Arti
Ranked 5 of 5 anonymity networks by recommenders
Recommended for memory safety and for embedding Tor in other apps as a library. Caveat: whether it will still be maintained in five years.
Recommended for memory safety and for embedding Tor in other apps as a library. Caveat: whether it will still be maintained in five years.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Memory safety from Rust rewrite
“the reasons are pretty convincing. The major reasons are, unsurprisingly, all around memory safety.”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “The Tor Project is switching to Rust” “Their experience with Rust was positive for all the commonly cited reasons”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “The Tor Project is switching to Rust” Embeds as library in apps
“Arti is also designed to be embedded as a library in other apps”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “The Tor Project is switching to Rust” “want to import Tor libraries (like arti-client) in their code”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “The Tor Project is switching to Rust” Improves Tor security
“the reasons are pretty convincing. The major reasons are, unsurprisingly, all around memory safety.”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “The Tor Project is switching to Rust” “tor will be that much more secure now”
Comment from 9 Nov 2025 in “Arti, a complete rewrite of the C Tor codebase in Rust”
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All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“want to import Tor libraries (like arti-client) in their code”
“Arti is also designed to be embedded as a library in other apps”
“the reasons are pretty convincing. The major reasons are, unsurprisingly, all around memory safety.”
“Their experience with Rust was positive for all the commonly cited reasons”
“more rust code is great....now I guess we will see if its still being supported/developed in 5 years.”
“tor will be that much more secure now”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.