Re: [tor-dev] Questions pertaining to client to directory authority

2013-05-19 Thread Jon Smithe
Hello, I receive a daily digest, so I am replying to everything at once. > http, https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt > > section 1 line 184 "All directory information is uploaded and > downloaded with HTTP." > > If you search through the document for http, you will fi

Re: [tor-dev] Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services

2013-05-19 Thread Tom Ritter
On 17 May 2013 09:23, George Kadianakis wrote: > There are basically two ways to do this: > A third comes to mind, somewhat similar to Mike's. If we believe that 1024 RSA is not broken *now* (or at the very least, if it is broken it's too valuable to waste on breaking Tor's Hidden Services...)

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread Griffin Boyce
Matthew Finkel wrote: > So I think we should make some terms clear (just for the sake of > clarity). We have, I guess, three different naming-system ideas > floating here: petnames, (distibuted) namecoin-ish, and centralized > consensus-based - rough summary. > > Some months ago, the petname syst

Re: [tor-dev] Questions pertaining to client to directory authority communications

2013-05-19 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:40:13PM -0400, Jon Smithe wrote: > I have been reading through the various tor specifications trying to > understand how this all works, so please forgive any ignorance of the > protocol on my part. There seems to be a fair amount of gaps about > specifically how various

Re: [tor-dev] RFC patch: systemd socket activation

2013-05-19 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > On what platform did you test it where you expect it to work? How about > other platforms where it shouldn't work but also shouldn't do harm? Actually it looks some sd-daemon.c header includes can cause problems on Windows, particularly ,

Re: [tor-dev] RFC patch: systemd socket activation

2013-05-19 Thread Marti Raudsepp
Hi! Thanks for the comments. Sorry if my reply is long-winded, but you left me no other choice. :) On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Could you open a ticket on trac? Done: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8908 > It seems to me that this requires a bit of

Re: [tor-dev] Questions pertaining to client to directory authority communications

2013-05-19 Thread not me
> but not what communication protocol is actually being used. http, https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt section 1 line 184 "All directory information is uploaded and downloaded with HTTP." If you search through the document for http, you will find most of the uris a

[tor-dev] Questions pertaining to client to directory authority communications

2013-05-19 Thread Jon Smithe
Hello! I have been reading through the various tor specifications trying to understand how this all works, so please forgive any ignorance of the protocol on my part. There seems to be a fair amount of gaps about specifically how various communications take place; for instance if we consider the v

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread Matthew Finkel
I liked the new subject, so I'm sticking with it. :) On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 04:37:22AM -0700, George Kadianakis wrote: > > adrelanos: > >> George Kadianakis: > >> I don't know if the petname system is an completely orthogonal issue or > >> if it could be considered when you decide this one. > >>

Re: [tor-dev] RFC patch: systemd socket activation

2013-05-19 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Marti Raudsepp: > Hi list, > > The attached patch implements support for systemd socket activation. > > For people who don't know what that is: systemd is an "init" system > for Linux. Socket activation means that systemd binds all the sockets > in advance, and only spawns Tor once somebody attem

[tor-dev] RFC patch: systemd socket activation

2013-05-19 Thread Marti Raudsepp
Hi list, The attached patch implements support for systemd socket activation. For people who don't know what that is: systemd is an "init" system for Linux. Socket activation means that systemd binds all the sockets in advance, and only spawns Tor once somebody attempts to connect. More informat

[tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread George Kadianakis
> adrelanos: >> George Kadianakis: >> > If we move to the higher security of (e.g.) 128-bits, the base32 >> string >> > suddenly becomes 26 characters. Is that still conveniently sized to >> pass >> > around, or should we admit that we failed this goal and we are free to >> > crank up the security