On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Jason S. Evans <jsev...@gardeng.nom.es> wrote: > I've been wondering about the feasibility of using Tor for low level, > low priority applications such as connecting servers with Saltstack, > setting up Jabber servers, or IRC.
You can connect just about anything TCP to Tor or I2P, or even Phantom and a couple other overlay networks. But for Tor, if it's not TCP, you're screwed... because Tor seems to have zero interest in providing a native means to transport other protocols such as UDP *between onions*, or in developing or supporting the plugins or other layers needed to do so. Voice / Video / VOIP / chat apps often use UDP. So do some DHTs that help make P2P apps like BT work. Here's a very cool tool that uses UDP, designed in part for some of the network anomalies common to overlay networks... https://mosh.org/ And many application protocols are incompatible with onion addressing. So you'll need OnionCat to do those and other cool things... :) https://www.onioncat.org/ https://cypherpunk.at/onioncat_trac/ And you'll need to find some users and developers interested in continuing / new development of such enabling tools / layers. Because OnionCat is both unmaintained, and Tor is killing it off with prop224 in a few years. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
