{ConnectionId, TransmissionLane};
-use futures::channel::{mpsc, oneshot};
-use log::error;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
-use std::sync::Weak;
-
-pub(crate) fn new_control_channels() -> (ReplyControllerSender, ReplyControllerReceiver) {
-    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::unbounded();
-    (tx.into(), rx)
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct ReplyControllerSender(mpsc::UnboundedSender<ReplyControllerMessage>);
-
-impl From<mpsc::UnboundedSender<ReplyControllerMessage>> for ReplyControllerSender {
-    fn from(inner: mpsc::UnboundedSender<ReplyControllerMessage>) -> Self {
-        ReplyControllerSender(inner)
-    }
-}
-
-impl ReplyControllerSender {
-    pub(crate) fn send_retransmission_data(
-        &self,
-        recipient: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        timed_out_ack: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-        extra_surb_request: bool,
-    ) {
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(ReplyControllerMessage::RetransmitReply {
-                recipient,
-                timed_out_ack,
-                extra_surb_request,
-            })
-            .expect("ReplyControllerReceiver has died!")
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn send_reply(
-        &self,
-        recipient: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    ) {
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(ReplyControllerMessage::SendReply {
-                recipient,
-                message,
-                lane,
-            })
-            .expect("ReplyControllerReceiver has died!")
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn send_additional_surbs(
-        &self,
-        sender_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-        from_surb_request: bool,
-    ) {
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(ReplyControllerMessage::AdditionalSurbs {
-                sender_tag,
-                reply_surbs,
-                from_surb_request,
-            })
-            .expect("ReplyControllerReceiver has died!")
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn send_additional_surbs_request(&self, recipient: Recipient, amount: u32) {
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(ReplyControllerMessage::AdditionalSurbsRequest {
-                recipient: Box::new(recipient),
-                amount,
-            })
-            .expect("ReplyControllerReceiver has died!")
-    }
-
-    pub async fn get_lane_queue_length(&self, connection_id: ConnectionId) -> usize {
-        let (response_tx, response_rx) = oneshot::channel();
-        self.0
-            .unbounded_send(ReplyControllerMessage::LaneQueueLength {
-                connection_id,
-                response_channel: response_tx,
-            })
-            .expect("ReplyControllerReceiver has died!");
-
-        match response_rx.await {
-            Ok(length) => length,
-            Err(_) => {
-                error!("The reply controller has dropped our response channel!");
-                // TODO: should we panic here instead? this message implies something weird and unrecoverable has happened
-                0
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) type ReplyControllerReceiver = mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<ReplyControllerMessage>;
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub(crate) enum ReplyControllerMessage {
-    RetransmitReply {
-        recipient: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        timed_out_ack: Weak<PendingAcknowledgement>,
-        extra_surb_request: bool,
-    },
-
-    SendReply {
-        recipient: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        lane: TransmissionLane,
-    },
-
-    AdditionalSurbs {
-        sender_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        reply_surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-        from_surb_request: bool,
-    },
-
-    // this one doesn't belong here either...
-    LaneQueueLength {
-        connection_id: ConnectionId,
-        response_channel: oneshot::Sender<usize>,
-    },
-
-    // Should this also be handled in here? it's technically a completely different side of the pipe
-    // let's see how it works when combined, might split it before creating PR
-    AdditionalSurbsRequest {
-        recipient: Box<Recipient>,
-        amount: u32,
-    },
-}
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::Empty;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{CombinedReplyStorage, ReplyStorageBackend};
-use async_trait::async_trait;
-
-// well, right now we don't have the browser storage : (
-// so we keep everything in memory
-pub struct Backend {
-    empty: Empty,
-}
-
-impl Backend {
-    pub fn new(min_surb_threshold: usize, max_surb_threshold: usize) -> Self {
-        Backend {
-            empty: Empty {
-                min_surb_threshold,
-                max_surb_threshold,
-            },
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-#[async_trait]
-impl ReplyStorageBackend for Backend {
-    type StorageError = <Empty as ReplyStorageBackend>::StorageError;
-
-    async fn flush_surb_storage(
-        &mut self,
-        storage: &CombinedReplyStorage,
-    ) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        self.empty.flush_surb_storage(storage).await
-    }
-
-    async fn init_fresh(&mut self, fresh: &CombinedReplyStorage) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        self.empty.init_fresh(fresh).await
-    }
-
-    async fn load_surb_storage(&self) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, Self::StorageError> {
-        self.empty.load_surb_storage().await
-    }
-}
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use std::io;
-use std::path::PathBuf;
-use thiserror::Error;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Error)]
-pub enum StorageError {
-    #[error("the provided database path doesn't have a filename defined")]
-    DatabasePathWithoutFilename { provided_path: PathBuf },
-
-    #[error("failed to rename our databse file - {source}")]
-    DatabaseRenameError {
-        #[source]
-        source: io::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to rename our old databse file - {source}")]
-    DatabaseOldFileRemoveError {
-        #[source]
-        source: io::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to perform sqlx migration: {source}")]
-    MigrationError {
-        #[source]
-        #[from]
-        source: sqlx::migrate::MigrateError,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to connect to the underlying connection pool: {source}")]
-    DatabaseConnectionError {
-        #[source]
-        source: sqlx::error::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("failed to run the SQL query: {source}")]
-    QueryError {
-        #[source]
-        #[from]
-        source: sqlx::error::Error,
-    },
-
-    #[error("The loaded data is inconsistent - it seems that on the last shutdown the client hasn't finished the data flush. You may have to remove the entire storage manually")]
-    IncompleteDataFlush,
-
-    #[error("data retrieved from the underlying storage is corrupted: {details}")]
-    CorruptedData {
-        details: String,
-        // err: Option<Box<dyn std::error::Error>>
-    },
-}
@@ -1,257 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::fs_backend::error::StorageError;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::fs_backend::models::{
-    ReplySurbStorageMetadata, StoredReplyKey, StoredReplySurb, StoredSenderTag, StoredSurbSender,
-};
-use log::{error, info};
-use sqlx::ConnectOptions;
-use std::path::Path;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct StorageManager {
-    pub(crate) connection_pool: sqlx::SqlitePool,
-}
-
-// all SQL goes here
-impl StorageManager {
-    pub(crate) async fn init<P: AsRef<Path>>(
-        database_path: P,
-        fresh: bool,
-    ) -> Result<Self, StorageError> {
-        let mut opts = sqlx::sqlite::SqliteConnectOptions::new()
-            .filename(database_path)
-            .create_if_missing(fresh);
-
-        opts.disable_statement_logging();
-
-        let connection_pool = match sqlx::SqlitePool::connect_with(opts).await {
-            Ok(pool) => pool,
-            Err(err) => {
-                error!("Failed to connect to SQLx database: {err}");
-                return Err(StorageError::DatabaseConnectionError { source: err });
-            }
-        };
-
-        if let Err(err) = sqlx::migrate!("./fs_surbs_migrations")
-            .run(&connection_pool)
-            .await
-        {
-            error!("Failed to initialize SQLx database: {err}");
-            return Err(err.into());
-        }
-
-        info!("Database migration finished!");
-        Ok(StorageManager { connection_pool })
-    }
-
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    pub(crate) async fn status_table_exists(&self) -> Result<bool, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='status'")
-            .fetch_optional(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-            .map(|r| r.is_some())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn create_status_table(&self) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("INSERT INTO status(flush_in_progress, previous_flush_timestamp, client_in_use) VALUES (0, 0, 1)")
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_flush_status(&self) -> Result<bool, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("SELECT flush_in_progress FROM status;")
-            .fetch_one(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-            .map(|r| r.flush_in_progress > 0)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn set_previous_flush_timestamp(
-        &self,
-        timestamp: i64,
-    ) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("UPDATE status SET previous_flush_timestamp = ?", timestamp)
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_previous_flush_timestamp(&self) -> Result<i64, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("SELECT previous_flush_timestamp FROM status;")
-            .fetch_one(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-            .map(|r| r.previous_flush_timestamp)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn set_flush_status(&self, in_progress: bool) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        let in_progress_int = i64::from(in_progress);
-        sqlx::query!("UPDATE status SET flush_in_progress = ?", in_progress_int)
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_client_in_use_status(&self) -> Result<bool, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("SELECT client_in_use FROM status;")
-            .fetch_one(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-            .map(|r| r.client_in_use > 0)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn set_client_in_use_status(&self, in_use: bool) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        let in_use_int = i64::from(in_use);
-        sqlx::query!("UPDATE status SET client_in_use = ?", in_use_int)
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn delete_all_tags(&self) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("DELETE FROM sender_tag;")
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_tags(&self) -> Result<Vec<StoredSenderTag>, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query_as!(StoredSenderTag, "SELECT * FROM sender_tag;",)
-            .fetch_all(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn insert_tag(&self, stored_tag: StoredSenderTag) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!(
-            r#"
-                INSERT INTO sender_tag(recipient, tag) VALUES (?, ?);
-            "#,
-            stored_tag.recipient,
-            stored_tag.tag
-        )
-        .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-        .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn delete_all_reply_keys(&self) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("DELETE FROM reply_key;")
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_reply_keys(&self) -> Result<Vec<StoredReplyKey>, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query_as!(StoredReplyKey, "SELECT * FROM reply_key;",)
-            .fetch_all(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn insert_reply_key(
-        &self,
-        stored_reply_key: StoredReplyKey,
-    ) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!(
-            r#"
-                INSERT INTO reply_key(key_digest, reply_key, sent_at_timestamp) VALUES (?, ?, ?);
-            "#,
-            stored_reply_key.key_digest,
-            stored_reply_key.reply_key,
-            stored_reply_key.sent_at_timestamp
-        )
-        .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-        .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_surb_senders(&self) -> Result<Vec<StoredSurbSender>, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query_as!(StoredSurbSender, "SELECT * FROM reply_surb_sender;",)
-            .fetch_all(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn insert_surb_sender(
-        &self,
-        stored_surb_sender: StoredSurbSender,
-    ) -> Result<i64, sqlx::Error> {
-        let id = sqlx::query!(
-            r#"
-                INSERT INTO reply_surb_sender(tag, last_sent_timestamp) VALUES (?, ?);
-            "#,
-            stored_surb_sender.tag,
-            stored_surb_sender.last_sent_timestamp
-        )
-        .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-        .await?
-        .last_insert_rowid();
-        Ok(id)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_reply_surbs(
-        &self,
-        sender_id: i64,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<StoredReplySurb>, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query_as!(
-            StoredReplySurb,
-            "SELECT * FROM reply_surb WHERE reply_surb_sender_id = ?",
-            sender_id
-        )
-        .fetch_all(&self.connection_pool)
-        .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn delete_all_reply_surb_data(&self) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!("DELETE FROM reply_surb;")
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-
-        sqlx::query!("DELETE FROM reply_surb_sender;")
-            .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await?;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn insert_reply_surb(
-        &self,
-        stored_reply_surb: StoredReplySurb,
-    ) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!(
-            r#"
-                INSERT INTO reply_surb(reply_surb_sender_id, reply_surb) VALUES (?, ?);
-            "#,
-            stored_reply_surb.reply_surb_sender_id,
-            stored_reply_surb.reply_surb
-        )
-        .execute(&self.connection_pool)
-        .await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn get_reply_surb_storage_metadata(
-        &self,
-    ) -> Result<ReplySurbStorageMetadata, sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query_as!(
-            ReplySurbStorageMetadata,
-             r#"
-                SELECT min_reply_surb_threshold as "min_reply_surb_threshold: u32", max_reply_surb_threshold as "max_reply_surb_threshold: u32" FROM reply_surb_storage_metadata;
-             "#,
-        )
-            .fetch_one(&self.connection_pool)
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn insert_reply_surb_storage_metadata(
-        &self,
-        metadata: ReplySurbStorageMetadata,
-    ) -> Result<(), sqlx::Error> {
-        sqlx::query!(r#"
-            INSERT INTO reply_surb_storage_metadata(min_reply_surb_threshold, max_reply_surb_threshold)
-            VALUES (?, ?);
-        "#,
-            metadata.min_reply_surb_threshold,
-            metadata.max_reply_surb_threshold,
-        ).execute(&self.connection_pool).await?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-}
@@ -1,348 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::fs_backend::manager::StorageManager;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::fs_backend::models::{
-    ReplySurbStorageMetadata, StoredReplyKey, StoredReplySurb, StoredSenderTag, StoredSurbSender,
-};
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::surb_storage::ReceivedReplySurbs;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{
-    CombinedReplyStorage, ReceivedReplySurbsMap, ReplyStorageBackend, SentReplyKeys, UsedSenderTags,
-};
-use async_trait::async_trait;
-use log::{error, info, warn};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
-use std::fs;
-use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-pub use self::error::StorageError;
-
-mod error;
-mod manager;
-mod models;
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Backend {
-    temporary_old_path: Option<PathBuf>,
-    database_path: PathBuf,
-    manager: StorageManager,
-}
-
-impl Backend {
-    const OLD_EXTENSION: &'static str = "old";
-
-    pub async fn init<P: AsRef<Path>>(database_path: P) -> Result<Self, StorageError> {
-        let owned_path: PathBuf = database_path.as_ref().into();
-        if owned_path.file_name().is_none() {
-            return Err(StorageError::DatabasePathWithoutFilename {
-                provided_path: owned_path,
-            });
-        }
-
-        let backend = Backend {
-            temporary_old_path: None,
-            database_path: owned_path,
-            manager: StorageManager::init(database_path, true).await?,
-        };
-
-        backend.manager.create_status_table().await?;
-
-        Ok(backend)
-    }
-
-    pub async fn try_load<P: AsRef<Path>>(database_path: P) -> Result<Self, StorageError> {
-        let owned_path: PathBuf = database_path.as_ref().into();
-        if owned_path.file_name().is_none() {
-            return Err(StorageError::DatabasePathWithoutFilename {
-                provided_path: owned_path,
-            });
-        }
-
-        let manager = StorageManager::init(database_path, false).await?;
-
-        // the database flush wasn't fully finished and thus the data is in inconsistent state
-        // (we don't really know what's properly saved or what's not)
-        if manager.get_flush_status().await? {
-            return Err(StorageError::IncompleteDataFlush);
-        }
-
-        let last_flush_timestamp = manager.get_previous_flush_timestamp().await?;
-        if last_flush_timestamp == 0 {
-            // either this client has been running since 1970 or the flush failed
-            return Err(StorageError::IncompleteDataFlush);
-        }
-
-        // the process has gone down without full graceful shutdown,
-        // meaning the database doesn't contain valid data anymore
-        // so we have to purge it
-        if manager.get_client_in_use_status().await? {
-            error!("the client hasn't undergone through graceful shutdown the last time it's gone down - we can't trust its reply surbs or stored encryption keys. They shall get purged");
-            manager.delete_all_reply_surb_data().await?;
-            manager.delete_all_reply_keys().await?;
-        }
-
-        if let Err(err) = manager.get_reply_surb_storage_metadata().await {
-            // we can't recover here, we HAVE TO initialise fresh (because we don't know correct starting metadata)
-            error!("it seems the client has been shutdown gracefully - we're missing valid surb data dump. the existing database cannot be used");
-            return Err(err.into());
-        }
-
-        let last_flush = match OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(last_flush_timestamp) {
-            Ok(last_flush) => last_flush,
-            Err(err) => {
-                return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                    details: format!("failed to parse stored timestamp - {err}"),
-                });
-            }
-        };
-
-        // in theory clients can use our reply surbs whenever they want, even a year in the future
-        // (assuming no key rotation has happened)
-        // but the way it's currently coded, everyone will purge old data
-        let since_last_flush = OffsetDateTime::now_utc() - last_flush;
-        if since_last_flush.whole_days() > 0 {
-            info!("it's been over {} days and {} hours since we last used our data store. our reply surbs are already outdated - we're going to purge them now.", since_last_flush.whole_days(), since_last_flush.whole_hours());
-            manager.delete_all_reply_surb_data().await?;
-        }
-
-        if since_last_flush.whole_days() > 1 {
-            info!("it's been over {} days and {} hours since we last used our data store. our reply keys are already outdated - we're going to purge them now.", since_last_flush.whole_days(), since_last_flush.whole_hours());
-            manager.delete_all_reply_keys().await?;
-        }
-
-        if since_last_flush.whole_days() > 2 {
-            info!("it's been over {} days and {} hours since we last used our data store. our used sender tags are already outdated - we're going to purge them now.", since_last_flush.whole_days(), since_last_flush.whole_hours());
-            manager.delete_all_tags().await?;
-        }
-
-        Ok(Backend {
-            temporary_old_path: None,
-            database_path: owned_path,
-            manager,
-        })
-    }
-
-    async fn close_pool(&mut self) {
-        self.manager.connection_pool.close().await;
-    }
-
-    async fn rotate(&mut self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        self.close_pool().await;
-
-        let new_extension = if let Some(existing_extension) =
-            self.database_path.extension().and_then(|ext| ext.to_str())
-        {
-            format!("{existing_extension}.{}", Self::OLD_EXTENSION)
-        } else {
-            Self::OLD_EXTENSION.to_string()
-        };
-
-        let mut temp_old = self.database_path.clone();
-        temp_old.set_extension(new_extension);
-
-        fs::rename(&self.database_path, &temp_old)
-            .map_err(|err| StorageError::DatabaseRenameError { source: err })?;
-        self.manager = StorageManager::init(&self.database_path, true).await?;
-        self.manager.create_status_table().await?;
-
-        self.temporary_old_path = Some(temp_old);
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn remove_old(&mut self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        if let Some(old_path) = self.temporary_old_path.take() {
-            fs::remove_file(old_path)
-                .map_err(|err| StorageError::DatabaseOldFileRemoveError { source: err })
-        } else {
-            warn!("the old database file doesn't seem to exist!");
-            Ok(())
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn start_storage_flush(&self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        Ok(self.manager.set_flush_status(true).await?)
-    }
-
-    async fn end_storage_flush(&self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        self.manager
-            .set_previous_flush_timestamp(OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp())
-            .await?;
-        Ok(self.manager.set_flush_status(false).await?)
-    }
-
-    async fn start_client_use(&self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        Ok(self.manager.set_client_in_use_status(true).await?)
-    }
-
-    async fn stop_client_use(&self) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        Ok(self.manager.set_client_in_use_status(false).await?)
-    }
-
-    async fn get_stored_tags(&self) -> Result<UsedSenderTags, StorageError> {
-        let stored = self.manager.get_tags().await?;
-
-        // stop at the first instance of corruption. if even a single entry is malformed,
-        // something weird has happened and we can't trust the rest of the data
-        let raw = stored
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(TryInto::try_into)
-            .collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
-
-        Ok(UsedSenderTags::from_raw(raw))
-    }
-
-    async fn dump_sender_tags(&self, tags: &UsedSenderTags) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        for map_ref in tags.as_raw_iter() {
-            let (recipient, tag) = map_ref.pair();
-            self.manager
-                .insert_tag(StoredSenderTag::new(*recipient, *tag))
-                .await?;
-        }
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn get_stored_reply_keys(&self) -> Result<SentReplyKeys, StorageError> {
-        let stored = self.manager.get_reply_keys().await?;
-
-        // stop at the first instance of corruption. if even a single entry is malformed,
-        // something weird has happened and we can't trust the rest of the data
-        let raw = stored
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(TryInto::try_into)
-            .collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
-
-        Ok(SentReplyKeys::from_raw(raw))
-    }
-
-    async fn dump_sender_reply_keys(&self, reply_keys: &SentReplyKeys) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        for map_ref in reply_keys.as_raw_iter() {
-            let (digest, key) = map_ref.pair();
-            self.manager
-                .insert_reply_key(StoredReplyKey::new(*digest, *key))
-                .await?;
-        }
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn get_stored_reply_surbs(&self) -> Result<ReceivedReplySurbsMap, StorageError> {
-        let surb_senders = self.manager.get_surb_senders().await?;
-
-        let metadata = self.get_reply_surb_storage_metadata().await?;
-        let mut received_surbs = Vec::with_capacity(surb_senders.len());
-        for sender in surb_senders {
-            let sender_id = sender.id;
-            let (sender_tag, surbs_last_received_at_timestamp): (AnonymousSenderTag, i64) =
-                sender.try_into()?;
-            let stored_surbs = self
-                .manager
-                .get_reply_surbs(sender_id)
-                .await?
-                .into_iter()
-                .map(|raw| raw.try_into())
-                .collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
-
-            received_surbs.push((
-                sender_tag,
-                ReceivedReplySurbs::new_retrieved(stored_surbs, surbs_last_received_at_timestamp),
-            ))
-        }
-
-        Ok(ReceivedReplySurbsMap::from_raw(
-            metadata.min_reply_surb_threshold as usize,
-            metadata.max_reply_surb_threshold as usize,
-            received_surbs,
-        ))
-    }
-
-    async fn dump_reply_surbs(
-        &self,
-        reply_surbs: &ReceivedReplySurbsMap,
-    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        for map_ref in reply_surbs.as_raw_iter() {
-            let (tag, received_surbs) = map_ref.pair();
-            let sender_id = self
-                .manager
-                .insert_surb_sender(StoredSurbSender::new(
-                    *tag,
-                    received_surbs.surbs_last_received_at(),
-                ))
-                .await?;
-
-            for reply_surb in received_surbs.surbs_ref() {
-                self.manager
-                    .insert_reply_surb(StoredReplySurb::new(sender_id, reply_surb))
-                    .await?
-            }
-        }
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn get_reply_surb_storage_metadata(
-        &self,
-    ) -> Result<ReplySurbStorageMetadata, StorageError> {
-        self.manager
-            .get_reply_surb_storage_metadata()
-            .await
-            .map_err(Into::into)
-    }
-
-    async fn dump_reply_surb_storage_metadata(
-        &self,
-        reply_surbs: &ReceivedReplySurbsMap,
-    ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
-        self.manager
-            .insert_reply_surb_storage_metadata(ReplySurbStorageMetadata::new(
-                reply_surbs.min_surb_threshold(),
-                reply_surbs.max_surb_threshold(),
-            ))
-            .await
-            .map_err(Into::into)
-    }
-}
-
-#[async_trait]
-impl ReplyStorageBackend for Backend {
-    type StorageError = error::StorageError;
-
-    async fn start_storage_session(&self) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        self.start_client_use().await
-    }
-
-    async fn flush_surb_storage(
-        &mut self,
-        storage: &CombinedReplyStorage,
-    ) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        // close all connections (there should be none! and rename the file to contain .old extension)
-        self.rotate().await?;
-        self.start_storage_flush().await?;
-
-        self.dump_sender_tags(storage.tags_storage_ref()).await?;
-        self.dump_sender_reply_keys(storage.key_storage_ref())
-            .await?;
-        let surbs_ref = storage.surbs_storage_ref();
-        self.dump_reply_surb_storage_metadata(surbs_ref).await?;
-        self.dump_reply_surbs(surbs_ref).await?;
-
-        self.remove_old()?;
-        self.end_storage_flush().await
-    }
-
-    async fn init_fresh(&mut self, fresh: &CombinedReplyStorage) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        // for now nothing more to do apart from dumping the metadata
-        self.dump_reply_surb_storage_metadata(fresh.surbs_storage_ref())
-            .await
-    }
-
-    async fn load_surb_storage(&self) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, Self::StorageError> {
-        let reply_keys = self.get_stored_reply_keys().await?;
-        let tags = self.get_stored_tags().await?;
-        let reply_surbs = self.get_stored_reply_surbs().await?;
-
-        Ok(CombinedReplyStorage::load(reply_keys, reply_surbs, tags))
-    }
-
-    async fn stop_storage_session(self) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        self.stop_client_use().await
-    }
-}
@@ -1,185 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::backend::fs_backend::error::StorageError;
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::key_storage::UsedReplyKey;
-use crypto::generic_array::typenum::Unsigned;
-use crypto::Digest;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::{Recipient, RecipientBytes};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::encryption_key::EncryptionKeyDigest;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::{AnonymousSenderTag, SENDER_TAG_SIZE};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::{ReplySurb, SurbEncryptionKey, SurbEncryptionKeySize};
-use nymsphinx::params::ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct StoredSenderTag {
-    pub(crate) recipient: Vec<u8>,
-    pub(crate) tag: Vec<u8>,
-}
-
-impl StoredSenderTag {
-    pub(crate) fn new(recipient: RecipientBytes, tag: AnonymousSenderTag) -> StoredSenderTag {
-        StoredSenderTag {
-            recipient: recipient.to_vec(),
-            tag: tag.to_bytes().to_vec(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<StoredSenderTag> for (RecipientBytes, AnonymousSenderTag) {
-    type Error = StorageError;
-
-    fn try_from(value: StoredSenderTag) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        let recipient_len = value.recipient.len();
-        let Ok(recipient_bytes) = value.recipient.try_into() else {
-            return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                details: format!(
-                    "the retrieved recipient has length of {recipient_len} while {} was expected",
-                    Recipient::LEN
-                ),
-            });
-        };
-
-        let tag_len = value.tag.len();
-        let Ok(sender_tag_bytes) = value.tag.try_into() else {
-            return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                details: format!(
-                    "the retrieved sender tag has length of {tag_len} while {} was expected",
-                    SENDER_TAG_SIZE
-                ),
-            });
-        };
-
-        Ok((
-            recipient_bytes,
-            AnonymousSenderTag::from_bytes(sender_tag_bytes),
-        ))
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct StoredReplyKey {
-    pub(crate) key_digest: Vec<u8>,
-    pub(crate) reply_key: Vec<u8>,
-    pub(crate) sent_at_timestamp: i64,
-}
-
-impl StoredReplyKey {
-    pub(crate) fn new(key_digest: EncryptionKeyDigest, reply_key: UsedReplyKey) -> StoredReplyKey {
-        StoredReplyKey {
-            key_digest: key_digest.to_vec(),
-            reply_key: (*reply_key).to_bytes(),
-            sent_at_timestamp: reply_key.sent_at_timestamp,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<StoredReplyKey> for (EncryptionKeyDigest, UsedReplyKey) {
-    type Error = StorageError;
-
-    fn try_from(value: StoredReplyKey) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        let expected_reply_key_digest_size = ReplySurbKeyDigestAlgorithm::output_size();
-        let reply_key_digest_size = value.key_digest.len();
-
-        let Some(digest) = EncryptionKeyDigest::from_exact_iter(value.key_digest) else {
-            return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                details: format!(
-                    "the reply surb digest has length of {reply_key_digest_size} while {expected_reply_key_digest_size} was expected",
-                ),
-            });
-        };
-
-        let reply_key_len = value.reply_key.len();
-        let Ok(reply_key) = SurbEncryptionKey::try_from_bytes(&value.reply_key) else {
-            return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                details: format!(
-                    "the reply key has length of {reply_key_len} while {} was expected",
-                    SurbEncryptionKeySize::USIZE
-                ),
-            });
-        };
-
-        Ok((
-            digest,
-            UsedReplyKey::new(reply_key, value.sent_at_timestamp),
-        ))
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) struct StoredSurbSender {
-    pub(crate) id: i64,
-    pub(crate) tag: Vec<u8>,
-    pub(crate) last_sent_timestamp: i64,
-}
-
-impl StoredSurbSender {
-    pub(crate) fn new(tag: AnonymousSenderTag, last_sent_timestamp: i64) -> Self {
-        StoredSurbSender {
-            // for the purposes of STORING data,
-            // we ignore that field anyway
-            id: 0,
-            tag: tag.to_bytes().to_vec(),
-            last_sent_timestamp,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<StoredSurbSender> for (AnonymousSenderTag, i64) {
-    type Error = StorageError;
-
-    fn try_from(value: StoredSurbSender) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        let tag_len = value.tag.len();
-        let Ok(sender_tag_bytes) = value.tag.try_into() else {
-            return Err(StorageError::CorruptedData {
-                details: format!(
-                    "the retrieved sender tag has length of {tag_len} while {} was expected",
-                    SENDER_TAG_SIZE
-                ),
-            });
-        };
-
-        Ok((
-            AnonymousSenderTag::from_bytes(sender_tag_bytes),
-            value.last_sent_timestamp,
-        ))
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) struct StoredReplySurb {
-    pub(crate) reply_surb_sender_id: i64,
-    pub(crate) reply_surb: Vec<u8>,
-}
-
-impl StoredReplySurb {
-    pub(crate) fn new(reply_surb_sender_id: i64, reply_surb: &ReplySurb) -> Self {
-        StoredReplySurb {
-            reply_surb_sender_id,
-            reply_surb: reply_surb.to_bytes(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<StoredReplySurb> for ReplySurb {
-    type Error = StorageError;
-
-    fn try_from(value: StoredReplySurb) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        ReplySurb::from_bytes(&value.reply_surb).map_err(|err| StorageError::CorruptedData {
-            details: format!("failed to recover the reply surb: {err}"),
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct ReplySurbStorageMetadata {
-    pub(crate) min_reply_surb_threshold: u32,
-    pub(crate) max_reply_surb_threshold: u32,
-}
-
-impl ReplySurbStorageMetadata {
-    pub(crate) fn new(min_reply_surb_threshold: usize, max_reply_surb_threshold: usize) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            min_reply_surb_threshold: min_reply_surb_threshold as u32,
-            max_reply_surb_threshold: max_reply_surb_threshold as u32,
-        }
-    }
-}
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::CombinedReplyStorage;
-use async_trait::async_trait;
-use std::error::Error;
-use thiserror::Error;
-
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-pub mod browser_backend;
-
-#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-pub mod fs_backend;
-
-// #[cfg(all(test, feature = "std"))]
-// third case: node with actual filesystem
-
-#[derive(Debug, Error)]
-#[error("no information provided")]
-pub struct UndefinedError;
-
-pub struct Empty {
-    // we need to keep 'basic' metadata here to "load" the CombinedReplyStorage
-    min_surb_threshold: usize,
-    max_surb_threshold: usize,
-}
-
-#[async_trait]
-impl ReplyStorageBackend for Empty {
-    type StorageError = UndefinedError;
-
-    async fn flush_surb_storage(
-        &mut self,
-        _storage: &CombinedReplyStorage,
-    ) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn init_fresh(
-        &mut self,
-        _fresh: &CombinedReplyStorage,
-    ) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    async fn load_surb_storage(&self) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, Self::StorageError> {
-        Ok(CombinedReplyStorage::new(
-            self.min_surb_threshold,
-            self.max_surb_threshold,
-        ))
-    }
-}
-
-#[async_trait]
-pub trait ReplyStorageBackend: Sized {
-    type StorageError: Error + 'static;
-
-    async fn start_storage_session(&self) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    // reply keys and surbs would need additional field set when data is loaded
-    // so if there's some failure, we'd trash it all
-    async fn flush_surb_storage(
-        &mut self,
-        storage: &CombinedReplyStorage,
-    ) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError>;
-
-    /// The purpose of this call is to save any metadata that might be present.
-    /// (such as surb thresholds)
-    async fn init_fresh(&mut self, fresh: &CombinedReplyStorage) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError>;
-
-    async fn load_surb_storage(&self) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, Self::StorageError>;
-
-    async fn stop_storage_session(self) -> Result<(), Self::StorageError> {
-        Ok(())
-    }
-}
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::{ReceivedReplySurbsMap, SentReplyKeys, UsedSenderTags};
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct CombinedReplyStorage {
-    sent_reply_keys: SentReplyKeys,
-    received_reply_surbs: ReceivedReplySurbsMap,
-    used_tags: UsedSenderTags,
-}
-
-impl CombinedReplyStorage {
-    pub fn new(min_surb_threshold: usize, max_surb_threshold: usize) -> CombinedReplyStorage {
-        CombinedReplyStorage {
-            sent_reply_keys: SentReplyKeys::new(),
-            received_reply_surbs: ReceivedReplySurbsMap::new(
-                min_surb_threshold,
-                max_surb_threshold,
-            ),
-            used_tags: UsedSenderTags::new(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn load(
-        sent_reply_keys: SentReplyKeys,
-        received_reply_surbs: ReceivedReplySurbsMap,
-        used_tags: UsedSenderTags,
-    ) -> Self {
-        CombinedReplyStorage {
-            sent_reply_keys,
-            received_reply_surbs,
-            used_tags,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn key_storage(&self) -> SentReplyKeys {
-        self.sent_reply_keys.clone()
-    }
-
-    pub fn surbs_storage(&self) -> ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-        self.received_reply_surbs.clone()
-    }
-
-    pub fn tags_storage(&self) -> UsedSenderTags {
-        self.used_tags.clone()
-    }
-
-    pub fn key_storage_ref(&self) -> &SentReplyKeys {
-        &self.sent_reply_keys
-    }
-
-    pub fn surbs_storage_ref(&self) -> &ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-        &self.received_reply_surbs
-    }
-
-    pub fn tags_storage_ref(&self) -> &UsedSenderTags {
-        &self.used_tags
-    }
-}
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use dashmap::iter::Iter;
-use dashmap::DashMap;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::encryption_key::EncryptionKeyDigest;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::SurbEncryptionKey;
-use std::ops::Deref;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct SentReplyKeys {
-    inner: Arc<SentReplyKeysInner>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct SentReplyKeysInner {
-    data: DashMap<EncryptionKeyDigest, UsedReplyKey>,
-}
-
-impl SentReplyKeys {
-    pub(crate) fn new() -> SentReplyKeys {
-        SentReplyKeys {
-            inner: Arc::new(SentReplyKeysInner {
-                data: DashMap::new(),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn from_raw(raw: Vec<(EncryptionKeyDigest, UsedReplyKey)>) -> SentReplyKeys {
-        SentReplyKeys {
-            inner: Arc::new(SentReplyKeysInner {
-                data: raw.into_iter().collect(),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn as_raw_iter(&self) -> Iter<'_, EncryptionKeyDigest, UsedReplyKey> {
-        self.inner.data.iter()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn insert_multiple(&self, keys: Vec<SurbEncryptionKey>) {
-        let now = OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp();
-        for key in keys {
-            self.insert(UsedReplyKey::new(key, now))
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn insert(&self, key: UsedReplyKey) {
-        self.inner.data.insert(key.compute_digest(), key);
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn try_pop(&self, digest: EncryptionKeyDigest) -> Option<UsedReplyKey> {
-        self.inner.data.remove(&digest).map(|(_k, v)| v)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn remove(&self, digest: EncryptionKeyDigest) {
-        self.inner.data.remove(&digest);
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct UsedReplyKey {
-    key: SurbEncryptionKey,
-    // the purpose of this field is to perform invalidation at relatively very long intervals
-    pub(crate) sent_at_timestamp: i64,
-}
-
-impl UsedReplyKey {
-    pub(crate) fn new(key: SurbEncryptionKey, sent_at_timestamp: i64) -> Self {
-        UsedReplyKey {
-            key,
-            sent_at_timestamp,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Deref for UsedReplyKey {
-    type Target = SurbEncryptionKey;
-
-    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
-        &self.key
-    }
-}
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-pub use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::combined::CombinedReplyStorage;
-pub use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::key_storage::SentReplyKeys;
-pub use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::surb_storage::ReceivedReplySurbsMap;
-pub use crate::client::replies::reply_storage::tag_storage::UsedSenderTags;
-pub use backend::*;
-
-mod backend;
-mod combined;
-mod key_storage;
-mod surb_storage;
-mod tag_storage;
-
-// only really exists to get information about shutdown and save data to the backing storage
-pub struct PersistentReplyStorage<T = backend::Empty>
-where
-    T: ReplyStorageBackend,
-{
-    backend: T,
-}
-
-impl<T> PersistentReplyStorage<T>
-where
-    T: ReplyStorageBackend + Send + Sync,
-{
-    pub fn new(backend: T) -> Self {
-        PersistentReplyStorage { backend }
-    }
-
-    pub async fn load_state_from_backend(&self) -> Result<CombinedReplyStorage, T::StorageError> {
-        self.backend.load_surb_storage().await
-    }
-
-    // this will have to get enabled after merging develop
-    pub async fn flush_on_shutdown(
-        mut self,
-        mem_state: CombinedReplyStorage,
-        mut shutdown: task::TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        use log::{debug, error, info, warn};
-
-        debug!("Started PersistentReplyStorage");
-        if let Err(err) = self.backend.start_storage_session().await {
-            error!("failed to start the storage session - {err}");
-            return;
-        }
-
-        shutdown.recv().await;
-
-        info!("PersistentReplyStorage is flushing all reply-related data to underlying storage");
-        warn!("you MUST NOT forcefully shutdown now or you risk data corruption!");
-        if let Err(err) = self.backend.flush_surb_storage(&mem_state).await {
-            error!("failed to flush our reply-related data to the persistent storage: {err}")
-        } else {
-            info!("Data flush is complete")
-        }
-
-        if let Err(err) = self.backend.stop_storage_session().await {
-            error!("failed to properly stop the storage session - {err}. We might not be able to smoothly restore it")
-        }
-    }
-}
@@ -1,278 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use dashmap::iter::Iter;
-use dashmap::DashMap;
-use log::trace;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
-use std::collections::VecDeque;
-use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use time::OffsetDateTime;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-    inner: Arc<ReceivedReplySurbsMapInner>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct ReceivedReplySurbsMapInner {
-    data: DashMap<AnonymousSenderTag, ReceivedReplySurbs>,
-
-    // the minimum amount of surbs that have to be kept in storage for requests for more surbs
-    min_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize,
-
-    // the maximum amount of surbs that we want to keep in storage so that we don't over-request them
-    max_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize,
-}
-
-impl ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-    pub(crate) fn new(
-        min_surb_threshold: usize,
-        max_surb_threshold: usize,
-    ) -> ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-        ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-            inner: Arc::new(ReceivedReplySurbsMapInner {
-                data: DashMap::new(),
-                min_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize::new(min_surb_threshold),
-                max_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize::new(max_surb_threshold),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn from_raw(
-        min_surb_threshold: usize,
-        max_surb_threshold: usize,
-        raw: Vec<(AnonymousSenderTag, ReceivedReplySurbs)>,
-    ) -> ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-        ReceivedReplySurbsMap {
-            inner: Arc::new(ReceivedReplySurbsMapInner {
-                data: raw.into_iter().collect(),
-                min_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize::new(min_surb_threshold),
-                max_surb_threshold: AtomicUsize::new(max_surb_threshold),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn as_raw_iter(&self) -> Iter<'_, AnonymousSenderTag, ReceivedReplySurbs> {
-        self.inner.data.iter()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn remove(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        self.inner.data.remove(target);
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn reset_surbs_last_received_at(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        if let Some(mut entry) = self.inner.data.get_mut(target) {
-            entry.surbs_last_received_at_timestamp = OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp();
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn surbs_last_received_at(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) -> Option<i64> {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get(target)
-            .map(|e| e.surbs_last_received_at())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn pending_reception(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) -> u32 {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get(target)
-            .map(|e| e.pending_reception())
-            .unwrap_or_default()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn increment_pending_reception(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        amount: u32,
-    ) -> Option<u32> {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get_mut(target)
-            .map(|mut e| e.increment_pending_reception(amount))
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn decrement_pending_reception(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        amount: u32,
-    ) -> Option<u32> {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get_mut(target)
-            .map(|mut e| e.decrement_pending_reception(amount))
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn reset_pending_reception(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        if let Some(mut e) = self.inner.data.get_mut(target) {
-            e.reset_pending_reception()
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn min_surb_threshold(&self) -> usize {
-        self.inner.min_surb_threshold.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn max_surb_threshold(&self) -> usize {
-        self.inner.max_surb_threshold.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn available_surbs(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) -> usize {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get(target)
-            .map(|entry| entry.items_left())
-            .unwrap_or_default()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn contains_surbs_for(&self, target: &AnonymousSenderTag) -> bool {
-        self.inner.data.contains_key(target)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn get_reply_surbs(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        amount: usize,
-    ) -> (Option<Vec<ReplySurb>>, usize) {
-        if let Some(mut entry) = self.inner.data.get_mut(target) {
-            let surbs_left = entry.items_left();
-            if surbs_left < self.min_surb_threshold() + amount {
-                (None, surbs_left)
-            } else {
-                entry.get_reply_surbs(amount)
-            }
-        } else {
-            (None, 0)
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn get_reply_surb_ignoring_threshold(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-    ) -> Option<(Option<ReplySurb>, usize)> {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get_mut(target)
-            .map(|mut s| s.get_reply_surb())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn get_reply_surb(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-    ) -> Option<(Option<ReplySurb>, usize)> {
-        self.inner.data.get_mut(target).map(|mut entry| {
-            let surbs_left = entry.items_left();
-            if surbs_left < self.min_surb_threshold() {
-                (None, surbs_left)
-            } else {
-                entry.get_reply_surb()
-            }
-        })
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn insert_surbs<I: IntoIterator<Item = ReplySurb>>(
-        &self,
-        target: &AnonymousSenderTag,
-        surbs: I,
-    ) {
-        if let Some(mut existing_data) = self.inner.data.get_mut(target) {
-            existing_data.insert_reply_surbs(surbs)
-        } else {
-            let new_entry = ReceivedReplySurbs::new(surbs.into_iter().collect());
-            self.inner.data.insert(*target, new_entry);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub(crate) struct ReceivedReplySurbs {
-    // in the future we'd probably want to put extra data here to indicate when the SURBs got received
-    // so we could invalidate entries from the previous key rotations
-    data: VecDeque<ReplySurb>,
-
-    pending_reception: u32,
-    surbs_last_received_at_timestamp: i64,
-}
-
-impl ReceivedReplySurbs {
-    fn new(initial_surbs: VecDeque<ReplySurb>) -> Self {
-        ReceivedReplySurbs {
-            data: initial_surbs,
-            pending_reception: 0,
-            surbs_last_received_at_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn new_retrieved(
-        surbs: Vec<ReplySurb>,
-        surbs_last_received_at_timestamp: i64,
-    ) -> ReceivedReplySurbs {
-        ReceivedReplySurbs {
-            data: surbs.into(),
-            pending_reception: 0,
-            surbs_last_received_at_timestamp,
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn surbs_ref(&self) -> &VecDeque<ReplySurb> {
-        &self.data
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn surbs_last_received_at(&self) -> i64 {
-        self.surbs_last_received_at_timestamp
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn pending_reception(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.pending_reception
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn increment_pending_reception(&mut self, amount: u32) -> u32 {
-        self.pending_reception += amount;
-        self.pending_reception
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn decrement_pending_reception(&mut self, amount: u32) -> u32 {
-        self.pending_reception = self.pending_reception.saturating_sub(amount);
-        self.pending_reception
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn reset_pending_reception(&mut self) {
-        self.pending_reception = 0;
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn get_reply_surbs(&mut self, amount: usize) -> (Option<Vec<ReplySurb>>, usize) {
-        if self.items_left() < amount {
-            (None, self.items_left())
-        } else {
-            let surbs = self.data.drain(..amount).collect();
-            (Some(surbs), self.items_left())
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn get_reply_surb(&mut self) -> (Option<ReplySurb>, usize) {
-        (self.pop_surb(), self.items_left())
-    }
-
-    fn pop_surb(&mut self) -> Option<ReplySurb> {
-        self.data.pop_front()
-    }
-
-    fn items_left(&self) -> usize {
-        self.data.len()
-    }
-
-    // realistically we're always going to be getting multiple surbs at once
-    pub(crate) fn insert_reply_surbs<I: IntoIterator<Item = ReplySurb>>(&mut self, surbs: I) {
-        let mut v = surbs.into_iter().collect::<VecDeque<_>>();
-        trace!("storing {} surbs in the storage", v.len());
-        self.data.append(&mut v);
-        self.surbs_last_received_at_timestamp = OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp();
-        trace!("we now have {} surbs!", self.data.len());
-    }
-}
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use dashmap::DashMap;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::{Recipient, RecipientBytes};
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-
-#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-use dashmap::iter::Iter;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct UsedSenderTags {
-    inner: Arc<UsedSenderTagsInner>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct UsedSenderTagsInner {
-    data: DashMap<RecipientBytes, AnonymousSenderTag>,
-}
-
-impl UsedSenderTags {
-    pub(crate) fn new() -> UsedSenderTags {
-        UsedSenderTags {
-            inner: Arc::new(UsedSenderTagsInner {
-                data: DashMap::new(),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn from_raw(raw: Vec<(RecipientBytes, AnonymousSenderTag)>) -> UsedSenderTags {
-        UsedSenderTags {
-            inner: Arc::new(UsedSenderTagsInner {
-                data: raw.into_iter().collect(),
-            }),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "fs-surb-storage"))]
-    pub(crate) fn as_raw_iter(&self) -> Iter<'_, RecipientBytes, AnonymousSenderTag> {
-        self.inner.data.iter()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn insert_new(&self, recipient: &Recipient, tag: AnonymousSenderTag) {
-        self.inner.data.insert(recipient.to_bytes(), tag);
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn try_get_existing(&self, recipient: &Recipient) -> Option<AnonymousSenderTag> {
-        self.inner
-            .data
-            .get(&recipient.to_bytes())
-            .map(|r| *r.value())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn exists(&self, recipient: &Recipient) -> bool {
-        self.inner.data.contains_key(&recipient.to_bytes())
-    }
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+use crypto::generic_array::typenum::Unsigned;
+use log::*;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::{
+    encryption_key::EncryptionKeyDigest, SurbEncryptionKey, SurbEncryptionKeySize,
+};
+use std::path::Path;
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum ReplyKeyStorageError {
+    DbReadError(sled::Error),
+    DbWriteError(sled::Error),
+    DbOpenError(sled::Error),
+}
+
+/// Permanent storage for keys in all sent [`ReplySURB`]
+///
+/// Each sent out [`ReplySURB`] has a new key associated with it that is going to be used for
+/// payload encryption. In order to -decrypt whatever reply we receive, we need to know which
+/// key to use for that purpose. We do it based on received `H(t)` which has to be included
+/// with each reply.
+/// Moreover, there is no restriction when the [`ReplySURB`] might get used so we need to
+/// have a permanent storage for all the keys that we might ever see in the future.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct ReplyKeyStorage {
+    db: sled::Db,
+}
+
+impl ReplyKeyStorage {
+    pub fn load<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<Self, ReplyKeyStorageError> {
+        let db = match sled::open(path) {
+            Err(e) => return Err(ReplyKeyStorageError::DbOpenError(e)),
+            Ok(db) => db,
+        };
+
+        Ok(ReplyKeyStorage { db })
+    }
+
+    fn read_encryption_key(&self, raw_key: sled::IVec) -> SurbEncryptionKey {
+        let key_bytes_ref = raw_key.as_ref();
+        // if this fails it means we have some database corruption and we
+        // absolutely can't continue
+
+        if key_bytes_ref.len() != SurbEncryptionKeySize::USIZE {
+            error!("REPLY KEY STORAGE DATA CORRUPTION - ENCRYPTION KEY HAS INVALID LENGTH");
+            panic!("REPLY KEY STORAGE DATA CORRUPTION - ENCRYPTION KEY HAS INVALID LENGTH");
+        }
+
+        // this can only fail if the bytes have invalid length but we already asserted it
+        SurbEncryptionKey::try_from_bytes(key_bytes_ref).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    // TOOD: perhaps we could also store some part of original message here too?
+    pub fn insert_encryption_key(
+        &mut self,
+        encryption_key: SurbEncryptionKey,
+    ) -> Result<(), ReplyKeyStorageError> {
+        let digest = encryption_key.compute_digest();
+
+        let insertion_result = match self.db.insert(digest, encryption_key.to_bytes()) {
+            Err(e) => Err(ReplyKeyStorageError::DbWriteError(e)),
+            Ok(existing_key) => {
+                if existing_key.is_some() {
+                    panic!("HASH COLLISION DETECTED")
+                };
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        };
+
+        // TODO: perhaps we could implement some batching mechanism to avoid frequent flushes?
+        self.db.flush().unwrap();
+        insertion_result
+    }
+
+    // Once we use key once, we do not expect to use it again
+    pub fn get_and_remove_encryption_key(
+        &self,
+        key_digest: EncryptionKeyDigest,
+    ) -> Result<Option<SurbEncryptionKey>, ReplyKeyStorageError> {
+        let removal_result = match self.db.remove(key_digest) {
+            Err(e) => Err(ReplyKeyStorageError::DbReadError(e)),
+            Ok(existing_key) => {
+                Ok(existing_key.map(|existing_key| self.read_encryption_key(existing_key)))
+            }
+        };
+
+        // TODO: not sure how to feel about flushing it every single time here...
+        // same with insertion
+        self.db.flush().unwrap();
+        removal_result
+    }
+}
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use crate::spawn_future;
-use futures::StreamExt;
 use log::*;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
 use nymsphinx::params::DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS;
@@ -10,9 +9,10 @@ use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
 use rand::thread_rng;
 use std::ops::Deref;
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time;
 use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::sync::{RwLock, RwLockReadGuard};
-use topology::{nym_topology_from_detailed, NymTopology, NymTopologyError};
+use topology::{nym_topology_from_detailed, NymTopology};
 use url::Url;

 // I'm extremely curious why compiler NEVER complained about lack of Debug here before
@@ -54,36 +54,18 @@ impl<'a> TopologyReadPermit<'a> {
        &'a self,
        ack_recipient: &Recipient,
        packet_recipient: Option<&Recipient>,
-    ) -> Result<&'a NymTopology, NymTopologyError> {
-        // 1. Have we managed to get anything from the refresher, i.e. have the nym-api queries gone through?
-        let topology = self
-            .permit
-            .as_ref()
-            .as_ref()
-            .ok_or(NymTopologyError::EmptyNetworkTopology)?;
-
-        // 2. does it have any mixnode at all?
-        // 3. does it have any gateways at all?
-        // 4. does it have a mixnode on each layer?
-        topology.ensure_can_construct_path_through(DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS)?;
-
-        // 5. does it contain OUR gateway (so that we could create an ack packet)?
-        if !topology.gateway_exists(ack_recipient.gateway()) {
-            return Err(NymTopologyError::NonExistentGatewayError {
-                identity_key: ack_recipient.gateway().to_base58_string(),
-            });
-        }
-
-        // 6. for our target recipient, does it contain THEIR gateway (so that we could create
-        if let Some(recipient) = packet_recipient {
-            if !topology.gateway_exists(recipient.gateway()) {
-                return Err(NymTopologyError::NonExistentGatewayError {
-                    identity_key: recipient.gateway().to_base58_string(),
-                });
-            }
-        }
-
-        Ok(topology)
+    ) -> Option<&'a NymTopology> {
+        // Note: implicit deref with Deref for TopologyReadPermit is happening here
+        let topology_ref_option = self.permit.as_ref();
+        topology_ref_option.as_ref().filter(|topology_ref| {
+            !(!topology_ref.can_construct_path_through(DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS)
+                || !topology_ref.gateway_exists(ack_recipient.gateway())
+                || if let Some(packet_recipient) = packet_recipient {
+                    !topology_ref.gateway_exists(packet_recipient.gateway())
+                } else {
+                    false
+                })
+        })
    }
 }

@@ -121,10 +103,10 @@ impl TopologyAccessor {

    // only used by the client at startup to get a slightly more reasonable error message
    // (currently displays as unused because health checker is disabled due to required changes)
-    pub async fn ensure_is_routable(&self) -> Result<(), NymTopologyError> {
+    pub async fn is_routable(&self) -> bool {
        match &self.inner.read().await.0 {
-            None => Err(NymTopologyError::EmptyNetworkTopology),
-            Some(ref topology) => topology.ensure_can_construct_path_through(DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS),
+            None => false,
+            Some(ref topology) => topology.can_construct_path_through(DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -136,15 +118,19 @@ impl Default for TopologyAccessor {
 }

 pub struct TopologyRefresherConfig {
-    nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
-    refresh_rate: Duration,
+    validator_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
+    refresh_rate: time::Duration,
    client_version: String,
 }

 impl TopologyRefresherConfig {
-    pub fn new(nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>, refresh_rate: Duration, client_version: String) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(
+        validator_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
+        refresh_rate: time::Duration,
+        client_version: String,
+    ) -> Self {
        TopologyRefresherConfig {
-            nym_api_urls,
+            validator_api_urls,
            refresh_rate,
            client_version,
        }
@@ -152,10 +138,10 @@ impl TopologyRefresherConfig {
 }

 pub struct TopologyRefresher {
-    validator_client: validator_client::client::ApiClient,
+    validator_client: validator_client::ApiClient,
    client_version: String,

-    nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
+    validator_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
    topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
    refresh_rate: Duration,

@@ -165,12 +151,12 @@ pub struct TopologyRefresher {

 impl TopologyRefresher {
    pub fn new(mut cfg: TopologyRefresherConfig, topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor) -> Self {
-        cfg.nym_api_urls.shuffle(&mut thread_rng());
+        cfg.validator_api_urls.shuffle(&mut thread_rng());

        TopologyRefresher {
-            validator_client: validator_client::client::ApiClient::new(cfg.nym_api_urls[0].clone()),
+            validator_client: validator_client::ApiClient::new(cfg.validator_api_urls[0].clone()),
            client_version: cfg.client_version,
-            nym_api_urls: cfg.nym_api_urls,
+            validator_api_urls: cfg.validator_api_urls,
            topology_accessor,
            refresh_rate: cfg.refresh_rate,
            currently_used_api: 0,
@@ -178,15 +164,15 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {
        }
    }

-    fn use_next_nym_api(&mut self) {
-        if self.nym_api_urls.len() == 1 {
-            warn!("There's only a single nym API available - it won't be possible to use a different one");
+    fn use_next_validator_api(&mut self) {
+        if self.validator_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.nym_api_urls.len();
+        self.currently_used_api = (self.currently_used_api + 1) % self.validator_api_urls.len();
        self.validator_client
-            .change_nym_api(self.nym_api_urls[self.currently_used_api].clone())
+            .change_validator_api(self.validator_api_urls[self.currently_used_api].clone())
    }

    /// Verifies whether nodes a reasonably distributed among all mix layers.
@@ -198,10 +184,13 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {
    /// # Arguments
    ///
    /// * `topology`: active topology constructed from validator api data
-    fn check_layer_distribution(&self, active_topology: &NymTopology) -> bool {
+    /// * `mixnodes_count`: total number of active mixnodes
+    fn check_layer_distribution(
+        &self,
+        active_topology: &NymTopology,
+        mixnodes_count: usize,
+    ) -> bool {
        let mixes = active_topology.mixes();
-        let mixnodes_count = active_topology.num_mixnodes();
-
        if active_topology.gateways().is_empty() {
            return false;
        }
@@ -252,7 +241,7 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {

        let mixnodes = match self.validator_client.get_cached_active_mixnodes().await {
            Err(err) => {
-                error!("failed to get network mixnodes - {err}");
+                error!("failed to get network mixnodes - {}", err);
                return None;
            }
            Ok(mixes) => mixes,
@@ -260,16 +249,17 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {

        let gateways = match self.validator_client.get_cached_gateways().await {
            Err(err) => {
-                error!("failed to get network gateways - {err}");
+                error!("failed to get network gateways - {}", err);
                return None;
            }
            Ok(gateways) => gateways,
        };

+        let mixnodes_count = mixnodes.len();
        let topology = nym_topology_from_detailed(mixnodes, gateways)
            .filter_system_version(&self.client_version);

-        if !self.check_layer_distribution(&topology) {
+        if !self.check_layer_distribution(&topology, mixnodes_count) {
            warn!("The current filtered active topology has extremely skewed layer distribution. It cannot be used.");
            None
        } else {
@@ -282,7 +272,7 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {
        let new_topology = self.get_current_compatible_topology().await;

        if new_topology.is_none() {
-            self.use_next_nym_api();
+            self.use_next_validator_api();
        }

        if new_topology.is_none() && self.was_latest_valid {
@@ -300,26 +290,18 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {
            .await;
    }

-    pub async fn ensure_topology_is_routable(&self) -> Result<(), NymTopologyError> {
-        self.topology_accessor.ensure_is_routable().await
+    pub async fn is_topology_routable(&self) -> bool {
+        self.topology_accessor.is_routable().await
    }

-    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::TaskClient) {
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    pub fn start_with_shutdown(mut self, mut shutdown: task::ShutdownListener) {
        spawn_future(async move {
            debug!("Started TopologyRefresher with graceful shutdown support");

