Re: [tor-dev] Latest state of the guard algorithm proposal (prop259) (April 2016)

2016-04-21 Thread Fan Jiang
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:32 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Fan Jiang writes: > > > [ text/plain ] > > Hi, > > > >> Hello Fan and team, > >> > >> I think I'm not a big fan of the pending_guard and pending_dir_guard > >> concept. To me it seems like a quick hack that tries to address > fundamenta

Re: [tor-dev] Questions about "Tor Messenger CONIKS integration"

2016-04-21 Thread Anonymous
I see, thanks a lot! On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Marcela S. Melara wrote: > Hi, > > You're right, the way CONIKS is designed right now, the private indices > are computed over the plaintext username, so it would be possible for a > malicious server to collect newly registered usernames. But

Re: [tor-dev] Quantum-safe Hybrid handshake for Tor

2016-04-21 Thread lukep
Thanks Yawning. > Most of the changes since the paper has been released have been minor. > The last major algorithmic change I'm aware of was 20151209 which > altered the reconciliation mechanism (I don't particularly count the > March changes that changed the on-the-wire encoding format to be >

Re: [tor-dev] Revisiting prop224 time periods and HS descriptor upload/downloads

2016-04-21 Thread Michael Rogers
On 11/04/16 12:42, George Kadianakis wrote: > FWIW, I'm personally not sure how to choose the best "maximum acceptable > clock skew" > value here. My intuition tells me to choose a big number so that even very > skewed clients can visit hidden services. Sorry for the late reply. I just wanted to

Re: [tor-dev] Revisiting prop224 time periods and HS descriptor upload/downloads

2016-04-21 Thread George Kadianakis
David Goulet writes: > [ text/plain ] > On 13 Apr (15:34:54), George Kadianakis wrote: >> David Goulet writes: >> >> > [ text/plain ] >> > On 12 Apr (16:01:32), George Kadianakis wrote: >> >> David Goulet writes: >> >> >> >> > [ text/plain ] >> >> > On 11 Apr (14:42:02), George Kadianakis wro

Re: [tor-dev] prop224: HSDir caches question with OOM

2016-04-21 Thread George Kadianakis
Tim Wilson-Brown - teor writes: > [ text/plain ] > >> On 20 Apr 2016, at 07:22, David Goulet wrote: >> >> On 18 Apr (13:18:25), George Kadianakis wrote: >>> Tim Wilson-Brown - teor writes: >>> [ text/plain ] > On 16 Apr 2016, at 05:47, David Goulet wrote: > > Hi!

Re: [tor-dev] Latest state of the guard algorithm proposal (prop259) (April 2016)

2016-04-21 Thread George Kadianakis
Fan Jiang writes: > [ text/plain ] > Hi, > >> Hello Fan and team, >> >> I think I'm not a big fan of the pending_guard and pending_dir_guard >> concept. To me it seems like a quick hack that tries to address fundamental >> issues with our algorithm that appeared when we tried to adapt the >> prop