Hello all, I was recommended to join this group after emailing the general help address with the following message:
I am the Community Manager for Open Garden https://opengarden.com, a p2p mesh networking application for phones, tablets and laptops. Currently, Tor doesn't work over Open Garden and when talking to my lead developer about it a while ago, he said that Tor would need to support an upstream proxy - which he can't find any documentation on. Some users of Open Garden have requested the ability to use Tor over the Open Garden protocol and as the Community Manager, I am attempting to understand whether or not this is feasible to implement.
If there is any light that can be shed from your side as to what would need to happen to support each other, then please enlighten me!
If it would be more productive to have a conversation with our lead developer, then I can ask him to join the list as well.
Thanks for your time!
Hi Paige,
I've been aware of OpenGarden for some time. Sounds nice, but without more technical information it is hard to comment on it. Also, you're not planning to release it as open source, right?
On 12.06.2013 23:23, Paige Peterson wrote:
he said that Tor would need to support an upstream proxy - which he can't find any documentation on.
I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe the following directives are what you are looking for?
HTTPProxy host[:port]
Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80 if port is not specified), rather than connecting directly to any directory servers.
HTTPSProxy host[:port]
Tor will make all its OR (SSL) connections through this host:port (or host:443 if port is not specified), via HTTP CONNECT rather than connecting directly to servers. You may want to set FascistFirewall to restrict the set of ports you might try to connect to, if your HTTPS proxy only allows connecting to certain ports.
Socks4Proxy host[:port]
Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 4 proxy at host:port (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
Socks5Proxy host[:port]
Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 5 proxy at host:port (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
( from https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en )
So thanks to your insight Moritz, I was able to configure Tor so that it works over the Open Garden mesh!
All I had to do was change proxy settings: socks 5 proxy on 127.0.0.1 port 1080
Regarding open sourcing: there are no plans to open source on our roadmap for now... but there's a chance we'll be opening up parts of the protocol down the line. Stay tuned.
Thanks again for your help! I'll be writing about using Tor over OG on our blog at some point this week or next: http://opengarden.net
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Moritz Bartl moritz@torservers.netwrote:
Hi Paige,
I've been aware of OpenGarden for some time. Sounds nice, but without more technical information it is hard to comment on it. Also, you're not planning to release it as open source, right?
On 12.06.2013 23:23, Paige Peterson wrote:
he said that Tor would need to support an upstream proxy - which he can't find any documentation on.
I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe the following directives are what you are looking for?
HTTPProxy host[:port]
Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (orhost:80 if port is not specified), rather than connecting directly to any directory servers.
HTTPSProxy host[:port]
Tor will make all its OR (SSL) connections through this host:port(or host:443 if port is not specified), via HTTP CONNECT rather than connecting directly to servers. You may want to set FascistFirewall to restrict the set of ports you might try to connect to, if your HTTPS proxy only allows connecting to certain ports.
Socks4Proxy host[:port]
Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 4 proxy athost:port (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
Socks5Proxy host[:port]
Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 5 proxy athost:port (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
( from https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en )
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