Hey Silva,

sorry for returning that late.

I wanted to gather information if someone of the operators implemented it successfully.

I haven't tried it yet, but from what I read about the matrix architecture, the design is heavily bound to the url, e.g. my-matrix-server.org

If you would create an onion service with an onion url, the matrix/synpase service might not be able to handle it correct, because it won't listen to it / you can't specify it.

For example, if you use the element desktop client, you can specify your username username e.g. myuser@my-matrix-server.org. But you can't specify any more connection details, such as connect via my-user@onionv3url.onion. This is one problem :)

You may can work around this and add an onion service to the web interface of your matrix server, e.g. element.my-matrix-server.org. So people might be able to chat via an onion service on the web interface, but for the desktop client it does not seem to be possible.

But I may just need to try it out and see what roadblocks come up, to answer your question in a proper way :)

cheers, shadow

On 01.02.21 18:00, Silvia/Hiro wrote:

Hello,

On 1/31/21 5:31 PM, shadow wrote:

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Hey all fellow list members,

does anyone of you has been able to set up Matrix / Synapse / Element as an onion service?

There are are open tickets regarding this:

• https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5152

and also a Cloudflare level implementation: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/

But I wonder if anyone of you already set it up and what your experience have been with it. To me it looks like, that there are multiple problems and several layers (depending on your Matrix Setup). For example if you use the ansible roles for setting up matrix in a docker environment (https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy)

I must say I haven't setup matrix but onions do work in docker environments. What issues have you experienced specifically?

Cheers, -hiro

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Have a nice sunday afternoon,

shadow // systemli.org

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Hello Jens,

I didn't make progress on the topic.

cheers shadow

On 12.02.21 22:18, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

Am Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 05:31:25PM +0100 schrieb shadow:

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does anyone of you has been able to set up Matrix / Synapse / Element as an onion service?

I'm running a Matrix server and haven't tried to set it up as Onion Service. But the idea sounds good and so I wanted to ask you if you made some progress? If not, I'll try to play around and will let you know in case there is some progress. ;-)

Best,

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