Does #iCloud #PrivateRelay block #Steam downloads for anyone else? When on, it seems to block my from downloading games, Steam Cloud Sync, and downloading game updates. The rest of the app works fine, though.

Steam Support said this was an Apple/iCloud problem (FB13123271)

#Apple #iCloud #PrivateRelay down for everyone or just me?

Apple requires clients to be authorized before using #PrivateRelay, but doesn't want to link that authorization to the client's relay activity. That's great! This is what #PrivacyPass enables you to do! More people should do this!

I'm sad that part of that authorization is baked-in geoblocking restrictions, but I'm guessing that was a necessary restriction in order for websites to not block the egress relay IPs (which does occur to #Tor exit nodes).

#RealWorldCrypto

Apple requires clients to be authorized before using #PrivateRelay, but doesn't want to link that authorization to the client's relay activity. That's great! This is what #PrivacyPass enables you to do! More people should do this!

I'm sad that part of that authorization is baked-in geoblocking restrictions, but I'm guessing that was a necessary restriction in order for websites to not block the egress relay IPs (which does occur to #Tor exit nodes).

#RealWorldCrypto

Single-shot tunnel building is necessary because #I2P tunnels are unidirectional. Tunnel hops only route half of the communication traffic, making traffic analysis harder. It also means more peers are involved in round-trip traffic, which can create reliability issues.

For #PrivateRelay which is not trying to do any traffic hiding and prioritises performance, using bidirectional tunnels and interactive tunnel building makes sense.

#RealWorldCrypto

Apple describing their #PrivateRelay system (two-hop client IP privacy).

Tunnel establishment looks pretty similar to #Tor: build the first hop, extend new hops through earlier hops.

#I2P by comparision has single-shot tunnel building: it uses nested encryption to send a single message out, each hop stores its reply in its message layer and forwards it on, and the last hop is given a different tunnel to send the reply through to reach the client.

https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2023/rwc/rwc2023/IT_1/slides.pdf

#RealWorldCrypto

Ich muss #MicrosoftEdge benutzen, um die #ChatGPT Funktion von #Bing ausprobieren zu können, ernsthaft #microsoft?

Wäre nicht so schlimm, wenn #PrivateRelay auch in #Edge funktionieren würde.

Is anyone else having an issues with #DisneyPlus and #iCloud #PrivateRelay?

I notice there's a line in one of the resources the web player tries to load saying "Received error response from upstream error with status '400' and description 'forbidden-location'", so looks like they are blocking it.

#privacy #apple

@JamesBaker
We need to normalise use of #e2ee #vpn and #PrivateRelay as much as possible.

Here we can be helped by Big Tech, since WhatsApp is doing a great job of normalising #e2ee and Apple #PrivateRelay. But no Big Tech has an interest in VPNs.

Can we get the story of ProtonVPN vs Putin into the media?