[tor-dev] Tor hangs at startup

2015-04-01 Thread spriver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the Tor software has a odd behaviour on my Debian machine; it hangs when I start it via "service start tor" on my Debian (Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2) with Tor (0.2.4.26-1): service tor start [ ok ] Starting tor daemon...

Re: [tor-dev] PT-themed stuffed animals: huggable transports

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Rogers
On 01/04/15 16:50, Rishab Nithyanand wrote: > Next, we went on to study possible replacements and found that the > Scramblesuit rabbit [1] did significantly better! As a side benefit, it > made all the censors go a and let it right through. > > Expect our full results at USENIX Security. > >

Re: [tor-dev] PT-themed stuffed animals: huggable transports

2015-04-01 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Agreed! In fact, our team at Stony Brook just completed a study on the huggability of current PTs. One of our results is that the Scramblesuit bumblebee fared worst. It caused some of our study participants to report us to the IRB. We in turn chose to blame David for encouraging this study. Next,

[tor-dev] Raptor

2015-04-01 Thread Liste
Some people say to track tor users there is a tool named raptor. It uses the packet data recognition to track via AS the data streams between tor hosts. Can be a good idea to split, merge, change the packet order, the data streams etc... to obfuscate the traffic with an algotithm to create false d

[tor-dev] PT-themed stuffed animals: huggable transports

2015-04-01 Thread David Fifield
In an effort to improve pluggable transports' visual identity, we should introduce a line of stuffed animals. The only rule that the the animal's name has to be made out of the transport name. The meek meerkat! [1] The obfs blobfish! [2] The FTE eft! [3] The flash proxy banded quail (Philortyx fas