Arti 1.0.0 released

[Posted September 2, 2022 by corbet]

Arti is a reimplementation of the Tor server in Rust; version 1.0.0 has just been released and proclaimed ready for production use.

When we defined our set of milestones, we defined Arti 1.0.0 as "ready for production use": You should be able to use it in the real world, to get a similar degree of privacy, usability, and stability to what you would with a C client Tor. The APIs should be (more or less) stable for embedders.
We believe we have achieved this. You can now use arti proxy to connect to the Tor network to anonymize your network connections.

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Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 4, 2022 1:51 UTC (Sun) by julian67 (guest, #99845) [Link] (5 responses)

I prefer over "we believe" the reality of millions of people using the existing implementation and the >thousands trying to compromise it. I am one of those "wait and see" people.

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 4, 2022 12:18 UTC (Sun) by kilobyte (subscriber, #108024) [Link] (4 responses)

The likes of us are better equipped to test early versions of a project like this than the masses. Of course you shouldn't use an experimental client if you're Snowden -- but if you use Tor to read too nosy news sites and to watch porn, go ahead! Go watch porn for the good cause :)

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 4, 2022 21:32 UTC (Sun) by julian67 (guest, #99845) [Link] (3 responses)

What an unpleasant reply.

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 4, 2022 22:08 UTC (Sun) by kilobyte (subscriber, #108024) [Link] (2 responses)

Then you can do something more shameworthy, such as playing with Pokemon. The point is, use the new client for something that doesn't risk your life or freedom if it lets crooks or spooks get you.

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 5, 2022 19:42 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

It's a good point. If there's loads of normal people using Tor, then use of Tor won't stand out. So it's an easy way for non-activists to help out.

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2022 18:15 UTC (Wed) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

This is a very simplistic way of seeing things.

Arti 1.0.0 released

Posted Sep 5, 2022 7:58 UTC (Mon) by agraven (subscriber, #159039) [Link]

The prospect of being able to (relatively speaking) trivially embed a tor client into existing applications is definitely the most exciting prospect of Arti to me. I hope continued progress goes well!