Connect to Tor. Discovery and connective tissue for interacting with a local tor binary.
Connect to a local tor binary on the system. Do path discovery and provide a common interface to remove platform-specific clumsiness when dealing with the external process.
var connecttor = require('connecttor');
connecttor.connect(function (socket) {
// returns a net.socket connected to Tor's control port.
});
Connecttor uses a platform-dependent mechanism to connect with tor. Sorry.
On known linux distributions (currently debian variants), connecttor expects to
use the system-bundled tor distribution. These implementations compartmentalize
security, by running the tor process as a different user, so that even if the
node process is compromised, it will not be able to read the private keys to
subsequently impersonate onion addresses. Several Caveats apply. The first is
that apt-get install tor does not set up an installation which can be
controlled by other users. In addition, the user running node will need to be
in the debian-tor unix group in order to connect to the tor control socket.
On Mac and Windows distributions where tor does not attempt to user-isolate its keys, connecttor will attempt to find an installation of tor browser bundle or tor binary in standard locations, and will download a local copy if one is not found. It will then run its own instance of tor with a custom torrc configuration.
apt-get install tor
debian-tor group:usermod -a -G debian-tor `whoami`
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Connect to Tor. Discovery and connective tissue for interacting with a local tor binary.
We found that connecttor demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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