-            #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-            let mut interval = tokio_stream::wrappers::IntervalStream::new(tokio::time::interval(
-                self.refresh_rate,
-            ));
-
-            #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-            let mut interval =
-                gloo_timers::future::IntervalStream::new(self.refresh_rate.as_millis() as u32);
-
            while !shutdown.is_shutdown() {
                tokio::select! {
-                    _ = interval.next() => {
+                    _ = tokio::time::sleep(self.refresh_rate) => {
                        self.refresh().await;
                    },
                    _ = shutdown.recv() => {
@@ -327,8 +309,21 @@ impl TopologyRefresher {
                    },
                }
            }
-            shutdown.recv_timeout().await;
+            assert!(shutdown.is_shutdown_poll());
            log::debug!("TopologyRefresher: Exiting");
        })
    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+    pub fn start(mut self) {
+        use futures::StreamExt;
+
+        spawn_future(async move {
+            let mut interval =
+                gloo_timers::future::IntervalStream::new(self.refresh_rate.as_millis() as u32);
+            while let Some(_) = interval.next().await {
+                self.refresh().await;
+            }
+        })
+    }
 }
@@ -1,287 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-use crate::client::helpers::{get_time_now, Instant};
-use crate::client::real_messages_control::real_traffic_stream::RealMessage;
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
-use nymsphinx::chunking::fragment::Fragment;
-use rand::{seq::SliceRandom, Rng};
-use std::{
-    collections::{HashMap, HashSet, VecDeque},
-    time::Duration,
-};
-
-// The number of lanes included in the oldest set. Used when we need to prioritize traffic.
-const OLDEST_LANE_SET_SIZE: usize = 4;
-// As a way of prune connections we also check for timeouts.
-const MSG_CONSIDERED_STALE_AFTER_SECS: u64 = 10 * 60;
-
-pub(crate) trait SizedData {
-    fn data_size(&self) -> usize;
-}
-
-impl SizedData for RealMessage {
-    fn data_size(&self) -> usize {
-        self.packet_size()
-    }
-}
-
-impl SizedData for Fragment {
-    fn data_size(&self) -> usize {
-        // note that raw `Fragment` is smaller than sphinx packet payload
-        // as it doesn't include surb-ack or the [shared] key materials
-        self.payload_size()
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Default)]
-pub(crate) struct TransmissionBuffer<T> {
-    buffer: HashMap<TransmissionLane, LaneBufferEntry<T>>,
-}
-
-impl<T> TransmissionBuffer<T> {
-    pub(crate) fn new() -> Self {
-        TransmissionBuffer {
-            buffer: HashMap::new(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[allow(unused)]
-    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
-        self.buffer.is_empty()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn remove(&mut self, lane: &TransmissionLane) -> Option<LaneBufferEntry<T>> {
-        self.buffer.remove(lane)
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    pub(crate) fn num_lanes(&self) -> usize {
-        self.buffer.keys().count()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn lane_length(&self, lane: &TransmissionLane) -> Option<usize> {
-        self.buffer.get(lane).map(LaneBufferEntry::len)
-    }
-
-    #[allow(unused)]
-    pub(crate) fn connections(&self) -> HashSet<u64> {
-        self.buffer
-            .keys()
-            .filter_map(|lane| match lane {
-                TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(id) => Some(id),
-                _ => None,
-            })
-            .copied()
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn total_size(&self) -> usize {
-        self.buffer.values().map(LaneBufferEntry::len).sum()
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-    pub(crate) fn total_size_in_bytes(&self) -> usize
-    where
-        T: SizedData,
-    {
-        self.buffer
-            .values()
-            .map(|lane_buffer_entry| {
-                lane_buffer_entry
-                    .items
-                    .iter()
-                    .map(|item| item.data_size())
-                    .sum::<usize>()
-            })
-            .sum()
-    }
-
-    fn get_oldest_set(&self) -> Vec<TransmissionLane> {
-        let mut buffer: Vec<_> = self
-            .buffer
-            .iter()
-            .map(|(k, v)| (k, v.messages_transmitted))
-            .collect();
-        buffer.sort_by_key(|v| v.1);
-        buffer
-            .iter()
-            .rev()
-            .map(|(k, _)| *k)
-            .take(OLDEST_LANE_SET_SIZE)
-            .copied()
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn store<I: IntoIterator<Item = T>>(&mut self, lane: &TransmissionLane, items: I) {
-        if let Some(lane_buffer_entry) = self.buffer.get_mut(lane) {
-            lane_buffer_entry.extend(items);
-        } else {
-            self.buffer
-                .insert(*lane, LaneBufferEntry::new(items.into_iter().collect()));
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn store_multiple(&mut self, items: Vec<(TransmissionLane, T)>) {
-        for (lane, item) in items {
-            self.buffer
-                .entry(lane)
-                .or_insert_with(LaneBufferEntry::new_empty)
-                .push_item(item)
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn pick_random_lane<R: Rng + ?Sized>(&self, rng: &mut R) -> Option<&TransmissionLane> {
-        let lanes: Vec<&TransmissionLane> = self.buffer.keys().collect();
-        lanes.choose(rng).copied()
-    }
-
-    fn pick_random_small_lane<R: Rng + ?Sized>(&self, rng: &mut R) -> Option<&TransmissionLane> {
-        let lanes: Vec<&TransmissionLane> = self
-            .buffer
-            .iter()
-            .filter(|(_, v)| v.is_small())
-            .map(|(k, _)| k)
-            .collect();
-        lanes.choose(rng).copied()
-    }
-
-    // 2/3 chance to pick from the old lanes
-    fn pick_random_old_lane<R: Rng + ?Sized>(&self, rng: &mut R) -> Option<TransmissionLane> {
-        let rand = &mut rand::thread_rng();
-        if rand.gen_ratio(2, 3) {
-            let lanes = self.get_oldest_set();
-            lanes.choose(rand).copied()
-        } else {
-            self.pick_random_lane(rng).copied()
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn pop_front_from_lane(&mut self, lane: &TransmissionLane) -> Option<T> {
-        let real_msgs_queued = self.buffer.get_mut(lane)?;
-        let real_next = real_msgs_queued.pop_front()?;
-        real_msgs_queued.messages_transmitted += 1;
-        if real_msgs_queued.is_empty() {
-            self.buffer.remove(lane);
-        }
-        Some(real_next)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn pop_at_most_n_next_messages_at_random(
-        &mut self,
-        n: usize,
-    ) -> Option<Vec<(TransmissionLane, T)>> {
-        // let start = Instant::now();
-
-        if self.buffer.is_empty() {
-            return None;
-        }
-
-        let rng = &mut rand::thread_rng();
-        let mut items = Vec::with_capacity(n);
-
-        while items.len() < n {
-            let Some(next) = self.pop_next_message_at_random(rng) else {
-               break
-            };
-            items.push(next)
-        }
-
-        // todo!("time time taken");
-
-        Some(items)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn pop_next_message_at_random<R: Rng + ?Sized>(
-        &mut self,
-        // turns out the caller always have access to some rng, so no point in instantiating new one
-        rng: &mut R,
-    ) -> Option<(TransmissionLane, T)> {
-        if self.buffer.is_empty() {
-            return None;
-        }
-
-        // Very basic heuristic where we prioritize according to small lanes first, the older lanes
-        // to try to finish lanes when possible, then the rest.
-        let lane = if let Some(small_lane) = self.pick_random_small_lane(rng) {
-            *small_lane
-        } else if let Some(old_lane) = self.pick_random_old_lane(rng) {
-            old_lane
-        } else {
-            *self.pick_random_lane(rng)?
-        };
-
-        let msg = self.pop_front_from_lane(&lane)?;
-        log::trace!("picking to send from lane: {:?}", lane);
-        Some((lane, msg))
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn prune_stale_connections(&mut self) {
-        let stale_entries: Vec<_> = self
-            .buffer
-            .iter()
-            .filter_map(|(lane, entry)| if entry.is_stale() { Some(lane) } else { None })
-            .copied()
-            .collect();
-
-        for lane in stale_entries {
-            self.remove(&lane);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) struct LaneBufferEntry<T> {
-    pub items: VecDeque<T>,
-    pub messages_transmitted: usize,
-    pub time_for_last_activity: Instant,
-}
-
-impl<T> LaneBufferEntry<T> {
-    fn new_empty() -> Self {
-        LaneBufferEntry {
-            items: VecDeque::new(),
-            messages_transmitted: 0,
-            time_for_last_activity: get_time_now(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn new(items: VecDeque<T>) -> Self {
-        LaneBufferEntry {
-            items,
-            messages_transmitted: 0,
-            time_for_last_activity: get_time_now(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn push_item(&mut self, item: T) {
-        self.items.push_back(item);
-        // I'm not updating time here on purpose. This method is called just after `new_empty`,
-        // where the time is already set. Furthermore, this method is called there multiple times at once
-    }
-
-    fn extend<I: IntoIterator<Item = T>>(&mut self, items: I) {
-        self.items.extend(items);
-        self.time_for_last_activity = get_time_now();
-    }
-
-    fn pop_front(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
-        self.items.pop_front()
-    }
-
-    fn is_small(&self) -> bool {
-        self.items.len() < 100
-    }
-
-    fn is_stale(&self) -> bool {
-        get_time_now() - self.time_for_last_activity
-            > Duration::from_secs(MSG_CONSIDERED_STALE_AFTER_SECS)
-    }
-
-    fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.items.len()
-    }
-
-    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
-        self.items.is_empty()
-    }
-}
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use config::{NymConfig, DB_FILE_NAME};
+use config::NymConfig;
 use nymsphinx::params::PacketSize;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
@@ -30,37 +30,11 @@ const DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_RESOLUTION_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(5_00
 // bandwidth bridging protocol, we can come back to a smaller timeout value
 const DEFAULT_GATEWAY_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5 * 60);

-// reply-surbs related:
-
-// define when to request
-// clients/client-core/src/client/replies/reply_storage/surb_storage.rs
-const DEFAULT_MINIMUM_REPLY_SURB_STORAGE_THRESHOLD: usize = 10;
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_STORAGE_THRESHOLD: usize = 200;
-
-// define how much to request at once
-// clients/client-core/src/client/replies/reply_controller.rs
-const DEFAULT_MINIMUM_REPLY_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE: u32 = 10;
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE: u32 = 100;
-
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_ALLOWED_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE: u32 = 500;
-
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_WAITING_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
-
-// 12 hours
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_AGE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(12 * 60 * 60);
-
-// 24 hours
-const DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_KEY_AGE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(24 * 60 * 60);
-
 pub fn missing_string_value() -> String {
    MISSING_VALUE.to_string()
 }

-pub trait ClientCoreConfigTrait {
-    fn get_gateway_endpoint(&self) -> &GatewayEndpointConfig;
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, PartialEq, Serialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq, Serialize)]
 #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
 pub struct Config<T> {
    client: Client<T>,
@@ -68,48 +42,27 @@ pub struct Config<T> {
    #[serde(default)]
    logging: Logging,
    #[serde(default)]
-    debug: DebugConfig,
-}
-impl<T> ClientCoreConfigTrait for Config<T> {
-    fn get_gateway_endpoint(&self) -> &GatewayEndpointConfig {
-        &self.client.gateway_endpoint
-    }
+    debug: Debug,
 }

-impl<T> Config<T> {
-    pub fn new<S: Into<String>>(id: S) -> Self
-    where
-        T: NymConfig,
-    {
-        Config::default().with_id(id)
+impl<T: NymConfig> Config<T> {
+    pub fn new<S: Into<String>>(id: S) -> Self {
+        let mut cfg = Config::default();
+        cfg.with_id(id);
+        cfg
    }

-    pub fn with_id<S: Into<String>>(mut self, id: S) -> Self
-    where
-        T: NymConfig,
-    {
-        self.client.id = id.into();
-        self.set_empty_fields_to_defaults();
-        self
-    }
-
-    pub fn set_empty_fields_to_defaults(&mut self) -> bool
-    where
-        T: NymConfig,
-    {
-        let id = &self.client.id;
-        let mut changes_made = false;
+    pub fn with_id<S: Into<String>>(&mut self, id: S) {
+        let id = id.into();

        // identity key setting
        if self.client.private_identity_key_file.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
            self.client.private_identity_key_file =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_private_identity_key_file(id);
+                self::Client::<T>::default_private_identity_key_file(&id);
        }
        if self.client.public_identity_key_file.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
            self.client.public_identity_key_file =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_public_identity_key_file(id);
+                self::Client::<T>::default_public_identity_key_file(&id);
        }

        // encryption key setting
@@ -119,9 +72,8 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
            .as_os_str()
            .is_empty()
        {
-            changes_made = true;
            self.client.private_encryption_key_file =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_private_encryption_key_file(id);
+                self::Client::<T>::default_private_encryption_key_file(&id);
        }
        if self
            .client
@@ -129,42 +81,43 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
            .as_os_str()
            .is_empty()
        {
-            changes_made = true;
            self.client.public_encryption_key_file =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_public_encryption_key_file(id);
+                self::Client::<T>::default_public_encryption_key_file(&id);
        }

        // shared gateway key setting
        if self.client.gateway_shared_key_file.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
            self.client.gateway_shared_key_file =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_gateway_shared_key_file(id);
+                self::Client::<T>::default_gateway_shared_key_file(&id);
        }

        // ack key setting
        if self.client.ack_key_file.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
-            self.client.ack_key_file = self::Client::<T>::default_ack_key_file(id);
+            self.client.ack_key_file = self::Client::<T>::default_ack_key_file(&id);
        }

-        if self.client.reply_surb_database_path.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
-            self.client.reply_surb_database_path =
-                self::Client::<T>::default_reply_surb_database_path(id);
+        if self
+            .client
+            .reply_encryption_key_store_path
+            .as_os_str()
+            .is_empty()
+        {
+            self.client.reply_encryption_key_store_path =
+                self::Client::<T>::default_reply_encryption_key_store_path(&id);
        }

        if self.client.database_path.as_os_str().is_empty() {
-            changes_made = true;
-            self.client.database_path = self::Client::<T>::default_database_path(id);
+            self.client.database_path = self::Client::<T>::default_database_path(&id);
        }
-        changes_made
+
+        self.client.id = id;
    }

    pub fn with_disabled_credentials(&mut self, disabled_credentials_mode: bool) {
        self.client.disabled_credentials_mode = disabled_credentials_mode;
    }

-    pub fn with_gateway_endpoint(&mut self, gateway_endpoint: GatewayEndpointConfig) {
+    pub fn with_gateway_endpoint(&mut self, gateway_endpoint: GatewayEndpoint) {
        self.client.gateway_endpoint = gateway_endpoint;
    }

@@ -172,25 +125,14 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
        self.client.gateway_endpoint.gateway_id = id.into();
    }

-    pub fn set_custom_validators(&mut self, validator_urls: Vec<Url>) {
-        self.client.validator_urls = validator_urls;
-    }
-
-    pub fn set_custom_nym_apis(&mut self, nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>) {
-        self.client.nym_api_urls = nym_api_urls;
+    pub fn set_custom_validator_apis(&mut self, validator_api_urls: Vec<Url>) {
+        self.client.validator_api_urls = validator_api_urls;
    }

    pub fn set_high_default_traffic_volume(&mut self) {
        self.debug.average_packet_delay = Duration::from_millis(10);
-        // basically don't really send cover messages
-        self.debug.loop_cover_traffic_average_delay = Duration::from_millis(2_000_000);
-        // 250 "real" messages / s
-        self.debug.message_sending_average_delay = Duration::from_millis(4);
-    }
-
-    pub fn set_no_cover_traffic(&mut self) {
-        self.debug.disable_loop_cover_traffic_stream = true;
-        self.debug.disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution = true;
+        self.debug.loop_cover_traffic_average_delay = Duration::from_millis(2_000_000); // basically don't really send cover messages
+        self.debug.message_sending_average_delay = Duration::from_millis(4); // 250 "real" messages / s
    }

    pub fn set_custom_version(&mut self, version: &str) {
@@ -229,16 +171,16 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
        self.client.gateway_shared_key_file.clone()
    }

+    pub fn get_reply_encryption_key_store_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
+        self.client.reply_encryption_key_store_path.clone()
+    }
+
    pub fn get_ack_key_file(&self) -> PathBuf {
        self.client.ack_key_file.clone()
    }

-    pub fn get_validator_endpoints(&self) -> Vec<Url> {
-        self.client.validator_urls.clone()
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_nym_api_endpoints(&self) -> Vec<Url> {
-        self.client.nym_api_urls.clone()
+    pub fn get_validator_api_endpoints(&self) -> Vec<Url> {
+        self.client.validator_api_urls.clone()
    }

    pub fn get_gateway_id(&self) -> String {
@@ -253,7 +195,7 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
        self.client.gateway_endpoint.gateway_listener.clone()
    }

-    pub fn get_gateway_endpoint_config(&self) -> &GatewayEndpointConfig {
+    pub fn get_gateway_endpoint(&self) -> &GatewayEndpoint {
        &self.client.gateway_endpoint
    }

@@ -261,19 +203,7 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
        self.client.database_path.clone()
    }

-    pub fn get_reply_surb_database_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
-        self.client.reply_surb_database_path.clone()
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_version(&self) -> &str {
-        &self.client.version
-    }
-
    // Debug getters
-    pub fn get_debug_config(&self) -> &DebugConfig {
-        &self.debug
-    }
-
    pub fn get_average_packet_delay(&self) -> Duration {
        self.debug.average_packet_delay
    }
@@ -319,39 +249,11 @@ impl<T> Config<T> {
    }

    pub fn get_use_extended_packet_size(&self) -> Option<ExtendedPacketSize> {
-        self.debug.use_extended_packet_size
+        self.debug.use_extended_packet_size.clone()
    }

-    pub fn get_minimum_reply_surb_storage_threshold(&self) -> usize {
-        self.debug.minimum_reply_surb_storage_threshold
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_reply_surb_storage_threshold(&self) -> usize {
-        self.debug.maximum_reply_surb_storage_threshold
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_minimum_reply_surb_request_size(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.debug.minimum_reply_surb_request_size
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_reply_surb_request_size(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.debug.maximum_reply_surb_request_size
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size(&self) -> u32 {
-        self.debug.maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period(&self) -> Duration {
-        self.debug.maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_reply_surb_age(&self) -> Duration {
-        self.debug.maximum_reply_surb_age
-    }
-
-    pub fn get_maximum_reply_key_age(&self) -> Duration {
-        self.debug.maximum_reply_key_age
+    pub fn get_version(&self) -> &str {
+        &self.client.version
    }
 }

@@ -367,7 +269,7 @@ impl<T: NymConfig> Default for Config<T> {

 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
 #[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", wasm_bindgen(getter_with_clone))]
-pub struct GatewayEndpointConfig {
+pub struct GatewayEndpoint {
    /// gateway_id specifies ID of the gateway to which the client should send messages.
    /// If initially omitted, a random gateway will be chosen from the available topology.
    pub gateway_id: String,
@@ -379,26 +281,10 @@ pub struct GatewayEndpointConfig {
    pub gateway_listener: String,
 }

-#[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", wasm_bindgen)]
-impl GatewayEndpointConfig {
-    #[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", wasm_bindgen(constructor))]
-    pub fn new(
-        gateway_id: String,
-        gateway_owner: String,
-        gateway_listener: String,
-    ) -> GatewayEndpointConfig {
-        GatewayEndpointConfig {
-            gateway_id,
-            gateway_owner,
-            gateway_listener,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<topology::gateway::Node> for GatewayEndpointConfig {
-    fn from(node: topology::gateway::Node) -> GatewayEndpointConfig {
+impl From<topology::gateway::Node> for GatewayEndpoint {
+    fn from(node: topology::gateway::Node) -> GatewayEndpoint {
        let gateway_listener = node.clients_address();
-        GatewayEndpointConfig {
+        GatewayEndpoint {
            gateway_id: node.identity_key.to_base58_string(),
            gateway_owner: node.owner,
            gateway_listener,
@@ -406,7 +292,7 @@ impl From<topology::gateway::Node> for GatewayEndpointConfig {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
 pub struct Client<T> {
    /// Version of the client for which this configuration was created.
    #[serde(default = "missing_string_value")]
@@ -420,13 +306,8 @@ pub struct Client<T> {
    #[serde(default)]
    disabled_credentials_mode: bool,

-    /// Addresses to nymd validators via which the client can communicate with the chain.
-    #[serde(default)]
-    validator_urls: Vec<Url>,
-
    /// Addresses to APIs running on validator from which the client gets the view of the network.
-    #[serde(alias = "validator_api_urls")]
-    nym_api_urls: Vec<Url>,
+    validator_api_urls: Vec<Url>,

    /// Path to file containing private identity key.
    private_identity_key_file: PathBuf,
@@ -448,19 +329,16 @@ pub struct Client<T> {
    /// acknowledgement so that nobody besides the client knows which packet it refers to.
    ack_key_file: PathBuf,

+    /// Full path to file containing reply encryption keys of all reply-SURBs we have ever
+    /// sent but not received back.
+    reply_encryption_key_store_path: PathBuf,
+
    /// Information regarding how the client should send data to gateway.
-    gateway_endpoint: GatewayEndpointConfig,
+    gateway_endpoint: GatewayEndpoint,

    /// Path to the database containing bandwidth credentials of this client.
    database_path: PathBuf,

-    /// Path to the persistent store for received reply surbs, unused encryption keys and used sender tags.
-    // this was set to use #[serde(default)] for the purposes of compatibility for multi-surbs introduced in 1.1.4.
-    // if you're reading this message and we have already introduced some breaking changes, feel free
-    // to remove that attribute since at this point the client configs should have gotten regenerated
-    #[serde(default)]
-    reply_surb_database_path: PathBuf,
-
    /// nym_home_directory specifies absolute path to the home nym Clients directory.
    /// It is expected to use default value and hence .toml file should not redefine this field.
    nym_root_directory: PathBuf,
@@ -476,17 +354,16 @@ impl<T: NymConfig> Default for Client<T> {
            version: env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").to_string(),
            id: "".to_string(),
            disabled_credentials_mode: true,
-            validator_urls: vec![],
-            nym_api_urls: vec![],
+            validator_api_urls: vec![],
            private_identity_key_file: Default::default(),
            public_identity_key_file: Default::default(),
            private_encryption_key_file: Default::default(),
            public_encryption_key_file: Default::default(),
            gateway_shared_key_file: Default::default(),
            ack_key_file: Default::default(),
+            reply_encryption_key_store_path: Default::default(),
            gateway_endpoint: Default::default(),
            database_path: Default::default(),
-            reply_surb_database_path: Default::default(),
            nym_root_directory: T::default_root_directory(),
            super_struct: Default::default(),
        }
@@ -518,22 +395,21 @@ impl<T: NymConfig> Client<T> {
        T::default_data_directory(Some(id)).join("ack_key.pem")
    }

-    fn default_reply_surb_database_path(id: &str) -> PathBuf {
-        T::default_data_directory(Some(id)).join("persistent_reply_store.sqlite")
+    fn default_reply_encryption_key_store_path(id: &str) -> PathBuf {
+        T::default_data_directory(Some(id)).join("reply_key_store")
    }
-
    fn default_database_path(id: &str) -> PathBuf {
-        T::default_data_directory(Some(id)).join(DB_FILE_NAME)
+        T::default_data_directory(Some(id)).join("db.sqlite")
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
 #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
 pub struct Logging {}

-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, PartialEq, Serialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq, Serialize)]
 #[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
-pub struct DebugConfig {
+pub struct Debug {
    /// The parameter of Poisson distribution determining how long, on average,
    /// sent packet is going to be delayed at any given mix node.
    /// So for a packet going through three mix nodes, on average, it will take three times this value
@@ -597,40 +473,9 @@ pub struct DebugConfig {

    /// Controls whether the sent sphinx packet use a NON-DEFAULT bigger size.
    pub use_extended_packet_size: Option<ExtendedPacketSize>,
-
-    /// Defines the minimum number of reply surbs the client wants to keep in its storage at all times.
-    /// It can only allow to go below that value if its to request additional reply surbs.
-    pub minimum_reply_surb_storage_threshold: usize,
-
-    /// Defines the maximum number of reply surbs the client wants to keep in its storage at any times.
-    pub maximum_reply_surb_storage_threshold: usize,
-
-    /// Defines the minimum number of reply surbs the client would request.
-    pub minimum_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines the maximum number of reply surbs the client would request.
-    pub maximum_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines the maximum number of reply surbs a remote party is allowed to request from this client at once.
-    pub maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: u32,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time the client is going to wait for reply surbs before explicitly asking
-    /// for more even though in theory they wouldn't need to.
-    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period: Duration,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time given reply surb is going to be valid for.
-    /// This is going to be superseded by key rotation once implemented.
-    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub maximum_reply_surb_age: Duration,
-
-    /// Defines maximum amount of time given reply key is going to be valid for.
-    /// This is going to be superseded by key rotation once implemented.
-    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub maximum_reply_key_age: Duration,
 }

-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum ExtendedPacketSize {
    Extended8,
@@ -638,9 +483,9 @@ pub enum ExtendedPacketSize {
    Extended32,
 }

-impl Default for DebugConfig {
+impl Default for Debug {
    fn default() -> Self {
-        DebugConfig {
+        Debug {
            average_packet_delay: DEFAULT_AVERAGE_PACKET_DELAY,
            average_ack_delay: DEFAULT_AVERAGE_PACKET_DELAY,
            ack_wait_multiplier: DEFAULT_ACK_WAIT_MULTIPLIER,
@@ -653,14 +498,6 @@ impl Default for DebugConfig {
            disable_loop_cover_traffic_stream: false,
            disable_main_poisson_packet_distribution: false,
            use_extended_packet_size: None,
-            minimum_reply_surb_storage_threshold: DEFAULT_MINIMUM_REPLY_SURB_STORAGE_THRESHOLD,
-            maximum_reply_surb_storage_threshold: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_STORAGE_THRESHOLD,
-            minimum_reply_surb_request_size: DEFAULT_MINIMUM_REPLY_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE,
-            maximum_reply_surb_request_size: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE,
-            maximum_allowed_reply_surb_request_size: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_ALLOWED_SURB_REQUEST_SIZE,
-            maximum_reply_surb_waiting_period: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_WAITING_PERIOD,
-            maximum_reply_surb_age: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_SURB_AGE,
-            maximum_reply_key_age: DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_REPLY_KEY_AGE,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -3,67 +3,27 @@

 use crypto::asymmetric::identity::Ed25519RecoveryError;
 use gateway_client::error::GatewayClientError;
-use topology::NymTopologyError;
 use validator_client::ValidatorClientError;

 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
 pub enum ClientCoreError {
    #[error("I/O error: {0}")]
    IoError(#[from] std::io::Error),
-
    #[error("Gateway client error: {0}")]
    GatewayClientError(#[from] GatewayClientError),
-
    #[error("Ed25519 error: {0}")]
    Ed25519RecoveryError(#[from] Ed25519RecoveryError),
-
    #[error("Validator client error: {0}")]
    ValidatorClientError(#[from] ValidatorClientError),

    #[error("No gateway with id: {0}")]
    NoGatewayWithId(String),
-
    #[error("No gateways on network")]
    NoGatewaysOnNetwork,
-
-    #[error("Failed to setup gateway")]
-    FailedToSetupGateway,
-
-    #[error("List of nym apis is empty")]
-    ListOfNymApisIsEmpty,
-
+    #[error("List of validator apis is empty")]
+    ListOfValidatorApisIsEmpty,
    #[error("Could not load existing gateway configuration: {0}")]
    CouldNotLoadExistingGatewayConfiguration(std::io::Error),
-
    #[error("The current network topology seem to be insufficient to route any packets through")]
-    InsufficientNetworkTopology(#[from] NymTopologyError),
-
-    #[error("experienced a failure with our reply surb persistent storage: {source}")]
-    SurbStorageError {
-        source: Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>,
-    },
-
-    #[error("The gateway id is invalid - {0}")]
-    UnableToCreatePublicKeyFromGatewayId(Ed25519RecoveryError),
-
-    #[error("The identity of the gateway is unknwown - did you run init?")]
-    GatewayIdUnknown,
-
-    #[error("The owner of the gateway is unknown - did you run init?")]
-    GatewayOwnerUnknown,
-
-    #[error("The address of the gateway is unknown - did you run init?")]
-    GatwayAddressUnknown,
-
-    #[error("Unexpected exit")]
-    UnexpectedExit,
-}
-
-/// Set of messages that the client can send to listeners via the task manager
-#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
-pub enum ClientCoreStatusMessage {
-    #[error("The connected gateway is slow, or the connection to it is slow")]
-    GatewayIsSlow,
-    #[error("The connected gateway is very slow, or the connection to it is very slow")]
-    GatewayIsVerySlow,
+    InsufficientNetworkTopology,
 }
@@ -1,31 +1,39 @@
 // Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

+//! Collection of initialization steps used by client implementations
+
+use std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration};
+
+use config::NymConfig;
+use crypto::asymmetric::{encryption, identity};
+use gateway_client::GatewayClient;
+use gateway_requests::registration::handshake::SharedKeys;
+use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
+use nymsphinx::addressing::nodes::NodeIdentity;
+use rand::rngs::OsRng;
+use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
+use rand::thread_rng;
+use tap::TapFallible;
+use topology::{filter::VersionFilterable, gateway};
+use url::Url;
+
 use crate::{
    client::key_manager::KeyManager,
    config::{persistence::key_pathfinder::ClientKeyPathfinder, Config},
    error::ClientCoreError,
 };
-use config::NymConfig;
-use crypto::asymmetric::identity;
-use gateway_client::GatewayClient;
-use gateway_requests::registration::handshake::SharedKeys;
-use rand::{rngs::OsRng, seq::SliceRandom, thread_rng};
-use std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration};
-use tap::TapFallible;
-use topology::{filter::VersionFilterable, gateway};
-use url::Url;

-pub(super) async fn query_gateway_details(
+pub async fn query_gateway_details(
    validator_servers: Vec<Url>,
-    chosen_gateway_id: Option<String>,
+    chosen_gateway_id: Option<&str>,
 ) -> Result<gateway::Node, ClientCoreError> {
-    let nym_api = validator_servers
+    let validator_api = validator_servers
        .choose(&mut thread_rng())
-        .ok_or(ClientCoreError::ListOfNymApisIsEmpty)?;
-    let validator_client = validator_client::client::ApiClient::new(nym_api.clone());
+        .ok_or(ClientCoreError::ListOfValidatorApisIsEmpty)?;
+    let validator_client = validator_client::ApiClient::new(validator_api.clone());

-    log::trace!("Fetching list of gateways from: {}", nym_api);
+    log::trace!("Fetching list of gateways from: {}", validator_api);
    let gateways = validator_client.get_cached_gateways().await?;
    let valid_gateways = gateways
        .into_iter()
@@ -51,30 +59,7 @@ pub(super) async fn query_gateway_details(
    }
 }

-async fn register_with_gateway(
-    gateway: &gateway::Node,
-    our_identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
-) -> Result<Arc<SharedKeys>, ClientCoreError> {
-    let timeout = Duration::from_millis(1500);
-    let mut gateway_client = GatewayClient::new_init(
-        gateway.clients_address(),
-        gateway.identity_key,
-        gateway.owner.clone(),
-        our_identity.clone(),
-        timeout,
-    );
-    gateway_client
-        .establish_connection()
-        .await
-        .tap_err(|_| log::warn!("Failed to establish connection with gateway!"))?;
-    let shared_keys = gateway_client
-        .perform_initial_authentication()
-        .await
-        .tap_err(|_| log::warn!("Failed to register with the gateway!"))?;
-    Ok(shared_keys)
-}
-
-pub(super) async fn register_with_gateway_and_store_keys<T>(
+pub async fn register_with_gateway_and_store_keys<T>(
    gateway_details: gateway::Node,
    config: &Config<T>,
 ) -> Result<(), ClientCoreError>
@@ -93,3 +78,72 @@ where
        .store_keys(&pathfinder)
        .tap_err(|err| log::error!("Failed to generate keys: {err}"))?)
 }
+
+async fn register_with_gateway(
+    gateway: &gateway::Node,
+    our_identity: Arc<identity::KeyPair>,
+) -> Result<Arc<SharedKeys>, ClientCoreError> {
+    let timeout = Duration::from_millis(1500);
+    let mut gateway_client = GatewayClient::new_init(
+        gateway.clients_address(),
+        gateway.identity_key,
+        gateway.owner.clone(),
+        our_identity.clone(),
+        timeout,
+        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+        None,
+    );
+    gateway_client
+        .establish_connection()
+        .await
+        .tap_err(|_| log::warn!("Failed to establish connection with gateway!"))?;
+    let shared_keys = gateway_client
+        .perform_initial_authentication()
+        .await
+        .tap_err(|_| log::warn!("Failed to register with the gateway!"))?;
+    Ok(shared_keys)
+}
+
+pub fn show_address<T>(config: &Config<T>) -> Result<(), ClientCoreError>
+where
+    T: config::NymConfig,
+{
+    fn load_identity_keys(
+        pathfinder: &ClientKeyPathfinder,
+    ) -> Result<identity::KeyPair, ClientCoreError> {
+        let identity_keypair: identity::KeyPair =
+            pemstore::load_keypair(&pemstore::KeyPairPath::new(
+                pathfinder.private_identity_key().to_owned(),
+                pathfinder.public_identity_key().to_owned(),
+            ))
+            .tap_err(|_| log::error!("Failed to read stored identity key files"))?;
+        Ok(identity_keypair)
+    }
+
+    fn load_sphinx_keys(
+        pathfinder: &ClientKeyPathfinder,
+    ) -> Result<encryption::KeyPair, ClientCoreError> {
+        let sphinx_keypair: encryption::KeyPair =
+            pemstore::load_keypair(&pemstore::KeyPairPath::new(
+                pathfinder.private_encryption_key().to_owned(),
+                pathfinder.public_encryption_key().to_owned(),
+            ))
+            .tap_err(|_| log::error!("Failed to read stored sphinx key files"))?;
+        Ok(sphinx_keypair)
+    }
+
+    let pathfinder = ClientKeyPathfinder::new_from_config(config);
+    let identity_keypair = load_identity_keys(&pathfinder)?;
+    let sphinx_keypair = load_sphinx_keys(&pathfinder)?;
+
+    let client_recipient = Recipient::new(
+        *identity_keypair.public_key(),
+        *sphinx_keypair.public_key(),
+        // TODO: below only works under assumption that gateway address == gateway id
+        // (which currently is true)
+        NodeIdentity::from_base58_string(config.get_gateway_id())?,
+    );
+
+    println!("\nThe address of this client is: {}", client_recipient);
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -1,200 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-//! Collection of initialization steps used by client implementations
-
-use std::fmt::Display;
-
-use nymsphinx::addressing::{clients::Recipient, nodes::NodeIdentity};
-use serde::Serialize;
-use tap::TapFallible;
-
-use config::NymConfig;
-use crypto::asymmetric::{encryption, identity};
-
-use crate::{
-    config::{
-        persistence::key_pathfinder::ClientKeyPathfinder, ClientCoreConfigTrait, Config,
-        GatewayEndpointConfig,
-    },
-    error::ClientCoreError,
-    init::helpers::{query_gateway_details, register_with_gateway_and_store_keys},
-};
-
-mod helpers;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
-pub struct InitResults {
-    version: String,
-    id: String,
-    identity_key: String,
-    encryption_key: String,
-    gateway_id: String,
-    gateway_listener: String,
-}
-
-impl InitResults {
-    pub fn new<T>(config: &Config<T>, address: &Recipient) -> Self
-    where
-        T: NymConfig,
-    {
-        Self {
-            version: config.get_version().to_string(),
-            id: config.get_id(),
-            identity_key: address.identity().to_base58_string(),
-            encryption_key: address.encryption_key().to_base58_string(),
-            gateway_id: config.get_gateway_id(),
-            gateway_listener: config.get_gateway_listener(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Display for InitResults {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        writeln!(f, "Version: {}", self.version)?;
-        writeln!(f, "ID: {}", self.id)?;
-        writeln!(f, "Identity key: {}", self.identity_key)?;
-        writeln!(f, "Encryption: {}", self.encryption_key)?;
-        writeln!(f, "Gateway ID: {}", self.gateway_id)?;
-        write!(f, "Gateway: {}", self.gateway_listener)
-    }
-}
-
-/// Convenience function for setting up the gateway for a client. Depending on the arguments given
-/// it will do the sensible thing.
-pub async fn setup_gateway<C, T>(
-    register_gateway: bool,
-    // TODO: this should get refactored to instead take Option<identity::PublicKey>
-    user_chosen_gateway_id: Option<String>,
-    config: &Config<T>,
-) -> Result<GatewayEndpointConfig, ClientCoreError>
-where
-    C: NymConfig + ClientCoreConfigTrait,
-    T: NymConfig,
-{
-    let id = config.get_id();
-    if register_gateway {
-        register_with_gateway(user_chosen_gateway_id, config).await
-    } else if let Some(user_chosen_gateway_id) = user_chosen_gateway_id {
-        config_gateway_with_existing_keys(user_chosen_gateway_id, config).await
-    } else {
-        reuse_existing_gateway_config::<C>(&id)
-    }
-}
-
-/// Get the gateway details by querying the validator-api. Either pick one at random or use
-/// the chosen one if it's among the available ones.
-/// Saves keys to disk, specified by the paths in `config`.
-pub async fn register_with_gateway<T>(
-    user_chosen_gateway_id: Option<String>,
-    config: &Config<T>,
-) -> Result<GatewayEndpointConfig, ClientCoreError>
-where
-    T: NymConfig,
-{
-    println!("Configuring gateway");
-    let gateway =
-        query_gateway_details(config.get_nym_api_endpoints(), user_chosen_gateway_id).await?;
-    log::debug!("Querying gateway gives: {}", gateway);
-
-    // Registering with gateway by setting up and writing shared keys to disk
-    log::trace!("Registering gateway");
-    register_with_gateway_and_store_keys(gateway.clone(), config).await?;
-    println!("Saved all generated keys");
-
-    Ok(gateway.into())
-}
-
-/// Set the gateway using the usual procedue of querying the validator-api, but don't register or
-/// create any keys.
-/// This assumes that the user knows what they are doing, and that the existing keys are valid for
-/// the gateway being used
-pub async fn config_gateway_with_existing_keys<T>(
-    user_chosen_gateway_id: String,
-    config: &Config<T>,
-) -> Result<GatewayEndpointConfig, ClientCoreError>
-where
-    T: NymConfig,
-{
-    println!("Using gateway provided by user, keeping existing keys");
-    let gateway =
-        query_gateway_details(config.get_nym_api_endpoints(), Some(user_chosen_gateway_id)).await?;
-    log::debug!("Querying gateway gives: {}", gateway);
-    Ok(gateway.into())
-}
-
-/// Read and reuse the existing gateway configuration from a file that was generate earlier.
-pub fn reuse_existing_gateway_config<T>(id: &str) -> Result<GatewayEndpointConfig, ClientCoreError>
-where
-    T: NymConfig + ClientCoreConfigTrait,
-{
-    println!("Not registering gateway, will reuse existing config and keys");
-    T::load_from_file(Some(id))
-        .map(|existing_config| existing_config.get_gateway_endpoint().clone())
-        .map_err(|err| {
-            log::error!(
-                "Unable to configure gateway: {err}. \n
-                Seems like the client was already initialized but it was not possible to read \
-                the existing configuration file. \n
-                CAUTION: Consider backing up your gateway keys and try force gateway registration, or \
-                removing the existing configuration and starting over."
-            );
-            ClientCoreError::CouldNotLoadExistingGatewayConfiguration(err)
-        })
-}
-
-/// Get the client address by loading the keys from stored files.
-pub fn get_client_address_from_stored_keys<T>(
-    config: &Config<T>,
-) -> Result<Recipient, ClientCoreError>
-where
-    T: config::NymConfig,
-{
-    fn load_identity_keys(
-        pathfinder: &ClientKeyPathfinder,
-    ) -> Result<identity::KeyPair, ClientCoreError> {
-        let identity_keypair: identity::KeyPair =
-            pemstore::load_keypair(&pemstore::KeyPairPath::new(
-                pathfinder.private_identity_key().to_owned(),
-                pathfinder.public_identity_key().to_owned(),
-            ))
-            .tap_err(|_| log::error!("Failed to read stored identity key files"))?;
-        Ok(identity_keypair)
-    }
-
-    fn load_sphinx_keys(
-        pathfinder: &ClientKeyPathfinder,
-    ) -> Result<encryption::KeyPair, ClientCoreError> {
-        let sphinx_keypair: encryption::KeyPair =
-            pemstore::load_keypair(&pemstore::KeyPairPath::new(
-                pathfinder.private_encryption_key().to_owned(),
-                pathfinder.public_encryption_key().to_owned(),
-            ))
-            .tap_err(|_| log::error!("Failed to read stored sphinx key files"))?;
-        Ok(sphinx_keypair)
-    }
-
-    let pathfinder = ClientKeyPathfinder::new_from_config(config);
-    let identity_keypair = load_identity_keys(&pathfinder)?;
-    let sphinx_keypair = load_sphinx_keys(&pathfinder)?;
-
-    let client_recipient = Recipient::new(
-        *identity_keypair.public_key(),
-        *sphinx_keypair.public_key(),
-        // TODO: below only works under assumption that gateway address == gateway id
-        // (which currently is true)
-        NodeIdentity::from_base58_string(config.get_gateway_id())?,
-    );
-
-    Ok(client_recipient)
-}
-
-pub fn output_to_json<T: Serialize>(init_results: &T, output_file: &str) {
-    match std::fs::File::create(output_file) {
-        Ok(file) => match serde_json::to_writer_pretty(file, init_results) {
-            Ok(_) => println!("Saved: {}", output_file),
-            Err(err) => eprintln!("Could not save {}: {err}", output_file),
-        },
-        Err(err) => eprintln!("Could not save {}: {err}", output_file),
-    }
-}
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ edition = "2021"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

 [dependencies]
+async-trait = "0.1.52"
 bip39 = "1.0.1"
 cfg-if = "0.1"
-clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
+clap = { version = "3.2", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
+pickledb = "0.4.1"
 rand = "0.7.3"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"
@@ -1,29 +1,34 @@
 // Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

+use async_trait::async_trait;
 use clap::{Args, Subcommand};
 use completions::ArgShell;
+use pickledb::PickleDb;
 use rand::rngs::OsRng;
 use std::str::FromStr;

-use coconut_interface::{Base58, Parameters};
+use coconut_interface::{Attribute, Base58, BlindSignRequest, Bytable, Parameters};
 use credential_storage::storage::Storage;
 use credential_storage::PersistentStorage;
 use credentials::coconut::bandwidth::{BandwidthVoucher, TOTAL_ATTRIBUTES};
 use credentials::coconut::utils::obtain_aggregate_signature;
 use crypto::asymmetric::{encryption, identity};
-use network_defaults::{NymNetworkDetails, VOUCHER_INFO};
+use network_defaults::VOUCHER_INFO;
 use validator_client::nymd::tx::Hash;
-use validator_client::{CoconutApiClient, Config};

 use crate::client::Client;
 use crate::error::{CredentialClientError, Result};
-use crate::state::{KeyPair, State};
+use crate::state::{KeyPair, RequestData, State};

 #[derive(Subcommand)]
-pub(crate) enum Command {
-    /// Run the binary
-    Run(Run),
+pub(crate) enum Commands {
+    /// Deposit funds for buying coconut credential
+    Deposit(Deposit),
+    /// Lists the tx hashes of previous deposits
+    ListDeposits(ListDeposits),
+    /// Get a credential for a given deposit
+    GetCredential(GetCredential),

    /// Generate shell completions
    Completions(ArgShell),
@@ -32,82 +37,163 @@ pub(crate) enum Command {
    GenerateFigSpec,
 }

-#[derive(Args)]
-pub(crate) struct Run {
-    /// Home directory of the client that is supposed to use the credential.
-    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) client_home_directory: std::path::PathBuf,
+#[async_trait]
+pub(crate) trait Execute {
+    async fn execute(&self, db: &mut PickleDb, shared_storage: PersistentStorage) -> Result<()>;
+}

+#[derive(Args, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct Deposit {
    /// The nymd URL that should be used
    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) nymd_url: String,
-
-    /// A mnemonic for the account that buys the credential
+    nymd_url: String,
+    /// A mnemonic for the account that does the deposit
    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) mnemonic: String,
-
-    /// The amount of utokens the credential will hold
+    mnemonic: String,
+    /// The amount that needs to be deposited
    #[clap(long)]
-    pub(crate) amount: u64,
+    amount: u64,
 }

-pub(crate) async fn deposit(nymd_url: &str, mnemonic: &str, amount: u64) -> Result<State> {
-    let mut rng = OsRng;
-    let signing_keypair = KeyPair::from(identity::KeyPair::new(&mut rng));
-    let encryption_keypair = KeyPair::from(encryption::KeyPair::new(&mut rng));
+#[async_trait]
+impl Execute for Deposit {
+    async fn execute(&self, db: &mut PickleDb, _shared_storage: PersistentStorage) -> Result<()> {
+        let mut rng = OsRng;
+        let signing_keypair = KeyPair::from(identity::KeyPair::new(&mut rng));
+        let encryption_keypair = KeyPair::from(encryption::KeyPair::new(&mut rng));

-    let client = Client::new(nymd_url, mnemonic);
-    let tx_hash = client
-        .deposit(
-            amount,
-            signing_keypair.public_key.clone(),
-            encryption_keypair.public_key.clone(),
-            None,
-        )
-        .await?;
+        let client = Client::new(&self.nymd_url, &self.mnemonic);
+        let tx_hash = client
+            .deposit(
+                self.amount,
+                signing_keypair.public_key.clone(),
+                encryption_keypair.public_key.clone(),
+                None,
+            )
+            .await?;

-    let state = State {
-        amount,
-        tx_hash,
-        signing_keypair,
-        encryption_keypair,
-    };
+        let state = State {
+            amount: self.amount,
+            tx_hash: tx_hash.clone(),
+            signing_keypair,
+            encryption_keypair,
+            blind_request_data: None,
+            signature: None,
+        };
+        db.set(&tx_hash, &state).unwrap();

-    Ok(state)
+        println!("{:?}", state);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }

-pub(crate) async fn get_credential(state: &State, shared_storage: PersistentStorage) -> Result<()> {
-    let network_details = NymNetworkDetails::new_from_env();
-    let config = Config::try_from_nym_network_details(&network_details)?;
-    let client = validator_client::Client::new_query(config)?;
-    let coconut_api_clients = CoconutApiClient::all_coconut_api_clients(&client).await?;
+#[derive(Args, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct ListDeposits {}

-    let params = Parameters::new(TOTAL_ATTRIBUTES).unwrap();
-    let bandwidth_credential_attributes = BandwidthVoucher::new(
-        &params,
-        state.amount.to_string(),
-        VOUCHER_INFO.to_string(),
-        Hash::from_str(&state.tx_hash).map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::InvalidTxHash)?,
-        identity::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(&state.signing_keypair.private_key)?,
-        encryption::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(&state.encryption_keypair.private_key)?,
-    );
+#[async_trait]
+impl Execute for ListDeposits {
+    async fn execute(&self, db: &mut PickleDb, _shared_storage: PersistentStorage) -> Result<()> {
+        for kv in db.iter() {
+            println!("{:?}", kv.get_value::<State>());
+        }

-    let signature = obtain_aggregate_signature(
-        &params,
-        &bandwidth_credential_attributes,
-        &coconut_api_clients,
-    )
-    .await?;
-    println!("Signature: {:?}", signature.to_bs58());
-    shared_storage
-        .insert_coconut_credential(
-            state.amount.to_string(),
-            VOUCHER_INFO.to_string(),
-            bandwidth_credential_attributes.get_private_attributes()[0].to_bs58(),
-            bandwidth_credential_attributes.get_private_attributes()[1].to_bs58(),
-            signature.to_bs58(),
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-    Ok(())
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Args, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct GetCredential {
+    /// The hash of a successful deposit transaction
+    #[clap(long)]
+    tx_hash: String,
+    /// The URLs to the validator-api endpoints the are run as coconut signer authorities, separated
+    /// by comma (,)
+    #[clap(long)]
+    signer_authorities: String,
+    /// If we want to get the signature without attaching a blind sign request; it is expected that
+    /// there is already a signature stored on the signer
+    #[clap(long, parse(from_flag))]
+    __no_request: bool,
+}
+
+#[async_trait]
+impl Execute for GetCredential {
+    async fn execute(&self, db: &mut PickleDb, shared_storage: PersistentStorage) -> Result<()> {
+        let mut state = db
+            .get::<State>(&self.tx_hash)
+            .ok_or(CredentialClientError::NoDeposit)?;
+
+        let urls = config::parse_validators(&self.signer_authorities);
+
+        let params = Parameters::new(TOTAL_ATTRIBUTES).unwrap();
+        let bandwidth_credential_attributes = if self.__no_request {
+            if let Some(blind_request_data) = state.blind_request_data {
+                let serial_number =
+                    Attribute::try_from_byte_slice(&blind_request_data.serial_number)
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::CorruptedBlindSignRequest)?;
+                let binding_number =
+                    Attribute::try_from_byte_slice(&blind_request_data.binding_number)
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::CorruptedBlindSignRequest)?;
+                let pedersen_commitments_openings = vec![
+                    Attribute::try_from_byte_slice(&blind_request_data.first_attribute)
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::CorruptedBlindSignRequest)?,
+                    Attribute::try_from_byte_slice(&blind_request_data.second_attribute)
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::CorruptedBlindSignRequest)?,
+                ];
+                let blind_sign_request =
+                    BlindSignRequest::from_bytes(blind_request_data.blind_sign_req.as_slice())
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::CorruptedBlindSignRequest)?;
+                BandwidthVoucher::new_with_blind_sign_req(
+                    [serial_number, binding_number],
+                    [&state.amount.to_string(), VOUCHER_INFO],
+                    Hash::from_str(&self.tx_hash)
+                        .map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::InvalidTxHash)?,
+                    identity::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(&state.signing_keypair.private_key)?,
+                    encryption::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(
+                        &state.encryption_keypair.private_key,
+                    )?,
+                    pedersen_commitments_openings,
+                    blind_sign_request,
+                )
+            } else {
+                return Err(CredentialClientError::NoLocalBlindSignRequest);
+            }
+        } else {
+            BandwidthVoucher::new(
+                &params,
+                state.amount.to_string(),
+                VOUCHER_INFO.to_string(),
+                Hash::from_str(&self.tx_hash).map_err(|_| CredentialClientError::InvalidTxHash)?,
+                identity::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(&state.signing_keypair.private_key)?,
+                encryption::PrivateKey::from_base58_string(&state.encryption_keypair.private_key)?,
+            )
+        };
+
+        // Back up the blind sign req data, in case of sporadic failures
+        state.blind_request_data = Some(RequestData::new(
+            bandwidth_credential_attributes.get_private_attributes(),
+            bandwidth_credential_attributes.pedersen_commitments_openings(),
+            bandwidth_credential_attributes.blind_sign_request(),
+        )?);
+        db.set(&self.tx_hash, &state).unwrap();
+
+        let signature =
+            obtain_aggregate_signature(&params, &bandwidth_credential_attributes, &urls).await?;
+        shared_storage
+            .insert_coconut_credential(
+                state.amount.to_string(),
+                VOUCHER_INFO.to_string(),
+                bandwidth_credential_attributes.get_private_attributes()[0].to_bs58(),
+                bandwidth_credential_attributes.get_private_attributes()[1].to_bs58(),
+                signature.to_bs58(),
+            )
+            .await?;
+        state.signature = Some(signature.to_bs58());
+        db.set(&self.tx_hash, &state).unwrap();
+
+        println!("Signature: {:?}", state.signature);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use credentials::error::Error as CredentialError;
 use crypto::asymmetric::encryption::KeyRecoveryError;
 use crypto::asymmetric::identity::Ed25519RecoveryError;
 use validator_client::nymd::error::NymdError;
-use validator_client::ValidatorClientError;

 pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, CredentialClientError>;

@@ -17,12 +16,21 @@ pub enum CredentialClientError {
    #[error("Nymd error: {0}")]
    Nymd(#[from] NymdError),

-    #[error("Validator client error: {0}")]
-    ValidatorClientError(#[from] ValidatorClientError),
-
    #[error("Credential error: {0}")]
    Credential(#[from] CredentialError),

+    #[error("No previous deposit with that tx hash")]
+    NoDeposit,
+
+    #[error("Wrong number of attributes")]
+    WrongAttributeNumber,
+
+    #[error("Could not find any backed up blind sign request data")]
+    NoLocalBlindSignRequest,
+
+    #[error("The local blind sign request data is corrupted")]
+    CorruptedBlindSignRequest,
+
    #[error("The tx hash provided is not valid")]
    InvalidTxHash,

@@ -9,41 +9,59 @@ cfg_if::cfg_if! {
        mod error;
        mod state;

+        use commands::{Commands, Execute};
        use error::Result;
        use network_defaults::setup_env;
+        use clap::CommandFactory;
        use completions::fig_generate;
-        use commands::*;
-        use config::{DATA_DIR, DB_FILE_NAME};

-        use clap::{CommandFactory, Parser};
+        use clap::Parser;
+        use pickledb::{PickleDb, PickleDbDumpPolicy, SerializationMethod};

        #[derive(Parser)]
        #[clap(author = "Nymtech", version, about)]
        struct Cli {
            /// Path pointing to an env file that configures the client.
-            #[clap(short, long)]
+            #[clap(long)]
            pub(crate) config_env_file: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,

+            /// Path where the sqlite credental database will be located.
+            /// It should point to a $HOME/$CLIENT_ID/data/db.sqlite file of
+            /// the client that is supposed to use the credential.
+            #[clap(long)]
+            pub(crate) credential_db_path: std::path::PathBuf,
+
            #[clap(subcommand)]
-            pub(crate) command: Command,
+            command: Commands,
        }

        #[tokio::main]
        async fn main() -> Result<()> {
            let args = Cli::parse();
-            setup_env(args.config_env_file.as_ref());
+            setup_env(args.config_env_file.clone());
+
+            let shared_storage = credential_storage::initialise_storage(args.credential_db_path.clone()).await;
+            let mut db = match PickleDb::load(
+                "credential.db",
+                PickleDbDumpPolicy::AutoDump,
+                SerializationMethod::Json,
+            ) {
+                Ok(db) => db,
+                Err(_) => PickleDb::new(
+                    "credential.db",
+                    PickleDbDumpPolicy::AutoDump,
+                    SerializationMethod::Json,
+                ),
+            };
+
            let bin_name = "nym-credential-client";

-            match args.command {
-                Command::Run(r) => {
-                    let db_path = r.client_home_directory.join(DATA_DIR).join(DB_FILE_NAME);
-                    let shared_storage = credential_storage::initialise_storage(db_path).await;
-
-                    let state = deposit(&r.nymd_url, &r.mnemonic, r.amount).await?;
-                    get_credential(&state, shared_storage).await?;
-                }
-                Command::Completions(c) => c.generate(&mut crate::Cli::command(), bin_name),
-                Command::GenerateFigSpec => fig_generate(&mut crate::Cli::command(), bin_name)
+            match &args.command {
+                Commands::Deposit(m) => m.execute(&mut db, shared_storage).await?,
+                Commands::ListDeposits(m) => m.execute(&mut db, shared_storage).await?,
+                Commands::GetCredential(m) => m.execute(&mut db, shared_storage).await?,
+                Commands::Completions(s) => s.generate(&mut crate::Cli::into_app(), bin_name),
+                Commands::GenerateFigSpec => fig_generate(&mut crate::Cli::into_app(), bin_name)
            }

            Ok(())
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 // Copyright 2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

+use coconut_interface::{Attribute, BlindSignRequest, Bytable, PrivateAttribute};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

 use crypto::asymmetric::{encryption, identity};

+use crate::error::{CredentialClientError, Result};
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub(crate) struct KeyPair {
    pub public_key: String,
@@ -35,4 +38,35 @@ pub(crate) struct State {
    pub tx_hash: String,
    pub signing_keypair: KeyPair,
    pub encryption_keypair: KeyPair,
+    pub blind_request_data: Option<RequestData>,
+    pub signature: Option<String>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub(crate) struct RequestData {
+    pub serial_number: Vec<u8>,
+    pub binding_number: Vec<u8>,
+    pub first_attribute: Vec<u8>,
+    pub second_attribute: Vec<u8>,
+    pub blind_sign_req: Vec<u8>,
+}
+
+impl RequestData {
+    pub fn new(
+        private_attributes: Vec<PrivateAttribute>,
+        attributes: &[Attribute],
+        blind_sign_request: &BlindSignRequest,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        if private_attributes.len() != 2 || attributes.len() != 2 {
+            Err(CredentialClientError::WrongAttributeNumber)
+        } else {
+            Ok(RequestData {
+                serial_number: private_attributes[0].to_byte_vec(),
+                binding_number: private_attributes[1].to_byte_vec(),
+                first_attribute: attributes[0].to_byte_vec(),
+                second_attribute: attributes[1].to_byte_vec(),
+                blind_sign_req: blind_sign_request.to_bytes(),
+            })
+        }
+    }
 }
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "nym-client"
-version = "1.1.4"
+version = "1.0.2"
 authors = ["Dave Hrycyszyn <futurechimp@users.noreply.github.com>", "Jędrzej Stuczyński <andrew@nymtech.net>"]
 description = "Implementation of the Nym Client"
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.65"
+rust-version = "1.56"

 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

@@ -20,23 +20,19 @@ futures = "0.3" # bunch of futures stuff, however, now that I think about it, it
 # and the single instance of abortable we have should really be refactored anyway
 url = "2.2"

-clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
+clap = { version = "3.2", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
 dirs = "4.0"
-lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 log = "0.4" # self explanatory
 pretty_env_logger = "0.4" # for formatting log messages
 rand = { version = "0.7.3", features = ["wasm-bindgen"] } # rng-related traits + some rng implementation to use
 serde = { version = "1.0.104", features = ["derive"] } # for config serialization/deserialization
-serde_json = "1.0"
+sled = "0.34" # for storage of replySURB decryption keys
 thiserror = "1.0.34"
-tap = "1.0.1"
 tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "net", "signal"] } # async runtime
 tokio-tungstenite = "0.14" # websocket

 ## internal
-build-information = { path = "../../common/build-information" }
-client-core = { path = "../client-core", features = ["fs-surb-storage"] }
-client-connections = { path = "../../common/client-connections" }
+client-core = { path = "../client-core" }
 coconut-interface = { path = "../../common/coconut-interface", optional = true }
 config = { path = "../../common/config" }
 completions = { path = "../../common/completions" }
@@ -60,3 +56,6 @@ coconut = ["coconut-interface", "credentials", "credentials/coconut", "gateway-r

 [dev-dependencies]
 serde_json = "1.0" # for the "textsend" example
+
+[build-dependencies]
+vergen = { version = "5", default-features = false, features = ["build", "git", "rustc", "cargo"] }
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright 2023 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use vergen::{vergen, Config};
@@ -25,59 +25,57 @@ async fn get_self_address(ws_stream: &mut WebSocketStream<MaybeTlsStream<TcpStre
    let response = send_message_and_get_response(ws_stream, self_address_request).await;

    match response {
-        ServerResponse::SelfAddress(recipient) => *recipient,
+        ServerResponse::SelfAddress(recipient) => recipient,
        _ => panic!("received an unexpected response!"),
    }
 }

 async fn send_file_with_reply() {
-    todo!("reimplement surb usage here : )")
-    // let uri = "ws://localhost:1977";
-    // let (mut ws_stream, _) = connect_async(uri).await.unwrap();
-    //
-    // let recipient = get_self_address(&mut ws_stream).await;
-    // println!("our full address is: {}", recipient);
-    //
-    // let read_data = std::fs::read("examples/dummy_file").unwrap();
-    //
-    // let send_request = ClientRequest::Send {
-    //     recipient,
-    //     message: read_data,
-    //     with_reply_surb: true,
-    //     connection_id: Some(0),
-    // };
-    //
-    // println!("sending content of 'dummy_file' over the mix network...");
-    // let response = send_message_and_get_response(&mut ws_stream, send_request.serialize()).await;
-    //
-    // let received = match response {
-    //     ServerResponse::Received(received) => received,
-    //     _ => panic!("received an unexpected response!"),
-    // };
-    //
-    // println!("writing the file back to the disk!");
-    // std::fs::write("examples/received_file_withreply", received.message).unwrap();
-    //
-    // let reply_message = b"hello from reply SURB! - thanks for sending me the file!".to_vec();
-    // let reply_request = ClientRequest::Reply {
-    //     message: reply_message.clone(),
-    //     reply_surb: received.reply_surb.unwrap(),
-    // };
-    //
-    // println!(
-    //     "sending {:?} (using reply SURB!) over the mix network...",
-    //     String::from_utf8(reply_message).unwrap()
-    // );
-    // let response = send_message_and_get_response(&mut ws_stream, reply_request.serialize()).await;
-    // let received = match response {
-    //     ServerResponse::Received(received) => received,
-    //     _ => panic!("received an unexpected response!"),
-    // };
-    //
-    // println!(
-    //     "received {:#?} from the mix network!",
-    //     String::from_utf8(received.message).unwrap()
-    // );
+    let uri = "ws://localhost:1977";
+    let (mut ws_stream, _) = connect_async(uri).await.unwrap();
+
+    let recipient = get_self_address(&mut ws_stream).await;
+    println!("our full address is: {}", recipient);
+
+    let read_data = std::fs::read("examples/dummy_file").unwrap();
+
+    let send_request = ClientRequest::Send {
+        recipient,
+        message: read_data,
+        with_reply_surb: true,
+    };
+
+    println!("sending content of 'dummy_file' over the mix network...");
+    let response = send_message_and_get_response(&mut ws_stream, send_request.serialize()).await;
+
+    let received = match response {
+        ServerResponse::Received(received) => received,
+        _ => panic!("received an unexpected response!"),
+    };
+
+    println!("writing the file back to the disk!");
+    std::fs::write("examples/received_file_withreply", received.message).unwrap();
+
+    let reply_message = b"hello from reply SURB! - thanks for sending me the file!".to_vec();
+    let reply_request = ClientRequest::Reply {
+        message: reply_message.clone(),
+        reply_surb: received.reply_surb.unwrap(),
+    };
+
+    println!(
+        "sending {:?} (using reply SURB!) over the mix network...",
+        String::from_utf8(reply_message).unwrap()
+    );
+    let response = send_message_and_get_response(&mut ws_stream, reply_request.serialize()).await;
+    let received = match response {
+        ServerResponse::Received(received) => received,
+        _ => panic!("received an unexpected response!"),
+    };
+
+    println!(
+        "received {:#?} from the mix network!",
+        String::from_utf8(received.message).unwrap()
+    );
 }

 async fn send_file_without_reply() {
@@ -92,7 +90,7 @@ async fn send_file_without_reply() {
    let send_request = ClientRequest::Send {
        recipient,
        message: read_data,
-        connection_id: Some(0),
+        with_reply_surb: false,
    };

    println!("sending content of 'dummy_file' over the mix network...");
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use crate::client::config::template::config_template;
+use client_core::config::Config as BaseConfig;
 pub use client_core::config::MISSING_VALUE;
-use client_core::config::{ClientCoreConfigTrait, Config as BaseConfig, DebugConfig};
 use config::defaults::DEFAULT_WEBSOCKET_LISTENING_PORT;
 use config::NymConfig;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ impl SocketType {
            _ => SocketType::None,
        }
    }
-
-    pub fn is_websocket(&self) -> bool {
-        matches!(self, SocketType::WebSocket)
-    }
 }

