[tor-dev] GSOC Status Report - EvilGenius

2013-08-23 Thread Johannes Fürmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello *, During the last two weeks I was primarily busy packing literally everything I own into boxes and unpacking it again, as well as other logistics that have to be done when moving. My equipment as well as my brain and the rest of me should be fu

[tor-dev] PRELIMINARY: [PATCH 21/21] Remove 'TorDNSEL.Compat.Exception'.

2013-08-23 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
These patches should allow you to build all modules (using GHC 7.6.3.) if you apply them on the previous set [1]. /But please don’t expect anything to work./ Now it’s time to actually test and reorganize the patches. Will it be sane to resend the previous 12 patches (approximately 1500 lines) to

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: See also Roger's writeup at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8244 ; it's pretty informative IMO. ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Kang wrote: > Hello. > I was reading about hidden services and a thought occurred to me > regarding the hash ring used in choosing and determining the HSDirs > for a hidden service. > As far as I can tell the hash ring is more or less static since a > relay's posit

Re: [tor-dev] Global semi-passive adversary: suggestion of using expanders

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:45:31AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:19:32AM +0200, Paul-Olivier Dehaye wrote: > > The short summary of the weakness of Tor here: > > - We would like the whole protocol to be mixing (to an observer, the > > probability of exiting at any node

[tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Kang
Hello. I was reading about hidden services and a thought occurred to me regarding the hash ring used in choosing and determining the HSDirs for a hidden service. As far as I can tell the hash ring is more or less static since a relay's position is determined by their identity key, which doesn't cha

[tor-dev] Searchable metrics archive - Onionoo-like API available online for probing

2013-08-23 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Hello, this accompanies my status report [1], and includes info how to query the searchable metrics archive for anyone curious. I also refer to the original (now semi-outdated) project proposal/document. [0] Only sending to tor-dev@for now. The Onionoo-like backend is listening on http://ts.mkj.

Re: [tor-dev] Searchable metrics archive - Onionoo-like API available online for probing

2013-08-23 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
P.S. (sorry) - it will also be possible to launch the backend on an EC2 instance, depending on load / curiosity. For now, this is running on a relatively fragile development server. -- Kostas. 0x0e5dce45 @ pgp.mit.edu On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Kostas Jakeliunas wrote: > Hello, > > thi

[tor-dev] [GSoC 2013] Status report - Searchable metrics archive

2013-08-23 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Hello! Updating on my Searchable Tor metrics archive project. (As is very evident) I'm very open for naming suggestions. :) To the best of my understanding and current satisfaction, I solved the database bottlenecks, or at least I am, as of now, satisfied with the current output from my benchmark

Re: [tor-dev] Global semi-passive adversary: suggestion of using expanders

2013-08-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:19:32AM +0200, Paul-Olivier Dehaye wrote: > The short summary of the weakness of Tor here: > - We would like the whole protocol to be mixing (to an observer, the > probability of exiting at any node C given entrance at node A is close to > 1/N), Right, you're using termi

Re: [tor-dev] Global semi-passive adversary: suggestion of using expanders

2013-08-23 Thread Paul-Olivier Dehaye
I use the word mixing 4 times, with two meanings: "...enough mixing can happen..." : mathematical sense, on pairs of edges around a node "...yet highly mixing network..." : mathematical sense, on pairs of entry/exit Tor nodes "...between mixing chains and Tor, and can be seen as a lot of mixing cha