On 3/17/14 1:45 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote: > > > On 03/17/2014 03:06 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >> Are there any news regarding Tor for FirefoxOS or an implementation in >> JavaScript? > > Since FirefoxOS = Android with Gecko/HTML5 skin > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building) > > we know that the Tor binary port that is part of the Orbot build process > should all but work on FirefoxOS.
Well, I'm not familiar with that binary port, so if it is a device driver, there might be ways to install it on FirefoxOS, but the equation FirefoxOS = Android is generally false. FirefoxOS is the Android *kernel + device drivers*, plus a completely different OS stack on top of it. On the other hand, it might be possible to compile the native Tor to a JavaScript library through Emscripten. > Now, each Gecko/HTML5 app may be able to specify these options using the > same types of config settings available within Firefox add-on > (https://github.com/guardianproject/ProxyMob/blob/master/chrome/content/options.xul). > This would be a good thing to research and confirm. At the moment, I don't think there is anything such. It would probably be relatively easy to add, since Gecko itself supports it. I can open a bug, if there is interest. > Based on his work in Tor Browser, Mike Perry has conceived of a whole > heap of problems related to privacy and anonymity based on whether apps > are treated like tabs in a single browser, or whether each app is its > own browser instance (or at least that is my poor man's interpretation). > I hope we has time to write these up publicly to get feedback from Mozilla. Fwiw, each app is a browser process. > I think the Tor in Javascript idea is fascinating, once we all start > trusting Javascript from crypto. I feel like we all don't trust some > language (C, C++, Java, etc) so perhaps that hurdle is not as big as it > might seme, especially if we can get Tor support on a $25 FirefoxOS phone. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
