[tor-dev] Re: New idea

2025-07-17 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Hey again, just to be clear: I am not an official developer, but decided to give my thoughts anyway. If you require advanced security, look into the Vanguards project and it's detections for "abnormal" traffic / cells - it is mostly designed for hidden service operators, however clients can use

[tor-dev] Re: New idea

2025-07-17 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Hey, Thanks for sharing your idea. That said, there are a few big issues with your proposal: 1.) Centralization of trust: Giving a fixed group of “original volunteers” special relay status adds centralized points of trust and failure. Tor has always aimed to avoid that — no single group should

[tor-dev] New BUG() call and stack-trace seen in the wild on 0.4.8.13 exit relay.

2024-11-18 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Hi, I noticed the following when checking journalctl logs from Tor: > Nov 13 19:51:10 matrix tor[615]: Nov 13 19:51:10.000 [warn] > tor_bug_occurred_(): Bug: src/core/or/relay.c:2354: > connection_edge_package_raw_inbuf: Non-fatal assertion > !(conn->base_.marked_for_close) failed. (on Tor 0.

Re: [tor-dev] Tor over QUIC

2024-10-10 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
t, but that's not for c-tor/arti to do (and ECH needs proper DNS > support over Tor, which could be considered a child item of UDP over Tor, or > something we can already do with DNS over tcp/tls/https, or something > orthogonal where a client could query directly the DNS of an ex

Re: [tor-dev] Tor over QUIC

2024-10-08 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
- What are people's thoughts on this? To be honest, I don't really care about UDP support. Adding UDP support also would presumably add a lot of torrent load to the network, and yes I know that torrent clients can fall back to TCP and this is already an issue. Regarding TLS, it's still some

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal for a New Web App to Configure Tor Nodes

2024-08-30 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
We want people to be knowledgeable, and these "do it one time and forget about it" websites are not helping. I personally believe, that if you want to host a Tor node: 1. You MUST have read the manual, at least the entries explaining the settings in your Tor configuration file. Please take a

Re: [tor-dev] Cancel

2024-08-22 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Cancel what exactly? You can unsubscribe from the list by logging in to the account that you have created. Sincerely, George On Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 at 2:38 PM, tj wrote: > Sent from my iPhone > ___ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.tor