1. It makes tracking people across different IPs very easy.
Solution: Have each new DHT use a temporary public/private key pair not related
to the long term public/private key pair.
2. Metadata on which key is friends to which can be collected (The hardening
makes this somewhat harder by introducing a bunch of random traffic but not
impossible.).
Solution: If no long term keys were used in the DHT it would solve this
problem. (possibly knowing which ip is connected to which is much less
precious.)
So, it seems all our privacy problems are solved if we can manage to make every
node in the DHT have a keypair that is not related to the long term keys and is
generated every session.
So, every node in the DHT now has a temporary keypair not related to their real
long term one.
But, how do people find themselves then? We have to add a way for people to
tell their friends what their DHT public key is, we also have to somehow make
it so people can send/receive friend requests, this has to be done without non
friends being able to find out where a node is.
The solution: Onion routing + enable the storage of some small amount of data
on
DHT nodes.
Alice and bob are friends, before joining the DHT they generate temporary
session keypairs to be used for the DHT instead of their long term keys.
Bob finds a bunch of random nodes then picks 3 random working ones (A, B, C).
Bob gets the know working node with an id closest to his real one from his list (D)
Bob then creates an onion (the packet will go through A, B, C and will end up at D)
announce request packet with his real public key, ping_id as zeros and
searching for his real public key.
Bob will announce response packets and will recursively send onion announce request packets
to closer and closer nodes until he finds the ones closest to his real public key.
Once he has done this, he will send some onion announce request packets with the right ping_id previously
received from the node when he queried it to announce himself to the node.
The nodes he announces himself to keep the information to send onion packets to that node in memory.
Alice meanwhile searches for the Nodes closest to Bobs real id using a temporary keypair and announce
request packets, she does this until she finds nodes that respond with a ping_id of zero.
She sends data to route request packet with information telling Bob her temporary id in the DHT
(or a friend request if she is not friends with him).
Bob finds her by using her temporary id and they connect to each other.
NOTE: crypto_box is used for all the asymmetric encryption and crypto_secretbox is used for all the symmetric.
Also every DHT node have a random symmetric key which they use to encrypt the stuff in normal get node request that is
used to encrypt stuff in the following.
Onion packet (request):
initial (sent from us to node A):
[uint8_t packet id (128)][nonce]
[our temp DHT public key]encrypted with our temp DHT private key and the pub key of Node A and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node B][a random public key]encrypted with the random private key and the pub key of Node B and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node C][a random public key]encrypted with the random private key and the pub key of Node C and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node D][data to send to Node D]]]]
(sent from node A to node B):
[uint8_t packet id (129)][nonce]
[a random public key]encrypted with the random private key and the pub key of Node B and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node C][a random public key]encrypted with the random private key and the pub key of Node C and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node D][data to send to Node D]]][nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node A: [IP_Port (of us)]
(sent from node B to node C):
[uint8_t packet id (130)][nonce]
[a random public key]encrypted with the random private key and the pub key of Node C and the nonce:[
[IP_Port of node D][data to send to Node D]][nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]
encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node B:[IP_Port (of Node A)[nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]
encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node A: [IP_Port (of us)]]
(sent from node C to node D):
[data to send to Node D][nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node C:
[IP_Port (of Node B)[nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]
encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node B:[IP_Port (of Node A)[nonce (for the following symmetric encryption)]
encrypted with temp symmetric key of Node A: [IP_Port (of us)]]]
Data sent to Node D:
announce request packet:
[uint8_t packet id (131)][nonce][our real long term public key or a temporary one (see next)]
encrypted (with our real long term private key if we want to announce ourselves, a temporary one if we are searching for friends) and the pub key of Node D and the nonce:[[(32 bytes) ping_id][client id we are searching for][data to send back in response(fixed size)]]
