Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: > Andrew Lewman: > > I had a conversation with a vendor yesterday. They are > > interested in including Tor as their "private browsing mode" and > > basically shipping a re-branded tor browser which lets people toggle the > > connectivity to the Tor network on and off. > > > > They ver

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:18, Mike Perry wrote: > If we were willing to tolerate 10% directory overhead this would allow > for 5 times as many users. In other words, 100M daily connecting users. > > We would still need to find some way to fund the growth of the network > to support this 40X increase

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif): > Il 9/26/14, 4:58 PM, Andrew Lewman ha scritto: > > They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to their > > customer base. Their product is 10-20% of the global market, this is of > > roughly 2.8 billion global Internet users. > . WOW! . Presumably

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
Andrew Lewman: > I had a conversation with a vendor yesterday. They are > interested in including Tor as their "private browsing mode" and > basically shipping a re-branded tor browser which lets people toggle the > connectivity to the Tor network on and off. > > They very much like Tor Browser an

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think one of the important thoughts here, at least as an exit operator is that having a large group like that can significantly influence how Tor is seen and I am sure having that kind of backing could open many avenues for us. If we are to scale up

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 9/26/14, 4:58 PM, Andrew Lewman ha scritto: > They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to their > customer base. Their product is 10-20% of the global market, this is of > roughly 2.8 billion global Internet users. . WOW! . > > Is there a better list available for someon

Re: [tor-dev] obfs4 test bundles

2014-09-26 Thread Yawning Angel
Hello everyone, I just uploaded a new set of obfs4 test bundles to: https://people.torproject.org/~yawning/volatile/tor-browser-obfs4-20140926/ Changes since the last version: * obfs4proxy * Updated to 0.0.2 (Most of the changes are related to packaging and a minor bridge side quality

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-26 Thread Jon Camfield
On 09/18/2014 12:06 PM, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 18/09/14 16:41, David Fifield wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: >>> On 18/09/14 03:31, David Fifield wrote: Currently in the bundles we're not setting a bridge fingerprint, so relays wouldn't have to share

[tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
I had a conversation with a vendor yesterday. They are interested in including Tor as their "private browsing mode" and basically shipping a re-branded tor browser which lets people toggle the connectivity to the Tor network on and off. They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to