Circuitv2 may allow for greater privacy on the ipfs network.

[Destroyinator69420]

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• My issue is specific & actionable.
• I am not suggesting a protocol enhancement.
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Description

The circuitv2 protocol in go-libp2p could allow for greater privacy on the ipfs network. Instead of a traditional onion router, I think the feature should be opt-in, with a tit for tat karma system. It would take the form of 12 outbound tunnels and 12 inbound tunnels that are 1 hop in length, both for seeders and leeches. If both parties choose to stay private, then the tunnels will be no more than two hops in length for the entire connection. There are many ways to do a karma system, is a karmachain that tallies the amount of data that a node has contributed to the privacy of others minus the amount of data that a node has taken from the privacy of others. Another system to do the same thing could be a distributed hash table. Such a system could be complementary to filecoin. It should be noted that I do not think that this system is urgent, but I also think that it might be necessary if IPFS is truly the wave of the future and gains mainstream adoption.

All the best,
Destroyinator

edit: My apologies, I filed this under the wrong type of issue and I am unable to change it now, sorry.

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[Jorropo]

CircuitV2 has nothing to do with privacy and isn't aim to be.
Fitting privacy on circuit v2 would be harder and less effective than a proper solution (using already existing well known software like Tor or i2p).

If you care about that we have an issues open here:

• Tor onion integration notes#37
• I2P integration notes#124
• <open a new one if you want to write a libp2p native solution>