[tor-dev] tor's "make test" fails when run on tails

2015-04-26 Thread warms0x
I am trying to execute tor's tests from git (63a90f2) on tails but the socketpair_ersatz test keeps failing util/socketpair: [forking] OK util/socketpair_ersatz: [forking] FAIL src/test/test_util.c:4212: assert(0 OP_EQ tor_socketpair_fn(family, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds)): 0 vs -111 [socketpair_e

Re: [tor-dev] (Draft) Proposal 224: Next-Generation Hidden Services in Tor

2015-04-26 Thread Jeff Burdges
Interesting idea! I was toying with another unrelated idea which seems worth asking about now : Can we shorten the circuits used for hidden services any? At present, both the introduction point (IP) connection and the rendezvous point (RP) connection have seven (interior) hops, right? I

Re: [tor-dev] (Draft) Proposal 224: Next-Generation Hidden Services in Tor

2015-04-26 Thread John Brooks
It occurred to me that with proposal 224, there’s no longer a clear reason to use both HSDirs and introduction points. I think we could select the IP in the same way that we plan to select HSDirs, and bypass needing descriptors entirely. Imagine that we select a set of IPs for a service using the