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Discussion | .onion Service #1886
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I am not a Peertube developer but normally instances (i.e. servers) are not considered features. I am interested in this topic. |
@Houkime No dilemma, I'll edit my post to fix this and avoid confusion. :)
I remember reading a while back that there was an issue with SSL being required to follow users. This link may be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeerTube/comments/byb4nb/onion_peertube_instance/ |
So this is basically a continuation of #1569 which is still open and which revealed a roadblock for tor-clearnet federation being that a Peertube instance is not supposed to be a proxy for other instances so there could be no "gateway to Tor" Peertube instance? Or this is supposed to be more specific to a case of a solitary non-federated instance or federated-with-other-hidden-services scenario? |
@Houkime IP is a big issue in BitTorrent.
How or if .onion instances would communicate with clearnet is part of the discussion portion of this thread. |
Hi, Is this not the same discussion than #1569? |
First :
That not what tor provide. (if you real search for that try i2p, that still not perfect but still way better) So the question, is would you a same federation for all hidden service provider and clearnet ? or would you a federation by network. that will determine how hard it will be.
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@Chocobozzz I as I understand this isn't totaly the same, this is more about allowing http and .onion tld in the address. So not a full duplicate. |
While WebRTC per se may be a problem, if one makes a more dedicated client to fetch and download magnets from a hidden instance it might be ok. |
i2p is very good but this slow and they doesn't realy care about "compatibility", i2p is been made to work with some plugin using a java guideline, with some remade of basics protocols (like tcp), not even an http api to control the router, that have been done through a custom protocol, An other way simpler could be to devlop a peertube client to integrate as plugin for i2p (that hard, and long). |
Would be great for a peertube server to be able to talk to onion sites and allow anyone with a peertube account on the clear web to watch and connect to a video on an onion site. |
Really interested in this. What I want to accomplish is use Peertube as a video hosting and streaming platform just for my own content, optionally accessed through an onion service. I personally don't need to make use of other features (eg talking to other instances). Researching this topic I found this very interesting comment from this reddit AMA:
And the answer was:
I am specifically interested in this last sentence:
I am neither a tor expert nor a p2p expert. But what I understand by this is I can expect users to visit my peertube instance on clearnet, using the Tor browser and be secure (meaning the security/anonymity benefits of Tor) . I would expect their security wouldn't be compromised if they accessed the same instance via an onion service. Do you think this assumption is correct? Edit: fixed formatting. |
Hi @gstop, Yes, my comment still stands, and Tor Browser is preserving your users' privacy even here. |
@rigelk So doesn't that answer the OP's main question re using Tor and BitTorrent? It looks like the answer is "It's fine because Tor Browser won't use WebRTC and will fallback to standard http" So what remains to be done for the purpose of this ticket is probably getting some documentation on the topic? |
Objective: Enable .onion PeerTube instance (+ documentation)
Why?: IP anonymity is very important.
How?: PeerTube already works over TOR, the final step would be to enable a .onion website.
It may be possible to still communicate with clearnet instances, considering TOR works as an outproxy.
But doesn't TOR recommend against BitTorrent?: Most BitTorrent clients really suck at implementing proxies. It all depends on how you implement things, for instance, ZeroNet supports TOR.
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