[tor-dev] BridgeDB - Bridge Distribution Modifications

2013-05-13 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hi all, Over the last few weeks I've been working with George and Aaron on updating BridgeDB's code with respect to how it handles pluggable transports. I've made some decent progress, but there are some questions that I'd like to ask (because I'm not sure I should be the one making the decision).

[tor-dev] txtorcon 0.8.1

2013-05-13 Thread meejah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I appologize for the noise, but there were a couple mistakes in the 0.8.0 release: it wouldn't install unless you had pypissh installed due to a last-minute import error, and the release and announcement weren't signed with the correct subkey. Pleas

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher UI feedback follow up

2013-05-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Roger Dingledine (a...@mit.edu): > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:38:53AM +, adrelanos wrote: > > So what's the ethical thing to do? > > > > Totally deprecate the "hide the fact, you're using Tor" use case? > > > > Have a button "My network operator threatens my person safety", which

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 5/13/13 7:21 PM, Arturo Filastò wrote: > > On May 13, 2013, at 7:15 PM, David Fifield wrote: > >> Thank you for taking a look. >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: >>> I'm not sure, but Tor2web might do something similar. From Onionoo's >>> project page: "To

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
On May 13, 2013, at 7:15 PM, David Fifield wrote: > Thank you for taking a look. > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> I'm not sure, but Tor2web might do something similar. From Onionoo's >> project page: "Tor2web is a web proxy to Tor Hidden Services. It uses

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread David Fifield
Thank you for taking a look. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: > I'm not sure, but Tor2web might do something similar. From Onionoo's > project page: "Tor2web is a web proxy to Tor Hidden Services. It uses > Onionoo to get the list of currently running Tor Exits to

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher UI feedback follow up

2013-05-13 Thread Kathleen Brade
On 5/13/13 3:49 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: ... 2) I really like the "Configure" and "Connect" word choices. Hopefully our users will get it too. :) Agreed. Obviously, if we discover that TBB users are confused, the words can be changed. 3) As for which order to present the options in, I

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Censorship Detector: Can I help?

2013-05-13 Thread George Kadianakis
George Kadianakis writes: > Sam Burnett writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to help improve the Tor Censorship Detector. I've read some >> background material and think I understand the basics of George Danezis' >> detection algorithm [1, 2]. >> >> Is anyone still working on this? Two tickets from a

Re: [tor-dev] Status of Torouter project

2013-05-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Yes, it is. I'm working on it and so are a number of other people. > > All the best, > Jacob Good to hear. Is there a tentative date for a beta release? best, Griffin ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org ht

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 5/13/13 9:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> The only downside I can see is that it takes about 30--45 minutes for >> new exits to show up in your local cache. An alternative would be to >> query the exit list yourself, download

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher UI feedback follow up

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:38:53AM +, adrelanos wrote: > So what's the ethical thing to do? > > Totally deprecate the "hide the fact, you're using Tor" use case? > > Have a button "My network operator threatens my person safety", which is > honest and explains, Tor can't help Actually, Tor c

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher UI feedback follow up

2013-05-13 Thread adrelanos
Roger Dingledine: > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 09:47:19AM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote: >> My network operator does not threaten my person safety > > 1) This is also the first point I thought of here -- in the past we've > said that some people should be using a bridge for an extra layer of > "it's not so

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher UI feedback follow up

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 09:47:19AM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote: > My network operator does not threaten my person safety 1) This is also the first point I thought of here -- in the past we've said that some people should be using a bridge for an extra layer of "it's not so obvious that I'm using Tor",

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: > The only downside I can see is that it takes about 30--45 minutes for > new exits to show up in your local cache. An alternative would be to > query the exit list yourself, download the most recent consensus, and > compile a list o

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 5/12/13 12:38 PM, David Fifield wrote: > Karsten, could I ask you to take a quick look at this code? > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7549#comment:14 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/7549/onionoo-querying-ver2.zip > > It's a daemon that keeps a lo