[tor-talk] Tor implementation in JavaScript / FirefoxOS

[Aymeric Vitte]

Hi,

Maybe time to subscribe to this list...

As Andreas wrote, there is the node-Tor [1] project, it's implementing 
the OP and OR inside browsers, as well as on any js platform like node. 
It's fully working, it does implement some other protocols on top of the 
Tor protocol used for example for Peersm project [2], it is used too for 
the Peersm clients and Websocket bridges [3], it can of course connect 
to the Tor Websocket bridges (flash proxy), it implements whatever 
necessary Tor, SSL/TLS, ws, socks, etc in js, ORDB1 to 3 are live in the 
Tor network.

The target of Peersm is to have the peers (ie browsers) implement the 
Tor nodes using WebRTC.

So the Onion proxy is inside the browser, then the question is: how can 
I browse things with the OR inside the browser? You can easily fetch 
things connecting to a Tor or Peersm bridge via Websosckets but how to 
browse?

The idea is of course to get rid of the traditional SOCKS proxy, whose 
configuration can be a bit painfull for some and depends on the 
platform, this was the concept of [4], but definitely too much 
complicate and not very user friendly for something that is implemented 
inside browsers, then supposedly easy to use.

So the question remains, you should have a means to say "I am loading 
http://www.example.com, direct all the requests that this page is 
loading as you would do it using SOCKS to one of the x circuits I have 
established with the Tor network"

This might look quite strange, but maybe something like 
createObjectURL('example.com html code', reference to the transport 
supporting my Tor circuits (ws, webrtc))

Regards

Aymeric

[1] https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
[2] http://www.peersm.com
[3] https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor/tree/master/install and 
https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor/tree/master/min
[4] http://www.ianonym.com

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Peersm : http://www.peersm.com
node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms