We will close these gaps one-by-one as roadmapped below. Today, Arti is a working Tor client, but is not yet fully secure, featureful, efficient, or usable. Arti will make the Tor protocols easier to embed, to develop, to adjust, and to use. We hope Arti will replace our C, and thereby help Zcash protect users from surveillance and censorship. We’re solving these issues with Arti, a Rust implementation of the Tor client protocols. And because Tor is written in C, security is risky, and we need to be meticulously careful when writing new code. Tor is implemented in C, as a standalone network proxy. Our performance is improving over time, and we layer with an ecosystem of anticensorship tools.īut the current Tor implementation bears signs of its age. Tor is deployed, well established, and well analyzed, and works with most any TCP-based protocol. Thus, it fits as a 'missing piece' of the Zcash privacy story–as a communications privacy layer for Zcash, and for other tools that Zcash users employ.

Tor provides robust network-level privacy, hiding traffic among millions of Tor users. Nick Mathewson, Tor cofounder and original developer of Arti, will direct this work. We’ve grown Tor to anonymize millions of users over thousands of volunteer-operated relays. We’re the Tor Project: we’ve been developing the Tor since 2002.

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