[tor-dev] GSoC Stegotorus Security Enhancement

2014-07-04 Thread Noah Rahman
Greetings all, I've been refining the Elligator handshake to work on the circuit level for now as opposed to the connection level[1], merging in some SRI changes[2], especially those with respect to configuration files[3], and studying resources in order to prepare for a possible implementation of

[tor-dev] GSOC Pluggable Transport Combiner Status Update 3

2014-07-04 Thread quinn jarrell
Hi everyone, I've been working on: - Making tor connect to the pt combiner directly instead of connecting to the first pt as it did before. Now when tor sends a socks request to the combiner, the socks request is intercepted and a connection is made to the first pt instead of the requ

Re: [tor-dev] Response on adding extra torrc fields

2014-07-04 Thread Damian Johnson
> Hi Damian! I'm trying to make this work under your suggestions, but I'm not > entirely clear how. Can you help me get this in shape to pass your muster? Hi Virgil, I'd be glad to! Adding tor-dev@ back in case others have thoughts on the details. I like your idea, what I was trying to hint by a

[tor-dev] Draft proposal: Tor Consensus Transparency

2014-07-04 Thread Linus Nordberg
Hi Tor devs, It's surprisingly hard to work on Tor during the Tor developer meetings! My apologies for not publishing this text until now, despite my repeated ranting about the subject the last few days. Well, here it is, in an early draft version. Thank you all who've listened patiently and give

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread David Stainton
Virgil, why does your below example have a bitcoin field? Perhaps you should rephrase your motivation more plainly to something like: """ Hello, I'm a bitcoin capitalist profiteer and I wish to disturb the existing power structures within the Tor Project community with my capitalist bitcoin pro

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 3)

2014-07-04 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, I've written most of the new weather's backend a.k.a the notification scripts that run hourly(LowBandwidth, Nodedown) and daily(Welcome, Tshirt) as cron jobs and this is how they essentially operate: 1. Fetch and parse required documents from Onionoo. 2. Filter out required relays(e.g 'run

[tor-dev] [ot] tor2web static maps

2014-07-04 Thread grarpamp
I think I saw these posted here earlier from a tor2web person. The url's seem unreliable at times. Are there new, updated, or canonical links to this data? Or to a document outlining them? Thanks. https://antani.tor2web.org/antanistaticmap/stats/yesterday https://antani.onion.to/antanistaticmap/st

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Ian Goldberg
Just some spec-level nitpicking. On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Virgil Griffith wrote: > The value field must be printable ASCII (characters 32-126). Presumably all values are literal? There's no special meaning to ", \, etc.? > The value must not under any condition contain a newlin

[tor-dev] [GSoC] Consensus diffs - Third report

2014-07-04 Thread Daniel Martí
Hello everyone, This is the thid status report of my Google Summer of Code project, which is to implement consensus diffs for Tor. We hold weekly meetings every Wednesday at 14h UTC with the project mentors Nick and Sebastian. Two weeks ago I sent the second report, which explained how I had work

[tor-dev] Gsoc tor daemon status report

2014-07-04 Thread Белоус Михаил
As I said before applying for Gsoc,until 19 July I'm in military camp. After my return I'm going to rewrite code. ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] XKeyscore rules probably are from Snowden, after all

2014-07-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
There has been some speculation that the recent XKeyscore rule leaks [1] do not come from Snowden — particularly, by Schneier [2]. I believe that there is a good case that the leaks do come from Snowden, since it is possible to pinpoint the date range when the rule sources [3] have been last update

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
This extension could be very useful for the Tor2web project, in order to easily introduce "directory" functionalities for join/leave/networking capabilities as per https://github.com/globaleaks/Tor2web-3.0/issues/41 . That would be *amazing* . I'm going to bring Italian Grappa with express-shippi

[tor-dev] Orbot & Orfox - GSoC bi-weekly report 3

2014-07-04 Thread Amogh Pradeep
Status Report 3 July 4th, 2014. Things I have done: 1)Building Fennec: Finally built Fennec and applied the patches to provide anonymity to some extent. The apk can be found at https://guardianproject.info/releases/FennecForTor_GSoC_prototype.apk . This is just a prototype and requires the origin

[tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
Filename: ExtraRelayDescriptorFields.txt Title: Adding new X- fields to relay descriptor Author: Virgil Griffith, Nick Mathewson Created: 2014-06-03 Status: Open 1. Motivation We wish to allow developers to build new applications atop relays. Towards this end, we wish to add the ability for users