[HN Gopher] Tor - Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementatio... ___________________________________________________________________ Tor - Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use Author : Trouble_007 Score : 29 points Date : 2022-09-02 22:04 UTC (55 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (blog.torproject.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.torproject.org) | TechBro8615 wrote: | Very cool, I fully support this and I plan to experiment with it. | The developers should be proud of making such exciting progress. | | But doesn't "ready for production use" sound like hyperbole when | the blog post describes a partially completed implementation? It | can't even connect to onion services yet. Similarly, "improved | security" is a suspect claim to make when comparing brand new | software to a battle-tested codebase. | | There's no point making claims like that in this phase of early- | adopter outreach; it burns future credibility for no reason. | We'll play with the software regardless. | | IMO a more accurate claim would be "arti tor client, socks proxy | and rust crate can now connect to clearnet hosts through the Tor | network, but without some features like bridges and pluggable | transports." | realitysballs wrote: | How much speed increase can reasonably be expected? I thought | bottleneck to Tor is just all the IP relays that occur ? | timbit42 wrote: | Their goal was to increase security more than speed. | mmastrac wrote: | 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 passes its tests, it is | much likelier to be correct than our C code under the same | conditions. | billconan wrote: | 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? | timbit42 wrote: | Briar does this. | erdos4d wrote: | Yes, it's a socks5 proxy, if your software will obey the | proxy rules, you can pipe it all through tor. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-02 23:00 UTC)