Improved Tor Sync & Error Handling | HydraVeil 2.5.7
Solved Tor compatability problems for many distros, and improved database handling.
One of the most frustrating parts of Tor, is even if the website wants to allow Tor, often their DNS provider may block Tor’s DNS nodes from resolving the domain. Without the website owner (or even the end-user) from being aware.
DNS Providers such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, and Orangewebsite will most definitely restrict high quantity Tor queries. I’ve seen it first hand with out our project. And upstreams such as Verisign and even Iceland’s’ .is ISNIC registry may be the real culprits. Everyone will claim it’s to stop abuse, which is logical. But the end result is harming privacy.
Even diagnosing this problem is a huge challenge, let alone solving it. But we did it.
Today’s new HydraVeil release, tries to sync over Tor, if it fails..
a) It first tests if Tor even works against the official Tor Project API.
b) If it does, it checks if DNS is the problem. Will just the domain resolve via a Tor node?
c) If that Tor-node-DNS fails, It resolves the DNS to a non-Tor DNS provider like Quad9 via DoH, but proxied through Tor.
d) Now with the IP address in-hand, it goes directly to the IP address of the web service through Tor, but without ANY DNS. Then pretends it used the domain, when it asks the website for an SSL cert. Finally, HydraVeil manually verifies the SSL cert against it’s own local copy of Mozilla’s tools for Let’s Encrypt certificate authority.
The Point:
This gives you the benefit of SSL encryption & Tor, but without allowing DNS providers to restrict Tor resolution. And doesn’t slow you to 6 hops to do onions just for DNS, to download browsers.
Open Source Blueprint
Today’s release is open source. And this same blueprint can be applied to any app in the future. Web browsers, Monero/Bitcoin wallets, Nostr clients, anything that wants to use Tor but not be slowed to 6 hops by an Onion, just to resolve the domain.
Database
Also this version sees support for database format updates, so we can roll out new features in the future (other protocols).
These two changes together should dramatically improve the speed and ease with which you use HydraVeil for your daily activities.
Download link:
https://api.hydraveil.net/downloads/linux-x86_64/clients/v2.5.7/appimage/hydra-veil-x86_64.AppImage
Verify
If you wish to verify it, you may run this command:
sha256sum [filename]
It should spit out this for 2.5.7:
22a34c4eb910b6e0b176a1aec5817762e01570b43e3a3916c191b95e26f13f87
PGP
Please see this text file for a PGP sign. Our PGP key can be found here
If problems:
If you have issues, please try to delete the old public sync data. This would NOT affect your profiles, its the public sync data on locations, browsers, ect. It should prompt you automatically if there’s an issue with migration, but if it does give you any issues then,
rm ~/.local/share/hydra-veil/storage.db
DEBUG=true ./hydra-veil-x86_64.AppImage
Gitlab with changes:
https://git.simplifiedprivacy.com/explore/repos
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