Re: [tor-dev] So Windows is Adding a Package Manager.....

2020-05-24 Thread Damian Johnson
Welcome Microsoft, to the cutting edge of the 90s! ;P Kidding aside this could be a great improvement. I'm rooting for them. This is constrained to Windows installers (exe or msi) but hopefully they expand this in the future. Distributing interpreted applications (python, ruby, etc) have always be

[tor-dev] So Windows is Adding a Package Manager.....

2020-05-24 Thread Keifer Bly
 Hi all, So based on this article here, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/ Windows is getting a package manager in the near future,  including winget, a Linux like tool that can install and manage packages. With this in might  it be possible to add tor as a manageable package

Re: [tor-dev] Support for full DNS resolution and DNSSEC validation

2020-05-24 Thread nusenu
Christian Hofer: > On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 01:37 +0200, nusenu wrote: >> Alexander Færøy: >>> I wonder if it would make more sense to have an onion-aware >>> DNSSEC-enabled resolver *outside* of the Tor binary and have a way >>> for >>> Tor to query an external tool for DNS lookups. >> >> I'm also i

Re: [tor-dev] Support for full DNS resolution and DNSSEC validation

2020-05-24 Thread Christian Hofer
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 01:37 +0200, nusenu wrote: > Alexander Færøy: > > I wonder if it would make more sense to have an onion-aware > > DNSSEC-enabled resolver *outside* of the Tor binary and have a way > > for > > Tor to query an external tool for DNS lookups. > > I'm also in favor of this appro

Re: [tor-dev] Support for full DNS resolution and DNSSEC validation

2020-05-24 Thread Christian Hofer
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 01:37 +0200, nusenu wrote: > > I can not really say anything about how this design compares to > > other > > approaches, since I don't know how I can setup meaningful test > > scenarios to compare them. > > Do we really need test setups to discuss protocol designs > and com

Re: [tor-dev] Support for full DNS resolution and DNSSEC validation

2020-05-24 Thread Christian Hofer
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 01:37 +0200, nusenu wrote: > > Before we go further, can you walk me through the reasons (if you > > had thought > > of it of course) why you didn't use something like libunbound? > > > > There are side effects of adding DNSSEC client support (with our > > own > > implementat