[tor-dev] Please vote on times for the Pluggable Transports, Bridges, and BridgeDB Meeting!

2015-04-03 Thread isis
Hello! Did you have an interest in attending the Pluggable Transports Meeting v1.0? Well then, you will certainly be excited to here about the *BRAND NEW* Pluggable Transports Meeting v2.0 *NOW INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION OF BRIDGEDB AND BRIDGES IN GENERAL* That's 3 meetings for the pr

[tor-dev] multi-instance tor with a single torrc

2015-04-03 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Pascal, (OpenBSD tor package maintainer) (splitting this part off to tor-dev, since it is not suited well for tor-relays I guess) For the interested reader this discussion started here [1]. Pascal Stumpf: >> Multi-instance support isn't somethi

Re: [tor-dev] Should popularity-hiding be a security property of hidden services?

2015-04-03 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:57:33PM +0100, George Kadianakis wrote: > I lean heavily > towards the "popularity is private information and we should not > reveal it if we can help it" camp Hi George, Thanks for your thoughts. I'm currently in this camp too. >Also, these statistics are forever

Re: [tor-dev] Should popularity-hiding be a security property of hidden services?

2015-04-03 Thread David Stainton
Hi George, I read your post. I am a hidden service operator... and I feel strongly that hiding popularity is in fact an anonymity property... and security property. I also wonder if it's even possible to fully hide popularity. I suggest we try to hide popularity at least until we understand more a

[tor-dev] Should popularity-hiding be a security property of hidden services?

2015-04-03 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello, Tor hidden services are meant to primarily provide server anonymity but they also provide various other properties. For example, their addresses are self-authenticated and their connections punch NAT. This post is about another property, which is that Tor does not reveal the popularity of a