TOR config

[cameronaaron]

There may be cases where people need to be anonymous using tor there should be a config in outline server that will allow a user to run traffic through a tor server

[fortuna]

Thanks for the suggestion. We need to investigate this further.

This could potentially happen in two different places:

1. On the Outline Server: the server would redirect all outgoing traffic via the Tor network.
2. On the client: a client could potentially connect to a Tor Guard via the connection to the Outline Server (proxy example). The advantage of this is that the client has control of what goes over Tor. But I'm not sure how to implement that on mobile or in a user-friendly way.

[cameronaaron]

Thank you for the consideration! I will keep brainstorming a good way to implement option 2 but for now i'm pretty stumped on a good way to implement this. Option 1 does not seem like it would take as much trouble though

[MaXFalstein]

👋🏼 @fortuna!
I would love to be able to configure certain device sessions or key profiles to use Tor, not the whole server which would require a decent amount of modification of the TOR client.
It would be interesting to daisy chain Outline servers and then go into TOR.

[ghost]

See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO#WARNING.

[ghost]

You would also need to warn the users about the risks such as attacks by malicious exit nodes and Tor user discrimination by various websites.

[ghost]

@fortuna 1 would expose the Outline server to plaintext Tor traffic, while we generally try to limit sensitive data that may be stored on the Outline servers.

[MaXFalstein]

@YegorIevlev Outline could have a dedicated TOR entry node which it would not need to expose the Outline server to plaintext to enter the TOR network.

[ghost]

@MaXFalstein Even simpler, do Tor proxying completely on client side.