Re: [tor-dev] Some initial analysis on the new "Triple Handshake Attack" and Tor

2014-03-03 Thread Watson Ladd
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all. > > It looks like there was a new attack on the TLS protocol this morning. I > think it doesn't affect Tor. But I should walk you through my > reasoning to see if you agree. > > I. The Triple Handshake attack. > > Go read https://ww

[tor-dev] Some initial analysis on the new "Triple Handshake Attack" and Tor

2014-03-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all. It looks like there was a new attack on the TLS protocol this morning. I think it doesn't affect Tor. But I should walk you through my reasoning to see if you agree. I. The Triple Handshake attack. Go read https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/03/03/triplehandshake.html and then read htt

[tor-dev] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc4

2014-03-03 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! After a big code review from Nick and help from a lot of people contributing and testing, this is the release candidate 4 for the new torsocks. Hopefully this is the last stretched before pushing this effort upstream but for that we need help with code/documentation review (again) an

[tor-dev] Search Engine for Hidden services

2014-03-03 Thread Prakash kumar
Sir I am Prakash kumar from G. B. Pant Engineering College, Delhi, India.I am a 2nd year computer science and engineering student. I want to work on the idea "search engine for hidden services". I have a basic knowledge of how search engines work. I want to know which language we will use for this

[tor-dev] IRC meeting on Fri, Mar 7, 17:00 UTC to discuss TIMB's next external milestone

2014-03-03 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hi everyone, we're going to have an IRC meeting to discuss next steps for the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB): Friday, March 7, at 17:00 UTC in #tor-dev on OFTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140307T17 The main topic will be the upcoming external milestone on

Re: [tor-dev] Tor HS DHT Research

2014-03-03 Thread Arlo Breault
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Gareth Owen wrote: > Dear all > > Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is). > > I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of > questions. I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to > participate in the DHT; however,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 228: Cross-certifying identity keys with onion keys

2014-03-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: [...] > But I think there is another one. > >> 4. Performance impact >> >>Routers do not generate new descriptors frequently enough for >>them to need to > > worry about performance for this matter. (?) Thanks! I've fixed it as: R

[tor-dev] Weekly Tor dev meeting: Wednesday March 5, 20:00 UTC

2014-03-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! This is another developer's meeting for working on the program "tor". (This won't cover all the other programs developed under the Tor umbrella.) Unlike last week, we're going to try doing the weekly meeting on Wednesday, so it can go right after the TBB meeting. Also, I'm going to sa

[tor-dev] Tor HS DHT Research

2014-03-03 Thread Gareth Owen
Dear all Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is). I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of questions. I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to participate in the DHT; however, periodically I wish to make small code changes to Tor and restart