Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s not ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future.WFq免费翻墙网

Right now, our focus is on making Arti production-quality, by stress-testing the code, hunting for likely bugs and adding missing features that we know from experience that users will need. We're going to try not to break backward compatibility too much, but we'll do so when we think it's a good idea.WFq免费翻墙网

What's new in 0.3.0?

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the CHANGELOG.WFq免费翻墙网

This release has bugfixes for many robustness issues affecting failures to bootsrap. It includes automatic detection and reporting of clock skew, when that affects bootstrapping. (This is a feature we've wanted in Tor for a long time.)WFq免费翻墙网

We also add support for C tor-style "safe logging" (suppressing sensitive client information from persistent logs).WFq免费翻墙网

For developers, we've continued to improve our configuration API and make it more consistent. This involves a fair amount of breakage; we hope that next release will only have minor API breaks in the configuration logic.WFq免费翻墙网

There are also a bunch of smaller features, bugfixes, and infrastructure improvements; again, see the CHANGELOG for a more complete list.WFq免费翻墙网

And what's next?

In the short term, there's some pending work that wasn't ready for this release. Our next release will likely contain improved filesystem permission checking, final improvements to the configuration logic, a refactored directory download implementation, and more.WFq免费翻墙网

Beyond that, between now and our 1.0.0 milestone in September, we're aiming to make Arti a production-quality Tor client for direct internet access. (Onion services aren't funded yet, but we hope to change that soon.)WFq免费翻墙网

To do so, we need to bring Arti up to par with the C tor implementation in terms of its network performance, CPU usage, resiliency, and security features. You can follow our progress on our 1.0.0 milestone.WFq免费翻墙网

We still plan to continue regular releases between now and then.WFq免费翻墙网

Here's how to try it out

We rely on users and volunteers to find problems in our software and suggest directions for its improvement. Although Arti isn't yet ready for production use, you can test it as a SOCKS proxy (if you're willing to compile from source) and as an embeddable library (if you don't mind a little API instability).WFq免费翻墙网

Assuming you've installed Arti (with cargo install arti, or directly from a cloned repository), you can use it to start a simple SOCKS proxy for making connections via Tor with:WFq免费翻墙网

$ arti proxy -p 9150

and use it more or less as you would use the C Tor implementation!WFq免费翻墙网

(It doesn't support onion services yet. If compilation doesn't work, make sure you have development files for libsqlite installed on your platform.)WFq免费翻墙网

If you want to build a program with Arti, you probably want to start with the arti-client crate. Be sure to check out the examples too.WFq免费翻墙网

For more information, check out the README file. (For now, it assumes that you're comfortable building Rust programs from the command line). Our CONTRIBUTING file has more information on installing development tools, and on using Arti inside of Tor Browser. (If you want to try that, please be aware that Arti doesn't support onion services yet.)WFq免费翻墙网

When you find bugs, please report them on our bugtracker. You can request an account or report a bug anonymously.WFq免费翻墙网

And if this documentation doesn't make sense, please ask questions! The questions you ask today might help improve the documentation tomorrow.WFq免费翻墙网

Call for feedback

Our priority for the coming months is to make Arti a production-quality Tor client, for the purposes of direct connections to the internet. (Onion services will come later.) We know some of the steps we'll need to take to get there, but not all of them: we need to know what's missing for your use-cases.WFq免费翻墙网

Whether you're a user or a developer, please give Arti a try, and let us know what you think. The sooner we learn what you need, the better our chances of getting it into an early milestone.WFq免费翻墙网

Acknowledgments

Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release, including Christian Grigis, Dimitris Apostolou, Samanta Navarro, and Trinity Pointard.WFq免费翻墙网

And thanks, of course, to Zcash Community Grants (formerly Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG)) for funding this project!WFq免费翻墙网