Re: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

2017-04-03 Thread ng0
z...@manian.org transcribed 12K bytes: > Rust seems like the best available choice for Tor in a safer language. > > Rust has several issues with securely obtaining a Rust toolchain that the > Tor community should be attentive to. Interesting development, but logical. Leaving the obvious issues (b

Re: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

2017-04-02 Thread Allen Gunn
Howdy, Thanks for making these points. They made me realize that this initiative: http://bootstrappable.org/ Might not be on folks' radars. It was an outcome of the last Reproducible Builds Summit in December [1]. It just does a good job of articulating problems and proposed some possible coll

Re: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

2017-04-01 Thread z...@manian.org
Rust seems like the best available choice for Tor in a safer language. Rust has several issues with securely obtaining a Rust toolchain that the Tor community should be attentive to. Rust is a self hosted compiler. Building Rust requires obtaining binaries for a recent Rust compiler. The Rust too

[tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

2017-03-31 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there tor-dev, as an update to those who didn't have the chance to meet with us in Amsterdam or those who haven't followed the efforts to rely on C less, here's what happened at the "let's not fight about Go versus Rust, but talk about how to migrate Tor to a safer language" session and what ha