 #[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, PartialEq, Serialize)]
@@ -73,12 +69,6 @@ impl NymConfig for Config {
    }
 }

-impl ClientCoreConfigTrait for Config {
-    fn get_gateway_endpoint(&self) -> &client_core::config::GatewayEndpointConfig {
-        self.base.get_gateway_endpoint()
-    }
-}
-
 impl Config {
    pub fn new<S: Into<String>>(id: S) -> Self {
        Config {
@@ -110,10 +100,6 @@ impl Config {
        &mut self.base
    }

-    pub fn get_debug_settings(&self) -> &DebugConfig {
-        self.get_base().get_debug_config()
-    }
-
    pub fn get_socket_type(&self) -> SocketType {
        self.socket.socket_type
    }
@@ -23,16 +23,9 @@ id = '{{ client.id }}'
 # to claim bandwidth without presenting bandwidth credentials.
 disabled_credentials_mode = {{ client.disabled_credentials_mode }}

-# Addresses to nymd validators via which the client can communicate with the chain.
-validator_urls = [
-    {{#each client.validator_urls }}
-        '{{this}}',
-    {{/each}}
-]
-
 # Addresses to APIs running on validator from which the client gets the view of the network.
-nym_api_urls = [
-    {{#each client.nym_api_urls }}
+validator_api_urls = [
+    {{#each client.validator_api_urls }}
        '{{this}}',
    {{/each}}
 ]
@@ -49,12 +42,13 @@ private_encryption_key_file = '{{ client.private_encryption_key_file }}'
 # Path to file containing public encryption key.
 public_encryption_key_file = '{{ client.public_encryption_key_file }}'

+# Full path to file containing reply encryption keys of all reply-SURBs we have ever
+# sent but not received back.
+reply_encryption_key_store_path = '{{ client.reply_encryption_key_store_path }}'
+
 # Path to the database containing bandwidth credentials
 database_path = '{{ client.database_path }}'

-# Path to the persistent store for received reply surbs, unused encryption keys and used sender tags.
-reply_surb_database_path = '{{ client.reply_surb_database_path }}'
-
 ##### additional client config options #####

 # A gateway specific, optional, base58 stringified shared key used for
@@ -1,265 +1,317 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use std::error::Error;
-
-use crate::client::config::Config;
-use crate::error::ClientError;
-use crate::websocket;
-use client_connections::TransmissionLane;
-use client_core::client::base_client::{
-    non_wasm_helpers, BaseClientBuilder, ClientInput, ClientOutput,
+use client_core::client::cover_traffic_stream::LoopCoverTrafficStream;
+use client_core::client::inbound_messages::{
+    InputMessage, InputMessageReceiver, InputMessageSender,
 };
-use client_core::client::inbound_messages::InputMessage;
 use client_core::client::key_manager::KeyManager;
-use client_core::client::received_buffer::{ReceivedBufferMessage, ReconstructedMessagesReceiver};
-use client_core::client::replies::reply_controller::requests::ReplyControllerSender;
+use client_core::client::mix_traffic::{BatchMixMessageSender, MixTrafficController};
+use client_core::client::real_messages_control;
+use client_core::client::real_messages_control::RealMessagesController;
+use client_core::client::received_buffer::{
+    ReceivedBufferMessage, ReceivedBufferRequestReceiver, ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
+    ReceivedMessagesBufferController, ReconstructedMessagesReceiver,
+};
+use client_core::client::reply_key_storage::ReplyKeyStorage;
+use client_core::client::topology_control::{
+    TopologyAccessor, TopologyRefresher, TopologyRefresherConfig,
+};
 use client_core::config::persistence::key_pathfinder::ClientKeyPathfinder;
+use client_core::error::ClientCoreError;
+use crypto::asymmetric::identity;
 use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use gateway_client::bandwidth::BandwidthController;
+use gateway_client::{
+    AcknowledgementReceiver, AcknowledgementSender, GatewayClient, MixnetMessageReceiver,
+    MixnetMessageSender,
+};
 use log::*;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
+use nymsphinx::addressing::nodes::NodeIdentity;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
 use nymsphinx::receiver::ReconstructedMessage;
-use task::TaskManager;
+use task::{wait_for_signal, ShutdownListener, ShutdownNotifier};
+
+use crate::client::config::{Config, SocketType};
+use crate::error::ClientError;
+use crate::websocket;

 pub(crate) mod config;

-pub struct SocketClient {
+pub struct NymClient {
    /// Client configuration options, including, among other things, packet sending rates,
    /// key filepaths, etc.
    config: Config,

    /// KeyManager object containing smart pointers to all relevant keys used by the client.
    key_manager: KeyManager,
+
+    /// Channel used for transforming 'raw' messages into sphinx packets and sending them
+    /// through the mix network.
+    /// It is only available if the client started with the websocket listener disabled.
+    input_tx: Option<InputMessageSender>,
+
+    /// Channel used for obtaining reconstructed messages received from the mix network.
+    /// It is only available if the client started with the websocket listener disabled.
+    receive_tx: Option<ReconstructedMessagesReceiver>,
 }

-impl SocketClient {
+impl NymClient {
    pub fn new(config: Config) -> Self {
        let pathfinder = ClientKeyPathfinder::new_from_config(config.get_base());
        let key_manager = KeyManager::load_keys(&pathfinder).expect("failed to load stored keys");

-        SocketClient {
+        NymClient {
            config,
            key_manager,
+            input_tx: None,
+            receive_tx: None,
        }
    }

-    async fn create_bandwidth_controller(config: &Config) -> BandwidthController {
+    pub fn as_mix_recipient(&self) -> Recipient {
+        Recipient::new(
+            *self.key_manager.identity_keypair().public_key(),
+            *self.key_manager.encryption_keypair().public_key(),
+            // TODO: below only works under assumption that gateway address == gateway id
+            // (which currently is true)
+            NodeIdentity::from_base58_string(self.config.get_base().get_gateway_id()).unwrap(),
+        )
+    }
+
+    // future constantly pumping loop cover traffic at some specified average rate
+    // the pumped traffic goes to the MixTrafficController
+    fn start_cover_traffic_stream(
+        &self,
+        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
+        mix_tx: BatchMixMessageSender,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) {
+        info!("Starting loop cover traffic stream...");
+
+        let mut stream = LoopCoverTrafficStream::new(
+            self.key_manager.ack_key(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_average_ack_delay(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_average_packet_delay(),
+            self.config
+                .get_base()
+                .get_loop_cover_traffic_average_delay(),
+            mix_tx,
+            self.as_mix_recipient(),
+            topology_accessor,
+        );
+
+        if let Some(size) = self.config.get_base().get_use_extended_packet_size() {
+            log::debug!("Setting extended packet size: {:?}", size);
+            stream.set_custom_packet_size(size.into());
+        }
+
+        stream.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
+    }
+
+    fn start_real_traffic_controller(
+        &self,
+        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
+        reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
+        ack_receiver: AcknowledgementReceiver,
+        input_receiver: InputMessageReceiver,
+        mix_sender: BatchMixMessageSender,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) {
+        let mut controller_config = real_messages_control::Config::new(
+            self.key_manager.ack_key(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_ack_wait_multiplier(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_ack_wait_addition(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_average_ack_delay(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_message_sending_average_delay(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_average_packet_delay(),
+            self.config
+                .get_base()
+                .get_disabled_main_poisson_packet_distribution(),
+            self.as_mix_recipient(),
+        );
+
+        if let Some(size) = self.config.get_base().get_use_extended_packet_size() {
+            log::debug!("Setting extended packet size: {:?}", size);
+            controller_config.set_custom_packet_size(size.into());
+        }
+
+        info!("Starting real traffic stream...");
+
+        RealMessagesController::new(
+            controller_config,
+            ack_receiver,
+            input_receiver,
+            mix_sender,
+            topology_accessor,
+            reply_key_storage,
+        )
+        .start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
+    }
+
+    // buffer controlling all messages fetched from provider
+    // required so that other components would be able to use them (say the websocket)
+    fn start_received_messages_buffer_controller(
+        &self,
+        query_receiver: ReceivedBufferRequestReceiver,
+        mixnet_receiver: MixnetMessageReceiver,
+        reply_key_storage: ReplyKeyStorage,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) {
+        info!("Starting received messages buffer controller...");
+        ReceivedMessagesBufferController::new(
+            self.key_manager.encryption_keypair(),
+            query_receiver,
+            mixnet_receiver,
+            reply_key_storage,
+        )
+        .start_with_shutdown(shutdown)
+    }
+
+    async fn start_gateway_client(
+        &mut self,
+        mixnet_message_sender: MixnetMessageSender,
+        ack_sender: AcknowledgementSender,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) -> GatewayClient {
+        let gateway_id = self.config.get_base().get_gateway_id();
+        if gateway_id.is_empty() {
+            panic!("The identity of the gateway is unknown - did you run `nym-client` init?")
+        }
+        let gateway_owner = self.config.get_base().get_gateway_owner();
+        if gateway_owner.is_empty() {
+            panic!("The owner of the gateway is unknown - did you run `nym-client` init?")
+        }
+        let gateway_address = self.config.get_base().get_gateway_listener();
+        if gateway_address.is_empty() {
+            panic!("The address of the gateway is unknown - did you run `nym-client` init?")
+        }
+
+        let gateway_identity = identity::PublicKey::from_base58_string(gateway_id)
+            .expect("provided gateway id is invalid!");
+
        #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-        let bandwidth_controller = {
-            let details = network_defaults::NymNetworkDetails::new_from_env();
-            let mut client_config =
-                validator_client::Config::try_from_nym_network_details(&details)
-                    .expect("failed to construct validator client config");
-            let nymd_url = config
-                .get_base()
-                .get_validator_endpoints()
-                .pop()
-                .expect("No nymd validator endpoint provided");
-            let api_url = config
-                .get_base()
-                .get_nym_api_endpoints()
-                .pop()
-                .expect("No validator api endpoint provided");
-            // overwrite env configuration with config URLs
-            client_config = client_config.with_urls(nymd_url, api_url);
-            let client = validator_client::Client::new_query(client_config)
-                .expect("Could not construct query client");
-            let coconut_api_clients =
-                validator_client::CoconutApiClient::all_coconut_api_clients(&client)
-                    .await
-                    .expect("Could not query api clients");
-            BandwidthController::new(
-                credential_storage::initialise_storage(config.get_base().get_database_path()).await,
-                coconut_api_clients,
-            )
-        };
+        let bandwidth_controller = BandwidthController::new(
+            credential_storage::initialise_storage(self.config.get_base().get_database_path())
+                .await,
+            self.config.get_base().get_validator_api_endpoints(),
+        );
        #[cfg(not(feature = "coconut"))]
        let bandwidth_controller = BandwidthController::new(
-            credential_storage::initialise_storage(config.get_base().get_database_path()).await,
+            credential_storage::initialise_storage(self.config.get_base().get_database_path())
+                .await,
        )
        .expect("Could not create bandwidth controller");
-        bandwidth_controller
+
+        let mut gateway_client = GatewayClient::new(
+            gateway_address,
+            self.key_manager.identity_keypair(),
+            gateway_identity,
+            gateway_owner,
+            Some(self.key_manager.gateway_shared_key()),
+            mixnet_message_sender,
+            ack_sender,
+            self.config.get_base().get_gateway_response_timeout(),
+            Some(bandwidth_controller),
+            Some(shutdown),
+        );
+
+        gateway_client
+            .set_disabled_credentials_mode(self.config.get_base().get_disabled_credentials_mode());
+
+        gateway_client
+            .authenticate_and_start()
+            .await
+            .expect("could not authenticate and start up the gateway connection");
+
+        gateway_client
+    }
+
+    // future responsible for periodically polling directory server and updating
+    // the current global view of topology
+    async fn start_topology_refresher(
+        &mut self,
+        topology_accessor: TopologyAccessor,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
+        let topology_refresher_config = TopologyRefresherConfig::new(
+            self.config.get_base().get_validator_api_endpoints(),
+            self.config.get_base().get_topology_refresh_rate(),
+            env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").to_string(),
+        );
+        let mut topology_refresher =
+            TopologyRefresher::new(topology_refresher_config, topology_accessor);
+        // before returning, block entire runtime to refresh the current network view so that any
+        // components depending on topology would see a non-empty view
+        info!("Obtaining initial network topology");
+        topology_refresher.refresh().await;
+
+        // TODO: a slightly more graceful termination here
+        if !topology_refresher.is_topology_routable().await {
+            log::error!(
+                "The current network topology seem to be insufficient to route any packets through \
+                - check if enough nodes and a gateway are online"
+            );
+            return Err(ClientCoreError::InsufficientNetworkTopology.into());
+        }
+
+        info!("Starting topology refresher...");
+        topology_refresher.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    // controller for sending sphinx packets to mixnet (either real traffic or cover traffic)
+    // TODO: if we want to send control messages to gateway_client, this CAN'T take the ownership
+    // over it. Perhaps GatewayClient needs to be thread-shareable or have some channel for
+    // requests?
+    fn start_mix_traffic_controller(
+        gateway_client: GatewayClient,
+        shutdown: ShutdownListener,
+    ) -> BatchMixMessageSender {
+        info!("Starting mix traffic controller...");
+        let (mix_traffic_controller, mix_tx) = MixTrafficController::new(gateway_client);
+        mix_traffic_controller.start_with_shutdown(shutdown);
+        mix_tx
    }

    fn start_websocket_listener(
-        config: &Config,
-        client_input: ClientInput,
-        client_output: ClientOutput,
-        self_address: &Recipient,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-        shutdown: task::TaskClient,
+        &self,
+        buffer_requester: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
+        msg_input: InputMessageSender,
    ) {
        info!("Starting websocket listener...");

-        let ClientInput {
-            connection_command_sender,
-            input_sender,
-        } = client_input;
+        let websocket_handler =
+            websocket::Handler::new(msg_input, buffer_requester, self.as_mix_recipient());

-        let ClientOutput {
-            shared_lane_queue_lengths,
-            received_buffer_request_sender,
-        } = client_output;
-
-        let websocket_handler = websocket::HandlerBuilder::new(
-            input_sender,
-            connection_command_sender,
-            received_buffer_request_sender,
-            self_address,
-            shared_lane_queue_lengths,
-            reply_controller_sender,
-        );
-
-        websocket::Listener::new(config.get_listening_port()).start(websocket_handler, shutdown);
-    }
-
-    /// blocking version of `start_socket` method. Will run forever (or until SIGINT is sent)
-    pub async fn run_socket_forever(self) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
-        let mut shutdown = self.start_socket().await?;
-
-        let res = task::wait_for_signal_and_error(&mut shutdown).await;
-
-        log::info!("Sending shutdown");
-        shutdown.signal_shutdown().ok();
-
-        log::info!("Waiting for tasks to finish... (Press ctrl-c to force)");
-        shutdown.wait_for_shutdown().await;
-
-        log::info!("Stopping nym-client");
-        res
-    }
-
-    pub async fn start_socket(self) -> Result<TaskManager, ClientError> {
-        if !self.config.get_socket_type().is_websocket() {
-            return Err(ClientError::InvalidSocketMode);
-        }
-
-        let base_builder = BaseClientBuilder::new_from_base_config(
-            self.config.get_base(),
-            self.key_manager,
-            Some(Self::create_bandwidth_controller(&self.config).await),
-            non_wasm_helpers::setup_fs_reply_surb_backend(
-                self.config.get_base().get_reply_surb_database_path(),
-                self.config.get_debug_settings(),
-            )
-            .await?,
-        );
-
-        let self_address = base_builder.as_mix_recipient();
-        let mut started_client = base_builder.start_base().await?;
-        let client_input = started_client.client_input.register_producer();
-        let client_output = started_client.client_output.register_consumer();
-
-        Self::start_websocket_listener(
-            &self.config,
-            client_input,
-            client_output,
-            &self_address,
-            started_client.reply_controller_sender,
-            started_client.task_manager.subscribe(),
-        );
-
-        info!("Client startup finished!");
-        info!("The address of this client is: {}", self_address);
-
-        Ok(started_client.task_manager)
-    }
-
-    pub async fn start_direct(self) -> Result<DirectClient, ClientError> {
-        if self.config.get_socket_type().is_websocket() {
-            return Err(ClientError::InvalidSocketMode);
-        }
-
-        let base_client = BaseClientBuilder::new_from_base_config(
-            self.config.get_base(),
-            self.key_manager,
-            Some(Self::create_bandwidth_controller(&self.config).await),
-            non_wasm_helpers::setup_fs_reply_surb_backend(
-                self.config.get_base().get_reply_surb_database_path(),
-                self.config.get_debug_settings(),
-            )
-            .await?,
-        );
-
-        let mut started_client = base_client.start_base().await?;
-        let client_input = started_client.client_input.register_producer();
-        let client_output = started_client.client_output.register_consumer();
-
-        // register our receiver
-        let (reconstructed_sender, reconstructed_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
-
-        // tell the buffer to start sending stuff to us
-        client_output
-            .received_buffer_request_sender
-            .unbounded_send(ReceivedBufferMessage::ReceiverAnnounce(
-                reconstructed_sender,
-            ))
-            .expect("the buffer request failed!");
-
-        Ok(DirectClient {
-            client_input,
-            reconstructed_receiver,
-            _shutdown_notifier: started_client.task_manager,
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-pub struct DirectClient {
-    client_input: ClientInput,
-    reconstructed_receiver: ReconstructedMessagesReceiver,
-
-    // we need to keep reference to this guy otherwise things will start dropping
-    _shutdown_notifier: TaskManager,
-}
-
-impl DirectClient {
-    /// EXPERIMENTAL DIRECT RUST API
-    /// It's untested and there are absolutely no guarantees about it (but seems to have worked
-    /// well enough in local tests)
-    pub async fn send_regular_message(&mut self, recipient: Recipient, message: Vec<u8>) {
-        let lane = TransmissionLane::General;
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_regular(recipient, message, lane);
-
-        self.client_input
-            .input_sender
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
+        websocket::Listener::new(self.config.get_listening_port()).start(websocket_handler);
    }

    /// EXPERIMENTAL DIRECT RUST API
    /// It's untested and there are absolutely no guarantees about it (but seems to have worked
    /// well enough in local tests)
-    pub async fn send_anonymous_message(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-    ) {
-        let lane = TransmissionLane::General;
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_anonymous(recipient, message, reply_surbs, lane);
+    pub fn send_message(&mut self, recipient: Recipient, message: Vec<u8>, with_reply_surb: bool) {
+        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_fresh(recipient, message, with_reply_surb);

-        self.client_input
-            .input_sender
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
+        self.input_tx
+            .as_ref()
+            .expect("start method was not called before!")
+            .unbounded_send(input_msg)
+            .unwrap();
    }

    /// EXPERIMENTAL DIRECT RUST API
    /// It's untested and there are absolutely no guarantees about it (but seems to have worked
    /// well enough in local tests)
-    pub async fn send_reply(&mut self, recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag, message: Vec<u8>) {
-        let lane = TransmissionLane::General;
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_reply(recipient_tag, message, lane);
+    pub fn send_reply(&mut self, reply_surb: ReplySurb, message: Vec<u8>) {
+        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_reply(reply_surb, message);

-        self.client_input
-            .input_sender
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
+        self.input_tx
+            .as_ref()
+            .expect("start method was not called before!")
+            .unbounded_send(input_msg)
+            .unwrap();
    }

    /// EXPERIMENTAL DIRECT RUST API
@@ -271,9 +323,131 @@ impl DirectClient {
    pub async fn wait_for_messages(&mut self) -> Vec<ReconstructedMessage> {
        use futures::StreamExt;

-        self.reconstructed_receiver
+        self.receive_tx
+            .as_mut()
+            .expect("start method was not called before!")
            .next()
            .await
            .expect("buffer controller seems to have somehow died!")
    }
+
+    /// blocking version of `start` method. Will run forever (or until SIGINT is sent)
+    pub async fn run_forever(&mut self) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
+        let shutdown = self.start().await?;
+        wait_for_signal().await;
+
+        println!(
+            "Received signal - the client will terminate now (threads are not yet nicely stopped, if you see stack traces that's alright)."
+        );
+
+        log::info!("Sending shutdown");
+        shutdown.signal_shutdown().ok();
+
+        // Some of these components have shutdown signalling implemented as part of socks5 work,
+        // but since it's not fully implemented (yet) for all the components of the native client,
+        // we don't try to wait and instead just stop immediately.
+        //log::info!("Waiting for tasks to finish... (Press ctrl-c to force)");
+        //shutdown.wait_for_shutdown().await;
+
+        log::info!("Stopping nym-client");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub async fn start(&mut self) -> Result<ShutdownNotifier, ClientError> {
+        info!("Starting nym client");
+        // channels for inter-component communication
+        // TODO: make the channels be internally created by the relevant components
+        // rather than creating them here, so say for example the buffer controller would create the request channels
+        // and would allow anyone to clone the sender channel
+
+        // unwrapped_sphinx_sender is the transmitter of mixnet messages received from the gateway
+        // unwrapped_sphinx_receiver is the receiver for said messages - used by ReceivedMessagesBuffer
+        let (mixnet_messages_sender, mixnet_messages_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
+
+        // used for announcing connection or disconnection of a channel for pushing re-assembled messages to
+        let (received_buffer_request_sender, received_buffer_request_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
+
+        // channels responsible for controlling real messages
+        let (input_sender, input_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded::<InputMessage>();
+
+        // channels responsible for controlling ack messages
+        let (ack_sender, ack_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
+        let shared_topology_accessor = TopologyAccessor::new();
+
+        let reply_key_storage =
+            ReplyKeyStorage::load(self.config.get_base().get_reply_encryption_key_store_path())
+                .expect("Failed to load reply key storage!");
+
+        // Shutdown notifier for signalling tasks to stop
+        let shutdown = ShutdownNotifier::default();
+
+        // the components are started in very specific order. Unless you know what you are doing,
+        // do not change that.
+        self.start_topology_refresher(shared_topology_accessor.clone(), shutdown.subscribe())
+            .await?;
+        self.start_received_messages_buffer_controller(
+            received_buffer_request_receiver,
+            mixnet_messages_receiver,
+            reply_key_storage.clone(),
+            shutdown.subscribe(),
+        );
+
+        let gateway_client = self
+            .start_gateway_client(mixnet_messages_sender, ack_sender, shutdown.subscribe())
+            .await;
+
+        // The sphinx_message_sender is the transmitter for any component generating sphinx packets
+        // that are to be sent to the mixnet. They are used by cover traffic stream and real
+        // traffic stream.
+        // The MixTrafficController then sends the actual traffic
+        let sphinx_message_sender =
+            Self::start_mix_traffic_controller(gateway_client, shutdown.subscribe());
+
+        self.start_real_traffic_controller(
+            shared_topology_accessor.clone(),
+            reply_key_storage,
+            ack_receiver,
+            input_receiver,
+            sphinx_message_sender.clone(),
+            shutdown.subscribe(),
+        );
+
+        if !self
+            .config
+            .get_base()
+            .get_disabled_loop_cover_traffic_stream()
+        {
+            self.start_cover_traffic_stream(
+                shared_topology_accessor,
+                sphinx_message_sender,
+                shutdown.subscribe(),
+            );
+        }
+
+        match self.config.get_socket_type() {
+            SocketType::WebSocket => {
+                self.start_websocket_listener(received_buffer_request_sender, input_sender)
+            }
+            SocketType::None => {
+                // if we did not start the socket, it means we're running (supposedly) in the native mode
+                // and hence we should announce 'ourselves' to the buffer
+                let (reconstructed_sender, reconstructed_receiver) = mpsc::unbounded();
+
+                // tell the buffer to start sending stuff to us
+                received_buffer_request_sender
+                    .unbounded_send(ReceivedBufferMessage::ReceiverAnnounce(
+                        reconstructed_sender,
+                    ))
+                    .expect("the buffer request failed!");
+
+                self.receive_tx = Some(reconstructed_receiver);
+                self.input_tx = Some(input_sender);
+            }
+        }
+
+        info!("Client startup finished!");
+        info!("The address of this client is: {}", self.as_mix_recipient());
+
+        Ok(shutdown)
+    }
 }
@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

+use clap::Args;
+use client_core::{config::GatewayEndpoint, error::ClientCoreError};
+use config::NymConfig;
+
 use crate::{
    client::config::Config,
    commands::{override_config, OverrideConfig},
-    error::ClientError,
 };
-use clap::Args;
-use config::NymConfig;
-use crypto::asymmetric::identity;
-use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use serde::Serialize;
-use std::fmt::Display;
-use tap::TapFallible;

 #[derive(Args, Clone)]
 pub(crate) struct Init {
@@ -22,22 +18,16 @@ pub(crate) struct Init {

    /// Id of the gateway we are going to connect to.
    #[clap(long)]
-    gateway: Option<identity::PublicKey>,
+    gateway: Option<String>,

    /// Force register gateway. WARNING: this will overwrite any existing keys for the given id,
    /// potentially causing loss of access.
    #[clap(long)]
    force_register_gateway: bool,

-    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the nymd validators
-    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-    #[clap(long, value_delimiter = ',')]
-    nymd_validators: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
-
-    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the API validators
-    #[clap(long, alias = "api_validators", value_delimiter = ',')]
-    // the alias here is included for backwards compatibility (1.1.4 and before)
-    nym_apis: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
+    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the validators
+    #[clap(long)]
+    validators: Option<String>,

    /// Whether to not start the websocket
    #[clap(long)]
@@ -49,65 +39,31 @@ pub(crate) struct Init {

    /// Mostly debug-related option to increase default traffic rate so that you would not need to
    /// modify config post init
-    #[clap(long, hide = true)]
+    #[clap(long, hidden = true)]
    fastmode: bool,

-    /// Disable loop cover traffic and the Poisson rate limiter (for debugging only)
-    #[clap(long, hide = true)]
-    no_cover: bool,
-
    /// Set this client to work in a enabled credentials mode that would attempt to use gateway
    /// with bandwidth credential requirement.
    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
    #[clap(long)]
    enabled_credentials_mode: bool,
-
-    /// Save a summary of the initialization to a json file
-    #[clap(long)]
-    output_json: bool,
 }

 impl From<Init> for OverrideConfig {
    fn from(init_config: Init) -> Self {
        OverrideConfig {
-            nym_apis: init_config.nym_apis,
+            validators: init_config.validators,
            disable_socket: init_config.disable_socket,
            port: init_config.port,
            fastmode: init_config.fastmode,
-            no_cover: init_config.no_cover,

-            #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-            nymd_validators: init_config.nymd_validators,
            #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
            enabled_credentials_mode: init_config.enabled_credentials_mode,
        }
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
-pub struct InitResults {
-    #[serde(flatten)]
-    client_core: client_core::init::InitResults,
-    client_listening_port: String,
-}
-
-impl InitResults {
-    fn new(config: &Config, address: &Recipient) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            client_core: client_core::init::InitResults::new(config.get_base(), address),
-            client_listening_port: config.get_listening_port().to_string(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Display for InitResults {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        writeln!(f, "{}", self.client_core)?;
-        write!(f, "Client listening port: {}", self.client_listening_port)
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Init) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
+pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Init) {
    println!("Initialising client...");

    let id = &args.id;
@@ -131,44 +87,25 @@ pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Init) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
    let register_gateway = !already_init || user_wants_force_register;

    // Attempt to use a user-provided gateway, if possible
-    let user_chosen_gateway_id = args.gateway;
+    let user_chosen_gateway_id = args.gateway.as_deref();

-    // Load and potentially override config
-    let mut config = override_config(Config::new(id), OverrideConfig::from(args.clone()));
-
-    // Setup gateway by either registering a new one, or creating a new config from the selected
-    // one but with keys kept, or reusing the gateway configuration.
-    let gateway = client_core::init::setup_gateway::<Config, _>(
-        register_gateway,
-        user_chosen_gateway_id.map(|id| id.to_base58_string()),
-        config.get_base(),
-    )
-    .await
-    .tap_err(|err| eprintln!("Failed to setup gateway\nError: {err}"))?;
+    let mut config = Config::new(id);
+    let override_config_fields = OverrideConfig::from(args.clone());
+    config = override_config(config, override_config_fields);

+    let gateway = setup_gateway(id, register_gateway, user_chosen_gateway_id, &config)
+        .await
+        .unwrap_or_else(|err| {
+            eprintln!("Failed to setup gateway\nError: {err}");
+            std::process::exit(1)
+        });
    config.get_base_mut().with_gateway_endpoint(gateway);

