[tor-dev] (FWD) Re: More-static throttling parameters

2013-04-16 Thread Roger Dingledine
[Forwarding on Rob's behalf, since apparently he's not on the list. -RD] - Forwarded message from Rob Jansen - > From: Rob Jansen > Subject: Re: More-static throttling parameters > Date: April 10, 2013 9:36:22 AM EDT > To: Roger Dingledine > Cc: tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > > Roger,

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:49:38PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:46:17AM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > > 4) Who do you trust? With this remote-proxy, it really depends on what > > you're looking to gain from using the Tor network. Are you looking for a > > censorshi

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:46:17AM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > 4) Who do you trust? With this remote-proxy, it really depends on what > you're looking to gain from using the Tor network. Are you looking for a > censorship circumvention tool? Then you probably don't want to use a > remote-prox

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04:52AM +0530, mahesh wrote: > Hi, I am a third year undergraduate student of Information Technology at > PICT, Pune, India. I'm dying to contribute to tor community as I use it > a lot. There's an opportunity for me in GSOC-2013. I read tor's idea > page and came to k

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:11:37PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35:45PM +, adrelanos wrote: > > > I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > > > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > > > censors

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35:45PM +, adrelanos wrote: > > I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > > censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. > > It

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread adrelanos
> I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. It's not so easy if users host their own torified CGIproxies on their o

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. Cheers, Sreenatha On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, mahesh wrote: > H

[tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread mahesh
Hi, I am a third year undergraduate student of Information Technology at PICT, Pune, India. I'm dying to contribute to tor community as I use it a lot. There's an opportunity for me in GSOC-2013. I read tor's idea page and came to know that would have to contribute to existing project. But, I w

Re: [tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread meejah
p.s. I should mention that if you're needing something from me for GSoC and I haven't responded, please don't hesitate to bug me via private mail -- sometimes things slip through the cracks, and I'm fairly busy these days. Also, I am usually idling in #tor-dev on OFTC and the best way for me to s

Re: [tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread meejah
Anshul Singhle writes: > The aim of this project would be to use the protocol-parsing from stem > instead of using the "re-implementation" in txtorcon. Since the > protocol parsing is synchronous anyway(AFAICT) it makes sense to do > this. So far so good, yes. One thing to note is that while "

Re: [tor-dev] Obfsproxy support for Tor Browser Launcher

2013-04-16 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 16.04.2013 19:31, Micah Lee wrote: > Do the obfsproxy bundles have the exact same release schedule as normal > TBB? Unfortunately, no. Currently, obfsproxy bundles are built by different people with a different schedule. > At the moment it seems like the current alpha is 2.4.11-alpha-2, and >

[tor-dev] Obfsproxy support for Tor Browser Launcher

2013-04-16 Thread Micah Lee
I want to make it so Tor Browser Launcher users can optionally choose to install teh Obfsproxy TBB instead of the normal one, but I have some questions about that on this issue: https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/issues/38 Maybe someone here knows the answers. Here's the question: D

Re: [tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread Anshul Singhle
Thanks for the reply and the useful links! I went through txtorcon and stem a bit. Also skimmed through the control spec a bit. I'll now give an overview of what this project is, please correct me if I got something wrong. So basically tor has a control protocol that allows clients to connect to it

Re: [tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread meejah
Anshul Singhle writes: > I'm a newbie at tor development though. Could someone point me to > what is required for a good application for this project? Do I need > to submit a patch to Tor? I have no experience working with > stem. Could someone give me pointers on where to start? Hi Anshul, I w

Re: [tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Anshul, glad you want to get involved! > Specifically i'm interested in the project on txtorcon/stem > integration. I have worked on twisted before developing ssh and git > daemons using it. I'm a newbie at tor development though. Great. Some twisted experience is definitely a plus for that pr

Re: [tor-dev] Vidalia 2.0 - an complete rewrite

2013-04-16 Thread adrelanos
Any news? ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] txtorcon [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-16 Thread Anshul Singhle
Hi, I'm a fourth year undergraduate student of Computer Science at IIT Kharagpur,India. I'm interested in applying for Gsoc this year for Tor. Specifically i'm interested in the project on txtorcon/stem integration. I have worked on twisted before developing ssh and git daemons using it. I'm a new