Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Matt Pagan
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:59:23 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification > > > because I find guiding users through the verification process on > > > Windows/Mac through the co

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09/24/2013 05:42 AM, Matt Pagan wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification > If you go the browser extension route, there is a now defunct > Firefox add-on called FireGPG that implemented GnuPG in

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread adrelanos
Nima: > Sherief Alaa: >> But this is all an endless chain because lets say I download TBB, then >> download gpg to verify it but then how do I make sure that gpg it self >> wasn't tampered with? (assuming I don't have it installed already.) > > Indeed that's an endless chain and turtles all the wa

Re: [tor-dev] Limiting Tor RAM usage

2013-09-23 Thread Gordon Morehouse
References for prior message: 1. http://linux.die.net/man/2/setrlimit 2. http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/40 Best, -Gordon M. ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bi

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread adrelanos
Hi Sherief, this is actually a complex problem. Thanks for trying to solve it. With all due respect, I must say, what you are trying is just another hack to attempt to solve a problem at a higher level, which can not be solved at the level you are trying to solve it. Some time ago, I wrote about

[tor-dev] Limiting Tor RAM usage

2013-09-23 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Hi all, I brought this up in tor-relay, where I'm keeping most of my relatively easy/low key stuff on getting Tor to work real solidly on the Raspberry Pi. However, the biggest problem I'm having right now (with the latest version) is occasional visits from the OOM killer, usually right after

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Nima
Sherief Alaa: > But this is all an endless chain because lets say I download TBB, then > download gpg to verify it but then how do I make sure that gpg it self > wasn't tampered with? (assuming I don't have it installed already.) Indeed that's an endless chain and turtles all the way down. plus (a

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I > > find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through > > the command line painful. > > Just a thought: have you considered doing thi

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Sukhbir Singh
Sherief Alaa wrote: > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I > find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through > the command line painful. > > Tools in use: > - Python 3.3 or 2.7 (still didn't decide yet). > - PyQT > - python-gnupg-0.3

[tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Sherief Alaa
Hi Everyone, (moving this email from the support-team ML to tor-dev as Runa suggested.) I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through the command line painful. Tools in use: - Python 3.3 or 2.7

[tor-dev] [GSOC] Status report - Tor capabilities

2013-09-23 Thread Cristian-Matei Toader
Hello tor-dev, For the past two couple of weeks, stage 2 has ended [1], and stage 3 has begun [2]. Stage 2 didn't change by much, apart from a few change requests from nickm. As part of stage 3, some important changes were made: - the structures involving how a sandbox configuration is being man

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC '13] Status report - Searchable metrics archive

2013-09-23 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Just a small update, seeing as we've passed the hard pencils down date: - latest Onionoo-like API documentation is at [1] (the latest version will always reside there.) - the branch 'gsoc' [2] contains the code that will be uploaded to google melange for external review/check/whatnot.