diff --git a/control/cmd_protocolinfo.go b/control/cmd_protocolinfo.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3c27b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/control/cmd_protocolinfo.go
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package control
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type ProtocolInfo struct {
+	AuthMethods []string
+	CookieFile  string
+	TorVersion  string
+	RawResponse *Response
+}
+
+func (p *ProtocolInfo) HasAuthMethod(authMethod string) bool {
+	for _, m := range p.AuthMethods {
+		if m == authMethod {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) RequestProtocolInfo() (*ProtocolInfo, error) {
+	resp, err := c.SendRequest("PROTOCOLINFO")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Check PIVERSION
+	if len(resp.Data) == 0 || resp.Data[0] != "1" {
+		return nil, newProtocolError("Invalid PIVERSION: %s", resp.Reply)
+	}
+	// Get other response vals
+	ret := &ProtocolInfo{RawResponse: resp}
+	for _, piece := range resp.Data {
+		key, val, ok := partitionString(piece, ' ')
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		switch key {
+		case "AUTH":
+			methods, cookieFile, _ := partitionString(val, ' ')
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(methods, "METHODS=") {
+				continue
+			}
+			if cookieFile != "" {
+				if !strings.HasPrefix(cookieFile, "COOKIEFILE=") {
+					continue
+				}
+				if ret.CookieFile, err = parseQuotedString(cookieFile[11:]); err != nil {
+					continue
+				}
+			}
+			ret.AuthMethods = strings.Split(methods[8:], ",")
+		case "VERSION":
+			torVersion, _, _ := partitionString(val, ' ')
+			if strings.HasPrefix(torVersion, "Tor=") {
+				ret.TorVersion, _ = parseQuotedString(torVersion[4:])
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ret, nil
+}
diff --git a/control/conn.go b/control/conn.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ea4484
--- /dev/null
+++ b/control/conn.go
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+package control
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/textproto"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+type Conn struct {
+	conn *textproto.Conn
+
+	asyncChansLock sync.RWMutex
+	// Never mutated outside of lock, always created anew
+	asyncChans []chan<- *Response
+}
+
+func NewConn(conn *textproto.Conn) *Conn { return &Conn{conn: conn} }
+
+func (c *Conn) SendSignal(signal string) error {
+	_, err := c.SendRequest("SIGNAL %v", signal)
+	return err
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) SendRequest(format string, args ...interface{}) (*Response, error) {
+	id, err := c.conn.Cmd(format, args...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	c.conn.StartResponse(id)
+	defer c.conn.EndResponse(id)
+	// Get the first non-async response
+	var resp *Response
+	for {
+		if resp, err = c.ReadResponse(); err != nil || !resp.IsAsync() {
+			break
+		}
+		c.onAsyncResponse(resp)
+	}
+	if err == nil && !resp.IsOk() {
+		err = resp.Err
+	}
+	return resp, err
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) Close() error {
+	// We'll close all the chans first
+	c.asyncChansLock.Lock()
+	for _, ch := range c.asyncChans {
+		close(ch)
+	}
+	c.asyncChans = nil
+	c.asyncChansLock.Unlock()
+	// Ignore the response and ignore the error
+	c.SendRequest("QUIT")
+	return c.conn.Close()
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) AddAsyncChan(ch chan<- *Response) {
+	c.asyncChansLock.Lock()
+	chans := make([]chan<- *Response, len(c.asyncChans)+1)
+	copy(chans, c.asyncChans)
+	chans[len(chans)-1] = ch
+	c.asyncChans = chans
+	c.asyncChansLock.Unlock()
+}
+
+// Does not close
+func (c *Conn) RemoveChan(ch chan<- *Response) bool {
+	c.asyncChansLock.Lock()
+	chans := make([]chan<- *Response, len(c.asyncChans)+1)
+	copy(chans, c.asyncChans)
+	index := -1
+	for i, existing := range chans {
+		if existing == ch {
+			index = i
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if index != -1 {
+		chans = append(chans[:index], chans[index+1:]...)
