Re: [tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-20 Thread teor
Hi Nick, > On 21 Mar 2020, at 05:38, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > Walking Onions: week 3 update > > As you might recall, the SNIPs need to be nice and small, but they > need to be completely self-contained. The ENDIVE, on the other > hand, needs to be diff-friendly, and compressible. Relays nee

[tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
Walking Onions: week 3 update On our current grant from the zcash foundation, I'm working on a full specification for the Walking Onions design. I'm going to try to send out these updates once a week. My previous updates are linked below: Week 1: formats, preliminaries, git repositories, b

Re: [tor-dev] Walking Onions status update: week 2 notes

2020-03-20 Thread teor
Hi Nick, > On 20 Mar 2020, at 23:01, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:21 AM teor wrote: >> >>> On 14 Mar 2020, at 14:44, teor wrote: >>> * As I work, I'm identifying other issues in tor that stand in the way of a good efficient walking onion implementation tha

Re: [tor-dev] [Tails-dev] Tails vs the capacity of the Meek bridges

2020-03-20 Thread sajolida
anonym: > In Tails' threat model it is assumed that adversaries monitor the default > bridges provided by the Tor Browser, and that our users want to avoid > detection of that, so we are not interested in adding the default bridges to > Tails We're not offering the default bridges in Tails also

Re: [tor-dev] Walking Onions status update: week 2 notes

2020-03-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:21 AM teor wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > On 14 Mar 2020, at 14:44, teor wrote: > > > >> * As I work, I'm identifying other issues in tor that stand in > >>the way of a good efficient walking onion implementation that > >>will require other follow-up work. This wee

Re: [tor-dev] Walking Onions status update: week 2 notes

2020-03-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:44 AM teor wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > I'm interested in following along with Walking Onions, but I might > drop out when the relay IPv6 work gets busy. > > I'm not sure how you'd like feedback, so I'm going to try to put it > in emails, or in pull requests. > > (I made one

[tor-dev] Tails vs the capacity of the Meek bridges

2020-03-20 Thread anonym
Hi, tl;dr: if Tails makes it too easy to use Meek bridges, could it overload the current set of Meek bridges? First some background: during startup Tails can be told to start Tor Launcher so users can e.g. configure any bridges they want. So far we have not provided any pre-configured bridges,