Could you clarify with regarding to .onion? How would I set this up for SimpleX and how would I configure SimpleX to use it, on, say, Android and Linux? I believe to use Tor with SimpleX, you would have to use Orbot, for example. What would I have to set up and how, on Linux? Genuine question. I would much prefer to self-host it.
I would also like to know how I would configure SimpleX on Android to use my own SMP servers.
# `socks_mode` can be 'onion' for SOCKS proxy to be used for .onion destination hosts only (default)
# or 'always' to be used for all destination hosts (can be used if it is an .onion server).
# socks_mode: onion
Yeah, I figured it out. I think I am supposed to do this: run a hidden service and a SimpleX server that uses the hidden service's port, and then use the hidden service's hostname as my SMP server that I set within the app.
On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have Tor bundled and run the hidden service by themselves with a hardened-enough torrc. Ricochet does this on desktop, which I think is the right way to go about this. SimpleX's server (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq) should do this.
> On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have Tor bundled and run the hidden service by themselves with a hardened-enough torrc. Ricochet does this on desktop, which I think is the right way to go about this. SimpleX's server (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq) should do this.
What I do is run Wireguard on my server with a Tor daemon, connect to the WG network on my phone and then access the SOCKS and DNS proxies the Tor daemon exposes.
That way there is no need for Orbot or running Tor on Android at all.
