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Adds support for listening on and connecting to I2P and Onion services securely #3293
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Moving this from How to build a Dendrite Homeserver modified to run over I2P or Tor
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I2P mode: I2P must be installed first, and the SAMv3 API bridge must
be activated.
1. First, clone the `matrix-org/dendrite` implementation of dendrite into your GOPATH and change branch to the `i2p-demo` checkout.
2. Second, build the binary:
go build -o bin/dendrite-demo-i2p ./cmd/dendrite-demo-i2p
3. Third, run it.
go build -o bin/dendrite-demo-i2p ./cmd/dendrite-demo-i2p
Tor mode: Tor must be installed first.
1. First, clone the `matrix-org/dendrite` implementation of dendrite into your GOPATH and change branch to the `i2p-demo` checkout.
2. Second, build the binary:
go build -o bin/dendrite-demo-tor ./cmd/dendrite-demo-tor
3. Third, run it.
go build -o bin/dendrite-demo-tor ./cmd/dendrite-demo-tor
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(@eyedeekay I can officially confirm that the code donation above checks out 🙂) |
…prioritizing the use of modern crypto
I have demo instances up and running but I'm not sure how best to share them, as I have enabled open registration for now and don't think that I should make them that public. Let me know if there's a best way to share them with testers on your side. |
Sorry for just moving this to |
@eyedeekay heads up you have some CI failures |
Yeah for some reason it's still running the failing tests, I'll have to find some other way to keep them from running |
…stead of checking the value
… test, and dying if we see the CI variable
Well that was weirder than it should have been, lol. Turns out disabling the unit test just ran the main without any of the instrumentation, so the only way to fix it was to look for the CI in the demo application being tested. Works now though, locally and in CI. I see you fixed the linter errors so I'll leave it here until you have more feedback. |
The demand for something like matrix-over-I2P is really growing from my side of things. As a result, I changed one fundamental thing about how this PR works I2P hosted dendrite servers. In the latest checkin, I changed it so that:
I had not intended to do this until later in a future PR, but I think the demand for intra-overlay-network communication will be present fairly early when I deploy the I2P demo of Dendrite and if it's all the same to you, I'd rather do it in this PR. |
At some point my onion-on-TLS listener support broke and I didn't notice until I tried running the onion version of this again. It is now fixed in onramp library 0.33.8 and I have also updated this PR to use the new library version. |
@eyedeekay Are you fine with my changes regarding |
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Testing on my side confirms that it all still works, so I'm ready with you are :) |
Sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience! :) |
Dazzling!! |
This PR adds 2
dendrite-demo
main's, each designed expressly to serve a Hidden Service/Overlay network.The first,
dendrite-demo-i2p
add self-configuration for use of dendrite as an I2P hidden service(eepsite) and to connect to I2P services(federate) as an I2P client. It further disables thedendrite
server from communicating with non-anonymous servers by federation(because I2P does not canonically have the ability to exit, we rely on donors for exit traffic), and enables the use of self-signed TLS certificates(because I2P services are self-authenticating but TLS is still required for other aspects of the system to work reliably). This demo turns the system into an "pseudonymous" homeserver which people can connect to using an I2P-enabled Matrix client(I likecinny
and it's what I tested with).The second,
dendrite-demo-tor
adds self-configuration for the use of dendrite as an Onion service and to connect to other onion services and non-anonymous web sites using Tor to obfuscate it's physical location and providing, optionally, pseudonymity. It also enables the use of self-signed TLS certificates, for the same reason as with I2P, because onion services aren't typically eligible for TLS certificates. It has also been tested withcinny
.These services are both pseudonymous like myself, not anonymous. I will be meeting members of the element team at the CCC assembly shortly to discuss contributing under my pseudonym.
As none of the other
dendrite-demo
have unit tests I did not add them to these checkins.