[tor-dev] Onion (Hidden) Service Proposal Discussion

2016-02-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Hi, We just had a meeting to discuss the following tor proposals[0] in the #tor-dev IRC channel[1]. Proposal 252: Single Onion Services Proposal 260: Rendezvous Single Onion Services Proposal 255: Controller features to allow for load-balancing hidden services Proposal 246: Merging Hidden Servic

Re: [tor-dev] Entry guards, primary guards, dir guards

2016-02-08 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hey, > > Thanks- this is very helpful. > > When it comes to vanguards, I've already read through the > proposal. I'm not exactly sure I understand how much different 259 > would need to be to support the 247 needs. It seems we should be able > to just run the algorithm NUM_SECO

Re: [tor-dev] Roadmap - Hidden service next generation (prop224)

2016-02-08 Thread David Goulet
On 09 Feb (08:43:09), Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > > On 9 Feb 2016, at 01:01, David Goulet wrote: > > > > ... > > Our hope is to update that pad regurlarly as implementation moves forward > > and > > update tor-dev@ as well with relevant information for the community. You to > > can help

Re: [tor-dev] Roadmap - Hidden service next generation (prop224)

2016-02-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 9 Feb 2016, at 01:01, David Goulet wrote: > > ... > Our hope is to update that pad regurlarly as implementation moves forward and > update tor-dev@ as well with relevant information for the community. You to > can help with this huge effort, please come find us on #tor-dev! Code review, > c

Re: [tor-dev] Entry guards, primary guards, dir guards

2016-02-08 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hi again, > > Two questions - first, hopefully I simple one. What are directory > guards, exactly? > > Second, we found a weird behavior in the current code > base. Specifically, when Tor first downloads the microdescriptors, it > chooses 3 guards for this with the V2Dir flag.

Re: [tor-dev] Propsal 263 Quantum-safe Hybrid handshake for Tor, updated feature request v1.2

2016-02-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 9 Feb 2016, at 02:56, Zhenfei Zhang wrote: > > Also in the discussion we were talking about the possibility of using > non-product form > polynomial version of NTRUEncrypt, as this version will become patent free by > Aug 2017, > while the patent for product form will last for another 4 y

Re: [tor-dev] Detailed algorithm

2016-02-08 Thread George Kadianakis
> Hey, > > So - thinking through your comments and thoughts, I realized that the > better way to proceed was to describe the algorithm, and then put it > into a proposal format. The following is updated with most of your > comments and should be a bit clearer. I decided to remove #241 again, > sin

[tor-dev] Propsal 263 Quantum-safe Hybrid handshake for Tor, updated feature request v1.2

2016-02-08 Thread Zhenfei Zhang
Hello list, We had a very constructive discussion on this proposal last Thursday. I have updated the feature request based on the feedback from the discussion. We also like to thank Roger for grammar fixes on the proposal. The diff file is available at: https://github.com/zhenfeizhang/ntru-tor/co

[tor-dev] Roadmap - Hidden service next generation (prop224)

2016-02-08 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! For a while now, we've had an idea on how to proceed for the engineering part of proposal 224 (next generation hidden service). So, we've put up this pad with *5* large milestones that will in theory happen one after the other. Step 1 is shared randomness for which the code and propo