Tor gets financial support for Arti development

There is a lot of buzz around the Rust programming language these days—which strikes some folks as irritating, ridiculous, or both. But the idea of a low-level language that can replace C, with fewer built-in security pitfalls, is attractive for any number of projects. Recently, the Tor Project announced the Arti project as a complete Rust rewrite of Tor's core protocols, which provide internet privacy and anonymity. In addition, Tor announced that Arti received a grant to support its development over the next year or so.

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