Hi,
is it possible to run a shadowsocks or VPN via an .onion address ?
E.g. on a server is a shadowsocks service running which is reachable via TOR, onion address.
I would add this shadowsocks onion address in whonix workstation, in the shadowsocks client.
Would the Gateway route to the shadowsocks server ?
And would the same work with a VPN service ?
You can already access the Tor network to circumvent censorship, so what is your use case? These questions would be better asked on the Tor Project Forum:
No, you cannot run software to circumvent local internet level (ISP level) censorship inside Whonix-Workstation.
If you cannot reach Tor, you can also not reach onions. And if you cannot reach onions, you cannot connect censorship circumventing software to onions.
How to use shadowsocks for censorship circumvention? Undocumented.
As for VPNs, see:
The tunnel via SOcks5 or VPN should run via TOR, because then I think 6 hops in tor network are possible !
If you access clearnet websites via the normal workstation, you only have 3 hops !
So basically the workstation would connect via tor network to the .onion Socks5 or .onion VPN Server which then connects to clearnet - 6 hops or actually 7 because you have the server in between.
is that possible ?
6 hops are already used when connecting to Tor Onion Services:
yes but please read, I said that when you connect to CLEARNET. then you have 3 hops.
To solve this problem, it should be possible to connect to a socks or vpn via onion (6 hops) which acts as an gateway to the clearnet.
Which problem?
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