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awesome-tor
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Tor is not just for anonymity
The internet is no longer as peer-to-peer friendly as it once was. Hence the existence of commercially-motivated hacks run by third parties such as hosting, e.g., Cloudflare, etc., including tunneling, e.g., ngrok, etc. Alternatively, Tor relies on third parties but AFAIK it's not so centralised and it's not commercially-motivated.
That is what differentiates it from all the other options. There is no company behind it trying to make money by exploiting internet subscribers trying to connect with each other (not the so-called "tech" company).
Tor can have uses other than the ones normally discussed such as anonymity and evading censorship. Tor can provide reachability without use of commercial eavesdropping third party intermediaries.
For example, one can use Onion Services for advertising open IP:port information that is needed for peer-to-peer connections over other, faster peer-to-peer overlay networks, not the Tor network. The Onion Service can function as the "rendezvous" server for making peer-to-peer connection outside of Tor. Tor's Onion Services can be used to exchange IP:port information for making direct connections over the internet without using Tor. No need to use commercial third parties. Ngrok, Tailscale, etc. all require use of servers run by a commercial third party. Tor does not. There is ample free software that can establish peer-to-peer connections over the internet but in every case it requires some reachable server running this software on the internet, and for most users that means they have to run a server and pay a commercial third party for hosting. Tor has no such requirement.
Imagine being able to share content with family, friends, colleagues without the need for so-called "tech" companies^1 acting as intermediaries ("middlemen"). With a reachable IPv4 address this becomes possible. It would be nice if every home internet access subscriber received a reachable IPv4 address from their ISP. No doubt, some do. But on today's internet most do not. The so-called "tech" companies all have reachable IPv4 addresses. Hence they assume the roles of middlemen and use this position to exploit internet subscribers for profit.
Something like Tor provides a solution. Again, it is not always necessary to route all traffic over Tor. Tor can have other uses. When the goal is simply peer-to-peer connections, Onion Services can be used to bootstrap peer-to-peer overlay connections using the user's choice of software by providing a secure, reliable way to exchange IP:port information. Goal here when using Tor is not anonymity nor censorship evasion, it's reachability. Similarly, goal of peer-to-peer is not necessarily anonymity nor evading censorship either, it's bypassing commercially-motivated, eavesdropping middlemen known as "tech" companies, and avoiding the annoyances of advertising. A possible additional benefot of using Tor in this way is elevated privacy. Google, for example, cannot easily discover Onion Services. No one can discover Onion Services using ICANN DNS.
1. The term "tech" as in "tech company" means a company, usually a website, that collects data from and about people to support the sale of advertising services because advertising services are the only services the company can sell on a scale large enough to sustain a profitable business.
More reading/viewing:
https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Tor Hidden Services (now called "Onion Services")
https://jamielittle.org/2016/08/28/hidden.html
As one author wrote on Github:
"onion-expose is a utility that allows one to easily create and control temporary Tor onion services.
onion-expose can be used for any sort of TCP traffic, from simple HTTP to Internet radio to Minecraft to SSH servers. It can also be used to expose individual files and allow you to request them from another computer.
Why not just use ngrok?
ngrok is nice. But it requires everything to go through a central authority (a potential security issue), and imposes artificial restrictions, such as a limit of one TCP tunnel per user. It also doesn't allow you to expose files easily (you have to set it up yourself)."
https://github.com/ethan2-0/onion-expose
As another Github contributor put it:
"With onionpipe, that service doesn't need a public IPv4 or IPv6 ingress. You can publish services with a globally-unique persistent onion address, and share access securely and privately to your own allowlist of authorized keys.
You don't need to rely on, and share your personal data with for-profit services (like Tailscale, ZeroTier, etc.) to get to it."
https://github.com/cmars/onionpipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734956
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30445421
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929399
"Finally, onion services are private by default, meaning that users must discover these sites organically, rather than with a search engine." [Small websites with small audiences get buried by advertising-supported search engines anyway.]
https://nymity.ch/onion-services/pdf/sec18-onion-services.pd...
https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6112_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412301...
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Bypassing_NAT (Termux recommends Tor over Ngrok)
https://github.com/ajvb/awesome-tor
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Awesome Penetration Testing
See also awesome-tor.
iodine
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Show HN: This Website Is Hosted on DNS
Reminds me of using https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ ( DNS tunnel ) and a empty prepaid card...
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DNS Exfiltration Tool
Obligatory dns tunnel software for exfil. It is super noisy if you do dns querylogging, so I'd not use it for anything major, but it is a fun research tool.
https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
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Fun with DNS TXT Records
It's worth noting that you (re) invented what iodine does: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
(https://github.com/yarrick/iodine)
It’s slow, but it works and is a handy “last resort” tool.
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Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
While working in an environment where VPN connections were pretty much all blocked⁰ a friend of mine had success using https://guacamole.apache.org/ to access a remote machine¹. Not quite the same as a direct VPN connection but worth a try if nothing else functions, it looks enough like normal HTTPS traffic that he got away with it.
To keep your wireguard setup more as-is, you could try https://kirill888.github.io/notes/wireguard-via-websocket/ to tunnel that via a web server. In fact https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel which that uses could be used just as well with any other UDP based VPN.
I once tinkered with https://github.com/yarrick/iodine and successfully connected to resources over the wireless on a train, bypassing its traffic capture and sign-up requirement, so that might be an option, though I think fully blocking external DNS is more common now so this is less likely to work²³.
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[0] practically only HTTP(S) permitted, not even SSH, DPI in use that detected just using SSH or OpenVPN over port 443
[1] NOTE: be careful breaching restrictions like this, you are at risk of an insta-sacking if discovered, or worse if operating in some securiry environments!
[2] and the latency when it does work is significant!
[3] and that much traffic over port 53 might get noticed by the heuristics of data exfiltration scanner, encouraging sysadmins to notice and implement a way to block it
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Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN
There's also iodine, a C program that tunnels IPv4 packets over DNS. Useful for bypassing captive portals on wifi, since DNS usually isn't restricted.
https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
Regarding cloudflare DNS over HTTPS: It could be that it tries to server data encoded as JSON, which is impossible in JSON. Some control characters and bytes 128-255 cannot be represented as JSON strings.
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Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information
A regular proxy on port 53 might work? Is it necessary to actually use DNS?
Otherwise there's https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
- Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
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help with choosing a VPN to host (I'll explain)
Well, you're really exhausting your options here (and possibly your IT department's patience). Iodine would still be an option, it creates a tunnel through DNS traffic. Nearly impossible to block/filter out but you shouldn't expect a lot of bandwidth. Try it out! Although if you're only going to use low-bandwidth applications through the tunnel anyway you might as well use your own mobile data plan instead of your school's WLAN.
- DNS blacklisting in enterprise
What are some alternatives?
masscan - TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.
dnscat2
Tor-Bridges-Collector - Collecting Tor Bridges.
miniProxy
awesome-privacy - 💡Limiting personal data leaks on the internet
PHP-Proxy - Proxy Application built on php-proxy library ready to be installed on your server
onion-expose - Easily create Tor hidden services with one command.
Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
inlets - Get public TCP LoadBalancers for local Kubernetes clusters
john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs
Swiperproxy - A Python-based HTTP/HTTPS-proxy.