Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by mirimir on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:37PM (#12721960)

I'm thinking about creating a gateway for IPFS from clearnet to OnionCat IPv6. So other onion servers can participate without revealing public IPs.

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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by kefka on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:44PM (#12722176)

You WILL have to hack on IPFS software, as to not release all your adapter information. Even if you tunnel all the IPFS datastream through .onion , the datastream inside will tell everyone your IP adresses, internal (unroutable) and external.

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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by mirimir on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:19PM (#12722313)

I've been playing with Freenet, and it does the same. So the IPFS peer would be a VM with no public IP address, which connects through a Tor gateway VM. I'm guessing that IPFS needs a reachable IP:port, so I'd use a throwaway VPS as a clearnet proxy.

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