[tor-dev] Safe post-quantum RSA? So says DJB and others

2017-06-01 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Interesting (and surprising): https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/351.pdf /Hugo ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 274: A Name System API for Tor Onion Services

2016-10-08 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, I think that this work is extremely important, and I applaud the authors and contributors for their work. It seems that it will also be complicated, semantically. What lies where, and which thing does what? The example recently about what is sent in the Host header is a good example of this

[tor-dev] WTF is going on? An evolutionary biology approach to the human condition

2016-03-24 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Dr. E. O. Wilson. 40 mins + 20 mins questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLoluq-HCo How and why. /Hugo PS: Sorry, this may be completely outside of the normal channel of this space. I hope that some members are shocked by this presentation. I believe in tech, but more importantly I b

Re: [tor-dev] tor-dev Digest, Vol 62, Issue 38

2016-03-23 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, Hats off to Yawning Angel for doing work to address this "CAPTCHA" challenge. The idea of using archive.somewhere to fetch cached versions of walled garden internet zones seems sensible. More points to YA with the ALL CAPS warning about "big nasty adversary in you threat model dont go here"

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transports v1 spec rewrite.

2015-10-29 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, A commendable effort. It is both deserved and pleasant that Tor hold the "gold standard" for a low latency, privacy enhancing, distributed, collaborative network. A perhaps more crowning achievement could be the fostering of a diverse ecosystem of related technologies. This effort continue

Re: [tor-dev] Trac priorities and severities

2015-10-08 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, Yes, renaming to a more meaningful thing is great. Also, if only some group can grade entries, then it is wise to have an 'uncategorised' category which appears in a grading list towards, but not at the bottom. Field experience in these systems tells me that people get annoyed at being auto

[tor-dev] Expanding services: Single-onion and OnioNS

2015-10-01 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, Having reviewed the last couple of months of tor-dev mails, i can see that there are many proposals afoot to expand the uptake of tor hosted services. These range from a new service type, single-onion [0], to load balancing of tor hosted services [1], to hosting new name/value pairs (x-namesp