[tor-dev] New sbws milestones on trac

2018-11-27 Thread teor
Hi all, I just made some changes to the simple bandwidth scanner (sbws) milestones on trac. sbws 1.0.0 was released a while ago, the latest release is sbws 1.0.2. We had two sbws 1.0 milestones: sbws 1.0 (MVP must) and sbws 1.0 (MVP nice). Putting priorities in milestone names is confusing, and

Re: [tor-dev] Dealing with frequent suspends on Android

2018-11-27 Thread Torsten Grote
On 11/27/18 3:01 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > I bet we could squeeze it in before the feature freeze for 0.4.0.x. On Android you still can (who knows for how long) mark your app as running in the foreground. This prevents it from getting killed and is what Briar is doing. It would therefore benefit

Re: [tor-dev] Whitepaper draft: Towards Side Channel Analysis of Datagram Tor vs Current Tor (traffic fingerprinting)

2018-11-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:13 PM David Fifield wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:23:21AM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > ### Traffic Fingerprinting of TCP-like systems [...] > > This class of attacks is solvable, especially if the exact same > > TCP-like implementation is used by all clients

Re: [tor-dev] Whitepaper draft: Towards Side Channel Analysis of Datagram Tor vs Current Tor (traffic fingerprinting)

2018-11-27 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:23:21AM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: > ### Traffic Fingerprinting of TCP-like systems > > Today, because Tor terminates TCP at the guard node, there is > limited ability for the exit node to fingerprint client TCP > behavior (aside from perhaps measuring some effects on

Re: [tor-dev] Dealing with frequent suspends on Android

2018-11-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:04 AM Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: [...] > I think dormant mode sounds like it goes a long way towards making Tor > operate the way that Android and iOS apps are expected to. The last > missing piece towards making tor daemon behave like native service on > those platf

[tor-dev] Whitepaper draft: Towards Side Channel Analysis of Datagram Tor vs Current Tor

2018-11-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
# Towards Side Channel Analysis of Datagram Tor vs Current Tor Version 0.6, 27 Nov 2018 by Nick Mathewson and Mike Perry ## Disclaimers This whitepaper assumes that you know how Tor works. There are probably some very good references here that we didn't re

Re: [tor-dev] Dealing with frequent suspends on Android

2018-11-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nick Mathewson: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:38 PM Michael Rogers > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> It's great to see that some children of #25500 have already been >> released in the 0.3.4 series. Can I ask about the longer-term plan for >> this work, and whether #23289 (or something similar) is part