Lesson: Run IPFS over Tor transport

[musicsmithnz]

According to this link, this seems to be an open issue. I have written on this elsewhere and I am happy to adapt this tutorial and make it self contained for the IPFS community if this is needed.

My blog:
Tor and IPFS
The whole script(Tested only on CentOs7):
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZo49iDCXJ9acpHHVBsVvgNkuiSrvSF2G8ocCrg1UEcqf

[Kcchouette]

It's not possible for the moment, because ipfs (without patch from external contributor not present in IPFS) will tell the whole network your public, private, and .onion addresses all (to determine 'closeness' of nearby IPFS nodes).

[mithray]

I just noticed that my comment here was unclear. My blog was about running a gateway that is accessible through tor, this gives anonymity to the Client, but the server is LESS secure because they are running an onion server while their ipfs traffic is being routed on ordinary IP addresses.

[linas]

see also ipfs/notes#37