Re: [tor-dev] Defending against guard discovery attacks by pinning middle nodes

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/09/14 15:34, George Kadianakis wrote: > Michael Rogers writes: >> Hi George, >> >> Could you explain what it means to say that HS traffic isn't >> counted in the load balancing equations? Why is that so, and can >> it be changed if that would

Re: [tor-dev] Defending against guard discovery attacks by pinning middle nodes

2014-09-22 Thread George Kadianakis
Roger Dingledine writes: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:07:13PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote: >> So let's say that along with our guard, we also pick 6 second-tier >> guards (middle nodes) that also get pinned for 2-3 months. This makes >> us look like this: >> >> -> middle1 >>

Re: [tor-dev] Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script

2014-09-22 Thread George Kadianakis
George Kadianakis writes: > ==Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script== > > Introduction > > One well-known problem with Tor relays, is that Guards will suffer a > big loss of traffic as soon as they get the Guard flag. This happens > because clients pick guards every 2-3 months,

[tor-dev] meek on Microsoft Azure

2014-09-22 Thread David Fifield
I've got meek working on Microsoft Azure, a cloud services platform and CDN. If you'd like to try it, use a 4.0-alpha bundle and enter the bridge line: Bridge meek 0.0.2.0:3 url=https://az668014.vo.msecnd.net/ front=ajax.aspnetcdn.com As usual, the IP address is ignored; I'm just assigning incre