[tor-bugs] #7679 [Tor]: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays

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#7679: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:                  
     Type:  project  |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
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Comment(by ford):

 Sorry for the long delay following up on this, due to holiday travels and
 other stuff.  BTW, at least two people should probably be added to the CC
 list if we continue to use this trac item:  Janardhan Iyengar
 <janardhan.iyengar at fandm.edu> and MF Nowlan <fitz at cs.yale.edu>

 We don't really have a good official "release" online yet.  The (small)
 kernel portion is quite stable and pretty close to being ready to go, but
 the userland TLS code still needs some work before it'll be ready for use
 "in the wild."  In particular, because the version of OpenSSL we started
 with didn't (yet) have full TLS 1.2 support, we hacked some incomplete
 "quasi-TLS 1.2" support into an earlier OpenSSL version just for
 experimentation purposes; to deploy it in the wild the code and ensure
 wire-compatibility will at least require forward-porting it to a more
 recent version of OpenSSL with full, "real" TLS 1.2 support.

 In addition, I understand that the fact that our prototype is based on
 OpenSSL might itself be a problem, in that Tor is shifting away from
 OpenSSL and toward preferring NSS so that connections "blend in" better
 with Firefox-initiated TLS connections and such?  How much of an issue is
 this - is Tor still using OpenSSL in at least some configurations or is it
 already deprecated?

 In any case, if you'd like to look at the current prototype code for
 preliminary experimentation purposes I'm sure we could put together
 something pretty quickly, and in the longer term, if there's serious
 interest in using Minion in Tor, we might be able to put some time into
 helping get the code into shape.

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