+	}
+	c.asyncChans = chans
+	c.asyncChansLock.Unlock()
+	return index != -1
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) onAsyncResponse(resp *Response) {
+	c.asyncChansLock.RLock()
+	chans := c.asyncChans
+	c.asyncChansLock.RUnlock()
+	// We will allow channels to block
+	for _, ch := range chans {
+		ch <- resp
+	}
+}
+
+func newProtocolError(format string, args ...interface{}) textproto.ProtocolError {
+	return textproto.ProtocolError(fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
+}
diff --git a/control/parse.go b/control/parse.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89f4649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/control/parse.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package control
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func partitionString(str string, ch byte) (string, string, bool) {
+	index := strings.IndexByte(str, ch)
+	if index == -1 {
+		return str, "", false
+	}
+	return str[:index], str[index+1:], true
+}
+
+func parseQuotedString(str string) (string, error) {
+	if len(str) < 2 || str[0] != '"' || str[len(str)-1] != '"' {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("Missing quotes")
+	}
+	return unescapeQuoted(str)
+}
+
+func unescapeQuoted(str string) (string, error) {
+	ret := ""
+	escaping := false
+	for _, c := range str {
+		switch c {
+		case '\\':
+			if escaping {
+				ret += "\\"
+			}
+			escaping = !escaping
+		case '"':
+			if !escaping {
+				return "", fmt.Errorf("Unescaped quote")
+			}
+			ret += "\""
+			escaping = false
+		default:
+			if escaping {
+				return "", fmt.Errorf("Unexpected escape")
+			}
+			ret += string(c)
+		}
+	}
+	return ret, nil
+}
diff --git a/control/response.go b/control/response.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09b3954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/control/response.go
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+package control
+
+import (
+	"net/textproto"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Response is a response to a control port command, or an asyncrhonous event.
+type Response struct {
+	// Err is the status code and string representation associated with a
+	// response.  Responses that have completed successfully will also have
+	// Err set to indicate such.
+	Err *textproto.Error
+
+	// Reply is the text on the EndReplyLine of the response.
+	Reply string
+
+	// Data is the MidReplyLines/DataReplyLines of the response.  Dot encoded
+	// data is "decoded" and presented as a single string (terminal ".CRLF"
+	// removed, all intervening CRs stripped).
+	Data []string
+
+	// RawLines is all of the lines of a response, without CRLFs.
+	RawLines []string
+}
+
+// IsOk returns true if the response status code indicates success or
+// an asynchronous event.
+func (r *Response) IsOk() bool {
+	switch r.Err.Code {
+	case StatusOk, StatusOkUnneccecary, StatusAsyncEvent:
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
+// IsAsync returns true if the response is an asyncrhonous event.
+func (r *Response) IsAsync() bool {
+	return r.Err.Code == StatusAsyncEvent
+}
+
+// ReadResponse returns the next response object. Calling this
+// simultaniously with Read, Request, or StartAsyncReader will lead to
+// undefined behavior
+func (c *Conn) ReadResponse() (*Response, error) {
+	var resp *Response
+	var statusCode int
+	for {
+		line, err := c.conn.ReadLine()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		// Parse the line that was just read.
+		if len(line) < 4 {
+			return nil, newProtocolError("truncated response: '%s'", line)
+		}
+		if code, err := strconv.Atoi(line[0:3]); err != nil {
+			return nil, newProtocolError("invalid status code: '%s'", line[0:3])
+		} else if code < 100 {
+			return nil, newProtocolError("invalid status code: '%s'", line[0:3])
+		} else if resp == nil {
+			resp = new(Response)
+			statusCode = code
+		} else if code != statusCode {
+			// The status code should stay fixed for all lines of the
+			// response, since events can't be interleaved with response
+			// lines.
+			return nil, newProtocolError("status code changed: %03d != %03d", code, statusCode)
+		}
+		if resp.RawLines == nil {
+			resp.RawLines = make([]string, 0, 1)
+		}
+
+		if line[3] == ' ' {
+			// Final line in the response.
