Re: Adding voip to torchat

[intrigeri <intrigeri@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

hhhh xhdhx wrote (18 Dec 2010 15:25:01 GMT) :
> Im quite ignorant abt onioncat.

It is worth reading about. It makes easy some things that would
otherwise be pretty hard.

> How was user authentication done in the onioncat+mumble
> combination ??

During preliminary testing we purely relied on communicating the
hidden services names (that map to OnionCat IPv6 addresses) in a
properly authenticated manner.

> Reading on mumble says its been optimised for low latency , does
> that explain the lag ?

No idea.

> Mumble has a client / server architecture so was the server run as a
> hidden service & the clients just spoke to the hidden service
> through tor ??

Nope: every client publishes a hidden service and has it mapped to an
OnionCat IPv6 address. Then they can talk to each other with no need
for a central server at all.

> The torchat architecture seems decentralised to me as every
> participant is a hidden service himself & there is no single point
> of failure. Most voip clients hav a client/server model which im
> very keen to avoid.

OnionCat + Mumble does not fall into this "most VoIP clients"
category.

Bye,
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