Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: đ Original date posted:2013-07-30 đ Original message:On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at ...
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Original date posted:2013-07-30
đ Original message:On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> * Talk the Tor protocol directly and have the app explicitly pick its own
> diverse set of exit nodes, one per p2p connection. This is likely to be
> complicated. Last time I looked Tor doesn't provide any kind of library or
> API.
This has been discussed on IRC, and would be interesting to explore.
For several applications, linking directly with a Tor library is far
superior to the fragility of requiring a properly configured external
process. Lacking such a Tor library right now, one must be written
<hint hint>
--
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
đ Original message:On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> * Talk the Tor protocol directly and have the app explicitly pick its own
> diverse set of exit nodes, one per p2p connection. This is likely to be
> complicated. Last time I looked Tor doesn't provide any kind of library or
> API.
This has been discussed on IRC, and would be interesting to explore.
For several applications, linking directly with a Tor library is far
superior to the fragility of requiring a properly configured external
process. Lacking such a Tor library right now, one must be written
<hint hint>
--
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/