DOC - Decentralized Onion Communication

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i've been thinking about this a lot.  stefan also uses windows, which
is strange since it's so hard to hack windows unless you work for
microsoft.

things i've noted
- people supporting libre ecosystems in public have been getting hurt
- microsoft and google are doing way more open source stuff than before
- i can't get off google.  i don't know how.
- well-funded efforts have been surrounding people, pretending to be
the majority

maybe those four items are related to this

PS: i actually clicked the 'groups.joogle' link and was like 'wtf why
won't this load'.

Here's stefan's message from the other list.  I don't believe you
actually need to open any firewall ports, and the onion approach is
quite old but always great to re-engage.  I downloaded TBB to try it
out but my glibc is too old for the new TBB so i might make it work
later, dunno.

Pasted message below:

Hi all,

a while ago I said that I like to set-up a Nym requester
for YAMN and Mixmaster users. This requires a paid
server from my side and I do not gain nothing from
that, while the Nym Network made already a lot of
money.

I am currently investigating in running an own Tor
Hidden Service on my local Windows PC, where
users can do the same and then communicate
with their friends, without needing to use third
party servers, like Remailers, Tor email services etc.

This shoud have the advantage that every a.p.a-s
user can theoretically run a cheap Raspberry Pi
at home 24/7 while having his own .onion URL
and no need to purchase a VPS or Domain.

I am currently looking around what services
one can run on his own server at home.

If you visit:

wwfokt2ttwfbjfwlei25ue37mkemzgepxtmqb4axgecoculgzbqdwhad.onion

you can see that I have there software installed on my
local Windows PC which would allow you to exchange
messages. There is also client software available for this
so that users could via socat send files between each other.

I will let run this server a little while until I go to bed so
that you get an idea.

Please, if you run also .onion sites on the Internet,
share what else we can do to have decentralized
.onion comms, without no middleman servers, besides
the Tor nodes.

Regards
Stefan


spam.tra... at gmail.com (2 hours ago)

The software I use under Windows 10:

The Tor Expert Bundle.

https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/

Configuration tips:

https://miloserdov.org/?p=1839

and the Golang server:

https://github.com/schollz/cowyo

And you need to open your firewall port.

Regards
Stefan