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Redchannit / Project Crescent Isle 2.0 Acid Board owner 12/13/2020 (Sun) 06:51:12 Id: 012171 No. 1653
Original Thread Archive: https://archive.is/Y2T07 Welcome to the official Project Crescent Isle thread. This thread is only for Crescent Isle/Redchannit/Tor related issues including: >System updates >Bug reports >User feedback >Questions, comments, and technical support In the classic Dreamcast RPG Skies of Arcadia, the heroes are a band of Blue Rogue air pirates; swashbucking heroes pursued across the world by an evil empire. In the middle of the game the party discovers a tiny, uncharted island in the corner of the map and they turn it into a hidden fortress paradise. A base of operations, safely hidden from their enemies in a place called Crescent Isle. What is Crescent Isle? It is a clearnet portal to 8chan's tor server (.onion) created by combining a specially configured proxy server called Tor2Web with an HTTP Accelerator cache, all hosted on a dedicated server and with its own domain. What does it do? It allows anons to potentially post on any number of imageboard .onions from the clearnet, using any browser and viewing/posting from anywhere, without needing to use Tor Browser themselves. And they can do it almost as fast as using the site on the clearnet due to the aggressive dynamic caching system that front-loads things like thumbnails and CSS. How does it work? There is a separate server that is currently running the open source Tor, Tor2Web, Varnish Cache, and Hitch Proxy software programs, all specially configured to play nice together and with 8chan's LynxChan software. The system uses a single .onion site as a default (this site in our case) but through the use of special custom subdomains a single Crescent Isle server can proxy traffic for any number of imageboard sites. When you go to the site running Crescent Isle, it connects you via encrypted HTTPS to the proxy server, then Tor encrypts your traffic and connects you to the .onion site. Due to Varnish caching things like CSS, HTML, and thumbnails the site will load and function much faster than it normally would if you were connecting over Tor yourself. What is Redchannit? A meme, son. "Redchannit" or "Redchanit" was the name of the evil darknet site used by the badguys in the infamous #GamerGate Law and Order episode "Intimidation Game." The 2.0 version of the system has now been launched on a new server at: https://redchannit.com How is Redchannit's Crescent Isle system configured? The server currently has no subdomains and only serves 8chan, but we can still add other sites as time goes by. We no longer use Vanwanet and the server has been upgraded to a duocore machine with 4GB of RAM. All logging has been disabled apart from a transient cache debug log that stays in active memory and overwrites itself several times a day. Nothing is logged to disk. Varnish has been configured to send proper X-REFERER headers so that the site will now work the same as on clearnet, including mod tools and user accounts. The site uses a LetsEncrypt certificate and handles its own HTTPS now instead of needing a site like Cloudflare to do it for us. Why is this system important? >Server protection. The actual webserver can stay hidden, safe, and anonymous on the Tor network. >Public portal. Even with the imageboard itself buried in the Tor network, it still has a public face with a human readable domain and doesn't require special tools to access. >Deniability. As a public proxy Redchannit hosts nothing, stores nothing, logs nothing, and caches only to industry standards. >Deplatforming-resistant. The argument that "this public proxy is capable of displaying content from shitlord site X" is a much harder sell to a business than "shitlord site X has Y content on its server pls deplatform." Public proxies are everywhere and even picky registrars and hosts rarely try to hold them accountable for displayed content that they do not store, especially for legal content. >Clearnet fallback. In the event of a catastrophic deplatforming of the main site, Crescent Isle can be used (or brought online on a different server) very quickly if domain names are made public in advance. >One or All. A single imageboard can run a Crescent Isle system very cheaply to serve as the front door to its service. It needs only a mediocre processor and ~4GB of RAM. The prototype was built and tested on a $15 DigitalOcean Droplet before being moved to a production server, and it works with Cloudflare's free DDoS protection for those so inclined. For a small, low traffic site you could run the portal on a laptop in your kitchen. A "full monty" install like Redchannit can serve as a central portal to many different sites as well, like a tor based webring or "onion ring." >Free, open source. All of the required software is open source and free of charge. The magic is in the slightly unusual configurations which will also be made available for free, by us. If you don't trust Redchannit for whatever reason, I'll show you how to set up your own Crescent Isle.
[Expand Post] What's required >A VPS or Droplet with at least 4GB of RAM and a not-shit processor >A domain name for the portal >Debian 10 with Sudo and Nano installed >Tor, Tor2Web, Varnish, and Hitch installed >Properly set up tor2web.conf and varnish default.vcl config files, a letsencrypt.vcl file for Hitch >The .onion address of your imageboard(s) >Enough IT knowledge to do basic things like service port configurations, systemd configurations, and a little bit of C programming language for the Varnish .vcl configuration syntax. How did you come up with this? Zeronet has clearnet proxy sites that have been around for a while. I conceived of something like that for Tor to make a distributed imageboard system resulting in the first concept pic above. Doing further research I learned that Tor proxies like onion.ws already exist, but are widely shit on by the tor community because of them using tracking cookies and Google ads, logging and selling user IPs, eavesdropping on logins and cookies, and other sketchy things to pay their bills. Deciding the only safe way was to do it in-house, I looked into adapting their same system (tor2web) to do what I wanted. Once I got it working through a lot of trial and error (due to tor2web being effectively abandoned), combining it with an HTTP accelerator cache to speed up user experience was my idea. The End Result You can browse and post on 8chan anonymously via the Tor network from any clearnet connection anywhere, almost as fast as on clearnet, and the proxy and the site server both are far more resistant to being deplatformed. If you use DNS over HTTPS on top of this I think you're about as anonymous as you can get. If the .moe and .se domains get taken down you can access the site via Redchannit, and if Redchannit gets taken down another one can pop up in minutes as opposed to us having to move and restore the entire site itself. From a user standpoint the only things different are that opening files will be slightly slower due to Redchannit having to pull them from across the Tor network, and all Redchannit users will appear as Tor users with the black "00000" ID. What's Next? I'm waiting for the final release of Debian 11, which is coming in a few months, to release detailed setup instructions for the new 2.0 version. This is because all the core pieces will be available right in the repositories, so all you'll need is the Tor2Web software. We are also looking into implementing unique visible IDs for Tor users, which will allow other anons to tell them apart. This system will work with Lynxchan 2.5's new Proof of Work captcha system to control spam over both Tor and Redchannit.
