Re: [tor-dev] bananaphone obfsproxy module

2013-10-29 Thread David Stainton
Howdy, Thanks. Your obfsproxy is a nice piece of work. Bananaphone + Obfs2 sounds cool! Modular transport chains make a lot of sense... I like modular transports... recently for fun I wrote a VPN in Python Twisted [https://github.com/david415/hushVPN] using twisted consumers and producers. My ide

[tor-dev] [Otter/Buoyant] Tor Documentation Pad

2013-10-29 Thread Colin C.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone, At today's Buoyant Otter meeting, it was determined that we needed a pad to organize our thoughts regarding the current documentation we have, and what we need. I have created a pad at https://zugzug.titanpad.com/3 for this purpose,

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread David Goulet
On 29 Oct (16:41:02), Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:10:50PM -0400, David Goulet wrote: > > That would work if there is a way I can "differ" the hijack of the > > syscall symbol... Unfortunately, this is done at linking time thus > > during run time, the syscall symbol is already

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread Lunar
David Goulet: > Now the issue was detected with firefox which uses a custom malloc hook > meaning that it handles its own memory allocation. This hook uses mmap() > that firefox redefines to be a direct syscall(__NR_mmap, ...) and > remember that this symbol is hijacked by torsocks. > […] > It's a

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:10:50PM -0400, David Goulet wrote: > That would work if there is a way I can "differ" the hijack of the > syscall symbol... Unfortunately, this is done at linking time thus > during run time, the syscall symbol is already hijacked by torsocks. > > Let say we don't try to

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, David Goulet wrote: > To be honest, I am not sure what's the right fix here or if there is any > way to lookup the symbol in a "special" way that would help here. Any > idea or questions are VERY welcome :). My first thought -- and I don't know how good it is --

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread David Goulet
On 29 Oct (14:58:44), Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, David Goulet wrote: > > > To be honest, I am not sure what's the right fix here or if there is any > > way to lookup the symbol in a "special" way that would help here. Any > > idea or questions are VERY welcome :). >

[tor-dev] Torsocks 2.x issue - Need eyes on that

2013-10-29 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone, I stumble upon an issue when testing torsocks[1] with firefox. I'm still wondering how this can be fixed thus I need more eyes on this :). The issue is that torsocks gets into a deadlock during the initialization phase within the libc. Here it is. This new torsocks version hijacks th

[tor-dev] REMINDER: Buoyant Otter outreach, training, & documentation in an hour.

2013-10-29 Thread Tom Lowenthal
Tor psyops group, We'll be meeting in #tor-dev in just under an hour to scheme, plan, and otherwise prepare out ongoing outreach, training, and documentation efforts. See y'all in an hour. -Tom ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https

[tor-dev] Help me guague how full your plate is via regular check-in conversations

2013-10-29 Thread Tom Lowenthal
Hello fighters for freedom, When applying for grants, planning future work, and otherwise thinking about what capacity we have leftover to do things in the future, it's really useful to know who's doing what and how much of it. I get some of this information from our sponsor/project-specific meeti