Re: [tor-dev] Special-use-TLD support

2015-09-29 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 09/29/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff Burdges wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:26 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Jeff Burdges wrote: >>> I proposed that Tor implement NameService rules using UNIX domain >>> sockets, or ports, since that's how GNUNet works, but m

[tor-dev] draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-exit-00.xml

2015-06-22 Thread Christian Grothoff
Dear all, Following https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names/ and the separation of .onion in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-01 to satisfy the IETF's desire to have lots of documents, I've now split off ".exit" as well to create d

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-23 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 05/23/2015 06:26 PM, OnioNS Dev wrote: > My design also assumes > that there is no dynamic compromise of Tor routers (there's no > incentive for an attacker to target Tor routers because of OnioNS) I can live with explicitly stated design assumptions, but the claim that there is "no incentive f

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-20 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 05/19/2015 07:11 PM, OnioNS Dev wrote: > On 05/19/2015 03:20 AM, tor-dev-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: > >> I'm not sure how your proposal significantly improves on NameCoin, >> except that it is specialized to Tor (and thus doesn't attempt to >> be as compatible with DNS as Namecoin): fo

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-19 Thread Christian Grothoff
Please write an IETF draft asking for ".tor" to be reserved for Tor under RFC 6761 referencing your documentation. Should take no time if you base it on Jake's ".onion" draft. Send it to dnsop, they really love to discuss this topic and alternative DNS protocol ideas right now. ^_^. Also, GNS is

[tor-dev] Collecting data to demonstrate TCP ISN-based port knocking

2014-05-14 Thread Christian Grothoff
Hi all, some of you might remember a project called "Knock", which implements a variant of port-knocking in the Linux kernel that can be used to check the authenticity of arbitrary TCP connections and even can do integrity checking of the TCP payload by using a pre-shared key. Knock started as a s

[tor-dev] Speeding Up Tor with SPDY

2013-11-18 Thread Christian Grothoff
Dear all, Andrey Uzunov's Master's thesis on "Speeding Up Tor with SPDY" is now available at https://gnunet.org/content/speeding-tor-spdy My personal conclusions are that SPDY PUSH should not be used with Tor, and that modest performance gains with SPDY are attainable for typical websites. Aside

[tor-dev] Registering special-use domain names of peer-to-peer name systems with IETF

2013-11-06 Thread Christian Grothoff
Dear all, Together with Matthias Wachs and Hellekin Wolf, I'm preparing an IESG approval request for the reservation of special-use domain names for P2P networks according to RFC 6761. The goal is to reserve .onion, .exit, .i2p, .gnu and .zkey (so that they don't become ordinary commercial TLDs at

[tor-dev] [patch] fix cparser/firm compiler warnings

2012-10-14 Thread Christian Grothoff
Hi! We're trying to compile Tor with cparser and got some warnings and an error. src/or/dirserv.c:803:1: error: declaration 'was_router_added_t dirserv_add_extrainfo(extrainfo_t*, const char**)' is incompatible with 'int dirserv_add_extrainfo(extrainfo_t*, const char**)' (declared at line 96:12)

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and DNS

2012-01-30 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 01/30/2012 07:59 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:13:19PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: But I think the right design is probably something like allowing clients to request more DNS info via exit nodes' nameservers, and get more info back. We should think of ways to do thi