arti/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Dogfooding

A good first step to start hacking on arti might be to hook it up with your Tor Browser. Please note that arti is still a work in progress and hence you should consider that it provides no security at the moment.

To do so, we will launch arti independently from Tor Browser. Build arti with "cargo build --release" and after that launch it with some basic configuration parameters:

$ ./target/release/arti -c "socks_port = 9150" -c "trace = false"

This will ensure that arti sets its SOCKS port on 9150. Now we need to launch Tor Browser and instruct it to use that SOCKS port:

$ TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 TOR_SOCKS_PORT=9150 ./start-tor-browser.desktop

The resulting Tor Browser should be using arti.

Enjoy hacking on arti!