Tor Hidden Service?

[ghost]

Currently, all nodes & the webpage are located in clearnet.
If Tox is really secure, why not offer Hidden Service?

Tox--->TOR--->Internet

[alexbakker]

Not a bad idea. I can make that happen.

There is one thing I'm a bit concerned about. Currently ToxStatus grabs the list of nodes from https://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes, which would make the whole hidden service thing feel kind of pointless.

@Zer0-One Thoughts?

[ghost]

I can't use Tox at this moment becaus of this bug,
https://github.com/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/259

and I would like to use Tox over my Tor relay.
This means, I would like to see Tox webpage in Onion style.
(e.g., http://xxxxxxxx.onion/)

and one more thing; many people will donate their PC if Tox support Tor natively.
https://wiki.tox.chat/users/runningnodes
(for example, xxxxxxx.onion Node, hosted on Tor as Hidden service. Tor's hidden service is easy to setup.)
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29879851

[emdee-is]

This is still very important:

Currently ToxStatus grabs the list of nodes from https://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes, which would make the whole hidden service thing feel kind of pointless.

Not so: the initial list over nodes could be easily be provided over Tor by having nodes.tox.chat run a Tor client (not exit node) and provide the nodelist over an onion. So the nodelist becomes hard to block.

This is what the OP was asking for, and is easy to do - who runs nodes.tox.chat and could we ask them to provide an .onion service? It's 3 lines of configuration is a torrc, and has no downsides for the operator.

The second part that's implied is could the format of nodes.tox.chat be extended to include either taking onion addresses or adding a field for onions. perhaps a list. All Tox apps can use onions right now simply by configuring a MapAddress in the ```torrrc``.

These could be used right away tor provide BS nodes over OnionV3 which will help our resiliency. It's pretty easy to block our small number or nodes, and it's very easy for poisoned guard or exit nodes to try to block Tox over Tor. Tox in Tor should be more tamper resistant.

Who would know how to extend the nodes data format to add a field?
At worst, we could stuff it into the location field, and just extend code to look for a fixed length field ending in .onion.

Is there a mailinglist of IRC chat or NGC for node operators to ask them to run a Tor Onion service with their nodes?