Re: [tor-dev] [tor-relays] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Thomas White wrote: > Mike Hearn, > Simple. If you start filtering anything at all, regardless of what it > is ... then I will > block any connection of your relays to mine > ... > Freedom isn't free unless it is > totally free and a selective reading policy throug

[tor-dev] Crippled intro points

2014-07-20 Thread Andrea Shepard
A recent thread has advocated crippling relays to selectively refuse to act as intro points for hidden services. Unfortunately, with the current HS design it would be implementable. I state my opposition to adding any such censorship feature now, and look forward to an improved HS protocol that w

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Hello, > > As we know, hidden services can be useful for all kinds of legitimate things > (Pond's usage is particularly interesting), however they do also sometimes > get used by botnets and other problematic things. > > Tor provides exit polici

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread Tom Ritter
One of my first concerns would be that this would build in a very easy way for a government (probably the US government) to compel Tor to add in a line of code that says "If it's this hidden service key, block access." After all - it's a stretch to say "You must modify your software to support blo

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:34:50AM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > Hello, > > As we know, hidden services can be useful for all kinds of legitimate > things (Pond's usage is particularly interesting), however they do also > sometimes get used by botnets and other problematic things. > > Tor provides e

[tor-dev] ANN: txtorcon 0.10.1

2014-07-20 Thread meejah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A new minor release of txtorcon exists, fixing a couple bugs introduced along with the endpoints feature in 0.10.0: * issue #78: Add tox tests and fix for Twisted 12.0.0 (and prior), as this is what Debian squeeze ships * issue #77: prop

[tor-dev] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread Mike Hearn
Hello, As we know, hidden services can be useful for all kinds of legitimate things (Pond's usage is particularly interesting), however they do also sometimes get used by botnets and other problematic things. Tor provides exit policies to let exit relay operators restrict traffic they consider to

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-20 Thread Philipp Winter
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:52:44PM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: > So, the questions I am posing to those in the community who has an > opinion about this: What do you think? What problems do you currently > have with this? How can this be improved? Non-technical users might be confused by the par

[tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-20 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hi everyone, A short time ago BridgeDB learned how to accept some more commands via email[0]. Below is an example of the current help/overview autoresponse email[1] that users receive (in English, we do have translations). These commands may not be optimal, so we'd love to be given feedback on th

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

2014-07-20 Thread Daniel Martí
Hello everyone, Apologies for the delay, I'm a couple of days late. This is the fourth status report of my Google Summer of Code project, which is to implement consensus diffs for Tor. My mentors - Sebastian and Nick - and myself usually hold meetings on IRC on wednesday at 16h UTC. On the first

Re: [tor-dev] hidden service involvement in external program

2014-07-20 Thread Ken Keys
On 7/20/2014 7:34 AM, Tomas Bortoli wrote: > Hi all, I want to develop a program that connects to a hidden server > through tor. This is my problem: how can i establish a connection to > the server from the client? I read the hidden service protocol, but i > need a usable implementation of it. So i

[tor-dev] Hidden services mailing list

2014-07-20 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, Several projects use Tor hidden services for peer-to-peer communication, including TorChat, TORFone, Ricochet, Ploggy, OnionShare, Invisible.im, Ciboulette and Briar. I suspect many of us are running into similar issues because the hidden se

Re: [tor-dev] hidden service involvement in external program

2014-07-20 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 04:34:16PM +0200, Tomas Bortoli wrote: > Hi all, I want to develop a program that connects to a hidden server through > tor. This is my problem: how can i establish a connection to the server from > the client? I read the hidden service protocol, but i need a usable > implem

[tor-dev] hidden service involvement in external program

2014-07-20 Thread Tomas Bortoli
Hi all, I want to develop a program that connects to a hidden server through tor. This is my problem: how can i establish a connection to the server from the client? I read the hidden service protocol, but i need a usable implementation of it. So i was looking in stem but seems it doesn't provid