Re: [tor-dev] Using Tor as a library

On 28.03.2013 12:10, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

"Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" lists-BEJ3GKOyH/EwUp2xcto6ig@public.gmane.org writes:

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That's the future of Tor, to be integrated as a library just like an encryption library into application.

No, it's not. Embedding a Tor client in another application cripples auditability, configurability, updateability etc. of Tor.

Yes. Still, there is "Netlib", https://silvertunnel.org/ , and some people are working on a revived JTor (client and relay), https://github.com/koryk/JTor . Also, Briar showed some interest in embedding Tor.

Additional implementations of the Tor protocols help to improve documentation, and code bugs/vulnerabilities won't affect all of Tor.