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2018-09-24 Thread john loughlin
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[tor-dev] PDF versions of Marionette Documents

2018-09-04 Thread John Helmsen
These are the PDF versions of the Marionette Documents for easier reading. The markdown versions of them can be found on the github distribution at https://github.com/redjack/marionette/doc -- John Helmsen john.helm...@redjack.com C: (301) 273-4372

[tor-dev] Fwd: Manuals

2018-09-04 Thread John Helmsen
FYI The Marionette documentation. Marionette Manuals for review -- Forwarded message -- From: John Helmsen Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:34 AM Subject: Manuals To: "Ianculovici, Ciprian" -- John Helmsen john.helm...@redjack.com C: (301) 273-4372 -- Jo

[tor-dev] Multiple Formats in Marionette

2018-07-27 Thread John Helmsen
te it into your code that calls it. Just let us know that you have integrated it, so we can add you to our list of people that we have integrated with. -- John Helmsen john.helm...@redjack.com C: (240) 899-5676 ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.

Re: [tor-dev] Ready to Integrate/Review New Marionette Version into Tor

2018-07-26 Thread John Helmsen
eleases of STIX are available only through GitHub and any new issues should be reported on the new site. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:09 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:57:36PM -0400, John Helmsen wrote: > > Okay, I have generated a VM using VirtualBox of Ubuntu vers

Re: [tor-dev] Ready to Integrate/Review New Marionette Version into Tor

2018-07-24 Thread John Helmsen
out -b tbb-8.0a9-build3'?) Otherwise, it complains about being headless. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:46 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:42:08AM -0400, John Helmsen wrote: > > Thank you, I have created the ticket as #26920. https://trac. > torproject.org/ > >

Re: [tor-dev] Ready to Integrate/Review New Marionette Version into Tor

2018-07-24 Thread John Helmsen
ing to create a virtual machine using Ubuntu 16.04 for development. Unless I am mistaken, this work cannot be done on a Mac. Please do the same, so that we can put this thing to bed. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:05 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 04:12:21PM -0400, John Helmsen wr

[tor-dev] Ready to Integrate/Review New Marionette Version into Tor

2018-07-20 Thread John Helmsen
gning your own protocols. This is in process. Please let us know what you need. John Helmsen ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] tor-dev Digest, Vol 79, Issue 4

2017-08-12 Thread John kongtcheu
Hello Tor developers, I am interested in becoming an open source contributor for Tor, but I don't know where to start some guidance would be appreciated. Thank you, On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > Send tor-dev mailing list submissions to > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > > To

Re: [tor-dev] [prop269] Further changes to the hybrid handshake proposal (and NTor)

2016-10-18 Thread John M. Schanck
ciliate your statement that the server can choose its public material in > a way to bias the entropy extractor. Or is this simply the same problem viewed > from a different angle? RFC5869 Section 3.3 is about skipping the call to HKDF-Extract... we don't do that. See [2] section

Re: [tor-dev] [prop269] Further changes to the hybrid handshake proposal (and NTor)

2016-10-17 Thread John M. Schanck
All of these values are authentic from the client's perspective. Since we're not including the server shares in the salt, we also had to switch from sending 'auth' to sending HMAC(auth, transcript) in the server response. Cheers, John ___

[tor-dev] Reviewing prop224 fixes

2016-03-31 Thread John Brooks
(Thread forked from [tor-dev] Notes from the prop224 proposal reading group) > On Mar 17, 2016, at 7:29 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > > Also, please see my torspec branch `prop224-fixes` for some torspec changes > on prop224. > My branch is sitting on top of the prop224 branch of special/dgoul

Re: [tor-dev] Notes from the prop224 proposal reading group

2016-03-30 Thread John Brooks
> On Mar 28, 2016, at 9:44 PM, David Goulet wrote: > > On 24 Mar (16:55:57), George Kadianakis wrote: >> >> >> First of all, the UPDATE-KEYS-SUBCMD mechanism does not actually prevent >> replay >> attacks at all. It's a performance feature. It's there so that if the HS >> rotates its replay c

Re: [tor-dev] Revisiting Proposal 246: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2016-01-16 Thread John Brooks
> On Jan 16, 2016, at 4:52 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > > Yes, I think I agree with this evaluation for now. Seems prop246 is more > complicated than we can handle, and we should probably postpone it, except if > someone can analyze it well soon. I agree. There are too many open questions wit

