[Feature Request] nym-hidden services

[milahu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

tor-hidden services are too easy to attack for state-level actors (i am not sharing concrete examples)

nym-hidden services could provide better security

Where does the feature fit in the Nym real estate?

core protocol

What is this solving?

currently nym is a "client only" tool it is not possible to hide servers behind nym

Describe alternatives you've considered

tor-hidden services

Additional context

https://forum.nym.com/t/better-client-and-server-network-level-privacy-edited/1210/3

Hidden Services – We’re not currently planning to support hidden services, but that could change in the future.

i guess this has not changed

i guess helping "others" to run hidden services can cause pressure from state-level actors (session, signal, telegram, encrochat, ghost, VPN services, ...) especially for a commercial service like nym compared to non-commercial services like tor

technically, this should be trivial to implement mostly copy-paste tor-hidden services (rendezvous point negotiation, DHT, ...)

related:

• https://github.com/nymtech/nym/issues/340
  • https://github.com/sgeisler/nym_hs

edit: some of nym's advantages are already implemented in tor: nym cover traffic = tor padding (implemented) nym packet shuffling = tor muffler (pdf) (not implemented)

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