unchained-capital/caravan

Connect to node over Tor

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sahilc0 commented

I'm submitting a…

  • Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release)
  • Bug report
  • Feature request
  • Documentation issue or request
  • Support request

Expected Behavior

Should be able to connect to node over Tor. This is useful not just because of network level privacy, but also UX - paste in link!

Current Behavior

Cannot connect over Tor

Possible Solution

For example - this is the Tor address you get from a node-in-a-box like Umbrel. I can plug this into wasabi and it should work fine. It would be great to have this with Caravan - even though it may not directly impact the Unchained Vault app.
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waldenraines commented

I believe the solution here is to run caravan within the tor network and connect to your node using tor-browser (or equivalent setup).

If you are running caravan outside of the tor network then you cannot connect it to a bitcoin full node within tor without using a proxy which could dox you

You may be able to accomplish this by doing the following (untested):

  1. Clone the repository
  2. npm i
  3. npm run build
  4. Take the resultant build directory and host that within the tor network (potentially even on the same machine that runs your node)
  5. Point caravan at your tor node

I believe MyNode does this out of the box. The reason you can connect wasabi out of the box is because it also runs on the tor network. Since caravan is just a set of static html files it doesn't have this ability.

Something else to consider, since caravan is stateless, is to use something like OnionShare to host caravan. Again I haven't personally tested this but in theory it should work.

I am closing this issue because there is nothing we can do on our end.