[tor-relays] Testing Golang relay implementation

[Michael McLoughlin]

Thanks for the encouragement Nagaev :)

Yes I am very aware of Tom van der Woerdt's previous work, and I am
attempting to avoid some of the problems he faced. This implementation is
pure Go, so I will not have cgo-based issues at least.

As I said the project is still far from complete. It implements a minimal
subset of the protocol. But I'd like to learn by handling real traffic as
soon as I can.





On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Nagaev Boris <bnagaev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey
>
> Thanks for doing that! It came many times to my mind.
>
> There were efforts on implementing Tor relay in Golang before, by
> Tom van der Woerdt:
> https://github.com/tvdw/gotor
> Have you looked at the project?
>
> In his blog post
> https://tvdw.eu/blog/2015/01/24/implementing-a-tor-relay-from-scratch/
> Tom described some issues he faced with during this work and a list of
> lessons learnt.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Michael McLoughlin
> <mmcloughlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am working on a pure Golang relay implementation.
> >
> > https://github.com/mmcloughlin/pearl/
> >
> > I have thus far been testing locally with chutney
> > (https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git). The project is not
> complete by
> > any stretch, but I believe I am close to the point where it can handle
> Tor
> > network traffic. I expect I can learn *a lot* by running against real
> > traffic rather than my sandboxed environment.
> >
> > I wanted to get in touch with the community before going live. Any advice
> > gratefully received.
> >
> > The implementation identifies itself clearly in the server descriptor,
> both
> > in the "platform" and "contact" items. If people notice any problems with
> > the relay specifically they will be able to contact me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
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>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Boris Nagaev
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