TOR in Java? [signed]

loki tiwaz loki_tiwaz at hotmail.com
Sat Oct 22 08:24:39 UTC 2005


is it not implicit that a third party tor proxy service, that is not being 
run by YOU, is gonna be implicitly insecure? If you can't run tor off a 
cd/usb key, don't use the access point.

>Dudes. For the 80,000th time.... Using Java is a bad idea for security 
>reasons. Granted, an application-level implementation isn't as bad as using 
>web-based applets, but still.
>~ADB
>
>Christian Beil wrote:
>
>>Hi Lexi,
>>which crypto library do you use. We were thinking about doing a Tor port 
>>to Java using the cryptlib library.
>>Is your code accessible?
>>
>>Lexi Pimenidis schrieb:
>>
>>>On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:51:09PM CEST, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>need more implementations for the Tor protocol, and Java is a popular
>>>>choice these days.  You might want to start with the code from the
>>>>Java Anon Proxy people; I don't know their current status here, but
>>>>for a while, they had a working Tor *client* written in Java.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>our group is currently developing a Java-Client for the Tor-protocol in
>>>Java. It's in a pre-alpha version, but we can connect and transmit data.
>>>We expect to have something stable by the end of the year (and yes...
>>>we're doing it in our spare time).  We also took a look at the
>>>JAP-Tor-Code and decided to write a new one from scratch.
>>>
>>>Taking the code, it would be possible to e.g. compile tor into a
>>>java-application.
>>>
>>>Comments are welcome, of course :)
>>>
>>>     Lexi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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