Simple spartan client and server

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date: 2023-02-23 14:59:44

categories: linux

firstPublishDate: 2023-01-23 10:09:00

`spartclient` and `sparline` are 2 simple spartan clients and `spartserv` is a simple spartan server written in C.

2023-02-23 Update: There is also `spartasm`, a spartan server written in x64 assembly, also available in `spartserv` git repo (link below).

About the spartan protocol:

Spartan on the web

Spartan on gemini

Spartan on spartan

The source code is available at:

spartserv git

spartserv git (gemini link)

Each tool consists of a single C file less than 500 lines of code.

`spartservPrivDrop.c` is a secure spartan server, read `README.md` above for the setup. `spartservPrivDrop` runs in a sandbox created with `chroot` and bpf filters to only allow the necessary syscalls.

Tor setup

These clients and server work with the tor network.

`spartserv` is setup as a regular onion service, see my article 'Using tor' to setup the onion service.

Using Tor

The hostname in `spartserv.c` has to be set to the onion address.

Then `sparline` client with `torsocks`:

The pages load in about 1 second.

tags: #spartan #tor

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