[tor-dev] Various Tor keys, their formats, and usages [was: Bridge Bandwidth Scanner Internship]

2017-08-07 Thread isis agora lovecruft
Hello! The following was my attempt last week to summarise all of our various keys in server descriptors, how they are formatted, and what they are used for, in the hopes that this is useful in alleviating possible future confusions for others. Let me know (and, more importantly! let Jake know si

[tor-dev] X25519 ←→ Ed25519 key conversions and specs [was: Bridge Bandwidth Scanner Internship]

2017-08-07 Thread isis agora lovecruft
j...@riseup.net transcribed 2.0K bytes: > Hey Isis, > > I have a few crypto questions for you. The bonus question is purely out > of interest (I searched for the answer, but didn't get a > good/understandable answer, if you are busy don't worry about it). Hey Jake! I'm CCing the conversation to

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 280: Privacy-Preseving Statistics with Privcount in Tor

2017-08-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
[reposting this message with permission. It is a reply that I sent to Aaron, where I quoted an email from him about this proposal. Tim and Aaron had additional responses, which I'll let them quote here or not as they think best.] On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Aaron Johnson wrote: [...] > - T

[tor-dev] Proposal 280: Privacy-Preseving Statistics with Privcount in Tor

2017-08-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! Tim helped me write this this draft last week, and I shared it with the PrivCount authors. I've already gotten some good comments from Aaron, which I'll repost in a followup message, with his permission. Filename: 280-privcount-in-tor.txt Title: Privacy-Pres