[liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

[Griffin Boyce]

Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> Two things we are exploring with using OStel.co (aka SIP!) over Tor:
> 
> - Supporting TCP mode for RTP media streaming in Jitsi, Linphone, in
> order to use SOCKS proxying over Tor
> 
> - Using a Jitsi video bridge in the same configuration:
> https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiVideobridge
> 
> The goal is to be able to use Jitsi with Ostel.co to achieve both
> livestream and video conference goals.
> 
> If anyone else out there has done anything along these lines, please let
> me know.

  Getting Jitsi and Ostel to work together over Tor consistently would
be pretty amazing.  (For those unfamiliar, Ostel uses UDP and Tor uses
TCP [1][2]).  Some people pipe UDP traffic through Tor using OnionCat,
but I've never tried it.  There was a relevant ticket about it [3], but
seems unlikely the network will ever explicitly allow UDP because of low
user demand, more network research needed, fingerprinting concerns, and
then getting exit policies to allow the traffic.  Tricky tricky.

~Griffin

[1] https://guardianproject.info/2012/12/10/voice-over-tor/
[2]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032138.html
[3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7830