Tor integration
Open
status/deferred
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
For many people browsing the web without anonymity is unacceptable. Using IPFS Companion avoids the privacy leak of DNS and IPFS HTTP gateways but your IP address is still visible to peers, your ISP, 3rd party trackers, etc. Tor integration would prevent this privacy leak and encourage many more people to use IPFS. [Relevant IPFS project issue](https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37).
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading issue #598 and the linked IPFS notes issue #37; the payload names no repository file, test, or entry point. Clarify the Tor integration design and its scope, then define success as routing the relevant IPFS traffic through Tor without exposing the user's IP address.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100