+			resp.Reply = line[4:]
+			resp.Err = statusCodeToError(statusCode, resp.Reply)
+			resp.RawLines = append(resp.RawLines, line)
+			return resp, nil
+		}
+
+		if resp.Data == nil {
+			resp.Data = make([]string, 0, 1)
+		}
+		switch line[3] {
+		case '-':
+			// Continuation, keep reading.
+			resp.Data = append(resp.Data, line[4:])
+			resp.RawLines = append(resp.RawLines, line)
+		case '+':
+			// A "dot-encoded" payload follows.
+			resp.Data = append(resp.Data, line[4:])
+			resp.RawLines = append(resp.RawLines, line)
+			dotBody, err := c.conn.ReadDotBytes()
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			resp.Data = append(resp.Data, strings.TrimRight(string(dotBody), "\n\r"))
+			dotLines := strings.Split(string(dotBody), "\n")
+			for _, dotLine := range dotLines[:len(dotLines)-1] {
+				resp.RawLines = append(resp.RawLines, dotLine)
+			}
+			resp.RawLines = append(resp.RawLines, ".")
+		default:
+			return nil, newProtocolError("invalid separator: '%c'", line[3])
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/control/status.go b/control/status.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e8469c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/control/status.go
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package control
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/textproto"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// The various control port StatusCode constants.
+const (
+	StatusOk            = 250
+	StatusOkUnneccecary = 251
+
+	StatusErrResourceExhausted      = 451
+	StatusErrSyntaxError            = 500
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedCmd        = 510
+	StatusErrUnimplementedCmd       = 511
+	StatusErrSyntaxErrorArg         = 512
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedCmdArg     = 513
+	StatusErrAuthenticationRequired = 514
+	StatusErrBadAuthentication      = 515
+	StatusErrUnspecifiedTorError    = 550
+	StatusErrInternalError          = 551
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedEntity     = 552
+	StatusErrInvalidConfigValue     = 553
+	StatusErrInvalidDescriptor      = 554
+	StatusErrUnmanagedEntity        = 555
+
+	StatusAsyncEvent = 650
+)
+
+var statusCodeStringMap = map[int]string{
+	StatusOk:            "OK",
+	StatusOkUnneccecary: "Operation was unnecessary",
+
+	StatusErrResourceExhausted:      "Resource exhausted",
+	StatusErrSyntaxError:            "Syntax error: protocol",
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedCmd:        "Unrecognized command",
+	StatusErrUnimplementedCmd:       "Unimplemented command",
+	StatusErrSyntaxErrorArg:         "Syntax error in command argument",
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedCmdArg:     "Unrecognized command argument",
+	StatusErrAuthenticationRequired: "Authentication required",
+	StatusErrBadAuthentication:      "Bad authentication",
+	StatusErrUnspecifiedTorError:    "Unspecified Tor error",
+	StatusErrInternalError:          "Internal error",
+	StatusErrUnrecognizedEntity:     "Unrecognized entity",
+	StatusErrInvalidConfigValue:     "Invalid configuration value",
+	StatusErrInvalidDescriptor:      "Invalid descriptor",
+	StatusErrUnmanagedEntity:        "Unmanaged entity",
+
+	StatusAsyncEvent: "Asynchronous event notification",
+}
+
+func statusCodeToError(code int, reply string) *textproto.Error {
+	err := new(textproto.Error)
+	err.Code = code
+	if msg, ok := statusCodeStringMap[code]; ok {
+		trimmedReply := strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(reply, msg))
+		err.Msg = fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", msg, trimmedReply)
+	} else {
+		err.Msg = fmt.Sprintf("Unknown status code (%03d): %s", code, reply)
+	}
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/process/process.go b/process/process.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f13d1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/process/process.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package process
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os/exec"
+)
+
+type Tor interface {
+	Start(ctx context.Context, args []string) error
+}
+
+type exeTor struct {
+	exePath string
+}
+
+func FromExePath(exePath string) Tor {
+	return &exeTor{exePath}
+}
+
+func (e *exeTor) Start(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	return exec.CommandContext(ctx, e.exePath, args...).Start()
+}