Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use

Post by pabs3 » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 5:57 AM UTC

ivmoreau wrote: post #37

sillystuff wrote: post #25

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> Tor embedded into the client This is the most interesting part of this announcement for me: >> You can test Arti ... as an embeddable library (if you don't mind a little API instability). My first thought was adding Tor as a transport for TCP DNS resolution for an existing recursive resolver like unbound. Or, a TOR proxy for DoH public recursive resolvers. Either would result in better privacy than directly using a…

> Too bad rust doesn't really do dynamic linking. As far as I remember, you can actually do dynamic linking. But it has its caveats. Maybe using two different crates, lib-internal and lib-external, where lib-internal compiles to an dylib/so that exposes a C-abi compatible interface. Lib-external it’s just a idiomatic Rust wrapper to that api. It’s a little bit wonky, but I’m pretty sure that it can work.

Post by zozbot234 » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 6:41 AM UTC

ivmoreau wrote: post #37

sillystuff wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tor embedded into the client This is the most interesting part of this announcement for me: >> You can test Arti ... as an embeddable library (if you don't mind a little API instability). My first thought was adding Tor as a transport for TCP DNS resolution for an existing recursive resolver like unbound. Or, a TOR proxy for DoH public recursive resolvers. Either would result in better privacy than directly using a…

> Too bad rust doesn't really do dynamic linking. As far as I remember, you can actually do dynamic linking. But it has its caveats. Maybe using two different crates, lib-internal and lib-external, where lib-internal compiles to an dylib/so that exposes a C-abi compatible interface. Lib-external it’s just a idiomatic Rust wrapper to that api. It’s a little bit wonky, but I’m pretty sure that it can work.

Post by ajconway » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 6:45 AM UTC

beecafe wrote: post #21

Uptrenda wrote: post #19

To me this just seems pointless because an implementation in Rust is going to have similar features to one in C, Java, Python, or any of the handful of languages where Tor already exists... I want to rep another project that I think would be more relevant to Tor's goals. It is unfunded yet should it exist: would have the potential to transform privacy on the web. The project is https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor It's a…

You could compile the rust version to WASM and run it in browser.

Post by dewey » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 7:57 AM UTC

billconan wrote: post #3

mmastrac wrote: post #2

This project has come a long way, very fast. Great work to all involved. The biggest security holes in Tor are most likely going to be from the browser going forward. Hardening the browser is tough, but that's a win for everyone (including those not using Tor). This sentiment was one that I shared in my Rust work: > the pickiness of the compiler has been a great boon. Generally speaking, if our Rust code compiles and…

I have a question, can I use tor as a middleware? for example, can I build a social network with Tor embedded into the client as the network layer?

Post by nindalf » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 8:57 AM UTC

t6jvcereio wrote: post #13

It seems the Rust people are especially prone to re implementing things. Nothing is really created, just reimplemented.