[guardian-dev] Fwd: Re: [tor-dev] obfs3 and Android

[Nathan of Guardian]

On 05/29/2013 01:45 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> I haven't looked deeply, but I've followed python on android for a while.
> From what I've seen, you're not going to get any kind of native experience
> using python code in an Android app.  SL4A is a separate runtime that needs to
> be installed to support python.
The obfsproxy services are plugins to Orbot that just run in the
background. There is no GUI. What I want to avoid is having to install
five different apps. Right now, obfsproxy2 is a single C binary that is
bundled and managed by Orbot. It is run from the command line via
Runtime.exec().

>
> I think it would be better use of time to reimplement obfs in C, then it'll be
> portable everywhere, like Android, iOS, Windows, etc, without strange extra hoops.
Well, I wish it were that easy. Obfsproxy1 and 2 were in C. There was an
organizational decision to move to Python. Harumph.

+n