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Is there any way I can see what each file does in Tor source code? A simple file with a list for example?I do not want to read and surf through whole code.

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  • Your question have my upvote.
    – Roya
    Jul 11, 2014 at 17:33

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Gitweb allows you to browse through the code. Especially the src/or directory has relevant source code. Some of the files contain a description what this file does:

 /**
 * \file directory.c
 * \brief Code to send and fetch directories and router
 * descriptors via HTTP. Directories use dirserv.c to generate the
 * results; clients use routers.c to parse them.
 **/

This belongs tosrc/or/directory.c.

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Yes, this way, for example:

(sorry, do not know how to hide it)


[tor-2ee56e4/contrib/id_to_fp.c]

Helper for directory authority ops. When somebody sends us a private key, this utility converts the private key into a fingerprint so you can de-list that fingerprint


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/strlcat.c]

Appends src to string dst of size siz


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/strlcpy.c]

Copy src to string dst of size siz


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/eventdns.c]

Async DNS Library


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/tinytest_demo.c]

Welcome to the example file for tinytest


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/tinytest.c]

tinytest.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/curve25519_donna/curve25519-donna-c64.c]

Curve25519 elliptic curve, public key function


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/curve25519_donna/curve25519-donna.c]

Curve25519 elliptic curve, public key function


[tor-2ee56e4/src/ext/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c]

malloc.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/crypto_format.c]

Formatting and parsing code for crypto-related data structures


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/crypto_curve25519.c]

Wrapper code for a curve25519 implementation


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/log.c]

Functions to send messages to log files or the console


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/util_codedigest.c]

Return a string describing the digest of the source files in src/common/


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/procmon.c]

Process-termination monitor functions


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/container.c]

Implements a smartlist (a resizable array) along with helper functions to use smartlists. Also includes hash table implementations of a string-to-void* map, and of a digest-to-void* map


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/di_ops.c]

Functions for data-independent operations


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/compat_libevent.c]

Wrappers to handle porting between different versions of libevent


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/memarea.c]

Implementation for memarea_t, an allocator for allocating lots of small objects that will be freed all at once


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/crypto.c]

Wrapper functions to present a consistent interface to public-key and symmetric cryptography operations from OpenSSL


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/tortls.c]

Wrapper functions to present a consistent interface to TLS, SSL, and X.509 functions from OpenSSL


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/address.c]

Functions to use and manipulate the tor_addr_t structure


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/torgzip.c]

A simple in-memory gzip implementation


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/aes.c]

Implements a counter-mode stream cipher on top of AES


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/mempool.c]

This is an implementation of memory pools for Tor cells


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/util.c]

Common functions for strings, IO, network, data structures, process control


[tor-2ee56e4/src/common/compat.c]

Wrappers to make calls more portable


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_config.c]

test_config.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_containers.c]

test_containers.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_introduce.c]

test_introduce.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test.c]

Unit tests for many pieces of the lower level Tor modules


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_util.c]

test_util.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_dir.c]

test_dir.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/bench.c]

Benchmarks for lower level Tor modules


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_ntor_cl.c]

test_ntor_cl.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_microdesc.c]

test_microdesc.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_crypto.c]

test_crypto.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_addr.c]

test_addr.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_cell_formats.c]

test_cell_formats.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_replay.c]

test_replay.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_data.c]

test_data.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test-child.c]

Trivial test program which prints out its command line arguments


[tor-2ee56e4/src/test/test_pt.c]

test_pt.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/networkstatus.c]

Functions and structures for handling network status documents as a client or cache


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/dns.c]

Implements a local cache for DNS results for Tor servers


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/rendcommon.c]

Rendezvous implementation: shared code between introducers, services, clients, and rendezvous points


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/config.c]

Code to parse and interpret configuration files


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/replaycache.c]

Self-scrubbing replay cache for rendservice.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/command.c]

Functions for processing incoming cells


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/transports.c]

Pluggable Transports related code


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/connection_or.c]