-    config.save_to_file(None).tap_err(|_| {
-        log::error!("Failed to save the config file");
-    })?;
-
-    print_saved_config(&config);
-
-    let address = client_core::init::get_client_address_from_stored_keys(config.get_base())?;
-    let init_results = InitResults::new(&config, &address);
-    println!("{init_results}");
-
-    // Output summary to a json file, if specified
-    if args.output_json {
-        client_core::init::output_to_json(&init_results, "client_init_results.json");
-    }
-
-    println!("\nThe address of this client is: {address}\n");
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-fn print_saved_config(config: &Config) {
    let config_save_location = config.get_config_file_save_location();
+    config
+        .save_to_file(None)
+        .expect("Failed to save the config file");
+
    println!("Saved configuration file to {:?}", config_save_location);
    println!("Using gateway: {}", config.get_base().get_gateway_id());
    log::debug!("Gateway id: {}", config.get_base().get_gateway_id());
@@ -177,5 +114,63 @@ fn print_saved_config(config: &Config) {
        "Gateway listener: {}",
        config.get_base().get_gateway_listener()
    );
-    println!("Client configuration completed.\n");
+    println!("Client configuration completed.");
+
+    client_core::init::show_address(config.get_base()).unwrap_or_else(|err| {
+        eprintln!("Failed to show address\nError: {err}");
+        std::process::exit(1)
+    });
+}
+
+async fn setup_gateway(
+    id: &str,
+    register: bool,
+    user_chosen_gateway_id: Option<&str>,
+    config: &Config,
+) -> Result<GatewayEndpoint, ClientCoreError> {
+    if register {
+        // Get the gateway details by querying the validator-api. Either pick one at random or use
+        // the chosen one if it's among the available ones.
+        println!("Configuring gateway");
+        let gateway = client_core::init::query_gateway_details(
+            config.get_base().get_validator_api_endpoints(),
+            user_chosen_gateway_id,
+        )
+        .await?;
+        log::debug!("Querying gateway gives: {}", gateway);
+
+        // Registering with gateway by setting up and writing shared keys to disk
+        log::trace!("Registering gateway");
+        client_core::init::register_with_gateway_and_store_keys(gateway.clone(), config.get_base())
+            .await?;
+        println!("Saved all generated keys");
+
+        Ok(gateway.into())
+    } else if user_chosen_gateway_id.is_some() {
+        // Just set the config, don't register or create any keys
+        // This assumes that the user knows what they are doing, and that the existing keys are
+        // valid for the gateway being used
+        println!("Using gateway provided by user, keeping existing keys");
+        let gateway = client_core::init::query_gateway_details(
+            config.get_base().get_validator_api_endpoints(),
+            user_chosen_gateway_id,
+        )
+        .await?;
+        log::debug!("Querying gateway gives: {}", gateway);
+        Ok(gateway.into())
+    } else {
+        println!("Not registering gateway, will reuse existing config and keys");
+        let existing_config = Config::load_from_file(Some(id)).map_err(|err| {
+            log::error!(
+                "Unable to configure gateway: {err}. \n
+                Seems like the client was already initialized but it was not possible to read \
+                the existing configuration file. \n
+                CAUTION: Consider backing up your gateway keys and try force gateway registration, or \
+                removing the existing configuration and starting over."
+            );
+            ClientCoreError::CouldNotLoadExistingGatewayConfiguration(err)
+        })?;
+
+        Ok(existing_config.get_base().get_gateway_endpoint().clone())
+    }
 }
@@ -2,32 +2,55 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use crate::client::config::{Config, SocketType};
-use build_information::BinaryBuildInformation;
+use crate::error::ClientError;
 use clap::CommandFactory;
 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
 use completions::{fig_generate, ArgShell};
-use lazy_static::lazy_static;
-use std::error::Error;

 pub(crate) mod init;
 pub(crate) mod run;
 pub(crate) mod upgrade;

-lazy_static! {
-    pub static ref PRETTY_BUILD_INFORMATION: String =
-        BinaryBuildInformation::new(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")).pretty_print();
+fn long_version() -> String {
+    format!(
+        r#"
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+{:<20}{}
+"#,
+        "Build Timestamp:",
+        env!("VERGEN_BUILD_TIMESTAMP"),
+        "Build Version:",
+        env!("VERGEN_BUILD_SEMVER"),
+        "Commit SHA:",
+        env!("VERGEN_GIT_SHA"),
+        "Commit Date:",
+        env!("VERGEN_GIT_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP"),
+        "Commit Branch:",
+        env!("VERGEN_GIT_BRANCH"),
+        "rustc Version:",
+        env!("VERGEN_RUSTC_SEMVER"),
+        "rustc Channel:",
+        env!("VERGEN_RUSTC_CHANNEL"),
+        "cargo Profile:",
+        env!("VERGEN_CARGO_PROFILE"),
+    )
 }

-// Helper for passing LONG_VERSION to clap
-fn pretty_build_info_static() -> &'static str {
-    &PRETTY_BUILD_INFORMATION
+fn long_version_static() -> &'static str {
+    Box::leak(long_version().into_boxed_str())
 }

 #[derive(Parser)]
-#[clap(author = "Nymtech", version, long_version = pretty_build_info_static(), about)]
+#[clap(author = "Nymtech", version, long_version = long_version_static(), about)]
 pub(crate) struct Cli {
    /// Path pointing to an env file that configures the client.
-    #[clap(short, long)]
+    #[clap(long)]
    pub(crate) config_env_file: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,

    #[clap(subcommand)]
@@ -52,40 +75,39 @@ pub(crate) enum Commands {

 // Configuration that can be overridden.
 pub(crate) struct OverrideConfig {
-    nym_apis: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
+    validators: Option<String>,
    disable_socket: bool,
    port: Option<u16>,
    fastmode: bool,
-    no_cover: bool,

-    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-    nymd_validators: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
    enabled_credentials_mode: bool,
 }

-pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Cli) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
+pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Cli) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
    let bin_name = "nym-native-client";

    match &args.command {
-        Commands::Init(m) => init::execute(m).await?,
+        Commands::Init(m) => init::execute(m).await,
        Commands::Run(m) => run::execute(m).await?,
        Commands::Upgrade(m) => upgrade::execute(m),
-        Commands::Completions(s) => s.generate(&mut Cli::command(), bin_name),
-        Commands::GenerateFigSpec => fig_generate(&mut Cli::command(), bin_name),
+        Commands::Completions(s) => s.generate(&mut Cli::into_app(), bin_name),
+        Commands::GenerateFigSpec => fig_generate(&mut Cli::into_app(), bin_name),
    }
    Ok(())
 }

 pub(crate) fn override_config(mut config: Config, args: OverrideConfig) -> Config {
-    if let Some(nym_apis) = args.nym_apis {
-        config.get_base_mut().set_custom_nym_apis(nym_apis);
+    if let Some(raw_validators) = args.validators {
+        config
+            .get_base_mut()
+            .set_custom_validator_apis(config::parse_validators(&raw_validators));
    } else if std::env::var(network_defaults::var_names::CONFIGURED).is_ok() {
        let raw_validators = std::env::var(network_defaults::var_names::API_VALIDATOR)
            .expect("api validator not set");
        config
            .get_base_mut()
-            .set_custom_nym_apis(config::parse_urls(&raw_validators));
+            .set_custom_validator_apis(config::parse_validators(&raw_validators));
    }

    if args.disable_socket {
@@ -98,15 +120,6 @@ pub(crate) fn override_config(mut config: Config, args: OverrideConfig) -> Confi

    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
    {
-        if let Some(nymd_validators) = args.nymd_validators {
-            config.get_base_mut().set_custom_validators(nymd_validators);
-        } else if std::env::var(network_defaults::var_names::CONFIGURED).is_ok() {
-            let raw_validators = std::env::var(network_defaults::var_names::NYMD_VALIDATOR)
-                .expect("nymd validator not set");
-            config
-                .get_base_mut()
-                .set_custom_validators(config::parse_urls(&raw_validators));
-        }
        if args.enabled_credentials_mode {
            config.get_base_mut().with_disabled_credentials(false)
        }
@@ -116,10 +129,6 @@ pub(crate) fn override_config(mut config: Config, args: OverrideConfig) -> Confi
        config.get_base_mut().set_high_default_traffic_volume();
    }

-    if args.no_cover {
-        config.get_base_mut().set_no_cover_traffic();
-    }
-
    config
 }

@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2023 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use std::error::Error;
-
 use crate::{
-    client::{config::Config, SocketClient},
+    client::{config::Config, NymClient},
    commands::{override_config, OverrideConfig},
    error::ClientError,
 };

 use clap::Args;
 use config::NymConfig;
-use crypto::asymmetric::identity;
 use log::*;
 use version_checker::is_minor_version_compatible;

@@ -21,20 +18,14 @@ pub(crate) struct Run {
    #[clap(long)]
    id: String,

-    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the nymd validators
-    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-    #[clap(long, value_delimiter = ',')]
-    nymd_validators: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
-
-    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the API validators
-    #[clap(long, alias = "api_validators", value_delimiter = ',')]
-    // the alias here is included for backwards compatibility (1.1.4 and before)
-    nym_apis: Option<Vec<url::Url>>,
+    /// Comma separated list of rest endpoints of the validators
+    #[clap(long)]
+    validators: Option<String>,

    /// Id of the gateway we want to connect to. If overridden, it is user's responsibility to
    /// ensure prior registration happened
    #[clap(long)]
-    gateway: Option<identity::PublicKey>,
+    gateway: Option<String>,

    /// Whether to not start the websocket
    #[clap(long)]
@@ -44,15 +35,6 @@ pub(crate) struct Run {
    #[clap(short, long)]
    port: Option<u16>,

-    /// Mostly debug-related option to increase default traffic rate so that you would not need to
-    /// modify config post init
-    #[clap(long, hide = true)]
-    fastmode: bool,
-
-    /// Disable loop cover traffic and the Poisson rate limiter (for debugging only)
-    #[clap(long, hide = true)]
-    no_cover: bool,
-
    /// Set this client to work in a enabled credentials mode that would attempt to use gateway
    /// with bandwidth credential requirement.
    #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
@@ -63,14 +45,10 @@ pub(crate) struct Run {
 impl From<Run> for OverrideConfig {
    fn from(run_config: Run) -> Self {
        OverrideConfig {
-            nym_apis: run_config.nym_apis,
+            validators: run_config.validators,
            disable_socket: run_config.disable_socket,
            port: run_config.port,
-            fastmode: run_config.fastmode,
-            no_cover: run_config.no_cover,
-
-            #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
-            nymd_validators: run_config.nymd_validators,
+            fastmode: false,
            #[cfg(feature = "coconut")]
            enabled_credentials_mode: run_config.enabled_credentials_mode,
        }
@@ -96,28 +74,24 @@ fn version_check(cfg: &Config) -> bool {
    }
 }

-pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Run) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
+pub(crate) async fn execute(args: &Run) -> Result<(), ClientError> {
    let id = &args.id;

    let mut config = match Config::load_from_file(Some(id)) {
        Ok(cfg) => cfg,
        Err(err) => {
-            error!("Failed to load config for {}. Are you sure you have run `init` before? (Error was: {err})", id);
-            return Err(Box::new(ClientError::FailedToLoadConfig(id.to_string())));
+            error!("Failed to load config for {}. Are you sure you have run `init` before? (Error was: {})", id, err);
+            return Err(ClientError::FailedToLoadConfig(id.to_string()));
        }
    };

    let override_config_fields = OverrideConfig::from(args.clone());
    config = override_config(config, override_config_fields);

-    if config.get_base_mut().set_empty_fields_to_defaults() {
-        warn!("some of the core config options were left unset. the default values are going to get used instead.");
-    }
-
    if !version_check(&config) {
        error!("failed the local version check");
-        return Err(Box::new(ClientError::FailedLocalVersionCheck));
+        return Err(ClientError::FailedLocalVersionCheck);
    }

-    SocketClient::new(config).run_socket_forever().await
+    NymClient::new(config).run_forever().await
 }
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ pub(crate) struct Upgrade {

 fn parse_config_version(config: &Config) -> Version {
    let version = Version::parse(config.get_base().get_version()).unwrap_or_else(|err| {
-        eprintln!("failed to parse client version! - {err}");
+        eprintln!("failed to parse client version! - {:?}", err);
        process::exit(1)
    });

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ fn minor_0_12_upgrade(
        .set_custom_version(to_version.to_string().as_ref());

    config.save_to_file(None).unwrap_or_else(|err| {
-        eprintln!("failed to overwrite config file! - {err}");
+        eprintln!("failed to overwrite config file! - {:?}", err);
        print_failed_upgrade(config_version, &to_version);
        process::exit(1);
    });
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ pub(crate) fn execute(args: &Upgrade) {
    let id = &args.id;

    let existing_config = Config::load_from_file(Some(id)).unwrap_or_else(|err| {
-        eprintln!("failed to load existing config file! - {err}");
+        eprintln!("failed to load existing config file! - {:?}", err);
        process::exit(1)
    });

@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 use client_core::error::ClientCoreError;
+use crypto::asymmetric::identity::Ed25519RecoveryError;
+use gateway_client::error::GatewayClientError;
+use validator_client::ValidatorClientError;

 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
 pub enum ClientError {
    #[error("I/O error: {0}")]
    IoError(#[from] std::io::Error),
-
+    #[error("Gateway client error: {0}")]
+    GatewayClientError(#[from] GatewayClientError),
+    #[error("Ed25519 error: {0}")]
+    Ed25519RecoveryError(#[from] Ed25519RecoveryError),
+    #[error("Validator client error: {0}")]
+    ValidatorClientError(#[from] ValidatorClientError),
    #[error("client-core error: {0}")]
    ClientCoreError(#[from] ClientCoreError),

    #[error("Failed to load config for: {0}")]
    FailedToLoadConfig(String),
-
    #[error("Failed local version check, client and config mismatch")]
    FailedLocalVersionCheck,
-
-    #[error("Attempted to start the client in invalid socket mode")]
-    InvalidSocketMode,
 }
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use std::error::Error;
-
 use clap::{crate_version, Parser};
+use error::ClientError;
 use logging::setup_logging;
 use network_defaults::setup_env;

@@ -13,12 +12,12 @@ pub mod error;
 pub mod websocket;

 #[tokio::main]
-async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
+async fn main() -> Result<(), ClientError> {
    setup_logging();
    println!("{}", banner());

    let args = commands::Cli::parse();
-    setup_env(args.config_env_file.as_ref());
+    setup_env(args.config_env_file.clone());
    commands::execute(&args).await
 }

@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use client_connections::{
-    ConnectionCommand, ConnectionCommandSender, ConnectionId, LaneQueueLengths, TransmissionLane,
-};
-use client_core::client::replies::reply_controller::requests::ReplyControllerSender;
 use client_core::client::{
    inbound_messages::{InputMessage, InputMessageSender},
    received_buffer::{
@@ -15,11 +11,9 @@ use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use futures::{SinkExt, StreamExt};
 use log::*;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
 use nymsphinx::receiver::ReconstructedMessage;
-use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
-use tokio::time::Instant;
 use tokio_tungstenite::{
    accept_async,
    tungstenite::{protocol::Message as WsMessage, Error as WsError},
@@ -38,250 +32,94 @@ impl Default for ReceivedResponseType {
    }
 }

-pub(crate) struct HandlerBuilder {
-    msg_input: InputMessageSender,
-    client_connection_tx: ConnectionCommandSender,
-    buffer_requester: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
-    self_full_address: Recipient,
-    lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-    reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-}
-
-impl HandlerBuilder {
-    pub(crate) fn new(
-        msg_input: InputMessageSender,
-        client_connection_tx: ConnectionCommandSender,
-        buffer_requester: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
-        self_full_address: &Recipient,
-        lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-        reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
-    ) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            msg_input,
-            client_connection_tx,
-            buffer_requester,
-            self_full_address: *self_full_address,
-            lane_queue_lengths,
-            reply_controller_sender,
-        }
-    }
-
-    // TODO: make sure we only ever have one active handler
-    pub fn create_active_handler(&self) -> Handler {
-        Handler {
-            msg_input: self.msg_input.clone(),
-            client_connection_tx: self.client_connection_tx.clone(),
-            buffer_requester: self.buffer_requester.clone(),
-            self_full_address: self.self_full_address,
-            socket: None,
-            received_response_type: Default::default(),
-            lane_queue_lengths: self.lane_queue_lengths.clone(),
-            reply_controller_sender: self.reply_controller_sender.clone(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 pub(crate) struct Handler {
    msg_input: InputMessageSender,
-    client_connection_tx: ConnectionCommandSender,
    buffer_requester: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
    self_full_address: Recipient,
    socket: Option<WebSocketStream<TcpStream>>,
    received_response_type: ReceivedResponseType,
-    lane_queue_lengths: LaneQueueLengths,
-    reply_controller_sender: ReplyControllerSender,
+}
+
+// clone is used to use handler on a new connection, which initially is `None`
+impl Clone for Handler {
+    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
+        Handler {
+            msg_input: self.msg_input.clone(),
+            buffer_requester: self.buffer_requester.clone(),
+            self_full_address: self.self_full_address,
+            socket: None,
+            received_response_type: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
 }

 impl Drop for Handler {
    fn drop(&mut self) {
-        if self
-            .buffer_requester
+        self.buffer_requester
            .unbounded_send(ReceivedBufferMessage::ReceiverDisconnect)
-            .is_err()
-        {
-            error!("we failed to disconnect the receiver from the buffer! presumably the shutdown procedure has been initiated!")
-        }
+            .expect("the buffer request failed!")
    }
 }

 impl Handler {
-    async fn get_lane_queue_length(&self, connection_id: ConnectionId) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        let req_start = Instant::now();
-
-        // get the base queue length
-        // Note that this does _NOT_ take into account the packets that have been received but not
-        // yet reach `OutQueueControl`, so it might be a tad low.
-        let conn_lane = TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id);
-        let Ok(base_length) = self
-            .lane_queue_lengths
-            .lock()
-            .map(|guard| guard.get(&conn_lane).unwrap_or_default()) else {
-            // I'd argue we should panic here as this error it not recoverable
-            error!("The lane queue length lock is poisoned!!");
-            return None
-        };
-
-        // get the number of pending replies waiting for reply surbs
-        let reply_queue_length = self
-            .reply_controller_sender
-            .get_lane_queue_length(connection_id)
-            .await;
-
-        let queue_length = base_length + reply_queue_length;
-
-        let time_taken = req_start.elapsed();
-        let msg =
-            format!("it took {time_taken:?} to get lane length for connection {connection_id}. The length is: {queue_length} = {base_length} (already queued up) + {reply_queue_length} (waiting for reply SURBs)");
-
-        if time_taken > Duration::from_millis(1) {
-            info!("{msg}");
-        } else if time_taken > Duration::from_millis(10) {
-            warn!("{msg}");
-        } else if time_taken > Duration::from_millis(50) {
-            error!("{msg}");
+    pub(crate) fn new(
+        msg_input: InputMessageSender,
+        buffer_requester: ReceivedBufferRequestSender,
+        self_full_address: Recipient,
+    ) -> Self {
+        Handler {
+            msg_input,
+            buffer_requester,
+            self_full_address,
+            socket: None,
+            received_response_type: Default::default(),
        }
-
-        Some(ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength {
-            lane: connection_id,
-            queue_length,
-        })
    }

-    async fn handle_send(
+    fn handle_send(
        &mut self,
        recipient: Recipient,
        message: Vec<u8>,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
+        with_reply_surb: bool,
    ) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        info!(
-            "Attempting to send {:.2} kiB message to {recipient} on connection_id {connection_id:?}",
-            message.len() as f64 / 1024.0
-        );
-
-        // We map the absence of a connection id as going into the general lane.
-        let lane = connection_id.map_or(TransmissionLane::General, |id| {
-            TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(id)
-        });
-
        // the ack control is now responsible for chunking, etc.
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_regular(recipient, message, lane);
-        self.msg_input
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
+        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_fresh(recipient, message, with_reply_surb);
+        self.msg_input.unbounded_send(input_msg).unwrap();

-        // Only reply back with a `LaneQueueLength` if the sender providided a connection id
-        let TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id) = lane else {
-          return None
-        };
-
-        self.get_lane_queue_length(connection_id).await
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_send_anonymous(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    ) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        info!(
-            "Attempting to anonymously send {:.2} kiB message to {recipient} on connection_id {connection_id:?} while attaching {reply_surbs} replySURBs.",
-            message.len() as f64 / 1024.0
-        );
-
-        // We map the absence of a connection id as going into the general lane.
-        let lane = connection_id.map_or(TransmissionLane::General, |id| {
-            TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(id)
-        });
-
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_anonymous(recipient, message, reply_surbs, lane);
-        self.msg_input
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
-
-        // Only reply back with a `LaneQueueLength` if the sender providided a connection id
-        let TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id) = lane else {
-          return None
-        };
-
-        self.get_lane_queue_length(connection_id).await
-    }
-
-    async fn handle_reply(
-        &mut self,
-        recipient_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    ) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        info!("Attempting to send {:.2} kiB reply message to {recipient_tag} on connection_id {connection_id:?}", message.len() as f64 / 1024.0);
-
-        // We map the absence of a connection id as going into the general lane.
-        let lane = connection_id.map_or(TransmissionLane::General, |id| {
-            TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(id)
-        });
-
-        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_reply(recipient_tag, message, lane);
-        self.msg_input
-            .send(input_msg)
-            .await
-            .expect("InputMessageReceiver has stopped receiving!");
-
-        // Only reply back with a `LaneQueueLength` if the sender providided a connection id
-        let TransmissionLane::ConnectionId(connection_id) = lane else {
-          return None
-        };
-
-        self.get_lane_queue_length(connection_id).await
-    }
-
-    fn handle_self_address(&self) -> ServerResponse {
-        ServerResponse::SelfAddress(Box::new(self.self_full_address))
-    }
-
-    fn handle_closed_connection(&self, connection_id: u64) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        self.client_connection_tx
-            .unbounded_send(ConnectionCommand::Close(connection_id))
-            .unwrap();
        None
    }

-    async fn handle_get_lane_queue_length(&self, connection_id: u64) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
-        self.get_lane_queue_length(connection_id).await
+    fn handle_reply(&mut self, reply_surb: ReplySurb, message: Vec<u8>) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
+        if message.len() > ReplySurb::max_msg_len(Default::default()) {
+            return Some(ServerResponse::new_error(format!("too long message to put inside a reply SURB. Received: {} bytes and maximum is {} bytes", message.len(), ReplySurb::max_msg_len(Default::default()))));
+        }
+
+        let input_msg = InputMessage::new_reply(reply_surb, message);
+        self.msg_input.unbounded_send(input_msg).unwrap();
+
+        None
    }

-    async fn handle_request(&mut self, request: ClientRequest) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
+    fn handle_self_address(&self) -> ServerResponse {
+        ServerResponse::SelfAddress(self.self_full_address)
+    }
+
+    fn handle_request(&mut self, request: ClientRequest) -> Option<ServerResponse> {
        match request {
            ClientRequest::Send {
                recipient,
                message,
-                connection_id,
-            } => self.handle_send(recipient, message, connection_id).await,
-
-            ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
-                recipient,
-                message,
-                reply_surbs,
-                connection_id,
-            } => {
-                self.handle_send_anonymous(recipient, message, reply_surbs, connection_id)
-                    .await
-            }
-
+                with_reply_surb,
+            } => self.handle_send(recipient, message, with_reply_surb),
            ClientRequest::Reply {
                message,
-                sender_tag,
-                connection_id,
-            } => self.handle_reply(sender_tag, message, connection_id).await,
-
+                reply_surb,
+            } => self.handle_reply(reply_surb, message),
            ClientRequest::SelfAddress => Some(self.handle_self_address()),
-            ClientRequest::ClosedConnection(id) => self.handle_closed_connection(id),
-            ClientRequest::GetLaneQueueLength(id) => self.handle_get_lane_queue_length(id).await,
        }
    }

-    async fn handle_text_message(&mut self, msg: String) -> Option<WsMessage> {
+    fn handle_text_message(&mut self, msg: String) -> Option<WsMessage> {
        debug!("Handling text message request");
        trace!("Content: {:?}", msg);

@@ -290,13 +128,13 @@ impl Handler {

        let response = match client_request {
            Err(err) => Some(ServerResponse::Error(err)),
-            Ok(req) => self.handle_request(req).await,
+            Ok(req) => self.handle_request(req),
        };

        response.map(|resp| WsMessage::text(resp.into_text()))
    }

-    async fn handle_binary_message(&mut self, msg: &[u8]) -> Option<WsMessage> {
+    fn handle_binary_message(&mut self, msg: Vec<u8>) -> Option<WsMessage> {
        debug!("Handling binary message request");

        self.received_response_type = ReceivedResponseType::Binary;
@@ -304,23 +142,49 @@ impl Handler {

        let response = match client_request {
            Err(err) => Some(ServerResponse::Error(err)),
-            Ok(req) => self.handle_request(req).await,
+            Ok(req) => self.handle_request(req),
        };

        response.map(|resp| WsMessage::Binary(resp.into_binary()))
    }

-    async fn handle_ws_request(&mut self, raw_request: WsMessage) -> Option<WsMessage> {
+    fn handle_ws_request(&mut self, raw_request: WsMessage) -> Option<WsMessage> {
        // apparently tungstenite auto-handles ping/pong/close messages so for now let's ignore
        // them and let's test that claim. If that's not the case, just copy code from
        // old version of this file.
        match raw_request {
-            WsMessage::Text(text_message) => self.handle_text_message(text_message).await,
-            WsMessage::Binary(binary_message) => self.handle_binary_message(&binary_message).await,
+            WsMessage::Text(text_message) => self.handle_text_message(text_message),
+            WsMessage::Binary(binary_message) => self.handle_binary_message(binary_message),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

+    // I'm still not entirely sure why `send_all` requires `TryStream` rather than `Stream`, but
+    // let's just play along for now
+    fn prepare_reconstructed_binary(
+        &self,
+        reconstructed_messages: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>,
+    ) -> Vec<Result<WsMessage, WsError>> {
+        reconstructed_messages
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(ServerResponse::Received)
+            .map(|resp| Ok(WsMessage::Binary(resp.into_binary())))
+            .collect()
+    }
+
+    // I'm still not entirely sure why `send_all` requires `TryStream` rather than `Stream`, but
+    // let's just play along for now
+    fn prepare_reconstructed_text(
+        &self,
+        reconstructed_messages: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>,
+    ) -> Vec<Result<WsMessage, WsError>> {
+        reconstructed_messages
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(ServerResponse::Received)
+            .map(|resp| Ok(WsMessage::Text(resp.into_text())))
+            .collect()
+    }
+
    async fn push_websocket_received_plaintexts(
        &mut self,
        reconstructed_messages: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>,
@@ -329,8 +193,10 @@ impl Handler {
        // if it's text or binary, but for time being we use the naive assumption that if
        // client is sending Message::Text it expects text back. Same for Message::Binary
        let response_messages = match self.received_response_type {
-            ReceivedResponseType::Binary => prepare_reconstructed_binary(reconstructed_messages),
-            ReceivedResponseType::Text => prepare_reconstructed_text(reconstructed_messages),
+            ReceivedResponseType::Binary => {
+                self.prepare_reconstructed_binary(reconstructed_messages)
+            }
+            ReceivedResponseType::Text => self.prepare_reconstructed_text(reconstructed_messages),
        };

        let mut send_stream = futures::stream::iter(response_messages);
@@ -358,12 +224,8 @@ impl Handler {
        }
    }

-    async fn listen_for_requests(
-        &mut self,
-        mut msg_receiver: ReconstructedMessagesReceiver,
-        mut task_client: task::TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        while !task_client.is_shutdown() {
+    async fn listen_for_requests(&mut self, mut msg_receiver: ReconstructedMessagesReceiver) {
+        loop {
            tokio::select! {
                // we can either get a client request from the websocket
                socket_msg = self.next_websocket_request() => {
@@ -373,7 +235,7 @@ impl Handler {
                    let socket_msg = match socket_msg.unwrap() {
                        Ok(socket_msg) => socket_msg,
                        Err(err) => {
-                            warn!("failed to obtain message from websocket stream! stopping connection handler: {err}");
+                            warn!("failed to obtain message from websocket stream! stopping connection handler: {}", err);
                            break;
                        }
                    };
@@ -382,10 +244,11 @@ impl Handler {
                        break;
                    }

-                    if let Some(response) = self.handle_ws_request(socket_msg).await {
+                    if let Some(response) = self.handle_ws_request(socket_msg) {
                        if let Err(err) = self.send_websocket_response(response).await {
                            warn!(
-                                "Failed to send message over websocket: {err}. Assuming the connection is dead.",
+                                "Failed to send message over websocket: {}. Assuming the connection is dead.",
+                                err
                            );
                            break;
                        }
@@ -393,37 +256,24 @@ impl Handler {
                }
                // or a reconstructed mix message that we need to push back to the client
                mix_messages = msg_receiver.next() => {
-                    let Some(mix_messages) = mix_messages else {
-                        error!("mix messages sender was unexpectedly closed! this shouldn't have ever happened! (unless we're shutting down - TODO: implement proper graceful shutdown handler)");
-                        return
-                    };
-                    if let Err(err) = self.push_websocket_received_plaintexts(mix_messages).await {
-                        warn!("failed to send sphinx packets back to the client - {err}, assuming the connection is dead");
+                    let mix_messages = mix_messages.expect(
+                        "mix messages sender was unexpectedly closed! this shouldn't have ever happened!",
+                    );
+                    if let Err(e) = self.push_websocket_received_plaintexts(mix_messages).await {
+                        warn!("failed to send sphinx packets back to the client - {:?}, assuming the connection is dead", e);
                        break;
                    }
                }
-                _ = task_client.recv() => {
-                    log::trace!("Websocket handler: Received shutdown");
-                }
            }
        }
-        log::debug!("Websocket handler: Exiting");
    }

    // consume self to make sure `drop` is called after this is done
-    pub(crate) async fn handle_connection(
-        mut self,
-        socket: TcpStream,
-        mut task_client: task::TaskClient,
-    ) {
-        // We don't want a crash in the connection handler to trigger a shutdown of the whole
-        // process.
-        task_client.mark_as_success();
-
+    pub(crate) async fn handle_connection(mut self, socket: TcpStream) {
        let ws_stream = match accept_async(socket).await {
            Ok(ws_stream) => ws_stream,
            Err(err) => {
-                warn!("error while performing the websocket handshake - {err}");
+                warn!("error while performing the websocket handshake - {:?}", err);
                return;
            }
        };
@@ -438,31 +288,6 @@ impl Handler {
            ))
            .expect("the buffer request failed!");

-        self.listen_for_requests(reconstructed_receiver, task_client)
-            .await;
+        self.listen_for_requests(reconstructed_receiver).await;
    }
 }
-
-// I'm still not entirely sure why `send_all` requires `TryStream` rather than `Stream`, but
-// let's just play along for now
-fn prepare_reconstructed_binary(
-    reconstructed_messages: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>,
-) -> Vec<Result<WsMessage, WsError>> {
-    reconstructed_messages
-        .into_iter()
-        .map(ServerResponse::Received)
-        .map(|resp| Ok(WsMessage::Binary(resp.into_binary())))
-        .collect()
-}
-
-// I'm still not entirely sure why `send_all` requires `TryStream` rather than `Stream`, but
-// let's just play along for now
-fn prepare_reconstructed_text(
-    reconstructed_messages: Vec<ReconstructedMessage>,
-) -> Vec<Result<WsMessage, WsError>> {
-    reconstructed_messages
-        .into_iter()
-        .map(ServerResponse::Received)
-        .map(|resp| Ok(WsMessage::Text(resp.into_text())))
-        .collect()
-}
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-use super::handler::HandlerBuilder;
+use super::handler::Handler;
 use log::*;
 use std::{net::SocketAddr, process, sync::Arc};
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ impl Listener {
        }
    }

-    pub(crate) async fn run(&mut self, handler: HandlerBuilder, mut task_client: task::TaskClient) {
+    pub(crate) async fn run(&mut self, handler: Handler) {
        let tcp_listener = match tokio::net::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);
+                error!("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);
            }
        };
@@ -45,30 +45,18 @@ impl Listener {

        loop {
            tokio::select! {
-                // When the handler finishes we check if shutdown is signalled
                _ = notify.notified() => {
-                    if task_client.is_shutdown() {
-                        log::trace!("Websocket listener: detected shutdown after connection closed");
-                        break;
-                    }
                    // our connection terminated - we are open to a new one now!
                    self.state = State::AwaitingConnection;
                }
-                // ... but when there is no connected client at the time of shutdown being
-                // signalled, we handle it here.
-                _ = task_client.recv() => {
-                    if !self.state.is_connected() {
-                        log::trace!("Not connected: shutting down");
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
                new_conn = tcp_listener.accept() => {
                    match new_conn {
                        Ok((mut socket, remote_addr)) => {
                            debug!("Received connection from {:?}", remote_addr);
                            if self.state.is_connected() {
-                                warn!("Tried to open a duplicate websocket connection. The request came from {}", remote_addr);
+                                warn!("tried to duplicate!");
                                // if we've already got a connection, don't allow another one
+                                debug!("but there was already a connection present!");
                                // while we only ever want to accept a single connection, we don't want
                                // to leave clients hanging (and also allow for reconnection if it somehow
                                // was dropped)
@@ -76,37 +64,31 @@ impl Listener {
                                    Ok(_) => trace!(
                                        "closed the connection between attempting websocket handshake"
                                    ),
-                                    Err(err) => warn!("failed to cleanly close the connection - {err}"),
+                                    Err(e) => warn!("failed to cleanly close the connection - {:?}", e),
                                };
                            } else {
                                // even though we're spawning a new task with the handler here, we will only ever spawn a single one.
                                // it's done so that any new connections to this listener could be rejected rather than left
                                // hanging because the executor doesn't come back here
                                let notify_clone = Arc::clone(&notify);
-                                let fresh_handler = handler.create_active_handler();
-                                let task_client_handler = task_client.clone();
+                                let fresh_handler = handler.clone();
                                tokio::spawn(async move {
-                                    fresh_handler.handle_connection(socket, task_client_handler).await;
+                                    fresh_handler.handle_connection(socket).await;
                                    notify_clone.notify_one();
                                });
                                self.state = State::Connected;
                            }
                        }
-                        Err(err) => warn!("failed to get client: {err}"),
+                        Err(e) => warn!("failed to get client: {:?}", e),
                    }
                }
            }
        }
-        log::debug!("Websocket listener: Exiting");
    }

-    pub(crate) fn start(
-        mut self,
-        handler: HandlerBuilder,
-        shutdown: task::TaskClient,
-    ) -> JoinHandle<()> {
+    pub(crate) fn start(mut self, handler: Handler) -> JoinHandle<()> {
        info!("Running websocket on {:?}", self.address.to_string());

-        tokio::spawn(async move { self.run(handler, shutdown).await })
+        tokio::spawn(async move { self.run(handler).await })
    }
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

-pub(crate) use handler::HandlerBuilder;
+pub(crate) use handler::Handler;
 pub(crate) use listener::Listener;

 pub(crate) mod handler;
@@ -24,11 +24,8 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Error {
 }

 impl Error {
-    pub fn new<S: Into<String>>(kind: ErrorKind, message: S) -> Self {
-        Error {
-            kind,
-            message: message.into(),
-        }
+    pub fn new(kind: ErrorKind, message: String) -> Self {
+        Error { kind, message }
    }
 }

@@ -65,31 +62,6 @@ pub enum ErrorKind {
    Other = 0xFF,
 }

-impl TryFrom<u8> for ErrorKind {
-    type Error = Error;
-
-    fn try_from(value: u8) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        match value {
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::EmptyRequest as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::EmptyRequest),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::TooShortRequest as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::TooShortRequest),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::UnknownRequest as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::UnknownRequest),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::MalformedRequest as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::MalformedRequest),
-
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::EmptyResponse as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::EmptyResponse),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::TooShortResponse as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::TooShortResponse),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::UnknownResponse as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::UnknownResponse),
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::MalformedResponse as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::MalformedResponse),
-
-            _ if value == (ErrorKind::Other as u8) => Ok(ErrorKind::Other),
-
-            n => Err(Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
-                format!("invalid error code {}", n),
-            )),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl ErrorKind {
    pub(crate) fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
        match *self {
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 // all variable size data is always prefixed with u64 length
@@ -7,115 +7,53 @@
 use crate::error::{self, ErrorKind};
 use crate::text::ClientRequestText;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::{AnonymousSenderTag, SENDER_TAG_SIZE};
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
 use std::convert::{TryFrom, TryInto};
 use std::mem::size_of;

-#[repr(u8)]
-enum ClientRequestTag {
-    /// Value tag representing [`Send`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    Send = 0x00,
+/// Value tag representing [`Send`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
+pub const SEND_REQUEST_TAG: u8 = 0x00;

-    /// Value tag representing [`SendAnonymous`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    SendAnonymous = 0x01,
+/// Value tag representing [`Reply`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
+pub const REPLY_REQUEST_TAG: u8 = 0x01;

-    /// Value tag representing [`Reply`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    Reply = 0x02,
-
-    /// Value tag representing [`SelfAddress`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    SelfAddress = 0x03,
-
-    /// Value tag representing [`ClosedConnection`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    ClosedConnection = 0x04,
-
-    /// Value tag representing [`GetLaneQueueLength`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
-    GetLaneQueueLength = 0x05,
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<u8> for ClientRequestTag {
-    type Error = error::Error;
-
-    fn try_from(value: u8) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-        match value {
-            _ if value == (Self::Send as u8) => Ok(Self::Send),
-            _ if value == (Self::SendAnonymous as u8) => Ok(Self::SendAnonymous),
-            _ if value == (Self::Reply as u8) => Ok(Self::Reply),
-            _ if value == (Self::SelfAddress as u8) => Ok(Self::SelfAddress),
-            _ if value == (Self::ClosedConnection as u8) => Ok(Self::ClosedConnection),
-            _ if value == (Self::GetLaneQueueLength as u8) => Ok(Self::GetLaneQueueLength),
-            n => Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::UnknownRequest,
-                format!("{n} does not correspond to any valid request tag"),
-            )),
-        }
-    }
-}
+/// Value tag representing [`SelfAddress`] variant of the [`ClientRequest`]
+pub const SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG: u8 = 0x02;

 #[allow(non_snake_case)]
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum ClientRequest {
-    /// The simplest message variant where no additional information is attached.
-    /// You're simply sending your `data` to specified `recipient` without any tagging.
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Plain` variant
    Send {
        recipient: Recipient,
        message: Vec<u8>,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
+        // Perhaps we could change it to a number to indicate how many reply_SURBs we want to include?
+        with_reply_surb: bool,
    },
-
-    /// Create a message used for a duplex anonymous communication where the recipient
-    /// will never learn of our true identity. This is achieved by carefully sending `reply_surbs`.
-    ///
-    /// Note that if reply_surbs is set to zero then
-    /// this variant requires the client having sent some reply_surbs in the past
-    /// (and thus the recipient also knowing our sender tag).
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Repliable` variant
-    SendAnonymous {
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    },
-
-    /// Attempt to use our internally received and stored `ReplySurb` to send the message back
-    /// to specified recipient whilst not knowing its full identity (or even gateway).
-    ///
-    /// Ends up with `NymMessage::Reply` variant
    Reply {
-        sender_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
        message: Vec<u8>,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
+        reply_surb: ReplySurb,
    },
-
    SelfAddress,
-
-    ClosedConnection(u64),
-
-    GetLaneQueueLength(u64),
 }

 // we could have been parsing it directly TryFrom<WsMessage>, but we want to retain
 // information about whether it came from binary or text to send appropriate response back
 impl ClientRequest {
-    // SEND_REQUEST_TAG || recipient || conn_id || data_len || data
-    fn serialize_send(recipient: Recipient, data: Vec<u8>, connection_id: Option<u64>) -> Vec<u8> {
+    // SEND_REQUEST_TAG || with_surb || recipient || data_len || data
+    fn serialize_send(recipient: Recipient, data: Vec<u8>, with_reply_surb: bool) -> Vec<u8> {
        let data_len_bytes = (data.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
-        let conn_id_bytes = connection_id.unwrap_or(0).to_be_bytes();
-
-        std::iter::once(ClientRequestTag::Send as u8)
-            .chain(recipient.to_bytes().into_iter()) // will not be length prefixed because the length is constant
-            .chain(conn_id_bytes.into_iter())
-            .chain(data_len_bytes.into_iter())
+        std::iter::once(SEND_REQUEST_TAG)
+            .chain(std::iter::once(with_reply_surb as u8))
+            .chain(recipient.to_bytes().iter().cloned()) // will not be length prefixed because the length is constant
+            .chain(data_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
            .chain(data.into_iter())
            .collect()
    }

-    // SEND_REQUEST_TAG || recipient || conn_id || data_len || data
+    // SEND_REQUEST_TAG || with_reply || recipient || data_len || data
    fn deserialize_send(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        // we need to have at least 1 (tag) + Recipient::LEN + 2*sizeof<u64> bytes
-        if b.len() < 1 + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>() {
+        // we need to have at least 1 (tag) + 1 (reply flag) + Recipient::LEN + sizeof<u64> bytes
+        if b.len() < 2 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>() {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
                ErrorKind::TooShortRequest,
                "not enough data provided to recover 'send'".to_string(),
@@ -123,34 +61,34 @@ impl ClientRequest {
        }

        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::Send as u8);
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], SEND_REQUEST_TAG);
+
+        let with_reply_surb = match b[1] {
+            0 => false,
+            1 => true,
+            n => {
+                return Err(error::Error::new(
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
+                    format!("invalid reply surb flag {}", n),
+                ))
+            }
+        };

        let mut recipient_bytes = [0u8; Recipient::LEN];
-        recipient_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[1..1 + Recipient::LEN]);
+        recipient_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[2..2 + Recipient::LEN]);
        let recipient = match Recipient::try_from_bytes(recipient_bytes) {
            Ok(recipient) => recipient,
            Err(err) => {
                return Err(error::Error::new(
                    ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
-                    format!("malformed recipient: {err}"),
+                    format!("malformed recipient: {:?}", err),
                ))
            }
        };

-        let mut connection_id_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        connection_id_bytes
-            .copy_from_slice(&b[1 + Recipient::LEN..1 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let connection_id = u64::from_be_bytes(connection_id_bytes);
-        let connection_id = if connection_id == 0 {
-            None
-        } else {
-            Some(connection_id)
-        };
-
-        let data_len_bytes =
-            &b[1 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()..1 + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>()];
+        let data_len_bytes = &b[2 + Recipient::LEN..2 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()];
        let data_len = u64::from_be_bytes(data_len_bytes.try_into().unwrap());
-        let data = &b[1 + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>()..];
+        let data = &b[2 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()..];
        if data.len() as u64 != data_len {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
@@ -163,111 +101,32 @@ impl ClientRequest {
        }

        Ok(ClientRequest::Send {
+            with_reply_surb,
            recipient,
            message: data.to_vec(),
-            connection_id,
        })
    }

-    // SEND_ANONYMOUS_REQUEST_TAG || reply_surbs || recipient || conn_id || data_len || data
-    fn serialize_send_anonymous(
-        recipient: Recipient,
-        data: Vec<u8>,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    ) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let data_len_bytes = (data.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
-        let conn_id_bytes = connection_id.unwrap_or(0).to_be_bytes();
-
-        std::iter::once(ClientRequestTag::SendAnonymous as u8)
-            .chain(reply_surbs.to_be_bytes().into_iter())
-            .chain(recipient.to_bytes().into_iter()) // will not be length prefixed because the length is constant
-            .chain(conn_id_bytes.into_iter())
-            .chain(data_len_bytes.into_iter())
-            .chain(data.into_iter())
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    // SEND_ANONYMOUS_REQUEST_TAG || reply_surbs || recipient || data_len || data
-    fn deserialize_send_anonymous(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        // we need to have at least 1 (tag) + sizeof<u32> (num surbs) + Recipient::LEN + 2 *sizeof<u64> bytes
-        if b.len() < 1 + size_of::<u32>() + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>() {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::TooShortRequest,
-                "not enough data provided to recover 'send_anonymous'".to_string(),
-            ));
-        }
-
-        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::SendAnonymous as u8);
-
-        let reply_surbs = u32::from_be_bytes([b[1], b[2], b[3], b[4]]);
-
-        let mut recipient_bytes = [0u8; Recipient::LEN];
-        recipient_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[5..5 + Recipient::LEN]);
-        let recipient = match Recipient::try_from_bytes(recipient_bytes) {
-            Ok(recipient) => recipient,
-            Err(err) => {
-                return Err(error::Error::new(
-                    ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
-                    format!("malformed recipient: {err}"),
-                ))
-            }
-        };
-
-        let mut connection_id_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        connection_id_bytes
-            .copy_from_slice(&b[5 + Recipient::LEN..5 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let connection_id = u64::from_be_bytes(connection_id_bytes);
-        let connection_id = if connection_id == 0 {
-            None
-        } else {
-            Some(connection_id)
-        };
-
-        let data_len_bytes =
-            &b[5 + Recipient::LEN + size_of::<u64>()..5 + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>()];
-        let data_len = u64::from_be_bytes(data_len_bytes.try_into().unwrap());
-        let data = &b[5 + Recipient::LEN + 2 * size_of::<u64>()..];
-        if data.len() as u64 != data_len {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
-                format!(
-                    "data len has inconsistent length. specified: {} got: {}",
-                    data_len,
-                    data.len()
-                ),
-            ));
-        }
-
-        Ok(ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
-            reply_surbs,
-            recipient,
-            message: data.to_vec(),
-            connection_id,
-        })
-    }
-
-    // REPLY_REQUEST_TAG || SENDER_TAG || conn_id || message_len || message
-    fn serialize_reply(
-        message: Vec<u8>,
-        sender_tag: AnonymousSenderTag,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    ) -> Vec<u8> {
+    // REPLY_REQUEST_TAG || surb_len || surb || message_len || message
+    fn serialize_reply(message: Vec<u8>, reply_surb: ReplySurb) -> Vec<u8> {
+        let reply_surb_bytes = reply_surb.to_bytes();
+        let surb_len_bytes = (reply_surb_bytes.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
        let message_len_bytes = (message.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
-        let conn_id_bytes = connection_id.unwrap_or(0).to_be_bytes();

-        std::iter::once(ClientRequestTag::Reply as u8)
-            .chain(sender_tag.to_bytes().into_iter())
-            .chain(conn_id_bytes.into_iter())
-            .chain(message_len_bytes.into_iter())
+        std::iter::once(REPLY_REQUEST_TAG)
+            .chain(surb_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
+            .chain(reply_surb_bytes.into_iter())
+            .chain(message_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
            .chain(message.into_iter())
            .collect()
    }

-    // REPLY_REQUEST_TAG || SENDER_TAG || conn_id || message_len || message
+    // REPLY_REQUEST_TAG || surb_len || surb || message_len || message
    fn deserialize_reply(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        if b.len() < 1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE + 2 * size_of::<u64>() {
+        // we need to have at the very least 2 * sizeof<u64> bytes (in case, for some peculiar reason
+        // message and reply surb were 0 len - the request would still be malformed, but would in theory
+        // be parse'able)
+        if b.len() < 1 + 2 * size_of::<u64>() {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
                ErrorKind::TooShortRequest,
                "not enough data provided to recover 'reply'".to_string(),
@@ -275,28 +134,42 @@ impl ClientRequest {
        }

        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::Reply as u8);
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], REPLY_REQUEST_TAG);

-        // the unwrap here is fine as we're definitely using exactly SENDER_TAG_SIZE bytes
-        let sender_tag =
-            AnonymousSenderTag::from_bytes(b[1..1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE].try_into().unwrap());
+        let reply_surb_len =
+            u64::from_be_bytes(b[1..1 + size_of::<u64>()].as_ref().try_into().unwrap());

-        let mut connection_id_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        connection_id_bytes
-            .copy_from_slice(&b[1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE..1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE + size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let connection_id = u64::from_be_bytes(connection_id_bytes);
-        let connection_id = if connection_id == 0 {
-            None
-        } else {
-            Some(connection_id)
+        // make sure we won't go out of bounds here
+        if reply_surb_len > (b.len() - 1 + 2 * size_of::<u64>()) as u64 {
+            return Err(error::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
+                format!(
+                    "not enough data to recover reply surb with specified length {}",
+                    reply_surb_len
+                ),
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let surb_bound = 1 + size_of::<u64>() + reply_surb_len as usize;
+
+        let reply_surb_bytes = &b[1 + size_of::<u64>()..surb_bound];
+        let reply_surb = match ReplySurb::from_bytes(reply_surb_bytes) {
+            Ok(reply_surb) => reply_surb,
+            Err(err) => {
+                return Err(error::Error::new(
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
+                    format!("malformed reply surb: {:?}", err),
+                ))
+            }
        };

        let message_len = u64::from_be_bytes(
-            b[1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE + size_of::<u64>()..1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE + 2 * size_of::<u64>()]
+            b[surb_bound..surb_bound + size_of::<u64>()]
+                .as_ref()
                .try_into()
                .unwrap(),
        );
-        let message = &b[1 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE + 2 * size_of::<u64>()..];
+        let message = &b[surb_bound + size_of::<u64>()..];
        if message.len() as u64 != message_len {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
@@ -307,79 +180,26 @@ impl ClientRequest {
                ),
            ));
        }
+        // TODO: should this blow HERE, i.e. during deserialization that the data you're trying
+        // to send via reply is too long?

        Ok(ClientRequest::Reply {
+            reply_surb,
            message: message.to_vec(),
-            sender_tag,
-            connection_id,
        })
    }

    // SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG
    fn serialize_self_address() -> Vec<u8> {
-        vec![ClientRequestTag::SelfAddress as u8]
+        std::iter::once(SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG).collect()
    }

    // SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG
-    fn deserialize_self_address(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
+    fn deserialize_self_address(b: &[u8]) -> Self {
        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::SelfAddress as u8);
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG);

-        Ok(ClientRequest::SelfAddress)
-    }
-
-    // CLOSED_CONNECTION_REQUEST_TAG
-    fn serialize_closed_connection(connection_id: u64) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let conn_id_bytes = connection_id.to_be_bytes();
-        std::iter::once(ClientRequestTag::ClosedConnection as u8)
-            .chain(conn_id_bytes.into_iter())
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    // CLOSED_CONNECTION_REQUEST_TAG
-    fn deserialize_closed_connection(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        if b.len() != 1 + size_of::<u64>() {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
-                "The received closed connection has invalid length",
-            ));
-        }
-
-        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::ClosedConnection as u8);
-
-        let mut connection_id_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        connection_id_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[1..=size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let connection_id = u64::from_be_bytes(connection_id_bytes);
-
-        Ok(ClientRequest::ClosedConnection(connection_id))
-    }
-
-    // GET_LANE_QUEUE_LENGHT_TAG
-    fn serialize_get_lane_queue_lengths(connection_id: u64) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let conn_id_bytes = connection_id.to_be_bytes();
-        std::iter::once(ClientRequestTag::GetLaneQueueLength as u8)
-            .chain(conn_id_bytes.into_iter())
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    // GET_LANE_QUEUE_LENGHT_TAG
-    fn deserialize_get_lane_queue_length(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        if b.len() != 1 + size_of::<u64>() {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
-                "The received get lane queue lengths has invalid length",
-            ));
-        }
-
-        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ClientRequestTag::GetLaneQueueLength as u8);
-
-        let mut connection_id_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        connection_id_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[1..=size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let connection_id = u64::from_be_bytes(connection_id_bytes);
-
-        Ok(ClientRequest::GetLaneQueueLength(connection_id))
+        ClientRequest::SelfAddress
    }

    pub fn serialize(self) -> Vec<u8> {
@@ -387,27 +207,15 @@ impl ClientRequest {
            ClientRequest::Send {
                recipient,
                message,
-                connection_id,
-            } => Self::serialize_send(recipient, message, connection_id),
-
-            ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
-                recipient,
-                message,
-                reply_surbs,
-                connection_id,
-            } => Self::serialize_send_anonymous(recipient, message, reply_surbs, connection_id),
+                with_reply_surb,
+            } => Self::serialize_send(recipient, message, with_reply_surb),

            ClientRequest::Reply {
                message,
-                sender_tag,
-                connection_id,
-            } => Self::serialize_reply(message, sender_tag, connection_id),
+                reply_surb,
+            } => Self::serialize_reply(message, reply_surb),

            ClientRequest::SelfAddress => Self::serialize_self_address(),
-
-            ClientRequest::ClosedConnection(id) => Self::serialize_closed_connection(id),
-
-            ClientRequest::GetLaneQueueLength(id) => Self::serialize_get_lane_queue_lengths(id),
        }
    }

@@ -421,21 +229,31 @@ impl ClientRequest {
            ));
        }

-        let request_tag = ClientRequestTag::try_from(b[0])?;
+        if b.len() < size_of::<u8>() {
+            return Err(error::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::TooShortRequest,
+                format!(
+                    "not enough data provided to recover request tag. Provided only {} bytes",
+                    b.len()
+                ),
+            ));
+        }
+        let request_tag = b[0];

        // determine what kind of request that is and try to deserialize it
        match request_tag {
-            ClientRequestTag::Send => Self::deserialize_send(b),
-            ClientRequestTag::SendAnonymous => Self::deserialize_send_anonymous(b),
-            ClientRequestTag::Reply => Self::deserialize_reply(b),
-            ClientRequestTag::SelfAddress => Self::deserialize_self_address(b),
-            ClientRequestTag::ClosedConnection => Self::deserialize_closed_connection(b),
-            ClientRequestTag::GetLaneQueueLength => Self::deserialize_get_lane_queue_length(b),
+            SEND_REQUEST_TAG => Self::deserialize_send(b),
+            REPLY_REQUEST_TAG => Self::deserialize_reply(b),
+            SELF_ADDRESS_REQUEST_TAG => Ok(Self::deserialize_self_address(b)),
+            n => Err(error::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::UnknownRequest,
+                format!("type {}", n),
+            )),
        }
    }

-    pub fn try_from_binary(raw_req: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        Self::deserialize(raw_req)
+    pub fn try_from_binary(raw_req: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
+        Self::deserialize(&raw_req)
    }

    pub fn try_from_text(raw_req: String) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
@@ -458,52 +276,44 @@ mod tests {
        let recipient = Recipient::try_from_base58_string("CytBseW6yFXUMzz4SGAKdNLGR7q3sJLLYxyBGvutNEQV.4QXYyEVc5fUDjmmi8PrHN9tdUFV4PCvSJE1278cHyvoe@4sBbL1ngf1vtNqykydQKTFh26sQCw888GpUqvPvyNB4f").unwrap();
        let recipient_string = recipient.to_string();

-        let send_request = ClientRequest::Send {
+        let send_request_no_surb = ClientRequest::Send {
            recipient,
            message: b"foomp".to_vec(),
-            connection_id: Some(42),
+            with_reply_surb: false,
        };

-        let bytes = send_request.serialize();
+        let bytes = send_request_no_surb.serialize();
        let recovered = ClientRequest::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
            ClientRequest::Send {
                recipient,
                message,
-                connection_id,
+                with_reply_surb,
            } => {
                assert_eq!(recipient.to_string(), recipient_string);
                assert_eq!(message, b"foomp".to_vec());
-                assert_eq!(connection_id, Some(42))
+                assert!(!with_reply_surb)
            }
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }
-    }

-    #[test]
-    fn send_anonymous_request_serialization_works() {
-        let original_recipient = Recipient::try_from_base58_string("CytBseW6yFXUMzz4SGAKdNLGR7q3sJLLYxyBGvutNEQV.4QXYyEVc5fUDjmmi8PrHN9tdUFV4PCvSJE1278cHyvoe@4sBbL1ngf1vtNqykydQKTFh26sQCw888GpUqvPvyNB4f").unwrap();
-
-        let send_anonymous_request = ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
-            recipient: original_recipient,
+        let send_request_surb = ClientRequest::Send {
+            recipient,
            message: b"foomp".to_vec(),
-            reply_surbs: 666,
-            connection_id: Some(42),
+            with_reply_surb: true,
        };

-        let bytes = send_anonymous_request.serialize();
+        let bytes = send_request_surb.serialize();
        let recovered = ClientRequest::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
-            ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
+            ClientRequest::Send {
                recipient,
                message,
-                reply_surbs,
-                connection_id,
+                with_reply_surb,
            } => {
-                assert_eq!(recipient, original_recipient);
+                assert_eq!(recipient.to_string(), recipient_string);
                assert_eq!(message, b"foomp".to_vec());
-                assert_eq!(connection_id, Some(42));
-                assert_eq!(reply_surbs, 666)
+                assert!(with_reply_surb)
            }
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }
@@ -511,23 +321,22 @@ mod tests {

    #[test]
    fn reply_request_serialization_works() {
+        let reply_surb_string = "CjfVbHbfAjbC3W1BvNHGXmM8KNAnDNYGaHMLqVDxRYeo352csAihstup9bvqXam4dTWgfHak6KYwL9STaxWJ47E8XFZbSEvs7hEsfCkxr6K9WJuSBPK84GDDEvad8ZAuMCoaXsAd5S2Lj9a5eYyzG4SL1jHzhSMni55LyJwumxo1ZTGZNXggxw1RREosvyzNrW9Rsi3owyPqLCwXpiei2tHZty8w8midVvg8vDa7ZEJD842CLv8D4ohynSG7gDpqTrhkRaqYAuz7dzqNbMXLJRM7v823Jn16fA1L7YQxmcaUdUigyRSgTdb4i9ebiLGSyJ1iDe6Acz613PQZh6Ua3bZ2zVKq3dSycpDm9ngarRK4zJrAaUxRkdih8YzW3BY4nL9eqkfKA4N1TWCLaRU7zpSaf8yMEwrAZReU3d5zLV8c5KBfa2w8R5anhQeBojduZEGEad8kkHuKU52Zg93FeWHvH1qgZaEJMHH4nN7gKXz9mvWDhYwyF4vt3Uy2NhCHC3N5pL1gMme27YcoPcTEia1fxKZtnt6rtEozzTrAgCJGswigkFbkafiV5QaJwLKTUxtzhkZ57eEuLPte9UvJHzhhXUQ2CV7R2BUkJjYZy3Zsx6YYvdYWiAFFkWUwNEGA4QpShUHciBfsQVHQ7pN41YcyYUhbywQDFnTVgEmdUZ1XCBi3gyK5U3tDQmFzP1u9m3mWrUA8qB9mRDE7ptNDm5c3c1458L6uXLUth7sdMaa1Was5LCmCdmNDtvNpCDAEt1in6q6mrZFR85aCSU9b1baNGwZoCqPpPvydkVe63gXWoi8ebvdyxARrqACFrSB3ZdY3uJBw8CTMNkKK6MvcefMkSVVsbLd36TQAtYSCqrpiMc5dQuKcEu5QfciwvWYXYx8WFNAgKwP2mv49KCTvfozNDUCbjzDwSx92Zv5zjG8HbFpB13bY9UZGeyTPvv7gGxCzjGjJGbW6FRAheRQaaje5fUgCNM95Tv7wBmAMRHHFgWafeK1sdFH7dtCX9u898HucGTaboSKLsVh8J78gbbkHErwjMh7y9YRkceq5TTYS5da4kHnyNKYWSbxgZrmFg44XGKoeYcqoHB3XTZrdsf7F5fFeNwnihkmADvhAcaxXUmVqq4rQFZH84a1iC3WBWXYcqiZH2L7ujGWV7mMDT4HBEerDYjc8rNY4xGTPfivCrBCJW1i14aqW8xRdsdgTM88eTksvC3WPJLJ7iMzfKXeL7fMW1Ek6QGyQtLBW98vEESpdcDg6DeZ5rMz6VqjTGGqcCaFGfHoqtfxMDaBAEsyQ8h7XDX6dg1wq9wH6j4Tw7Tj1MEv1b8uj5NJkozZdzVdYA2QyE2Dp8vuurQG6uVdTDNww2d88RBQ8sVgjxN8gR45y4woJLhFAaNTAtrY6wDTxyXST13ni6oyqdYxjFVk9Am4v3DzH7Y2K8iRVSHfTk4FRbPULyaeK6wt2anvMJH1XdvVRgc14h67MnBxMgMD1UFk8AErN7CDj26fppe3c5G6KozJe4cSqQUGbBjVzBnrHCruqrfZBn5hNZHTV37bQiomqhRQXohxhuKEnNrGbAe1xNvJr9X";
+        let reply_surb = ReplySurb::from_base58_string(reply_surb_string).unwrap();
        let reply_request = ClientRequest::Reply {
-            sender_tag: [8u8; SENDER_TAG_SIZE].into(),
            message: b"foomp".to_vec(),
-            connection_id: Some(42),
+            reply_surb,
        };

        let bytes = reply_request.serialize();
        let recovered = ClientRequest::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
            ClientRequest::Reply {
-                sender_tag,
+                reply_surb,
                message,
-                connection_id,
            } => {
-                assert_eq!(sender_tag, [8u8; SENDER_TAG_SIZE].into());
+                assert_eq!(reply_surb.to_base58_string(), reply_surb_string);
                assert_eq!(message, b"foomp".to_vec());
-                assert_eq!(connection_id, Some(42));
            }
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }
@@ -543,26 +352,4 @@ mod tests {
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }
    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn close_connection_request_serialization_works() {
-        let close_connection_request = ClientRequest::ClosedConnection(42);
-        let bytes = close_connection_request.serialize();
-        let recovered = ClientRequest::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
-        match recovered {
-            ClientRequest::ClosedConnection(id) => assert_eq!(id, 42),
-            _ => unreachable!(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn get_lane_queue_length_request_serialization_works() {
-        let close_connection_request = ClientRequest::GetLaneQueueLength(42);
-        let bytes = close_connection_request.serialize();
-        let recovered = ClientRequest::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
-        match recovered {
-            ClientRequest::GetLaneQueueLength(id) => assert_eq!(id, 42),
-            _ => unreachable!(),
-        }
-    }
 }
@@ -1,54 +1,32 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 // all variable size data is always prefixed with u64 length
 // tags are u8

