Gosling: Build Anonymous, Secure, and Metadata-Resistant Peer-to-Peer Applications using Tor Onion Services (WHY2025)

Gosling is a Tor onionservice-based protocol and Rust reference-implementation which allows developers to build privacy-preserving p2p applications with the following properties: - persistent authenticated peer identity - end-to-end encrypted - anonymity - metadata resistance - decentralisation - real-time communication This talk will go over the complexities involved in combining all of these properties (with a focus on metadata resistance) and describe how Gosling solves these problems. Project Website: https://gosling.technology Github Page: https://github.com/blueprint-freespeech/gosling Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/TMS3DC/