[guardian-dev] Ocat for Android

[bancfc at openmailbox.org]

On 2017-05-02 16:22, arrase wrote:
> I was talking with Bernhard R. Fischer and i'm don't think than "its
> no longer maintained", maybe the development was a bit stopped but
> when i found a bug in android 7 Bernhard fixes it and a new release is
> comming in the next days.
> 
> I will fix the android app today.
> 
> I talked to him today and the project is still alive.
> 

Good to know. Did he tell you about plans for onion 2.0 support?

> 2017-05-02 16:15 GMT+02:00 <bancfc at openmailbox.org>:
> 
>> On 2017-05-02 10:23, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017, at 12:58 PM, arrase wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I found that interesting:
>> 
>> https://www.onioncat.org/ [1]
>> 
>> I'm thinking about create an android app for ocat.
>> 
>> Should be built into orbot or should be a independent app?
>> 
>> What do you think about?
>> 
>> How is this different than the existing Orbot VPN feature?
>> Different
>> audience or need?
> 
>  Hi onioncat was very useful for tunneling IP over Tor's TCP layer
> between onion services. It acted like a P2P VPN over Tor. The problem
> is its no longer maintained (their mailing lists disappeared) and will
> not be compatible with the longer next-gen onion services. I had
> written a bunch of tutorials depending on it for our privacy system
> that I deprecated.
> 
>  PS. David Stainton had a WIP proof-of-concept that created TUN
> intefaces between onions that was written in amemory-safe lang instead
> of C. I can't remember what it was called but its dormant for now.
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://www.onioncat.org/