[tor-dev] Orfox: Tor Browser for Android - GSoC 2016

2016-04-25 Thread Amogh Pradeep
Hey guys, I’m amoghbl1, a 3rd year undergraduate student at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. I have been selected to work on Orfox this summer as part of Google Summer of Code. Here is my proposal if anyone wants to take a look at it: http://people.torproject.org/~a

Re: [tor-dev] Stress testing guard nodes

2016-04-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 26 Apr 2016, at 02:10, Abhishek Singh > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to identify bottlenecks at an entry guard when it is used > to create a large number of circuits. To identify this I started a set > of clients which use a single entry-guard to create 5K-10K circuits in > total. With

Re: [tor-dev] [GSOC 16] Ahmia : Hidden service search engine

2016-04-25 Thread George Kadianakis
Ismael R writes: > [ text/plain ] > Hi everyone ! > > My name is Ismael and I'm a french student in information security. > I will be working on the Ahmia search engine for this year's Google > Summer of > Code. > > Before going back to school, I was working as a "full-stack" developer > for a

[tor-dev] [GSoC16] Expand Nyx

2016-04-25 Thread Sambuddha Basu
Hi everyone! I'm Sambuddha, a junior year undergraduate from IIIT-Hyderabad, India. This summer, I will be working on expanding Nyx(previously known as Arm) as a part of GSoC 2016. Nyx had its last release(1.4.5) back in 2012 and is presently under development for its next release. Some of the th

[tor-dev] Tor Browser Bundle on musl libc systems

2016-04-25 Thread Daniel Simon
Hi, the Tor Browser Bundle binaries available at https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/5.5.4/ do not run on musl-libc-based systems, like Void Linux, Alpine Linux, and other Linux distributions. I believe that's the case because the Tor Browser Bundle binaries are compiled dynamically to glibc, m

[tor-dev] Stress testing guard nodes

2016-04-25 Thread Abhishek Singh
Hi, I am trying to identify bottlenecks at an entry guard when it is used to create a large number of circuits. To identify this I started a set of clients which use a single entry-guard to create 5K-10K circuits in total. With this scale clients observe timeouts (waiting for CREATED cell) while c

Re: [tor-dev] meek-server performance improvements?

2016-04-25 Thread David Fifield
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 06:30:03AM +, Yawning Angel wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:02:23 -0700 > David Fifield wrote: > > > I saw you say on IRC that you had an idea for improving the efficiency > > of meek-server. What's your idea? The server hosting meek-azure is > > passing 90% CPU at tim

[tor-dev] Onioncat and Prop224 (was Re: [tor-onions] Hidden datagram service)

2016-04-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Apr 2016, at 17:03, grarpamp wrote: > ... > > https://www.onioncat.org/ > https://www.cypherpunk.at/onioncat_trac/ > > FYI: The onioncat folks are interested in collaborating > with tor folks regarding prop224. > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224-rend-spec-

[tor-dev] Proposal: Tor with collective signatures

2016-04-25 Thread Nicolas Gailly
Hi all, Since the first post, I've received some comments off-list and consequently added more sections to the proposal. Particularly, it adds a detailed description of the messages that needs to be passed down between the witnesses, paragraphs to answer some questions, and a link to the official