[tor-dev] use tor controller to detect circuit/path change

esolve esolve esolvepolito at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 00:13:57 UTC 2012


OK, thank you very much!
besides,  is it possible to get the cypher key for decoding the tcpdump
captured packets on the TOR client??

2012/10/30 Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>

> > Hi, I'm new to Tor controller,
> >
> > Tor client usually open 3 circuits, one for current use and the other 2
> for
> > standby.
> >
> > Tor will change the current circuit/path in use from time to time,
> depending
> > on the network load dynamics
> >
> > I'm wondering whether it is possible to use Tor controller to detect when
> > the circuit/path in use is changed
> > and obtain the list of IP addresses of those relay nodes.
>
> Hi esolve. I'm pretty sure that you'll simply want to write a script
> that listens for CIRC events...
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/control-spec.txt#l1232
>
> The main controller libraries at present are...
>
> - txtorcon (https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - controller
> library for twisted apps
> - stem (https://stem.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) - general
> controller library that'll replace TorCtl
> - torctl (https://gitweb.torproject.org/pytorctl.git/) - the original
> and most stable controller library
>
> If you want an example for using stem then I'd be happy to write you
> one later. Ravi and I are currently working to improve its event
> handling support so it's presently a bit rough for your use case, but
> still perfectly doable.
>
> Cheers! -Damian
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