Is there any hope of a TOR Browser for the Amiga?

[Rabbi]

I was wondering if anyone out there was working on a TOR project Web Browser for the Amiga?

Is it possible to port it over from the Unix version?

If you don't know what TOR is, see this URL link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_browser#Tor_Browser

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

LOL, somebody's dreaming!  

If you're thinking for classic systems, chances are slim-to-none.  Chances slightly more likely for NG systems, but still slim.  Not that the hardware couldn't do it, we just don't have enough developers to push through projects like this, unless you want to find some and front the $$$ to get them coding.  

[slaapliedje]

Ha, I think first things first, instead of asking for an anonymizing browser, how about we get an updated SSL package that is actually secure and not using old encryption methods.

I had suggested this previously after one of the last real nasty SSLv3 vulnerabilities and everyone is ditching that, so the Amiga is going to soon be unable to browse the Internet at all (if some of the projects for SSL everywhere take off)

Besides, for Tor Browsing, wouldn't you just set up a TOR proxy, and have iBrowse (or Netsurf, whatever) configured to use said proxy?

slaapliedje

[buzz]

The best bet would be to set up a tor proxy on another machine.

[dschallock]

Active development of an Amiga browser would be a great thing!  If I had had the programming know how to make it happen I would use kickstarter to fund it.  Since I don't have the ability I wouldn't launch such a vaporware cause.  I get that the market is too small to do active development on the hopes of selling enough copies after the fact, but if you knew you could pull a project like this off within say a year you could do a kick starter with milestones through the year and funding amounts that made the project worth the persons while.
just a thought...
As to the TOR part, I agree with that has been said.  We need a decent functioning browser and then worry about the rest.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I would love to back a Kickstarter for something like an  update to Ibrowse.  Even if it didn't include much more than updates and patches that have come out since it's last release (in 2006, I think), and a few new themes, stuff like that.  I can't imagine it would be "that hard", but on the other hand, I've heard that the whole underlying guts of the application would need to be ripped out and redone to really modernize it.   Still, programs like that, you can't even legally buy a copy anymore.  C'mon, take my money, I want to support you!  

*cough cough* A-Eon should buy it *cough cough*  

[dschallock]

I totally agree.  Who owns Ibrowse anyway?

[eliyahu]

@Oldsmobile_Mike

AFAIK oliver had been working on an update for some years, but without all of the other developers agreeing to release it, he can't. oliver just posted on the mailing list last month that as soon as an updated amissl is released, he'll integrate support for it into test builds of ibrowse.

it seems a very frustrating situation for all involved.

-- eliyahu

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

AFAIK oliver had been working on an update for some years, but without all of the other developers agreeing to release it, he can't.

Thanks for the update!  I registered his WarpDT's datatypes just a few months ago.  Couldn't be happier with my purchase, and pleased to support any developers still coding for our platform.  

[dschallock]

Is there anyway we could support him in his efforts regarding ibrowse?
A funding project?

[Robbie]

Such is the importance of a good, compatible browser I think it would probably be the most lucrative product still achievable on the classic platform. i'd happily pay or donate.