[tor-dev] oppy - an Onion Proxy in Python

Nik nskinkel at iastate.edu
Thu Jan 22 05:23:39 UTC 2015


Yawning Angel,

This is great, thanks for posting. I wasn't aware of torps, and this
will save a bunch of work.

Best,
Nik

On 01/21/2015 01:08 PM, Yawning Angel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:20:36 -0800
> Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Now that I think about it, something that would be great to have in
>>> Stem would be path selection capabilities. So something like, say,
>>> given a list of RelayDescriptors and some constraints that must
>>> hold for a path, return some randomly chosen path that satisfies
>>> those constraints.
>>
>> I'd be up for that. This isn't a very commonly requested piece of
>> functionality, but it was part of TorCtl (which Stem deprecated in
>> 2012)...
>>
>>   https://gitweb.torproject.org/pytorctl.git/tree/PathSupport.py
> 
> There's a mostly complete implementation in torps, that uses stem.  The
> code isn't very Python-like as afaik it's a straightforward conversion
> of the tor path selection code.  The last time I tried this,
> downloading and processing all the documents took forever and consumed
> a hilarious amount of RAM, but I belive stem has seen performance
> improvements since I tried using it for this.
> 
> https://github.com/torps/torps
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
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