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Re: the flagged comment about Arti not being a real project It is a real project and it works well. I've been building some stuff on top of it in my free time

by _lvbh 2y ago

Re: the flagged comment about Arti not being a real project It is a real project and it works well. I've been building some stuff on top of it in my free time and it's generally stable. There are a few footguns in their API (namely the DataStream not flushing writes automatically) but they're actively working on everything.

fullspectrumdev 2y ago
I’d be genuinely interested in seeing what people are building on top of this. Especially to see some concrete code examples, as I find those easier to learn from than the current state of the docs. Especially with regard to footguns mentioned! I’ve had a few ideas, mostly porting older projects I built in Python using the Stem library. I feel like Arti is going to be much cleaner for embedding in applications than having to also bundle the correct Tor binary… manage running it as a subprocess… etc
- _k2vp 2y ago
  I’m still in the process of experimentation. An example of the flushing thing is that you can’t simply pass the DataStream/connection directly into crates like fast-socks5 which depend on implicit behavior by the TCPStream struct which implements the AsyncReader/Writer traits which don’t require it. I had to manually add a bunch of flushes after each write chunk. Another thing is that some features have been partially implemented but not configurable (basically dead code for now) such as ephemeral hidden services. I spent a good few days forking and implementing that myself and am in contact with the devs to see how it could be implemented/merged in a cleaner way. Some of my code: https://gitlab.torproject.org/acheong08/arti/-/compare/main...main?from_project_id=647 https://gitlab.torproject.org/acheong08/arti/-/compare/main.... I wanted a socks5 proxy over a hidden service to securely expose my machine in a firewall without owning any servers in between or having to mess with port forwarding. Now working on a new pluggable transport to tunnel tor connections over syncthing relays. Mostly just for fun, nothing actually too useful yet

by _lvbh 2y ago

fullspectrumdev 2y ago

I’d be genuinely interested in seeing what people are building on top of this. Especially to see some concrete code examples, as I find those easier to learn from than the current state of the docs. Especially with regard to footguns mentioned! I’ve had a few ideas, mostly porting older projects I built in Python using the Stem library. I feel like Arti is going to be much cleaner for embedding in applications than having to also bundle the correct Tor binary… manage running it as a subprocess… etc

_k2vp 2y ago
I’m still in the process of experimentation. An example of the flushing thing is that you can’t simply pass the DataStream/connection directly into crates like fast-socks5 which depend on implicit behavior by the TCPStream struct which implements the AsyncReader/Writer traits which don’t require it. I had to manually add a bunch of flushes after each write chunk. Another thing is that some features have been partially implemented but not configurable (basically dead code for now) such as ephemeral hidden services. I spent a good few days forking and implementing that myself and am in contact with the devs to see how it could be implemented/merged in a cleaner way. Some of my code: https://gitlab.torproject.org/acheong08/arti/-/compare/main...main?from_project_id=647 https://gitlab.torproject.org/acheong08/arti/-/compare/main.... I wanted a socks5 proxy over a hidden service to securely expose my machine in a firewall without owning any servers in between or having to mess with port forwarding. Now working on a new pluggable transport to tunnel tor connections over syncthing relays. Mostly just for fun, nothing actually too useful yet