mini-tor

mini-tor is a proof-of-concept utility for accessing internet content and hidden service content (.onion) via tor routers. this utility is aiming for as smallest size as possible (currently ~47kb, compressed with kkrunchy ~20kb), which is achieved by using Microsoft CryptoAPI/CNG instead of embedding OpenSSL.

Usage

accessing internet content via mini-tor:

> mini-tor.exe "http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=847b1f850344d7876491a54892f904934e4eb85d"

accessing hidden service content via mini-tor:

> mini-tor.exe "http://duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion/fedpapers/federndx.htm"

it can even access https content:

> mini-tor.exe "https://check.torproject.org/"
> mini-tor.exe "https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/"

add -v, -vv or -vvv for verbosity:

> mini-tor.exe -v "http://duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion/fedpapers/federndx.htm"
> mini-tor.exe -vv "https://check.torproject.org/"
> mini-tor.exe -vvv "https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/"

you can disable logging by commenting out #define MINI_LOG_ENABLED in mini/logger.h. this will also result in fairly reduced size of the executable.

Description

mini-tor supports both TAP & NTOR handshake.
- TAP uses ordinary DH with 1024 bit exponent.
- NTOR is newer type of handshake and uses curve25519.
- you can control which handshake is used by default by changing preferred_handshake_type in mini/tor/common.h
mini-tor can use either CryptoAPI or newer CNG api.
- configurable via mini/crypto/common.h.
- note that curve25519 is supported by CNG only on win10+.
  - there is a curve25519-donna implementation included. you can enable it by setting MINI_CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NAMESPACE to ext to get it running on older systems.
- note that cng::dh<> will work only on win8.1+, because of usage BCRYPT_KDF_RAW_SECRET for fetching shared secret.
  - you can use capi::dh<> by setting MINI_CRYPTO_DH_NAMESPACE to capi.
- anything else should run fine on win7+ (anything older is not yet supported).
mini-tor creates TLS connections via SCHANNEL (look at mini/net/ssl_socket.cpp & mini/net/detail/ssl_context.cpp).
mini-tor does not use default CRT or STL, everything is implemented from scratch.
older version of mini-tor based purely on CryptoAPI can be found in git tag ms_crypto_api (unmaintained).

Remarks

as i stated above, this application is proof of concept.
you can sometimes expect buggy behavior.
this is definitelly not full-blown secure replacement for tor.

Compilation

compile mini-tor using Visual Studio 2017. solution file is included. no other dependencies are required.

License

all the code in this repository is open-source under the MIT license. see the LICENSE.txt file in this repository.

if you find this project interesting, you can buy me a coffee