A new C++20 library called onionlink enables direct connections to Tor v3 onion services using only libsodium and mbedTLS. It implements core Tor protocol components like circuit building and descriptor parsing as a lightweight interoperability tool. The project explicitly avoids security/anonymity guarantees and is intended for experimentation rather than production use.
Background
Tor onion services provide anonymous communication through specialized protocols, typically requiring the full Tor stack. This project demonstrates a minimal implementation using only cryptographic libraries.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- May 3, 2026 at 05:04 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10