Transport IP packets over Tor

As listed here, https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TransportIPnotTCP, the ability to transport IP would enhance usability and functionality of Tor from a user perspective. Solving the challenges and enabling this will make Tor a more valuable tor for a wider range of usecases.

changed milestone to %Tor: very long term

added SponsorZ component::core tor/tor milestone::Tor: very long term needs-proposal priority::medium resolution::wontfix severity::normal status::closed tor-client type::project labels

Adding obvious note about taking from OnionCat and Phantom implementations. To prevent IP spoofing, OnionCat had plans to strongly tie the generated IPv6 address to Tor RSA key with maybe a TorChat-like ping-ping. But OnionCat went unmaintained right around that discussion. HidServ already works. NAT is needed somewhere for exit-relay use. Maybe use OpenVPN over circuit to an exit.

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Cc: N/A to grarpamp@gmail.com

Switching from using milestones to keywords for sponsor deliverables. See #6365 (moved) for details.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, SponsorZ added
Milestone: Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013 to N/A

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Milestone: N/A to Tor: very long term

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Keywords: SponsorZ deleted, SponsorZ needs-proposal added

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Keywords: SponsorZ needs-proposal deleted, SponsorZ needs-proposal tor-client added

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Component: Tor Client to Tor

This ticket is tagged SponsorZ, but it looks like progress stalled years ago. Is this still an active priority?

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Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Severity: N/A to Normal
Sponsor: N/A to N/A

Calling this wontfix for now: that doesn't mean "never" but it means "not any time soon".

It remains on our radar, but there's no real work to track here. The big problem is that supporting arbitrary IP traffic in a meaningful way would require fundamental research improvements in onion routing-style anonymity networks, if we want to actually anonymize the IP traffic and the computer generating it.

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Resolution: N/A to wontfix
Status: new to closed

closed

moved to tpo/core/tor#6001 (closed)