On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:21:37 -0500, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 06:57:31PM -0500, James Vasile wrote: > > how FreedomBoxes find each other on the net across firewalls, NATs, > > meshes, dynamic addresses and the like. And how can we make that > > anonymous when it needs to be? > > I've been thinking about a small daemon listening on localhost. A tor > hidden service would connect incoming requests to it. It would then > do a Skype-like negotiation to create a point-to-point VPN outside of > the Tor cloud. I'm thinking openvpn with UDP transport. UDP is easier > to firewall-punch.
That's an interesting idea. I haven't actually studied up on how Tor does hidden services yet. How are Tor they found? What if a box running such a service moves to a new IP? How do you find a Tor hidden service if it's inside a firewall? > > Obviously, the VPN connection would eliminate the anonymity. I suppose > a config file could dictate classes of clients. Some for direct > connections (friends, etc), and some forced to stay within the Tor > cloud (slower, but more anonymous). The VPN connection through the Tor > cloud would have to be TCP transport. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
