Onion & Garlic Watch

Onion & Garlic Watch is a Rust-based utility that embeds and executes a PowerShell script to monitor Tor and I2P services on Windows.

Technical Overview

• Implemented in Rust (edition 2024)
• Uses include_str!() to embed the PowerShell script at compile time
• Writes the embedded script to a temporary .ps1 file during execution
• Executes it with PowerShell using:
  • -NoProfile
  • -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
  • -File <temp_script>
• Removes the temporary script file after execution
• PowerShell script monitors:
  • Tor ports: 9050, 9051, 9150, 9151
  • I2P ports: 7657, 4444
  • Related processes (tor.exe, java.exe containing "i2p" in path)
• Displays colorized output refreshed every 5 seconds

Build

cargo build --release

Output binary: target\release\onion_garlic_watch.exe

Next Steps

• Replace PowerShell backend with pure Rust for full portability
• Add optional logging or GUI mode