Greetings everyone!

After Fosdem 2014, I had the chance to talk with a lot of people about Torsocks and the current status. It appears it's actually quite used! (more than I thought). I've already received multiple contributions after a quick announcement of the project during my talk.

This email is to provide a quick status report on what's going on with this effort [1].

In a nutshell, unfortunately, it has been almost two months since the last commit but free time is coming back to me thus expect *MORE* activity.

Nick did a *very* nice review of the code base [2] that I finally answered recently [3] but yet to fix stuff upstream. Feel free to jump in the discussion to help or even contribute.

Yawning and I had a discussion on #tor-dev about the use of a bitmap instead of an hash table to store connection pointers indexed by file descriptor. After looking in the BSD and Linux code base, we ended up seeing that both OSes allocate the lowest FD everytime a new socket is created which makes thing much more easier to manage a bitmap. Apart from a performance stand point of view, it appears that there is no compelling reasons to move the connection registry from an HT (current state) to a bitmap. Feel free to speak up here if you see any reasons!

Finally, Luke Gallagher will continue to contribute tests to the project so big thanks! [4]

After the Tor dev. meeting this month, hopefully things will be close to ready for a full on release, I'll most probably write a blog post about this effort on the why it has been rewritten, the current state/limitation and upcoming features.

Cheers! David

[1] https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-December/005886.html [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006101.html [4] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006136.html