tor VS shadow

Compare tor vs shadow and see what are their differences.

tor

unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ -- (by torproject)

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. (by shadow)
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tor shadow
21 11
4,309 1,348
1.3% 1.0%
6.0 9.8
about 2 months ago 21 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

shadow

Posts with mentions or reviews of shadow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tor and shadow 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.

mininet - Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

shadow-plugin-tor - A Shadow plug-in that runs the Tor anonymity software

Tor-Bridges-Collector - Collecting Tor Bridges.

rebop - Fast stochastic simulator for chemical reaction networks

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

testground - 🧪 A platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and p2p systems at scale.

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

core - Common Open Research Emulator

go-libtor - Self-contained Tor from Go

simuwaerm - A simple heat simulation in pure Rust.