[tor-dev] TorPylle: a Python/Scapy TOR protocol implementation

[pierre.lalet at cea.fr]

Hi Damian !

Thanks for your answer.

On 07/23/2013 06:00 PM, Damian Johnson wrote:
> * The tor project generally dislikes other projects using the name
> 'tor' within them. This is why I called my projects arm and stem (arm
> was actually originally called tormoni, a name I still like a lot
> better)...
>
>    https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en

I was not aware of that. But when I read "That said, if the research 
paper comes with software, and that software could potentially confuse 
people (users or other researchers) about whether it's written or 
endorsed by The Tor Project, then we're back to the above 
scenario<https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en#combining>."

I think there is no way my "software" (which is not event a software, 
more a framework or DSL to speak the TOR protocol). Think of it as a 
research paper. Written in Python ;-).

More seriously, it's not a software intended to be run by Tor users or 
even Tor relay operators, it's a framework intended to be used by Tor 
developers / hackers to play with implementations of the Tor protocol.

> * Stem might be able to help you a great deal with this project. It's
> not just a client of tor's control port, but also a python
> implementation of its directory specification. For starters I'd look
> at its new remote descriptor fetching module to pull descriptor
> content...
>
>    https://stem.torproject.org/
>    https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/remote.html

I just had a look at this project, and if I understand well, it speaks 
to a Tor's control port
and gets its data from the Tor client. With TorPylle, I want to be able 
to fetch data from any Directory Server directly, and act more or less 
"as if" I was a Tor client.

To be sure people understand what I mean, the examples.py file in the 
repository shows what you can do with TorPylle (for now, keep in mind 
it's a work in progress).

But there are ideas in stem I could use in TorPylle !

Thanks again,

Pierre