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

2014-07-26 Thread Ken Keys
On 7/26/2014 1:54 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > We also do try to discard fake requests, isis actually added another > yesterday! Could you elaborate on this? I don't understand what you mean my fake requests but the incident sounds interesting. ___ tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread Yawning Angel
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:08:38 +0100 Kevin P Dyer wrote: > Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? > > 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. Ok. > 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transport in the TBB. Sure that's also fairly easy. > 3. Use meek to

Re: [tor-dev] Chutney couldn't start Tor instances

2014-07-26 Thread Sukhbir Singh
Hi, > No log files are generated in /net/nodes/000a, so I don't know what > happened. I don't see any conflicts with ports on localhost as far as I can > see. > Tor version 0.2.4.22 and Python 2.7.5+ are installed. Any ideas? I find it helpful to remove the "--quiet" switch from lib/chutney/TorNe

[tor-dev] Chutney couldn't start Tor instances

2014-07-26 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I'm doing some research on Tor and I'm trying to set up a small sample Tor network to play with. I cloned the Chutney repository with /$ git clone https://git.torproject.org/chutney.git/ and then I ran /$ ./chutney configure networks/basic/ which generated the keys for each of th

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 06:11:45PM +0100, Kevin P Dyer wrote: > Is App Engine blocked in China? All Google services are blocked in China since May 31. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/jun/google-disrupted-prior-tiananmen-anniversary-mirror-sites-enable-uncensored-access https://www.google.com/t

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread Kevin P Dyer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 03:08:38PM +0100, Kevin P Dyer wrote: > > Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? > > > > 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. > > 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transp

[tor-dev] Tor Research Framework

2014-07-26 Thread Gareth Owen
Hi all I am releasing under the GPL a Java based Tor research framework that I have developed. The goal of the framework is to provide a simple and easy to read/modify implementation of the protocol that allows you to do things wrong. This enables researchers to try things out without trying to

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 03:08:38PM +0100, Kevin P Dyer wrote: > Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? > > 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. > 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transport in the TBB. > 3. Use meek to acquire an up-to-date bridge_pre

[tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread Kevin P Dyer
Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transport in the TBB. 3. Use meek to acquire an up-to-date bridge_prefs.js from, say, torproject.org. 4. Use the information from the acquire

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

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 07:32:42AM +, isis wrote: > Lunar transcribed 2.1K bytes: > > isis: > > > > PS: why are we still shipping obfs2 bridges?! > > > > > > > > > tl;dr: Because we have them. > > > > The protocol is known to be broken and fingerprintable. That's something > > we know. Not u

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

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:16:44PM +, harmony wrote: > Nima Fatemi : > > > > I think "bridges" works just fine for "vanilla bridges" and I want to > > take the opportunity to +1 Philipp's idea on looking for keywords > > instead of commands, regardless of how they're phrased. > > Help desk fr

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

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:01:34PM -0400, Israel Leiva wrote: > Hi. > > I support what Philipp and Nima say about keywords. The given commands > surely look simple for technical users, but what about non-technical users? > If the purpose of the distributor is to give info, and you're already > fil

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

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:07:03PM -0400, Philipp Winter wrote: > 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

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

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:19:40PM +, isis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Yawning Angel transcribed 2.9K bytes: > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:25:31 +0200 > > Lunar wrote: > > > > > isis: > > > > > We can't just make Tor Browser stop accepting obfs2 because some >