Arti: A pure-Rust Tor Implementation for Zcash and beyond

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Hi Al,

Zebra is currently focused on our first release candidate, then we’re hoping to add Zcash mining pool support.

We’re not sure when we’re going to get time to look at Tor support next. But if anyone in the community wants to use zebra-network with Tor connections, let us know, and we’ll see if we can make the time.

For example, we recently made some zebra-network changes to help create new DNS seeders.

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Hi! Update: For multiple reasons, (Tor’s in person meeting was a couple of weeks ago, team members’ vacations, etc.) we’re pushing our Oct 1 milestone back. We are aiming now for early November.

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Hi all, here’s an update.

Other interesting links related to work done on censorship circumvention are

Remaining bridge-and-pt APIs (!741) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Core / Arti · GitLab Draft: Bridge APIs for Arti 1.1.0 (!704) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Core / Arti · GitLab and Overview of issues with bridges in 1.1.0 (!686) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Core / Arti · GitLab

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We’ve reached our fourth milestone!

Previous post:
The Arti team is wrapping up the last milestone of our year-one funding
from Zcash Community Grants. Initially, our plan was to be done with the
Arti 1.1.0 release in early November, but because of a larger org-wide
meeting in Ireland in September and some staff holiday afterward, we are
a bit delayed. We expect (with reasonably high confidence) the first
release of the Arti 1.1.0 series to be out around the 30th of November.
This release brings Tor’s current anti-censorship offerings to Arti,
which is a giant leap towards our more critical goal of replacing the
current C implementation of Tor with Arti.

The team managed today to establish connectivity from Arti to the Tor
network via our anti-censorship bridge infrastructure, so the end is now
in sight. We will spend most of our remaining time on tasks of smaller
size that will ensure correctness and stability in the new code. Our
Anti-censorship Team in Tor will likely also be involved in some testing
before we tag the release.

In December, we will switch our focus to the 1.2.0 series of Arti, which
will start Onion Services support as part of the year two funding. We
will return with a more detailed plan before the December holiday, which
should outline our roadmap plan for Arti 1.2.0 and later Arti 2.0.0.

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