KOkodablah·Jun 19, 2023
I once combined libp2p/ipfs's DHT impl with Tor many moons ago: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc
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tor-dht-poc
Anonymous DHT Accessible from Executable or Tor-Enabled Browser
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesYes. Here's where I did it with IPFS libs a few years back: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc. The libs have improved since so it's probably easier.
In Using ephemeral Onion Services for quick NAT traversalAlthough it uses Tor and is probably outdated, here is a PoC I wrote of bootstrapping a DHT network on the server side and using the client side to discover peers: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc
In Show HN: WebRTC signalling data using QR codesTotally doable. Here I built a proof of concept of a DHT over Tor using IPFS's DHT libs: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc. I even went so far as making it readable (but not participate-able yet) via JS in Tor Browser though it's IPFS doing the heavy lifting.
I would guess you'd just start a different IPFS network, not the main one, and have a set of reliable onions as bootstrap nodes. Then just store the torrent info from its hash like BT mainline and I guess have people pin it. I have not dug too deeply, but in general an entire IPFS network all over Tor is very doable. Now, that's for a tracker, for actually downloading the data that's a different deal.
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Look, maybe the stdlib is rock solid. But every time I try to build a Go project, `go build` finds ten ways not to work.
Case in point: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc
Try building this. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it doesn't work. It's cool tech, I want it, but I don't want to immerse myself in the world of hurt^WGo just to get it.
I did however at least attempt to fix the problem: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc/pull/2
In Go 1.11 Rc1 releasedYou and I must have like minds. I have even created an anon DHT PoC [0], conceptualized how the messaging might work [1], made a lib to use Tor easier since it's the best anon nat buster these days [2], began toying with a superset of reddit/slack/forums/etc (some grpc files at [3] and some impl in that same repo), and a bunch of other small things in order to arrive at this final destination.
0 - https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc
1 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/6
2 - https://github.com/cretz/bine
3 - https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/master/yukup/pb/proto
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