Add Instructions On How to Use

[Deleted user]

I would like to kindly request you to explain us in a few words how we can use this. Thanks !

[cpacia]

Everything is in openbazaard.go if you want to take a look https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/blob/master/openbazaard.go

Roughly it's:

• create the transport

auth := &proxy.Auth{Password: torConfig.Password}
onionTransport, err = torOnion.NewOnionTransport("tcp4", torControl, auth, repoPath)
if err != nil {
        log.Error(err)
	return err
}

• add a new supported transport

addrutil.SupportedTransportStrings = append(addrutil.SupportedTransportStrings, "/onion")
t, err := ma.ProtocolsWithString("/onion")
if err != nil {
	log.Error(err)
	return err
}
addrutil.SupportedTransportProtocols = append(addrutil.SupportedTransportProtocols, t)
if err != nil {
	log.Error(err)
	return err
}

• Add the transport. This goes inside the defaultHostOption function:

network.Swarm().AddTransport(onionTransport)

• Also make sure to listen on the onion multiaddr

[bigs]

Hopping back on this thread... I just did some work with this library for a little demo project of libp2p and found I had to do quite a bit of spelunking through the OpenBazaar codebase to get it working as expected. I'd be happy to contribute some abbreviated docs if that's of interest!

[cretz]

While we're hopping on this thread, I wrote https://github.com/cretz/bine which may be a bit easier to use and it supports statically compiled Tor.

[bigs]

@cretz That looks lovely! Would you have any interest in implementing a libp2p Transport?

Edit: Keeping in mind that this interface will shift a bit soon!

[cretz]

@bigs - Not particularly tbh. But it looks like tor.Tor almost implements it already so the work isn't hard. I figure since the iface is about to change soon it can probably wait. Also, someone should update https://github.com/multiformats/multiaddr because there are two types of onion addresses (v2 and v3) having different lengths. It's fine if it's still /onion but it can be two sizes.

[cpacia]

@cretz so your lib compiles and installs the tor binary?

[cretz]

@cpacia - Not really. You can either point it to a Tor binary, or use https://github.com/cretz/tor-static + https://godoc.org/github.com/cretz/bine/process/embedded which
is just CGo wrapper around https://github.com/torproject/tor/blob/7fb941e9f26a1ae6b6faccea9a3e9620b8d90ef3/src/or/tor_api.h to statically link it inside the same binary as your Go app (adds about 20MB on WIndows).

[cpacia]

Interesting. Have you tried using this on tails/whonix at all? One of the issues we've had with those OSs is their tor daemon is locked down and we can't easily communicate with it. I wonder if did this inside the Go binary if it would run with no issue on those OSs.

[cretz]

Have you tried using this on tails/whonix at all?

I have not.