tor VS go-libtor

Compare tor vs go-libtor and see what are their differences.

tor

unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ -- (by torproject)
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tor go-libtor
21 3
4,309 536
1.3% 2.2%
6.0 0.0
about 2 months ago over 2 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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tor

Posts with mentions or reviews of tor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

go-libtor

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-libtor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-24.
  • Using as tor a library
    4 projects | /r/TOR | 24 Mar 2022
    However I want to use it as a 'library' not as a 'binary' like what the tor-android (TorService.java) and libtor-go does.
  • Embedding Tor into an application without external installation.
    2 projects | /r/TOR | 19 Apr 2021
    https://github.com/ipsn/go-libtor and https://github.com/cretz/bine are excellent libraries to get you started. They do exactly what you are asking.
  • Create Tor hidden service using only python or nodeJS
    1 project | /r/TOR | 30 Jan 2021
    I don't know about python or node, but there is this project (https://github.com/ipsn/go-libtor) that is a fully Golang library for interacting with Tor without the tor daemon from the OS repos. Golang has python and NodeJS bindings so you could use a Golang program as a the glue code between the python/node pieces and Tor.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tor and go-libtor you can also consider the following projects:

proxychains - proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

bine - Go library for accessing and embedding Tor clients and servers

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

TorWall - Tallow - Transparent Tor for Windows

Tor-Bridges-Collector - Collecting Tor Bridges.

g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)

shadow - Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux.

orbot - The Github home of Orbot: Tor on Android (Also available on gitlab!)

torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

quickjs-rs - Rust wrapper for the quickjs Javascript engine.

stem - Python controller library for Tor