[tor-talk] Introducing KroTor

Nick Mathewson nickm at alum.mit.edu
Wed Sep 2 15:40:00 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Deepankar Tyagi
<deepankar7tyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!,
>
> I recently finished my GSOC project in which I ported Tor codebase to
> chrome's native client (also ported libevent).
> This enables tor's official C codebase to run inside Chrome browser as an
> app, it creates a system wide (tor)socks proxy at port 9999.
>
> The app has been published on webstore ( all relevant links are at end of
> mail)
>
> Currently it lacks a functional GUI ie ability to add proxy settings,
> modify proxy port etc; I am working on it and next version will have one.
>
> Any feedback and suggestions are welcome.
>
> (Apologies if I sent the mail to wrong mailing list)

Interesting stuff.  I'm hoping nobody tries to use this as a
TorBrowser substitute, but it's a neat piece of engineering.

Have you considered submitting your patches upstream?


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