+#![allow(unknown_lints)] // due to using `clippy::branches_sharing_code` which does not exist on `stable` just yet
+
 use crate::error::{self, ErrorKind};
 use crate::text::ServerResponseText;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::{AnonymousSenderTag, SENDER_TAG_SIZE};
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
 use nymsphinx::receiver::ReconstructedMessage;
 use std::convert::TryInto;
 use std::mem::size_of;

-#[repr(u8)]
-enum ServerResponseTag {
-    /// Value tag representing [`Error`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
-    Error = 0x00,
+/// Value tag representing [`Error`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
+pub const ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG: u8 = 0x00;

-    /// Value tag representing [`Received`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
-    Received = 0x01,
+/// Value tag representing [`Received`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
+pub const RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG: u8 = 0x01;

-    /// Value tag representing [`SelfAddress`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
-    SelfAddress = 0x02,
-
-    /// Value tag representing [`LaneQueueLength`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
-    LaneQueueLength = 0x03,
-}
-
-impl TryFrom<u8> for ServerResponseTag {
-    type Error = error::Error;
-
-    fn try_from(value: u8) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        match value {
-            _ if value == (Self::Error as u8) => Ok(Self::Error),
-            _ if value == (Self::Received as u8) => Ok(Self::Received),
-            _ if value == (Self::SelfAddress as u8) => Ok(Self::SelfAddress),
-            _ if value == (Self::LaneQueueLength as u8) => Ok(Self::LaneQueueLength),
-            n => Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::UnknownResponse,
-                format!("{n} does not correspond to any valid response tag"),
-            )),
-        }
-    }
-}
+/// Value tag representing [`SelfAddress`] variant of the [`ServerResponse`]
+pub const SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG: u8 = 0x02;

 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum ServerResponse {
    Received(ReconstructedMessage),
-    SelfAddress(Box<Recipient>),
-    LaneQueueLength { lane: u64, queue_length: usize },
+    SelfAddress(Recipient),
    Error(error::Error),
 }

@@ -60,19 +38,24 @@ impl ServerResponse {
        })
    }

-    // RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG || 1 | 0 indicating sender_tag || Option<sender_tag> || msg_len || msg
+    // RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG || with_reply || (surb_len || surb) || msg_len || msg
    fn serialize_received(reconstructed_message: ReconstructedMessage) -> Vec<u8> {
        let message_len_bytes = (reconstructed_message.message.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
+        if let Some(reply_surb) = reconstructed_message.reply_surb {
+            let reply_surb_bytes = reply_surb.to_bytes();
+            let surb_len_bytes = (reply_surb_bytes.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();

-        if let Some(sender_tag) = reconstructed_message.sender_tag {
-            std::iter::once(ServerResponseTag::Received as u8)
+            // with_reply || surb_len || surb || msg_len || msg
+            std::iter::once(RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG)
                .chain(std::iter::once(true as u8))
-                .chain(sender_tag.to_bytes().into_iter())
+                .chain(surb_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
+                .chain(reply_surb_bytes.iter().cloned())
                .chain(message_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
                .chain(reconstructed_message.message.into_iter())
                .collect()
        } else {
-            std::iter::once(ServerResponseTag::Received as u8)
+            // without_reply || msg_len || msg
+            std::iter::once(RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG)
                .chain(std::iter::once(false as u8))
                .chain(message_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
                .chain(reconstructed_message.message.into_iter())
@@ -80,9 +63,10 @@ impl ServerResponse {
        }
    }

-    // RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG || 1 | 0 indicating sender_tag || Option<sender_tag> || msg_len || msg
+    // RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG || with_reply || (surb_len || surb) || msg_len || msg
    fn deserialize_received(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG);

        // we must be able to read at the very least if it has a reply_surb and length of some field
        if b.len() < 2 + size_of::<u64>() {
@@ -91,70 +75,101 @@ impl ServerResponse {
                "not enough data provided to recover 'received'".to_string(),
            ));
        }
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ServerResponseTag::Received as u8);

-        let has_sender_tag = match b[1] {
+        let with_reply_surb = match b[1] {
            0 => false,
            1 => true,
            n => {
                return Err(error::Error::new(
                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
-                    format!("invalid sender tag flag {n}"),
+                    format!("invalid reply flag {}", n),
                ))
            }
        };

-        let mut i = 2;
-        let sender_tag = if has_sender_tag {
-            if b[2..].len() < SENDER_TAG_SIZE {
+        // this is a false positive as even though the code is the same, it refers to different things
+        #[allow(clippy::branches_sharing_code)]
+        if with_reply_surb {
+            let reply_surb_len =
+                u64::from_be_bytes(b[2..2 + size_of::<u64>()].as_ref().try_into().unwrap());
+
+            // make sure we won't go out of bounds here
+            if reply_surb_len > (b.len() - 2 + 2 * size_of::<u64>()) as u64 {
                return Err(error::Error::new(
-                    ErrorKind::TooShortResponse,
-                    "not enough data provided to recover 'received'".to_string(),
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+                    "not enough bytes to read reply_surb bytes!".to_string(),
                ));
            }
-            i += SENDER_TAG_SIZE;
-            Some(AnonymousSenderTag::from_bytes(
-                b[2..2 + SENDER_TAG_SIZE].try_into().unwrap(),
-            ))
+
+            let surb_bound = 2 + size_of::<u64>() + reply_surb_len as usize;
+
+            let reply_surb_bytes = &b[2 + size_of::<u64>()..surb_bound];
+            let reply_surb = match ReplySurb::from_bytes(reply_surb_bytes) {
+                Ok(reply_surb) => reply_surb,
+                Err(err) => {
+                    return Err(error::Error::new(
+                        ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+                        format!("malformed reply SURB: {:?}", err),
+                    ))
+                }
+            };
+
+            let message_len = u64::from_be_bytes(
+                b[surb_bound..surb_bound + size_of::<u64>()]
+                    .as_ref()
+                    .try_into()
+                    .unwrap(),
+            );
+            let message = &b[surb_bound + size_of::<u64>()..];
+            if message.len() as u64 != message_len {
+                return Err(error::Error::new(
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+                    format!(
+                        "message len has inconsistent length. specified: {} got: {}",
+                        message_len,
+                        message.len()
+                    ),
+                ));
+            }
+
+            Ok(ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
+                message: message.to_vec(),
+                reply_surb: Some(reply_surb),
+            }))
        } else {
-            None
-        };
+            let message_len =
+                u64::from_be_bytes(b[2..2 + size_of::<u64>()].as_ref().try_into().unwrap());
+            let message = &b[2 + size_of::<u64>()..];
+            if message.len() as u64 != message_len {
+                return Err(error::Error::new(
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+                    format!(
+                        "message len has inconsistent length. specified: {} got: {}",
+                        message_len,
+                        message.len()
+                    ),
+                ));
+            }

-        if b[i..].len() < size_of::<u64>() {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::TooShortResponse,
-                "not enough data provided to recover 'received'".to_string(),
-            ));
+            Ok(ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
+                message: message.to_vec(),
+                reply_surb: None,
+            }))
        }
-
-        let message_len = u64::from_be_bytes(b[i..i + size_of::<u64>()].try_into().unwrap());
-        let message = &b[i + size_of::<u64>()..];
-        if message.len() as u64 != message_len {
-            return Err(error::Error::new(
-                ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
-                format!(
-                    "message len has inconsistent length. specified: {} got: {}",
-                    message_len,
-                    message.len()
-                ),
-            ));
-        }
-
-        Ok(ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
-            message: message.to_vec(),
-            sender_tag,
-        }))
    }

    // SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG || self_address
    fn serialize_self_address(address: Recipient) -> Vec<u8> {
-        std::iter::once(ServerResponseTag::SelfAddress as u8)
-            .chain(address.to_bytes().into_iter())
+        std::iter::once(SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG)
+            .chain(address.to_bytes().iter().cloned())
            .collect()
    }

    // SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG || self_address
    fn deserialize_self_address(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
+        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG);
+
        if b.len() != 1 + Recipient::LEN {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
                ErrorKind::TooShortResponse,
@@ -162,9 +177,6 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            ));
        }

-        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ServerResponseTag::SelfAddress as u8);
-
        let mut recipient_bytes = [0u8; Recipient::LEN];
        recipient_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[1..1 + Recipient::LEN]);

@@ -173,45 +185,20 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            Err(err) => {
                return Err(error::Error::new(
                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
-                    format!("malformed Recipient: {err}"),
+                    format!("malformed Recipient: {:?}", err),
                ))
            }
        };

-        Ok(ServerResponse::SelfAddress(Box::new(recipient)))
-    }
-
-    // LANE_QUEUE_LENGTH_RESPONSE_TAG || lane || queue_length
-    fn serialize_lane_queue_length(lane: u64, queue_length: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
-        std::iter::once(ServerResponseTag::LaneQueueLength as u8)
-            .chain(lane.to_be_bytes().iter().cloned())
-            .chain(queue_length.to_be_bytes().iter().cloned())
-            .collect()
-    }
-
-    // LANE_QUEUE_LENGTH_RESPONSE_TAG || lane || queue_length
-    fn deserialize_lane_queue_length(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
-        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ServerResponseTag::LaneQueueLength as u8);
-
-        let mut lane_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<u64>()];
-        lane_bytes.copy_from_slice(&b[1..=size_of::<u64>()]);
-        let lane = u64::from_be_bytes(lane_bytes);
-
-        let mut queue_length_bytes = [0u8; size_of::<usize>()];
-        queue_length_bytes
-            .copy_from_slice(&b[1 + size_of::<u64>()..1 + size_of::<u64>() + size_of::<usize>()]);
-        let queue_length = usize::from_be_bytes(queue_length_bytes);
-
-        Ok(ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength { lane, queue_length })
+        Ok(ServerResponse::SelfAddress(recipient))
    }

    // ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG || err_code || msg_len || msg
    fn serialize_error(error: error::Error) -> Vec<u8> {
        let message_len_bytes = (error.message.len() as u64).to_be_bytes();
-        std::iter::once(ServerResponseTag::Error as u8)
+        std::iter::once(ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG)
            .chain(std::iter::once(error.kind as u8))
-            .chain(message_len_bytes.into_iter())
+            .chain(message_len_bytes.iter().cloned())
            .chain(error.message.into_bytes().into_iter())
            .collect()
    }
@@ -219,7 +206,7 @@ impl ServerResponse {
    // ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG || err_code || msg_len || msg
    fn deserialize_error(b: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, error::Error> {
        // this MUST match because it was called by 'deserialize'
-        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ServerResponseTag::Error as u8);
+        debug_assert_eq!(b[0], ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG);

        if b.len() < size_of::<u8>() + size_of::<u64>() {
            return Err(error::Error::new(
@@ -228,7 +215,26 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            ));
        }

-        let error_kind = ErrorKind::try_from(b[1])?;
+        let error_kind = match b[1] {
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::EmptyRequest as u8) => ErrorKind::EmptyRequest,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::TooShortRequest as u8) => ErrorKind::TooShortRequest,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::UnknownRequest as u8) => ErrorKind::UnknownRequest,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::MalformedRequest as u8) => ErrorKind::MalformedRequest,
+
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::EmptyResponse as u8) => ErrorKind::EmptyResponse,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::TooShortResponse as u8) => ErrorKind::TooShortResponse,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::UnknownResponse as u8) => ErrorKind::UnknownResponse,
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::MalformedResponse as u8) => ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+
+            _ if b[1] == (ErrorKind::Other as u8) => ErrorKind::Other,
+
+            n => {
+                return Err(error::Error::new(
+                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
+                    format!("invalid error code {}", n),
+                ))
+            }
+        };

        let message_len =
            u64::from_be_bytes(b[2..2 + size_of::<u64>()].as_ref().try_into().unwrap());
@@ -249,7 +255,7 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            Err(err) => {
                return Err(error::Error::new(
                    ErrorKind::MalformedResponse,
-                    format!("malformed error message: {err}"),
+                    format!("malformed error message: {:?}", err),
                ))
            }
        };
@@ -265,10 +271,7 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            ServerResponse::Received(reconstructed_message) => {
                Self::serialize_received(reconstructed_message)
            }
-            ServerResponse::SelfAddress(address) => Self::serialize_self_address(*address),
-            ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength { lane, queue_length } => {
-                Self::serialize_lane_queue_length(lane, queue_length)
-            }
+            ServerResponse::SelfAddress(address) => Self::serialize_self_address(address),
            ServerResponse::Error(err) => Self::serialize_error(err),
        }
    }
@@ -293,14 +296,17 @@ impl ServerResponse {
            ));
        }

-        let response_tag = ServerResponseTag::try_from(b[0])?;
+        let response_tag = b[0];

        // determine what kind of response that is and try to deserialize it
        match response_tag {
-            ServerResponseTag::Received => Self::deserialize_received(b),
-            ServerResponseTag::SelfAddress => Self::deserialize_self_address(b),
-            ServerResponseTag::LaneQueueLength => Self::deserialize_lane_queue_length(b),
-            ServerResponseTag::Error => Self::deserialize_error(b),
+            RECEIVED_RESPONSE_TAG => Self::deserialize_received(b),
+            SELF_ADDRESS_RESPONSE_TAG => Self::deserialize_self_address(b),
+            ERROR_RESPONSE_TAG => Self::deserialize_error(b),
+            n => Err(error::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::UnknownResponse,
+                format!("type {}", n),
+            )),
        }
    }

@@ -322,33 +328,35 @@ mod tests {

    #[test]
    fn received_response_serialization_works() {
-        let received_with_sender_tag = ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
+        let reply_surb_string = "CjfVbHbfAjbC3W1BvNHGXmM8KNAnDNYGaHMLqVDxRYeo352csAihstup9bvqXam4dTWgfHak6KYwL9STaxWJ47E8XFZbSEvs7hEsfCkxr6K9WJuSBPK84GDDEvad8ZAuMCoaXsAd5S2Lj9a5eYyzG4SL1jHzhSMni55LyJwumxo1ZTGZNXggxw1RREosvyzNrW9Rsi3owyPqLCwXpiei2tHZty8w8midVvg8vDa7ZEJD842CLv8D4ohynSG7gDpqTrhkRaqYAuz7dzqNbMXLJRM7v823Jn16fA1L7YQxmcaUdUigyRSgTdb4i9ebiLGSyJ1iDe6Acz613PQZh6Ua3bZ2zVKq3dSycpDm9ngarRK4zJrAaUxRkdih8YzW3BY4nL9eqkfKA4N1TWCLaRU7zpSaf8yMEwrAZReU3d5zLV8c5KBfa2w8R5anhQeBojduZEGEad8kkHuKU52Zg93FeWHvH1qgZaEJMHH4nN7gKXz9mvWDhYwyF4vt3Uy2NhCHC3N5pL1gMme27YcoPcTEia1fxKZtnt6rtEozzTrAgCJGswigkFbkafiV5QaJwLKTUxtzhkZ57eEuLPte9UvJHzhhXUQ2CV7R2BUkJjYZy3Zsx6YYvdYWiAFFkWUwNEGA4QpShUHciBfsQVHQ7pN41YcyYUhbywQDFnTVgEmdUZ1XCBi3gyK5U3tDQmFzP1u9m3mWrUA8qB9mRDE7ptNDm5c3c1458L6uXLUth7sdMaa1Was5LCmCdmNDtvNpCDAEt1in6q6mrZFR85aCSU9b1baNGwZoCqPpPvydkVe63gXWoi8ebvdyxARrqACFrSB3ZdY3uJBw8CTMNkKK6MvcefMkSVVsbLd36TQAtYSCqrpiMc5dQuKcEu5QfciwvWYXYx8WFNAgKwP2mv49KCTvfozNDUCbjzDwSx92Zv5zjG8HbFpB13bY9UZGeyTPvv7gGxCzjGjJGbW6FRAheRQaaje5fUgCNM95Tv7wBmAMRHHFgWafeK1sdFH7dtCX9u898HucGTaboSKLsVh8J78gbbkHErwjMh7y9YRkceq5TTYS5da4kHnyNKYWSbxgZrmFg44XGKoeYcqoHB3XTZrdsf7F5fFeNwnihkmADvhAcaxXUmVqq4rQFZH84a1iC3WBWXYcqiZH2L7ujGWV7mMDT4HBEerDYjc8rNY4xGTPfivCrBCJW1i14aqW8xRdsdgTM88eTksvC3WPJLJ7iMzfKXeL7fMW1Ek6QGyQtLBW98vEESpdcDg6DeZ5rMz6VqjTGGqcCaFGfHoqtfxMDaBAEsyQ8h7XDX6dg1wq9wH6j4Tw7Tj1MEv1b8uj5NJkozZdzVdYA2QyE2Dp8vuurQG6uVdTDNww2d88RBQ8sVgjxN8gR45y4woJLhFAaNTAtrY6wDTxyXST13ni6oyqdYxjFVk9Am4v3DzH7Y2K8iRVSHfTk4FRbPULyaeK6wt2anvMJH1XdvVRgc14h67MnBxMgMD1UFk8AErN7CDj26fppe3c5G6KozJe4cSqQUGbBjVzBnrHCruqrfZBn5hNZHTV37bQiomqhRQXohxhuKEnNrGbAe1xNvJr9X";
+
+        let received_with_surb = ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
            message: b"foomp".to_vec(),
-            sender_tag: Some([42u8; SENDER_TAG_SIZE].into()),
+            reply_surb: Some(ReplySurb::from_base58_string(reply_surb_string).unwrap()),
        });
-        let bytes = received_with_sender_tag.serialize();
+        let bytes = received_with_surb.serialize();
        let recovered = ServerResponse::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
            ServerResponse::Received(reconstructed) => {
                assert_eq!(reconstructed.message, b"foomp".to_vec());
                assert_eq!(
-                    reconstructed.sender_tag,
-                    Some([42u8; SENDER_TAG_SIZE].into())
+                    reconstructed.reply_surb.unwrap().to_base58_string(),
+                    reply_surb_string
                )
            }
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }

-        let received_without_sender_tag = ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
+        let received_without_surb = ServerResponse::Received(ReconstructedMessage {
            message: b"foomp".to_vec(),
-            sender_tag: None,
+            reply_surb: None,
        });
-        let bytes = received_without_sender_tag.serialize();
+        let bytes = received_without_surb.serialize();
        let recovered = ServerResponse::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
            ServerResponse::Received(reconstructed) => {
                assert_eq!(reconstructed.message, b"foomp".to_vec());
-                assert!(reconstructed.sender_tag.is_none())
+                assert!(reconstructed.reply_surb.is_none())
            }
            _ => unreachable!(),
        }
@@ -359,7 +367,7 @@ mod tests {
        let recipient = Recipient::try_from_base58_string("CytBseW6yFXUMzz4SGAKdNLGR7q3sJLLYxyBGvutNEQV.4QXYyEVc5fUDjmmi8PrHN9tdUFV4PCvSJE1278cHyvoe@4sBbL1ngf1vtNqykydQKTFh26sQCw888GpUqvPvyNB4f").unwrap();
        let recipient_string = recipient.to_string();

-        let self_address_response = ServerResponse::SelfAddress(Box::new(recipient));
+        let self_address_response = ServerResponse::SelfAddress(recipient);
        let bytes = self_address_response.serialize();
        let recovered = ServerResponse::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
        match recovered {
@@ -370,23 +378,6 @@ mod tests {
        }
    }

-    #[test]
-    fn lane_queue_length_response_serialization_works() {
-        let lane_queue_length_response = ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength {
-            lane: 13,
-            queue_length: 42,
-        };
-        let bytes = lane_queue_length_response.serialize();
-        let recovered = ServerResponse::deserialize(&bytes).unwrap();
-        match recovered {
-            ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength { lane, queue_length } => {
-                assert_eq!(lane, 13);
-                assert_eq!(queue_length, 42)
-            }
-            _ => unreachable!(),
-        }
-    }
-
    #[test]
    fn error_response_serialization_works() {
        let dummy_error = error::Error::new(ErrorKind::UnknownRequest, "foomp message".to_string());
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-// Copyright 2021-2022 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 use crate::error::ErrorKind;
 use crate::requests::ClientRequest;
 use crate::responses::ServerResponse;
 use nymsphinx::addressing::clients::Recipient;
-use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::requests::AnonymousSenderTag;
+use nymsphinx::anonymous_replies::ReplySurb;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::convert::{TryFrom, TryInto};

@@ -19,22 +19,14 @@ pub(super) enum ClientRequestText {
    Send {
        message: String,
        recipient: String,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    },
-    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    SendAnonymous {
-        recipient: String,
-        message: String,
-        reply_surbs: u32,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
-    },
-    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    Reply {
-        sender_tag: String,
-        message: String,
-        connection_id: Option<u64>,
+        with_reply_surb: bool,
    },
    SelfAddress,
+    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+    Reply {
+        message: String,
+        reply_surb: String,
+    },
 }

 impl TryFrom<String> for ClientRequestText {
@@ -53,7 +45,7 @@ impl TryInto<ClientRequest> for ClientRequestText {
            ClientRequestText::Send {
                message,
                recipient,
-                connection_id,
+                with_reply_surb,
            } => {
                let message_bytes = message.into_bytes();
                let recipient = Recipient::try_from_base58_string(recipient).map_err(|err| {
@@ -63,42 +55,22 @@ impl TryInto<ClientRequest> for ClientRequestText {
                Ok(ClientRequest::Send {
                    message: message_bytes,
                    recipient,
-                    connection_id,
-                })
-            }
-            ClientRequestText::SendAnonymous {
-                recipient,
-                message,
-                reply_surbs,
-                connection_id,
-            } => {
-                let message_bytes = message.into_bytes();
-                let recipient = Recipient::try_from_base58_string(recipient).map_err(|err| {
-                    Self::Error::new(ErrorKind::MalformedRequest, err.to_string())
-                })?;
-                Ok(ClientRequest::SendAnonymous {
-                    recipient,
-                    message: message_bytes,
-                    reply_surbs,
-                    connection_id,
+                    with_reply_surb,
                })
            }
            ClientRequestText::SelfAddress => Ok(ClientRequest::SelfAddress),
            ClientRequestText::Reply {
-                sender_tag,
                message,
-                connection_id,
+                reply_surb,
            } => {
                let message_bytes = message.into_bytes();
-                let sender_tag =
-                    AnonymousSenderTag::try_from_base58_string(sender_tag).map_err(|err| {
-                        Self::Error::new(ErrorKind::MalformedRequest, err.to_string())
-                    })?;
+                let reply_surb = ReplySurb::from_base58_string(reply_surb).map_err(|err| {
+                    Self::Error::new(ErrorKind::MalformedRequest, err.to_string())
+                })?;

                Ok(ClientRequest::Reply {
-                    sender_tag,
                    message: message_bytes,
-                    connection_id,
+                    reply_surb,
                })
            }
        }
@@ -114,15 +86,11 @@ pub(super) enum ServerResponseText {
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
    Received {
        message: String,
-        sender_tag: Option<String>,
+        reply_surb: Option<String>,
    },
    SelfAddress {
        address: String,
    },
-    LaneQueueLength {
-        lane: u64,
-        queue_length: usize,
-    },
    Error {
        message: String,
    },
@@ -156,15 +124,14 @@ impl From<ServerResponse> for ServerResponseText {
                    // TODO: ask DH what is more appropriate, lossy utf8 conversion or returning error and then
                    // pure binary later
                    message: String::from_utf8_lossy(&reconstructed.message).into_owned(),
-                    sender_tag: reconstructed.sender_tag.map(|tag| tag.to_base58_string()),
+                    reply_surb: reconstructed
+                        .reply_surb
+                        .map(|reply_surb| reply_surb.to_base58_string()),
                }
            }
            ServerResponse::SelfAddress(recipient) => ServerResponseText::SelfAddress {
                address: recipient.to_string(),
            },
-            ServerResponse::LaneQueueLength { lane, queue_length } => {
-                ServerResponseText::LaneQueueLength { lane, queue_length }
-            }
            ServerResponse::Error(err) => ServerResponseText::Error {
                message: err.to_string(),
            },
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "nym-socks5-client"
-version = "1.1.4"
+version = "1.0.2"
 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"
@@ -11,25 +11,21 @@ name = "nym_socks5"
 path = "src/lib.rs"

 [dependencies]
-clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
+clap = { version = "3.2", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
 dirs = "4.0"
 futures = "0.3"
-lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 log = "0.4"
 pin-project = "1.0"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
 rand = { version = "0.7.3", features = ["wasm-bindgen"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] } # for config serialization/deserialization
-serde_json = "1.0.89"
-tap = "1.0.1"
+snafu = "0.6"
 thiserror = "1.0.34"
 tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "net", "signal"] }
 url = "2.2"

 # internal
-build-information = { path = "../../common/build-information" }
-client-core = { path = "../client-core", features = ["fs-surb-storage"] }
-client-connections = { path = "../../common/client-connections" }
+client-core = { path = "../client-core" }
 coconut-interface = { path = "../../common/coconut-interface", optional = true }
 config = { path = "../../common/config" }
 completions = { path = "../../common/completions" }
@@ -53,3 +49,6 @@ version-checker = { path = "../../common/version-checker" }
 [features]
 coconut = ["coconut-interface", "credentials", "gateway-requests/coconut", "gateway-client/coconut", "credentials/coconut", "client-core/coconut"]
 eth = []
+
+[build-dependencies]
+vergen = { version = "5", default-features = false, features = ["build", "git", "rustc", "cargo"] }
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+// Copyright 2021 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+use vergen::{vergen, Config};
+
+fn main() {
+    vergen(Config::default()).expect("failed to extract build metadata")
+}
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benedettadavico	c45e8da43d	Merge branch 'develop-with-release-1.1.0-merged-in' into feature/validator-api-tests	2022-11-09 10:15:54 +01:00
benedettadavico	12cc49a734	WIP	2022-11-09 10:05:47 +01:00
benedettadavico	7e56a9e88c	WIP	2022-11-08 16:22:39 +01:00
benedettadavico	9790009eac	WIP	2022-11-08 12:30:27 +01:00
benedettadavico	379d593daf	Updating more tests	2022-11-07 18:37:31 +01:00
benedettadavico	ce75b99b6f	Merge branch 'release/v1.1.0' into feature/validator-api-tests	2022-11-07 17:36:21 +01:00
benedettadavico	bcb7c41fd7	Updating validator api tests for v2 contracts	2022-11-07 17:31:25 +01:00
benedettadavico	bb091ce47f	Updating validator api tests for v2 contracts	2022-11-07 17:28:13 +01:00
benedettadavico	effed4d7d6	Merge branch 'release/v1.1.0' into feature/validator-api-tests	2022-11-07 09:36:16 +01:00
benedettadavico	d480ddb133	fixing failing tests	2022-08-15 15:20:23 +02:00
benedettadavico	b119820591	Clean up	2022-08-15 09:25:28 +02:00
benedettadavico	e128949dc2	Clean up	2022-08-13 20:40:08 +02:00
benedettadavico	9499b987e5	possible approach to validating address length and proxy type	2022-08-13 20:31:50 +02:00
benedettadavico	d6ac786295	adding tests	2022-08-12 15:51:23 +02:00
tommy	4d09d9c3db	remove 1-2-1 mapping	2022-08-12 13:30:27 +02:00
tommy	8c9044adf3	remove the need to map to type	2022-08-12 13:26:46 +02:00
tommy	472085ca52	Fix up look sharp - added missing .git files - fixed paths - run the linter	2022-08-12 11:18:17 +02:00
benedettadavico	2f089e80ff	adding onto the validator-api tests	2022-08-12 10:12:57 +02:00