Re: [tor-dev] GSoc update #2 - Stegotorus security enhancement

2014-06-23 Thread Yawning Angel
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:04:25 -0500 Noah Rahman wrote: > - implemented the Elligator handshake on a circuit level. I need to > look into implementing it on a connection level to add greater > security, as well as adding OCB encryption (does anyone know for sure > whether this is in OpenSSL now? I

[tor-dev] GSoc update #2 - Stegotorus security enhancement

2014-06-23 Thread Noah Rahman
Hello tor-dev. over the past two weeks I have - met with the team at SRI who have been developing further enhancements to stegotorus separately from the codebase available on github. We developed a plan to begin integrating the two codebases and to prepare it for integration with tbb and gitian

[tor-dev] Journey to the core of Tor: Why does Roger has so many guards?

2014-06-23 Thread George Kadianakis
During our meeting in Iceland, we talked a lot about guard nodes. Some of that discussion eventually turned into proposal 236 [0]. During our discussions, we looked into the state file of Roger, and we noticed that there are 50 or so guard nodes in there. And that made us wonder: "Why does Roger h