On 1/20/15 1:15 AM, Nik wrote:
Hi tor-dev,
I care deeply about the ability for people to have anonymity online, and I've always been really interested in exactly how Tor works.
So for a class project last semester I wrote oppy, an onion proxy in 100% Python. I spent most of my winter break cleaning it up and writing documentation, and today I'm releasing oppy as a free software project :)
code: https://github.com/nskinkel/oppy docs: https://nskinkel.github.com/oppy
It would be an amazing evolution to see support for Tor Hidden Services.
There are plenty of software (such as GlobaLeaks) that use Tor only: - as a Client (to make outbound connection) - as a Server (to receive outbound connection)
It's a wet dream to have a pure-python Tor implementation integrated within Twisted, that enable to: - connect to the outside world using Tor - receive inbound connection as a Tor Hidden Service
I understand that's quite tricky to reach production-grade, but for software-integration it would be a very valuable approach.
Another approach to achieve better "software integration" is to have Tor as a Library (it has been discussed few times, there are some existing architectural issues within Tor and some concern on how it shall be done).