last time I checked no hardcoded seednodes nor tor hidden services avail.
So you are the only participant in the whole p2p network atm and people wont know your IP and cant "find" you. Later on with +100 nodes a DHT will do the trick.
It is possible to bootstrap a p2p network from scratch (without mining incentives)... and I hope people get interested before the next ddos. I used retro a lot yrs ago.
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This chinese paper boils down to the common psychopathic wet dream: an adversary with unlimited resources will control every aspect of life in a totalitarian fashion. It's a fluff: collecting IPs does not "de-anon" any monero tx.
Don't be intimidated, this has never materialzed in the last 10000 yrs. In fact, China has legalized (illegal) mining (metal) coins after its paper currency collapsed (in the 15th century). It can happen again.
They don't like us --- and we don't like them. This aggression against humanity will not stand.
DHT is needed. The problem arises when people try the most para settings possible. Retro is private even with most relaxed settings.
Go to Settings->Server and change config to "Public: DHT and Discovery" (wont expose your IP)
Add me ("aaa"): ABBfKWSD8saPgtQ+nA2PeyZrAxS8KLRy7UmQBzWlsouNKMQGVuq0AwEDYWFhkwYBAAB/PDoEAzcmnA==
if pub key needed:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: OpenPGP:SDK v0.9
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I'll be online in 3hrs for, say 2 hrs. No need to sign my pup key.
He needs to share his certificate. ID is not enough. Standard is you become friends (see below) first. Then you'll see his chat lobbies, forums, etc.
Try this on a test account, Do not systematically sign or authenticate your friends' keys. Use DHT mode on clearnet to test.
Retroshare ID is not enough to connect. Share your certificate (PGP public key) with your friend and request the certificate from your Friend. This is normally done in person or any other secure trusted channel. Both need to ACK each others pub key.
Moreover both need to be online to find each other.
https://retroshare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/first-steps/#first-friend
First... our beloved friends from the 3 letter agencies are the first to create groups. They fork Haveno. Post "help" videos. etc. etc. Pretend that we censor them when we call out their honeypot website ads in here.
Second... people don't understand that "creating a new group" is not enough. They need to share their public PGP key (or hashed version). SimpleX makes this easy in the form of a http:// link to onboard new users. Even this process is too difficult to understand for most noobs.
We'll keep it up.
ps. torrc is in ~./retroshare/tor/
In the buildup phase of a true p2p network its necessary that nodes keep running idle to enable the gossip protocol. To collect peers.
This might seem inconvenient, but relying forever on "seednodes" makes the p2p net centralized. It is necessary for resilience as full nodes are for Monero. Same goes for Haveno.
The difficult part is to stick to running your node before the network effect kicks in - by then you can freely connect and disconnect to the p2p network. This bootup phase is crucial to understand. The app needs storage on your machine to remember the peers it finds.
Look at the network graph in retroshare: are you well connected to other peers?
to use retroshare-tor, simply do NOT start tails-tor on OS startup.
To run 2 instances of tor and avoid conflict:
tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.1tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.2
Some hacking is needed for tails persistant storage also.
asking for trouble... why not go p2p with i2p or retroshare?
SimpleX TOS:
We reserve the right to remove such links from the preset servers and disrupt the conversations that send illegal content via our servers, whether they were reported by the users or discovered by our team.
yep. “hidden node (over tor)” lets you connect directly. I can see your user name is “gekut” and your onion address is hygzlzl2hxznxfxgzl3sghovnub5pjf555op72evqagihszkhtnz2bad.onion
It tells me you are offline atm.
RS is the most censorship resistant p2p net out there. You can create true friend2friend networks and thats end of story for the rats.