[tor-dev] Damian's Status Report - December 2012

2012-12-31 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi all. Between the holidays and being oncall for work I didn't have very high hopes for December. However, by the time the dust settled it turned out to be a surprisingly productive month. Projects included... * Finishing stem support for event handling. This was the last major feature we were mi

Re: [tor-dev] TorCtl Deprecation and Stem Plans

2012-12-31 Thread Damian Johnson
> One thing I used the old controller library for is: > > - Create a bunch of circuits, possibly using Tor's default circuit > creation algorithm, but usually by specifying an explicit list of ORs. Here's the parts of the Controller class that you'll want... * get_circuit - provides an active c

Re: [tor-dev] TorCtl Deprecation and Stem Plans

2012-12-31 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:36:30PM -0800, Damian Johnson wrote: > So here's what I propose. For the next couple months stem will have an > open beta. If you'd like to have input on the future of our python > controller space then please give Stem a try and tell me the > following... > > * What pai

[tor-dev] TorCtl Deprecation and Stem Plans

2012-12-31 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi all. Just a friendly heads up concerning a couple things going on in our python controller space. The first is that Mike and I have decided to deprecate TorCtl [1] and make it a part of TorFlow (the framework used to support the Bandwidth Authorities and SoaT). The TorCtl codebase has largely b

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?

2012-12-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:26:25 -0800 Zack Weinberg wrote: > 3) Look at Nymble - > http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#oakland11-formalizing and > http://cgi.soic.indiana.edu/~kapadia/nymble/overview.php . It would > allow Wikimedia to distance itself from knowing people's identities, > but still allow a

Re: [tor-dev] Xeronet's torrc

2012-12-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:22:00 +0545 Nathan Freitas wrote: > How does it work ? Well, Tor works just great 'out-of-the-box', > however, by tweaking settings and controlling how Tor connects to its > own network we can improve on privacy and security. ...based on what evidence? > (1) Block 'Bad' E