On 15.10.2015 at 22:07, Finn Herzfeld wrote: > That's pretty cool, but this whole mapping thing seems broken. Would > there be a way for a server to probe another server over the clearnet > for an onion address, then it can cache that and build it's own list? I > don't know a ton about the actual XMPP wire protocol so I'm not sure how > best to go about that, but it seems like something that could be done. Doesn't a SRV record in DNS already do just that?
> Finn Herzfeld > On 10/15/2015 12:59 PM, Nicholas Merrill wrote: >> The prosody XMPP server has a mod_onions module that can do federation >> between Tor .onion hidden services, to mitigate metadata analysis and >> add an additional layer of security. >> >> If any of you Prosody server operators want to set it up, see the >> following URL for details: >> >> https://blog.thijsalkema.de/me/blog/blog/2013/06/11/xmpp-federation-over-tor-hidden-services/ >> >> If you do set it up, then we have some lua code you can use to add a map >> of the .onion hidden server addresses for a few popular services ( 9 at >> this time but there will surely be more soon - we hope you will add your >> service to the list ! ) >> >> https://github.com/nickcalyx/xmpp-onion-map >> >> >> best, >> >> Nick >> >> > >
