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<h2>Tor Projects Overview</h2>
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<p>The Tor Project ecosystem involves a wide array of projects, some run
by core Tor developers and some run by volunteers. This page tries to
organize and summarize them, both to help new volunteer developers get
bootstrapped, and to help make sure people don't accidentally duplicate
efforts.</p>

<p>Under construction! Please bear with us as we clean up the list.</p>

<a id="Controllers"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Controllers">Tor Controllers</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a> is our recommended
cross-platform Tor controller GUI, maintained by Matt Edman. It's included
in most bundles.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.anonymityanywhere.com/tork/">TorK</a> is a
controller written by Robert Hogan for the KDE environment (Linux). It
has a few extra features over Vidalia (such as in path selection),
but it's a lot rougher around the edges.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.atagar.com/arm/">arm</a> is a curses-based
(command-line, non-GUI) controller designed especially to summarize
relay operation.</li>
<li><a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom</a>
is an obsolete and unmaintained controller based on Geoff Goodell's
thesis at Harvard. Its goal was to make it more convenient to access
resources from the network location of your choice.</li>
</ul>

<a id="Applications"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Applications">Accompanying applications</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<page torbutton/index>">TorButton</a> is a Firefox extension
that helps keep you safe when you browse with Tor. It originally just
toggled your proxy settings on and off, but now it takes care of <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/">a wide array</a>
of application-level privacy risks.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a>
is a caching http proxy that handles pipelining and http/1.1. We
ship it with Firefox and Torbutton mainly because Firefox still <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280661">can't
handle</a> socks proxies directly.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</a> is another fine http
proxy that you can use between your Firefox and Tor. We switched to
Polipo because of the http/1.1 and keepalive support.</li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks</a> (based on
its predecessor <a href="http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/">tsocks</a>) is a
Linux / UNIX (but not OS X) wrapper to dynamically replace the networking
system calls in your application with ones that point through Tor.</li>
<li><a href="http://monkey.org/~dugsong/dsocks/">dsocks</a> is an
alternative to tsocks that works on OS X / BSD.</li>
</ul>

<a id="Installers"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Installers">Installers</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/">Tor Browser Bundle</a>
is a zero-install version of Tor that can be run from the Desktop or a USB
flash drive. We have TBBs for Windows and Linux, and at some point there
will be a TBB for Mac OS X.</li>
<li><a href="<page download-unix>">Debian and RPM repositories</a> contain our
Debian and RPM packages. We recommend these over most distribution packages
because they are kept up to date.</li>
<li>osx image</li>
<li>torvm</li>
<li>livecd's: <a href="https://amnesia.boum.org/">The (Amnesic)
Incognito Live System</a>, tor ramdisk</li>
<li><a
href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/thandy/master/">Thandy</a>,
our still-under-development <a
href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/03/thandy-secure-update-for-tor.html">secure
updater</a>, is designed to help our users keep up to date on
their Tor versions. While commercial organizations buy their
own bank vault on armed guards for their updates key, Thandy
aims to tackle the more distributed development situation for
systems like Tor. Its main value at this point is its peer-reviewed <a
href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/thandy/master/specs/thandy-spec.txt">spec</a>,
but you can also see it in action as part of our experimental <a
href="https://data.peertech.org/files/demo/updater/index.html">network
installer</a>.</li>
</ul>

<a id="Implementations"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Implementations">Alternate Tor implementations</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.torproject.org/docs/android.html.en">Orbot</a> is
an Android version of Tor that internally depends on the Tor binary.</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/brl/JTor.git">JTor</a> is an independent
client implementation of Tor written in Java.</li>
<li><a href="http://onioncoffee.sourceforge.net/">OnionCoffee</a> is an outdated Tor client implementation in Java.</li>
<li>tortunnel</li>
<li>jap?</li>
</ul>

<a id="Listings"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Listings">Relay Listings</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>torstatus</li>
<li>xenobite's torstatus</li>
<li><a href="https://check.torproject.org/">check.torproject.org</a> is a
website that asks TorDNSEL whether a user is using Tor.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py">Bulk
Tor Exit List Exporter</a> is a tool that uses TorDNSEL to export a list
of possible Tor nodes that might contact a given IP address.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/tordnsel/">TorDNSEL</a> is an
active testing, DNS-based list of Tor exit nodes.</li>
</ul>

<a id="Monitoring"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Monitoring">Network Monitoring</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>weather</li>
<li><a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">Metrics Project: Measuring the Tor Network</a></li>
<li>archives</li>
<li>https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/archives/trunk/exonerator/HOWTO</li>
</ul>

<a id="Performance"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Performance">Network Performance</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torperf/trunk/README">TorPerf</a>
is a little tool that measures Tor's performance as users experience it.
TorPerf uses a trivial SOCKS client to download files of various sizes
over the Tor network and notes how long substeps take.</li>
<li>whytorisslow</li>
<li>torflow</li>
<li>bwauthority</li>
<li>exitscanner</li>
<li>NLnet <a href="<page projects/hidserv>">Speed Up Hidden Services</a></li>
<li>udp-tor: joel, chris, ian, etc</li>
<li>NLnet <a href="<page projects/lowbandwidth>">Tor for low bandwidth clients</a></li>
</ul>

<a id="Censorship"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Censorship">Censorship Resistance</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>gettor</li>
<li>bridgedb</li>
<li>bridge distribution strategies</li>
<li>obfuscaTOR</li>
</ul>

<a id="Libraries"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Libraries">Controller Libraries</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>torctl</li>
<li>the c# and java controller libs</li>
</ul>

<a id="Infrastructure"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Infrastructure">Infrastructure</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor">Tor Bug Tracker
&amp; Wiki</a> based on Trac</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/">The Tor Blog based on Drupal</a></li>
<li><a href="https://translation.torproject.org/">The Tor Translation
Portal</a> based on Pootle</li>
<li>buildbot https://buildbot.vidalia-project.net/one_line_per_build</li>
<li>https://data.peertech.org/torbld</li>
<li><a href="http://www.torproject.org/mirrors.html.en">Tor Mirrors</a></li>
<li>rsync</li>
<li>a nagios?</li>
<li>git, svn</li>
<li><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/">Tor Gitweb</a></li>
</ul>

<a id="HiddenServices"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#HiddenServices">Hidden Services</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>diagrams for how they work</li>
<li>tor2web</li>
<li>onioncat</li>
<li>shallot</li>
</ul>

<a id="Other"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Other">Other</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.torproject.org/puppetor.git/README">PuppeTor</a>
is a Java framework that facilitates setting up a private Tor network and
control its Tor processes.</li>
<li>torwall</li>
<li>topf</li>
<li>nym</li>
<li>nymble</li>
<li>foebud's firefox extension</li>
</ul>

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