Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Abhiram Chintangal
I am really looking forward to reading this over the weeked! Thanks! On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > As I mentioned at the dev meeting, Mashael and I were just finishing up > a survey paper on Tor performance and security research. > > The tech report version was just pos

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-13 Thread meejah
Mike Perry writes: > Conversational confusion aside, one of my pet peeves is being unable to > search the web for a piece of software by name only and find it on the > first page. +1 Also I think to be *completely* modern, you have to make sure the .io domain still exists too, right? ;) FWIW, "

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Georg Koppen
Prateek Mittal: > Mashael, Ian -- this looks awesome, congrats! > > A couple of very minor comments come to mind (mainly from looking at Figure > 5): > a) For AS-level adversaries, the following could be useful inclusions: > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029199 > http://moria.freehaven.net/an

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Prateek Mittal
Mashael, Ian -- this looks awesome, congrats! A couple of very minor comments come to mind (mainly from looking at Figure 5): a) For AS-level adversaries, the following could be useful inclusions: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029199 http://moria.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/murdoch-pet2007.pd

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Ian Goldberg
Thanks to both of you! Mashael deserves the bulk of the kudos, of course. ;-) - Ian On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:54:39PM +, David Stainton wrote: > Dear Ian, > > Thanks for publishing this! I am now a huge fan of your work... This > is excellent! > > Cheers, > > David > > > > On Fri,

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread David Stainton
Dear Ian, Thanks for publishing this! I am now a huge fan of your work... This is excellent! Cheers, David On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: > Only glanced through it, but it looks amazingly comprehensive for a 32 > page paper (plus references). I haven't read it yet, but

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Paul Syverson
Only glanced through it, but it looks amazingly comprehensive for a 32 page paper (plus references). I haven't read it yet, but a glance suggests it could be a go-to reference to give to people wanting to get up to speed on Tor and its current research questions. Congrats! aloha, Paul On Fri, Mar

Re: [tor-dev] Progress on hidserv-stats Metrics integration, request for code review

2015-03-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/15 21:26, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 06:01:13PM +, George Kadianakis wrote: >> Karsten Loesing writes: >>> The question is, what graphs do we want on Metrics? How >>> about: >>> >>> - Total hidden-service traffic

Re: [tor-dev] Syncing the Tor+TBB release schedules?

2015-03-13 Thread Isabela
This is a great discussion, thanks Mike for writing down TBB release process. I think is very important to start being more strategical on how we plan the different projects releases. Of course this doesn't mean we have to force a big change right away, that is why the discussion is important so w

Re: [tor-dev] Progress on hidserv-stats Metrics integration, request for code review

2015-03-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/15 19:01, George Kadianakis wrote: > Karsten Loesing writes: >> Also note that more is not necessarily better. All graphs we put >> on Metrics should be easy to comprehend for non-researchers and >> non-developers. If there's a graph that

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-13 Thread Damian Johnson
> Hi everyone, > > "Argos: the name of the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology." > > It fits, if my opinion were to be welcome. > And it doesn't clash with the "Argus" programming language. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Panoptes Hi Lluís. Last night I sunk a couple hours into looking for a

Re: [tor-dev] Progress on hidserv-stats Metrics integration, request for code review

2015-03-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/15 17:08, A. Johnson wrote: >> Looking forward, hidden-service statistics are now available on >> Metrics: >> >> https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-data.html > > Looks great! > >> - Total hidden-service traffic in Mbit/s (per day, using

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-13 Thread Lluís
Hi everyone, "Argos: the name of the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology." It fits, if my opinion were to be welcome. And it doesn't clash with the "Argus" programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Panoptes Lluís Andreas Krey: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:36 +, Damian Johnson

Re: [tor-dev] Syncing the Tor+TBB release schedules?

2015-03-13 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > As fair warning, I am very likely to decide that it will be better to > ship 0.2.7.x in TBB 5.0-stable on Aug 11th, as I suspect that the risk > from things like PT compatibility and control port compatibility issues > will actually make a r

[tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Ian Goldberg
As I mentioned at the dev meeting, Mashael and I were just finishing up a survey paper on Tor performance and security research. The tech report version was just posted on eprint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/235 for your perusing pleasure. ;-) Thanks, - Ian ___

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-13 Thread Andreas Krey
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:36 +, Damian Johnson wrote: ... > And on a side note, damn naming things is hard... Indeed. You mostly need invented names to avoid the google trap, like git didn't, and thalys did. 'sethor' came to mind, and it contains 'tor' in a non-roger-invoking way. :-) (But ap

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-13 Thread Damian Johnson
>> Not to be a downer, but I'm not sure a common name like Seth really >> solves the problem here. I can already foresee: >> >> new_person: New relay operator here, any tips? >> somebody: Hey, try Seth! >> new_person: The EFF technologist who posts on tor-talk? >> new_person: Does he help with