Rich Jones wrote:

Jacob - Are you aware of TorProxy / Shadow Browser for Android - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/android/tor/ - is this going to building on that? Either way, I'm excited. I've gotten quite good at Android stuff and would be interested in helping out, if you need a hand.

Hi Rich, Yes - we've been somewhat in contact with the authors of TorProxy and Shadow Browser. They did great work and it's quite a slick pair of applications. However, the TorProxy in the Android market is absolutely unsafe to use. It is based on research code that was never intended for high security needs or real serious public use: http://archives.seul.org/or/java/Sep-2009/msg00003.html Rather, we're working on building an Android package we've codenamed Orbot: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/android/trunk/Orbot/ Orbot will replace the TorProxy component and it includes the C reference implementation of Tor. It will also ship with Privoxy (although we're also looking into Polipo) to provide an HTTP proxy as well as the normal SOCKS4A/5 proxy interface into the Tor network. We don't have a great solution for Shadow at this point and it's non-trivial to sew it into Orbot. Nathan has a better grasp on the Android internals that make the web browser component complicated across Android versions. Perhaps he'll weigh in on it... In any case, we're may move to a hybrid model for some mobile phones. It's easy to provide a compiled Tor binary (the C reference implementation) and a Java Tor implementation [0] in a single container. This should allow for greater compatibility and hopefully everyone will have better anonymity as a result. Best, Jake [0] http://github.com/brl/JTor ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE