Re: [tor-dev] Next ten Tor Tech Reports

2012-08-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hi Mike, On 8/8/12 8:13 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Karsten Loesing (kars...@torproject.org): >> https://research.torproject.org/techreports.html >> >> What other reports are we missing? > > Since HotPETS doesn't count as "publishing" perhaps this should be > listed as a tech report: > htt

[tor-dev] How about virtual machines?

2012-08-08 Thread Admin
Hello Developers, My testing shows that you can setup encrypted virtual machines in a country with easy access to broadband, and have someone from a country where good computer hardware is hard to find, the Internet got cut off to a point where only dial up is available, and manage to give the

Re: [tor-dev] Another key exchange algorithm for extending circuits: alternative to ntor?

2012-08-08 Thread Robert Ransom
On 8/8/12, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, and Esfandiar Mohammadi have a paper in > submission called, "An Efficient Key-Exchange for Onion Routing". > It's meant to be more CPU-efficient than the proposed "ntor" > handshake. With permission from Esfandiar, I'm sending a li

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Here is the log: > > ===> Installing for tor-0.2.2.37 > ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.7 - found > ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on shared library: event-2.0 - found > ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on shar

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Remove (or move) the port's ‘work’ directory and run ‘make’. (You can't easily *install* an upgraded or recompiled FreeBSD port or package without removing the old one, though.) That's possible yes. Or you can use -f flag with portupgrade. However this is not the point. ___

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Here is the log: ===> Installing for tor-0.2.2.37 ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.7 - found ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on shared library: event-2.0 - found ===> tor-0.2.2.37 depends on shared library: tcmalloc - found ===> Generating temporary packing list =

[tor-dev] Another key exchange algorithm for extending circuits: alternative to ntor?

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, and Esfandiar Mohammadi have a paper in submission called, "An Efficient Key-Exchange for Onion Routing". It's meant to be more CPU-efficient than the proposed "ntor" handshake. With permission from Esfandiar, I'm sending a link to the paper here for discussi

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Robert Ransom
On 8/8/12, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent > wrote: >>> What line does the build process use when linking Tor? >> >> >> Hi again Nick, >> >> I have no idea, but I guess I could do the next: >> >> 1. Stop the tor service >> 2. deinstall the present port

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: >> What line does the build process use when linking Tor? > > > Hi again Nick, > > I have no idea, but I guess I could do the next: > > 1. Stop the tor service > 2. deinstall the present port > 3. Check the tcmalloc option is enabled > 4.

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
What line does the build process use when linking Tor? Hi again Nick, I have no idea, but I guess I could do the next: 1. Stop the tor service 2. deinstall the present port 3. Check the tcmalloc option is enabled 4. install the port and redirect all the output to a log file $ /usr/local/etc/r

Re: [tor-dev] Is it possible to run private Exit nodes?

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 06:19:16PM +, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 8/8/12, SiNA Rabbani wrote: > > I have been running private bridges for my VIP contacts for a long time. > > I use PublishServerDescriptor 0 to keep my bridges private. > > > > Is it possible to also run a private Exit node? > >

Re: [tor-dev] Next ten Tor Tech Reports

2012-08-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hi Philipp, On 8/8/12 7:03 PM, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> Feedback much appreciated! > > The pdf documents look really good now. I don't know if the tech reports get > cited a lot but it might be worth adding BibTeX entries next to

Re: [tor-dev] Next Tor release timeframes?

2012-08-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 8/8/12 8:38 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> 1) Do we have any requirements to release an 0.2.4.1-alpha at any >> particular date? I haven't been following e.g. the latest SponsorG >> timelines. Yes, we should have "tested packages" by Sept

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] tcmalloc in FreeBSD

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > On 08/06/2012 07:03 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> >> Hm. Tor itself doesn't have a tcmalloc compilation option, so whatever >> it's doing is something freebsd added. To debug this kind of thing, >> what I usually suggest is to rebuild

Re: [tor-dev] [patch] fix vidalia compilation in gcc 4.7

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Fixed in a gentoo bug report: > > https://422645.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=320722 I've added this to the bug tracker at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6575 so that it doesn't get lost. Thanks! -- Nick

Re: [tor-dev] Next Tor release timeframes?

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > 1) Do we have any requirements to release an 0.2.4.1-alpha at any > particular date? I haven't been following e.g. the latest SponsorG > timelines. > > 2) Nick was enthusiastic about an 0.2.2.38 with the latest fix. Nick, > do you still thi

Re: [tor-dev] Is it possible to run private Exit nodes?

2012-08-08 Thread Robert Ransom
On 8/8/12, SiNA Rabbani wrote: > I have been running private bridges for my VIP contacts for a long time. > I use PublishServerDescriptor 0 to keep my bridges private. > > Is it possible to also run a private Exit node? Yes, but (a) anyone who notices that it exists can use it, and (b) it would b

Re: [tor-dev] Next ten Tor Tech Reports (was: First five Tor tech reports)

2012-08-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Karsten Loesing (kars...@torproject.org): > On 7/12/12 3:12 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > > here are the first five metrics tech reports that I'd like to turn into > > Tor tech reports (see #5405 for the idea behind this). > > The next batch of ten Tor Tech Reports is now available (all

[tor-dev] [patch] fix vidalia compilation in gcc 4.7

2012-08-08 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Fixed in a gentoo bug report: https://422645.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=320722 ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Next ten Tor Tech Reports (was: First five Tor tech reports)

2012-08-08 Thread Philipp Winter
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Feedback much appreciated! The pdf documents look really good now. I don't know if the tech reports get cited a lot but it might be worth adding BibTeX entries next to the pdf download links. Also, in order to give the page more e

[tor-dev] Is it possible to run private Exit nodes?

2012-08-08 Thread SiNA Rabbani
I have been running private bridges for my VIP contacts for a long time. I use PublishServerDescriptor 0 to keep my bridges private. Is it possible to also run a private Exit node? What would happen, if I hard coded an exit into my torrc that is not published (if possible at all)? All the best,

[tor-dev] Next ten Tor Tech Reports (was: First five Tor tech reports)

2012-08-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 7/12/12 3:12 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > here are the first five metrics tech reports that I'd like to turn into > Tor tech reports (see #5405 for the idea behind this). The next batch of ten Tor Tech Reports is now available (all in the list except for the five from 2011 which I posted here a

[tor-dev] http_apache_steg_t is working now

2012-08-08 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hey Zack, I have pushed the working version of http_apache_steg_t. On server side it asks apache for the load, on the client side it uses the url dictionary and parameter values. http_apache_steg_t is inherited from http_steg_t. But because of all those macro hackish tricks (which expect you to i

[tor-dev] Next Tor release timeframes?

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
1) Do we have any requirements to release an 0.2.4.1-alpha at any particular date? I haven't been following e.g. the latest SponsorG timelines. 2) Nick was enthusiastic about an 0.2.2.38 with the latest fix. Nick, do you still think that's important? My sense is that it's a totally esoteric theore