Re: [tor-dev] Questions about censorship detection paper

2016-01-12 Thread John
Hi David, Thank you, these pointers were very helpful. Do you know if there is some kind of resource that lists known censorship events? I'd like to see how good the approach from the paper does at identifying them. --john David Fifield: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 07:21:39AM +0000, Jo

[tor-dev] Questions about censorship detection paper

2016-01-11 Thread John
the time series of the number of requests to directory servers from certain jurisdictions. Where can I find this data about the requests to directory servers? --john [1] https://research.torproject.org/techreports/detector-2011-09-09.pdf ___ tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Single onion services

2015-09-05 Thread John Brooks
tordev...@safe-mail.net wrote: >> The final circuit looks like: >> >> Client -> Guard -> Middle -> Middle -> Single Onion >> >> The client’s traffic is encrypted through to the single onion server as >> well. > > IMO, the second Middle relay can be considered serving as an exit with > regards t

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Single onion services

2015-09-05 Thread John Brooks
Yawning Angel wrote: > I have two objections to this, one political, one technical: > > * (The political objection) While this is "cool" and probably(?) > "funded", it seems like a poor thing to work on in terms of > developmental priority when there are other things Hidden Service > relat

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Single onion services

2015-09-04 Thread John Brooks
tordev...@safe-mail.net wrote: > Doesn't your proposal imply that you are turning all relays into > exit-nodes lite? The last relay in the path will know what service you are > connecting to (at least if that service is hosted with a unique relay), > right? A single onion service operates its own

[tor-dev] Proposal: Single onion services

2015-09-03 Thread John Brooks
- Filename: xxx-single-onion.txt Title: Single Onion Services Author: John Brooks, Paul Syverson, Roger Dingledine Created: 2015-07-13 Status: Draft 1. Overview Single onion services are a modified form of onion services, which trade service-side location privacy for improved performance

Re: [tor-dev] tor's definition of 'median'

2015-08-11 Thread John
I think you are confusing the median with the mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean Taking the median instead of the mean can be beneficial in situations where you have larger outliers in your data, which typically affect the mean very much. -j Virgil Gri

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2015-07-20 Thread John Brooks
l-funded relays. Concentrating even more traffic and information onto the highest-bandwidth relays isn’t an improvement. - John > > > Aaron > > ___ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cg

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2015-07-20 Thread John Brooks
Nicholas Hopper wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:48 PM, John Brooks > wrote: >> Comments are encouraged, especially if there are downsides or side >> effects >> that we haven’t written about yet, or that you have a different opinion >> on. >> The intent is

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2015-07-13 Thread John Brooks
teor wrote: > >> On 13 Jul 2015, at 07:48 , John Brooks >> wrote: > >> 4.2. Restriction on the number of intro points and impact on load >> balancing >> >> One drawback of this proposal is that the number of introduction points >> o

[tor-dev] Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2015-07-12 Thread John Brooks
/torspec/224-no-hsdir/proposals/ideas/xxx-merge-hsdir-and-intro.txt Thanks! - John Filename: xxx-merge-hsdir-and-intro.txt Title: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points Author: John Brooks, George Kadianakis Created: 2015-07-12 1. Overview and Motivation This document

Re: [tor-dev] (Draft) Proposal 224: Next-Generation Hidden Services in Tor

2015-05-12 Thread John Brooks
will be to modify 224 to describe this approach, and see what problems that exercise turns up. Unless something comes up, I think this is worth serious debate as a replacement to the proposal. - John ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.o

Re: [tor-dev] (Draft) Proposal 224: Next-Generation Hidden Services in Tor

2015-04-26 Thread John Brooks
tries to do. Another difference is that we’ll select IPs uniformly, instead of by bandwidth weight - I think this doesn’t create new problems, because being a HSDir is just as intensive. Could that work? Is it worth pursuing? - John ___ tor-dev mailing

[tor-dev] Using consensus package versions for third party software

2015-04-14 Thread John Brooks
convince DAs to lend their time. Thanks, - John [1] https://ricochet.im/ [2] It’s part of the design that I can’t accurately count users. My best guess is “low hundreds, and growing”. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

[tor-dev] