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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 4 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
1. voidUpdate ◴[12 Dec 25 16:00 UTC] No.46245360[source]▶
Isn't Tor a concept, a protocol? It's like saying you're going to rewrite http in rust...
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2. kstrauser ◴[12 Dec 25 16:07 UTC] No.46245443[source]▶
No.
3. mmooss ◴[12 Dec 25 16:58 UTC] No.46246000[source]▶
It's a product. You can download and implement it's many components.
4. okanat ◴[12 Dec 25 19:13 UTC] No.46247593[source]▶
Onion routing is the protocol. Tor is the network and the name of the reference implementation.