[HN Gopher] Tor - Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementatio...
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       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.
        
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