Adding voip to torchat

[hhhh xhdhx]

If u guys hav all the pieces of the puzzle togather then y not put it out in
a simple package :-). Also Id like to kno if ther are/were plans to put the
hidden service descriptors into a DHT .

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:17 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri at boum.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> hhhh xhdhx wrote (18 Dec 2010 15:25:01 GMT) :
> > Im quite ignorant abt onioncat.
>
> It is worth reading about. It makes easy some things that would
> otherwise be pretty hard.
>
> > How was user authentication done in the onioncat+mumble
> > combination ??
>
> During preliminary testing we purely relied on communicating the
> hidden services names (that map to OnionCat IPv6 addresses) in a
> properly authenticated manner.
>
               Is the mapping  handled de-centrally ? , pls correct me if im
wrong .

>
> > Reading on mumble says its been optimised for low latency , does
> > that explain the lag ?
>
> No idea.
>
> > Mumble has a client / server architecture so was the server run as a
> > hidden service & the clients just spoke to the hidden service
> > through tor ??
>
> Nope: every client publishes a hidden service and has it mapped to an
> OnionCat IPv6 address. Then they can talk to each other with no need
> for a central server at all.
>
           That makes more sense.

>
> > The torchat architecture seems decentralised to me as every
> > participant is a hidden service himself & there is no single point
> > of failure. Most voip clients hav a client/server model which im
> > very keen to avoid.
>
> OnionCat + Mumble does not fall into this "most VoIP clients"
> category.
>
> Bye,
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