Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transport through SOCKS proxy

2012-02-28 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-29, Arturo Filastò wrote: > On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: > >> On 2012-02-29, Arturo Filastò wrote: >> >>> When Tor is configured to use both a Pluggable Transport proxy and SOCKS >>> proxy it should delegate the proxying to the pluggable transport proxy. >>> >>>

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transport through SOCKS proxy

2012-02-28 Thread Arturo Filastò
On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 2012-02-29, Arturo Filastò wrote: > >> When Tor is configured to use both a Pluggable Transport proxy and SOCKS >> proxy it should delegate the proxying to the pluggable transport proxy. >> >> This can be achieved by setting the environm

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Sai
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 20:04, Brandon Wiley wrote: > However, you have a false assumption, that dictionary > systems can simultaneously have all three properties of Zooko's Triangle. This isn't an "assumption", but rather an actual claim about the properties of the specific system I proposed (wi

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transport through SOCKS proxy

2012-02-28 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-29, Arturo Filastò wrote: > When Tor is configured to use both a Pluggable Transport proxy and SOCKS > proxy it should delegate the proxying to the pluggable transport proxy. > > This can be achieved by setting the environment variables for the SOCKS > proxy to that specified i

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Brandon Wiley
Hi Sai, It looks like you've put a lot of thought into what would make a good hash-to-word system. However, you have a false assumption, that dictionary systems can simultaneously have all three properties of Zooko's Triangle. This is a popular idea, but unfortunately untrue. Hashes are effective

[tor-dev] Pluggable Transport through SOCKS proxy

2012-02-28 Thread Arturo Filastò
Following up on the discussion at the Tor dev meeting with Nick this is the proposal for the Pluggable Transport through SOCKS proxies. You can also find it committed on github: https://github.com/hellais/torspec/commit/f0a89c8ded1971199fec6ffd0fe7e40562274ced Filename: xxx-pluggable-transports-t

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Sai
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 18:13, Ahmed Hassan wrote: > You mentioned some good points about such as "Have a fixed number of template > sentences", but you almost didn't mention how to implement your proposal. We didn't elaborate at length because we thought the implementation details of that weren

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Sai
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 17:53, Robert Ransom wrote: > I'm not going to follow that link. … yet you're going to comment anyway, based merely on your imagination of what it contains? O.o >  (Tor specification-change > proposals are sent to the tor-dev mailing list in their entirety and > copied in

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Ahmed Hassan
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:27 -0500, Sai wrote: > We've written up our proposal Hmm, I wrote one last week. I described its mathematical implementation. I got some replies that say it's cool idea, and some other troll. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-February/023376.html W

Re: [tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-28, Sai wrote: > Hello all. > > We've written up our proposal for mnemonic .onion URLs. > > See > https://docs.google.com/document/d/sT5CulCVl0X5JeOv4W_wC_A/edit?disco=AERhFsE > for details; please read the full intro for explanations and caveats, > as some are important. I'm not g

[tor-dev] Mnemonic 80-bit phrases (proposal)

2012-02-28 Thread Sai
Hello all. We've written up our proposal for mnemonic .onion URLs. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/sT5CulCVl0X5JeOv4W_wC_A/edit?disco=AERhFsE for details; please read the full intro for explanations and caveats, as some are important. tl;dr: It's a system that would have all three pr

[tor-dev] New IP-address for directory authority maatuska

2012-02-28 Thread Linus Nordberg
Hi, The provider where maatuska, my directory authority, has been hosted for the last two years or so has had some trouble with its switches lately. I was unable to keep maatuska on the network enough to be a good participant of making a consensus. I decided to move the machine to a place where I