Functions to handle OR connections, TLS handshaking, and cells on the network


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/status.c]

Keep status information and log the heartbeat messages


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuitbuild.c]

The actual details of building circuits


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuitlist.c]

Manage the global circuit list


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/routerset.c]

A routerset specifies constraints on a set of possible routerinfos


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/confparse.c]

Functions to parse config options


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/addressmap.c]

A client-side struct to remember requests to rewrite addresses to new addresses


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/nodelist.c]

A list of all the nodes


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuitmux.c]

Circuit mux/cell selection abstraction


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/rendmid.c]

Implement introductions points and rendezvous points


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/config_codedigest.c]

Return a string describing the digest of the source files in src/or/


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/statefile.c]

statefile.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/routerparse.c]

Code to parse and validate router descriptors and directories


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/dirserv.c]

Directory server core implementation


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/connection_edge.c]

Handle edge streams


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/dnsserv.c]

Implements client-side DNS proxy server code


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/onion_tap.c]

Functions to implement the original Tor circuit extension handshake


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/buffers.c]

Implements a generic interface buffer


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/rendclient.c]

Client code to access location-hidden services


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/ntmain.c]

ntmain.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/onion_ntor.c]

onion_ntor.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/relay.c]

Handle relay cell encryption/decryption, plus packaging and receiving from circuits, plus queuing on circuits


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/fp_pair.c]

fp_pair.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/hibernate.c]

Functions to close listeners, stop allowing new circuits, etc


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuituse.c]

Launch the right sort of circuits and attach streams to them


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/entrynodes.c]

Code to manage our fixed first nodes for various functions


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/router.c]

OR functionality, including key maintenance, generating and uploading server descriptors, retrying OR connections


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/connection.c]

General high-level functions to handle reading and writing on connections


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/reasons.c]

Convert circuit, stream, and orconn error reasons to and/or from strings and errno values


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/microdesc.c]

microdesc.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/tor_main.c]

Stub module containing a main() function. Allows unit test binary to link against main.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/main.c]

Toplevel module. Handles signals, multiplexes between connections, implements main loop, and drives scheduled events


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuitmux_ewma.c]

EWMA circuit selection as a circuitmux_t policy


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/policies.c]

Code to parse and use address policies and exit policies


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/cpuworker.c]

Implements a farm of 'CPU worker' processes to perform CPU-intensive tasks in another thread or process, to not interrupt the main thread


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/directory.c]

Code to send and fetch directories and router descriptors via HTTP


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/control.c]

Implementation for Tor's control-socket interface


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/onion_fast.c]

Functions implement the CREATE_FAST circuit handshake


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/channeltls.c]

channel_t concrete subclass using or_connection_t


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/rendservice.c]

The hidden-service side of rendezvous functionality


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/dirvote.c]

Functions to compute directory consensus, and schedule voting


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/onion.c]

Functions to queue create cells, wrap the various onionskin types, and parse and create the CREATE cell and its allies


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/circuitstats.c]

Global list of circuit build times


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/geoip.c]

Functions related to maintaining an IP-to-country database


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/channel.c]

OR-to-OR channel abstraction layer


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/routerlist.c]

Code to maintain and access the global list of routerinfos for known servers


[tor-2ee56e4/src/or/rephist.c]

Basic history and "reputation" functionality to remember which servers have worked in the past, how much bandwidth we've been using, which ports we tend to want, and so on


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-gencert.c]

tor-gencert.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-fw-helper/tor-fw-helper.c]

The main wrapper around our firewall helper logic


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-fw-helper/tor-fw-helper-upnp.c]

The implementation of our UPnP firewall helper


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-fw-helper/tor-fw-helper-natpmp.c]

The implementation of our NAT-PMP firewall helper


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-resolve.c]

tor-resolve.c


[tor-2ee56e4/src/tools/tor-checkkey.c]

tor-checkkey.c


But there might be stuff that you must read from source code files.

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  • Interesting, your answer have my upvote.
    – Roya
    Jul 11, 2014 at 17:31

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