Re: [tor-dev] Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare

2018-01-10 Thread nullius
On 2018-01-10 at 23:25:05 +, teor wrote: Sending every remote site address from the Tor process to an extension increases the surface area for attacks. [...] This gives the extension access to the content of every encrypted page. [...] Please develop a least-authority design. Don't beco

Re: [tor-dev] Tor dev help

2018-01-10 Thread teor
> On 11 Jan 2018, at 11:30, Beastr0 wrote: > > (yeah, ik you guys got this running on some automated script or something but > I don't have access and that sounds unnecessarily complicated so I'm just > gonna do this quick header for context) We have fallback directory mirrors to make it eas

Re: [tor-dev] Tor dev help

2018-01-10 Thread Beastr0
On 10 Jan 2018, Teor wrote:(yeah, ik you guys got this running on some automated script or something but I don't have access and that sounds unnecessarily complicated so I'm just gonna do this quick header for context) >Sounds great! >>Are there any particular parts of Tor you want

Re: [tor-dev] Why do DirAuths take that long to update a relay's version information?

2018-01-10 Thread nusenu
teor: > I've looked at the Tor source code that handles versions. Version > parsing and voting seem to happen unconditionally. > > I also checked router_differences_are_cosmetic(), and it seems to > handle platform string changes correctly. I'll need to read a spec to know what "correctly" exac

Re: [tor-dev] Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare

2018-01-10 Thread teor
Hi, On 11 Jan 2018, at 05:38, nullius wrote: >> Here's what I suggest you do: >> >> Blocking an entire CDN would be a major change to either Tor or Tor >> Browser's design. It's not likely to happen, because of the security vs >> usability tradeoff. Significantly reducing the usability of Tor

Re: [tor-dev] Why do DirAuths take that long to update a relay's version information?

2018-01-10 Thread teor
> On 11 Jan 2018, at 00:43, nusenu wrote: > > Hi, > > the goal of this email is to avoid a false positive warning for relay > operators > on atlas but the root cause might be in core tor. > > background: > I really liked when irl added the big red warning to atlas when a tor relay > runs an o

[tor-dev] prop279 global wildcard '*' exploits

2018-01-10 Thread nullius
At https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24774#comment:5 , nickm stated: I'm not sure that the sandboxing section is necessary. We should say that _all_ plugins should only access the network over Tor, unless they are using some comparably strong anonymity mechanism. [...] In reply

Re: [tor-dev] Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare

2018-01-10 Thread nullius
I am the reporter of #24351. As thereto, thanks for your thoughts, teor; I will respond accordingly: 2018-01-10 at 00:57:53 +, teor wrote: On 10 Jan 2018, at 10:23, debug wrote: Is there any specific reason why there is no comment from Tor-team for this issue? https://trac.torproject

[tor-dev] Why do DirAuths take that long to update a relay's version information?

2018-01-10 Thread nusenu
Hi, the goal of this email is to avoid a false positive warning for relay operators on atlas but the root cause might be in core tor. background: I really liked when irl added the big red warning to atlas when a tor relay runs an outdated (aka not running a "recommended") tor version because it a

Re: [tor-dev] Tor dev help

2018-01-10 Thread teor
> On 10 Jan 2018, at 22:22, Beastr0 wrote: > > T, > > I'm interested in helping you guys with Tor development. I don't really care > what I work on, except I do not support .onion websites (though I am willing > to be convinced otherwise) so I would prefer not to participate directly in > t

[tor-dev] New Authority File (was: Re: New Fallback Directory File Format)

2018-01-10 Thread teor
Hi, We've merged a new list of fallbacks in the version 2.0.0 format. But we also want to keep a separate list of authorities, rather than hiding them in the middle of config.c: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24818 So we are changing the current authority and fallback list form

Re: [tor-dev] Tor dev help

2018-01-10 Thread Beastr0
T, I'm interested in helping you guys with Tor development. I don't really care what I work on, except I do not support .onion websites (though I am willing to be convinced otherwise) so I would prefer not to participate directly in their development. I have plenty of experience with writing co

[tor-dev] Public Key Chaos

2018-01-10 Thread thomas . hluchnik
Hello all, I am just going to update my tor server, building packages from source. I do that not only for tor but also for libevent. So I downloaded the tarballs plus signature from libevent.org and that's what I found: $ gpg --verify libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz.asc gpg: Signature made Mon Ja