Onion posting

[iShift]

After you publish new post it broadcast from your IP address to the network, i think, it would be better if we make onion post system - with random nodes Example: Alice want to post message, she find two random nodes and twice encrypt message, then send to node one.

Node one send message to node two, then - message broadcast to all network.

if we done this - we can protect network from government spying

[Tschaul]

There are services which you can use on top of twister to stay completely anonymous. Like Tor or VPN. I don't see a need to overcomplicate things. Twister is already way to hard to wrap your brain around. This is probably the main reason why it didn't generate more traction until now.

[iShift]

i talk about freedom for all, not just for the users of Tor (witch can't work with twister because DHT use UDP) and VPN. Again, look at tox, if we have onion routing we can protect users from government hard spying - attaching messaging to IP addresses.

[rysiekpl]

I also think it would be a nice option to have. But I understand it has to wait for some better times. ;)

[iShift]

Now twister can work throw TOR, but we need onion position/relay thing not only with TOR

[miguelfreitas]

I'm not going to implement this. I believe a well implemented onion posting is a research area on itself and a badly implemented one will only provide a false sense of security.

I don't mind leaving this issue open though (the drawback being the pollution of open issues on our tracker - where more pressing issues may receive less attention). Of course, I wouldn't object if someone happens to come with a well-thought, well-designed and secure onion posting implementation. However, due to the shortage of experts of the field willing to contribute such work, realistically speaking, i think this is very unlikely to happen.

[iShift]

Tox use onion routing when one peers send friend request, we can look at tox