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

2013-10-30 Thread Lunar
David Goulet: > Ok, I manage to make it work with Firefox. Yeah! :) > However, and a BIG however, this is a special fix for specific case > where memory allocation is handle by the application AND syscall() is > used. It will not cover the broader issue of using other syscall within > a malloc ho

Re: [tor-dev] First draft of Requirements and Software Design for a Better Tor Performance Measurement Tool

2013-10-30 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/6/13 3:58 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > I just finished a first draft of a tech report sketching out the > requirements and a software design for a new Torperf implementation. Sathya, Kevin, and I improved this tech report draft a lot and finally published it today: https://research.torprojec

[tor-dev] One-Click-Publishing HS - aka "Project Cute"

2013-10-30 Thread SiNA Rabbani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear List, I have been trying to help get Project Cute which is a "point-and-click" hidden service blogging tool, off the ground. So far I have 2 documents that have come out as a result of a few IRC chats. 1) Possible use-cases: https://trac.tor

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

2013-10-30 Thread David Goulet
On 30 Oct (12:28:19), Lunar wrote: > 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 > > > re

Re: [tor-dev] Development of an HTTP PT

2013-10-30 Thread George Kadianakis
dardok writes: > Hi, I am quite new in here but I am interested to help and improve the > TOR system. I am interested in PTs and particularly in developing a > HTTP PT. > > I've read some papers [0],[1],[2],[3] and the ticket #8676 and I > consider that it would be a good idea to make an effort a

[tor-dev] Tech report: Evaluation of a libutp-based Tor Datagram Implementation

2013-10-30 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hi tor devs, Steven, Rob, and I wrote a tech report on evaluating Steven's libutp Tor implementation in the public Tor network and using Chutney and Shadow: https://research.torproject.org/techreports/libutp-2013-10-30.pdf >From the introduction: """ Datagram designs are a promising approach to

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

2013-10-30 Thread Lunar
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

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

2013-10-30 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 10/29/2013 07:30 PM, Tom Lowenthal wrote: > Any questions or suggestions? > > -Tom Is this a "tor dev" thing, or a "devs who work on tor-related projects but who are not part of tor" thing? ~Griffin -- "Cypherpunks write code not flame wars." --Jurre van Bergen #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97

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

2013-10-30 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:30:24AM -0700, Tom Lowenthal wrote: > 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 informati

Re: [tor-dev] [Draft Proposal] Scalable Hidden Services

2013-10-30 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:49:46PM +, George Kadianakis wrote: > Christopher Baines writes: > > > On 28/10/13 13:19, Matthew Finkel wrote: > >> This is a proposal I wrote to implement scalable hidden services. It's > >> by no means finished (there are some slight inconsistencies which I will

Re: [tor-dev] [Draft Proposal] Scalable Hidden Services

2013-10-30 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:40:12PM +, Christopher Baines wrote: > On 28/10/13 13:19, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > This is a proposal I wrote to implement scalable hidden services. It's > > by no means finished (there are some slight inconsistencies which I will > > be correcting later today or tom