Re: [tor-dev] Accessing hidden services with TAP or ntor

2014-02-20 Thread Qingping Hou
On Thu 20 Feb 2014 05:41:53 PM EST, grarpamp wrote: > Would be nice to be able to fetch and print out the HS descriptor from the > controller. I posted/ticketed a rough proposed command operation spec > for that maybe 6mo ago that we had some mutual review/interest/code > on this list. Don't know i

Re: [tor-dev] Accessing hidden services with TAP or ntor

2014-02-20 Thread grarpamp
> and why users sometimes report that the access to them fails. The As an anecdote, I seemed to feel a step improvement in HS access sometime between 1-2 years ago, perhaps in the move to later 0.2.3.x. And that it's very good now. I think a big user problem was the socks5 timeout issue with fire

Re: [tor-dev] Registering special-use domain names of peer-to-peer name systems with IETF

2014-02-20 Thread John Bond
Hello Nick, Thanks for your response. This is very helpful and somewhat in line with my expectations. I will forward this thread to the IETF list, please let me know if there is more to add. Thanks John -Original Message- From: Nick Mathewson Reply-To: Date: Sunday 16 February 2014 0

[tor-dev] Accessing hidden services with TAP or ntor

2014-02-20 Thread Jens Kubieziel
Hi, we had some discussions during the dev meeting regarding hidden services and why users sometimes report that the access to them fails. The general problem might be that the specific hidden service doesn't exist anymore. However in some cases the HS exists (see http://tor.stackexchange.com/q/14

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 227: Include package fingerprints in consensus documents

2014-02-20 Thread Steven Murdoch
Hi Nick, This sounds related to an old idea I presented at PETS 2006: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/07/13/protecting-software-distribution-with-a-cryptographic-build-process/ However there's an important difference. The proposal below is how the directory authorities advertise "good"

Re: [tor-dev] Future pluggable/lib obfus transport?

2014-02-20 Thread David Stainton
I don't understand the question. Obfsproxy can be used in external mode or with tor in managed mode. In external mode it can be used to obfuscate other types of traffic like ssh etc. There is no automatic negotiation of obfuscation PTs. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:51 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> The sho