T0rlib4j is a Java controller library for Tor. With it you can use Tor's control protocol to communicate against the Tor process, or build things such as arm. T0rlib4j latest version is 1.0.1 (released October 11rd, 2017).
In addition, this library simulates and tends to look like a classic messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate via tor network, without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider.To sum up the main goal is to protect users and their relationships from surveillance by having the ability to transparently torify all of the TCP traffic on your Java Programm.
Well, to begin with, T0rlib4j have all you need to connect to hiddenservices in order to communicate with 2 or more entities in one library. Tor makes it possible for users to hide their locations while offering various kinds of services, such as web publishing or an instant messaging server. Using Tor "rendezvous points," other Tor users can connect to these hidden services, each without knowing the other's network identity. This page describes the technical details of how this rendezvous protocol works.
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It is free and open source and is intended to be used by any programmer who wants a messaging app via tor.
The only thing to do before you write your code is to add this maven dependency in your pom.xml.
To use it in your Maven build simply add:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>jitpack.io</id>
<url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>
</repositories>Then go to dependencies and put the following dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.PanagiotisDrakatos</groupId>
<artifactId>T0rlib4j</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>:disappointed_relieved: O!! Wait a minute you dont know what is maven? and pom.xml? It doesn't matter, just simple add this T0rlib4j-v1.0.2-jar-with-dependencies in your project and you will be ready to use the library. By the way, if you have the time and want to learn how you can create a more efficient java project structure just like maven,gradle,etc don't hesitate to navigate here and start gain knowledge How to Setup maven project .
This code represent the server side part.To be more specific
Attention!!! we assume that server-client model must be run on different machine because there would be conflict with the tor process. It will be fixed in a new patch update but for now there are other priorities to be done. As we discussed above, the code in this library is pretty trivial.But here is some sample code to get you started.
import net.sf.T0rlib4j.controller.network.JavaTorRelay;
import net.sf.T0rlib4j.controller.network.TorServerSocket;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import java.io.*;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.net.*;
public class ServerSocketViaTor {
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ServerSocketViaTor.class);
private static final DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("HH:mm:ss");
private static final int hiddenservicedirport = 80;
private static final int localport = 2096;
private static CountDownLatch serverLatch = new CountDownLatch(2);
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException, ClassNotFoundException, CloneNotSupportedException {
File dir = new File("torfiles");
JavaTorRelay node = new JavaTorRelay(dir);
TorServerSocket torServerSocket = node.createHiddenService(localport, hiddenservicedirport);
System.out.println("Hidden Service Binds to " + torServerSocket.getHostname() + " ");
System.out.println("Tor Service Listen to Port " + torServerSocket.getServicePort());
ServerSocket ssocks = torServerSocket.getServerSocket();
Server server = new Server(ssocks);
new Thread(server).start();
serverLatch.await();
}
private static class Server implements Runnable {
private final ServerSocket socket;
private int count = 0;
private static final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
private LocalDateTime now;
private Server(ServerSocket socket) {
this.socket = socket;
}
@Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Wating for incoming connections...");
try {
while (true) {
Socket sock = socket.accept();
this.now = LocalDateTime.now();
System.out.println("Accepted Client "+ (count++) +" at Address - " + sock.getRemoteSocketAddress()
+ " on port " + sock.getLocalPort() + " at time " + dtf.format(now));
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(sock.getInputStream());
System.out.println((String) in.readObject());
sock.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}Once you have Tor running and properly configured you have a few ways of connecting to it. TThe following is one of the most common method for getting a Controller instance, from the highest to lowest level which library supports.
T0rlib4j offers two interfaces into the Tor network:
Now for the sake of the completeness we will demonstrate how the Tor client behave. Here is some sample code to get you started.
import com.msopentech.thali.java.toronionproxy.JavaOnionProxyContext;
import com.msopentech.thali.java.toronionproxy.JavaOnionProxyManager;
import com.msopentech.thali.java.toronionproxy.OnionProxyManager;
import com.msopentech.thali.java.toronionproxy.Utilities;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class TorClientSocks4 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
String fileStorageLocation = "torfiles";
OnionProxyManager onionProxyManager = new JavaOnionProxyManager(
new JavaOnionProxyContext(new File(fileStorageLocation)));
int totalSecondsPerTorStartup = 4 * 60;
int totalTriesPerTorStartup = 5;
// Start the Tor Onion Proxy
if (onionProxyManager.startWithRepeat(totalSecondsPerTorStartup, totalTriesPerTorStartup) == false) {
return;
}
// Start a hidden service listener
int hiddenServicePort = 80;
int localPort = onionProxyManager.getIPv4LocalHostSocksPort();
String OnionAdress = "blablabla.onion";
Socket clientSocket = Utilities.socks4aSocketConnection(OnionAdress, hiddenServicePort, "127.0.0.1", localPort);
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
out.flush();
out.writeObject("i am workingg");
out.flush();
}
}A huge thanks to thaliproject an open source company. This project started by literally copying their code which handled things in Android and then expanding it to deal with Java. A massive admiration on theese people for the great effort
Another huge thanks to the Guardian folks for both writing JTorCtl and doing the voodoo to get the Tor OP running on Android.
And of course an endless amount of gratitude to the heroes of the Tor project for making this all possible in the first place and for their binaries which we are using for all our supported Java platforms.
Well the release version is currently 1.0.1 so that should say something. This is an alpha. We have (literally) one test. Obviously we need a heck of a lot more coverage. But we have run that test and it does actually work which means that the Tor OP is being run and is available.
This is a fork of jtorctl with some fixes from Briar. So we got it out of Briar's depot. The plan is that jtorctl is supposed to accept Briar's changes and then we will start to build jtorctl ourselves from the Tor depot directly.
The ARM binary for Android came from the OrBot distribution available at https://guardianproject.info/releases/. I take the latest PIE release qualify APK, unzip it and go to res/raw and then decompress tor.mp3 and go into bin and copy out the tor executable file and put it into android/src/main/assets
I download the Expert Bundle for Windows from https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en and took tor.exe, libeay32.dll, libevent-2-0-5.dll, libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll and ssleay32.dll from the Tor directory. I then need to zip them all together into a file called tor.zip and stick them into java/src/main/resources/native/windows/x86.
I took them from the Data/Tor directory of the Windows Expert Bundle [Why Should i use it](#Why Should i use it)
The issue is the tor executable that I get from Guardian. To run on Lollipop the executable has to be PIE. But PIE support only started with SDK 16. So if I'm going to ship a PIE executable I have to set minSdkVersion to 16. But!!!!! Guardian actually also builds a non-PIE version of the executable.
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