Python Only Tor Client?
Hi all, does anyone know of any work to make a Python Only Tor Client, that just enable to expose a Tor Hidden Service? It would be very cool if it would be possible to avoid "Tor binary" as a dependency for Globaleaks, making it pure Python application code. The questions are: - Are there projects that foresee to do something like that? - From a Tor Project perspective, does it make sense? - From a Security perspective, are there strong security implications in doing so? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org
Hey Naif, Have you considered making something with STEM? Granted, it probably isn't *quite* what you're looking for, but might get you closer: https://stem.torproject.org best, Griffin On 2014-04-21 04:46, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone know of any work to make a Python Only Tor Client, that just enable to expose a Tor Hidden Service?
It would be very cool if it would be possible to avoid "Tor binary" as a dependency for Globaleaks, making it pure Python application code.
The questions are:
- Are there projects that foresee to do something like that?
- From a Tor Project perspective, does it make sense?
- From a Security perspective, are there strong security implications in doing so?
On 4/21/14, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists@infosecurity.ch> wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone know of any work to make a Python Only Tor Client, that just enable to expose a Tor Hidden Service?
It would be very cool if it would be possible to avoid "Tor binary" as a dependency for Globaleaks, making it pure Python application code.
The questions are:
- Are there projects that foresee to do something like that?
- From a Tor Project perspective, does it make sense?
- From a Security perspective, are there strong security implications in doing so?
I think it makes sense - the effort will be similar to Orchid which is written in pure Java. It is a great deal of work. If someone were to serious consider this effort - I think they should probably talk extensively with Nick, Roger, Andrea and probably also Bruce (who wrote Orchid) as they're probably the four most qualified people to make suggestions. All the best, Jacob
Hi all,
does anyone know of any work to make a Python Only Tor Client, that just enable to expose a Tor Hidden Service?
It would be very cool if it would be possible to avoid "Tor binary" as a dependency for Globaleaks, making it pure Python application code.
The questions are:
- Are there projects that foresee to do something like that?
- From a Tor Project perspective, does it make sense?
- From a Security perspective, are there strong security implications in doing so?
I think it makes sense - the effort will be similar to Orchid which is written in pure Java. It is a great deal of work. If someone were to serious consider this effort - I think they should probably talk extensively with Nick, Roger, Andrea and probably also Bruce (who wrote Orchid) as they're probably the four most qualified people to make suggestions.
All the best, Jacob
If such a project ever got going then I'd be interested in helping out. Stem already provides a python implementation of many Tor data types (descriptors, exit policies, controller messages), providing quite a bit to bootstrap with. I'd love to see a project that uses small C modules for libevent and crypto, but shifts the bulk of descriptor and controller handling to a higher level language (be it Python, Go, or whatever). Oh well. I can dream. :)
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