Re: [tor-dev] Changing Rendezvous Single Onion Service at Runtime

2015-11-09 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:16 AM, teor wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any reason an onion service would want to temporarily switch from > 1-hop to 3-hop paths? > Is it ok if we force operators to restart the tor instance when onion > service path lengths change? Just said on IRC, but saying here to

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 247 (Hidden Service Vanguards) Overhaul

2015-11-09 Thread Mike Perry
Aaron Johnson: > Hi Mike, > > Here are some specific comments on the proposal, most of which I > didn’t mention at the session yesterday. > > Sec. 2: “When a hidden service picks its guard nodes, it also picks > two additional sets of middle nodes `second_guard_set` and > `third_guard_set` of siz

Re: [tor-dev] Special handling of .onion domains in Chrome/Firefox (post-IETF-standarization)

2015-11-09 Thread Alec Muffett
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 20:39, Paul Syverson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:05:26PM +0200, George Kadianakis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion >> names >> as special-use domain names [0]. >> >> This means that normal browsers

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Adding x-namespace to relay descriptor for key:value pairs

2015-11-09 Thread Virgil Griffith
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:01 PM, isis wrote: >If you need some application to have the ability to associate your LinkedIn >address with your relay, then write a program which uses (one of) your For what it's worth, the LinkedIn reference was my attempt at humor to add levity to otherwise

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Adding x-namespace to relay descriptor for key:value pairs

2015-11-09 Thread Virgil Griffith
> A. You still appear to be confusing the terms "torrc" and "extrainfo". I recognize this error and will fix it. > B. Do you mean for all extrainfo descriptors? I support excluding Bridge relays for exactly the reasons you mentioned. My sole is to clean up the bitcoin addresses in the ContactIn

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Adding x-namespace to relay descriptor for key:value pairs

2015-11-09 Thread isis
Virgil Griffith transcribed 10K bytes: > Yes I did. Here's the modified proposal. > > Filename: ExtraRelayDescriptorFields.txt > Title: Adding X-namespace to extra-info descriptor for key:value pairs > Author: Virgil Griffith > Created: 2015-09-30 > Status: Open > > > 1. Motivation > We wish to