Anonymous 12/14/2020 (Mon) 18:48:46 Id: 494137 No. 1675
So for the sake of speed, you have completely compromised the security benefits tor offers? Yeah, no thanks.
Anonymous 12/14/2020 (Mon) 19:05:47 Id: 000000 No. 1676
>>1675 Half the purpose behind tor is hidden services. In fact I'd say hidden services are the main usefulness of tor.
Acid Board owner 12/15/2020 (Tue) 02:52:21 Id: d30d9e No. 1699
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>>1675 Its about giving the security benefits of TOR to the entire server, while still giving anons with normal browsers a normal domain. The main site .onion still works perfectly fine for those inclined to use it, and that will never change. Redchannit is for everyone else. Which, as much as I love the potential of TOR and .onions, is most people.
Edited last time by Acidadmin on 12/15/2020 (Tue) 02:52:36.
Anonymous 12/15/2020 (Tue) 05:27:38 Id: 494137 No. 1706
>>1699 >most people Anyone on desktop can get connected to tor for free, it's FLOSS. Even phoneposting niggerfaggots can use tor, but I probably shouldn't be telling them that. I think the #1 reason people use tor is paranoia. Clearnet tor2web is inherently untrustworthy because IPs and sessions can be logged (even if they aren't they could easily be) so I can't imagine a single paranoid user (which is probably most if not all tor users) using redchannit. Run it if you want but it seems like a mostly pointless endeavor, because it relies on trust whereas tor relies on technology based around "trust nobody."
Acid Board owner 12/16/2020 (Wed) 10:09:12 Id: ca7d16 No. 1718
Redchannit.com will be down for maintenance for a day, possibly two while I do a backup and restore operation. Having a problem with a brand new server is not a good look, but I'll get it fixed ASAP. Edit: I took a couple days to test everything and she seems to be gucci. https://redchannit.com now works again.
Edited last time by Acidadmin on 12/19/2020 (Sat) 05:15:33.
Anonymous 02/18/2021 (Thu) 23:12:59 Id: d7dbde No. 1955
>>1894 Or at least use the standalone, offline projector if the plugin without the timebomb isn't safe.
Anonymous 03/12/2021 (Fri) 12:21:37 Id: 0940d0 No. 2088
Redchannit is fucked. I've been getting 503's since yesterday. The initial page still shows up properly, I'm guessing it's some server -> TOR fuckery.
Anonymous 03/12/2021 (Fri) 13:22:04 Id: ef5a78 No. 2089
>>2088 And it's back now.
Acid 03/16/2021 (Tue) 02:58:43 Id: b83bee No. 2112
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I've been looking into this, and the culprit is definitely tor2web. Tor recently updated their software to fix the "no consensus brings down all .onion sites" issue, and the tor2web downtime happens every three days on the dot, which is the time for a "consensus failure." I suspect that something in the tor change broke some bit of compatibility with tor2web. For the moment simply restarting the software every couple of days is a ghetto workaround but I'll be looking into a patch soon.
Anonymous 03/16/2021 (Tue) 20:25:19 Id: 000000 No. 2132
>>2112 >faggot refuses to have a rational argument >instead opts to act like a defensive faggot and get beaten by a superior shitposter from the promised land >get blown the fuck out when he realizes his entire argument is collapsing on out of itself >failed highschool physics so opted to go to bdsm community to get abused How does that make you feel?
Anonymous 05/02/2021 (Sun) 06:50:26 Id: 41df56 No. 2336
>>2132 >he can't get what he want >proxy >pasta This is how you cope out? Cowardly and pathethic
Anonymous 05/09/2021 (Sun) 03:19:22 Id: 665ca5 No. 2404
>>1699 This is the most niggerlicious idea I've ever seen. It doesn't provide shit for "security benefits" and you know it. Do you really think you're some god of decentralization and security because you made an ass backwards clearnet->tor bridge? All this does is make it easier for phoneniggers to post when the clearnet site goes down. It's a retarded and insubstantial PR stunt, only better than Bitchute's nonexistent P2P and whatever piece of shit Ron was hyping up on 8coon by the fact that it actually does exist.
Anonymous 09/15/2021 (Wed) 11:04:29 Id: 04356f No. 4053
Shit's busted. I keep getting 503 errors after the welcome screen and nothing loads.
Anonymous 09/16/2021 (Thu) 23:30:54 Id: 732ae3 No. 4089
>>4053 I'm investigating this. It looks like congestion in the tor circuit between the proxy and the main .onion, but I'll try to get a better idea and see if I can force it onto a different leg if so.
Anonymous 10/25/2021 (Mon) 00:54:35 Id: 000000 No. 4325
>>4089 Have you figured anything out yet? Using this site is becoming more and more difficult. Forget posting, a lot of times now I can't even LOAD the damn site to even lurk. And captchas take forever to load too and they desynch all the time too so it takes 2 or 3 attempts to even get a good one.
Anonymous 05/02/2022 (Mon) 01:01:22 Id: 000000 No. 5336
>>4325 I think tor is fucked in general lately. Every tor address I try to open goes incredibly slow, however opening the clearnet address through a exit node actually works super fast.
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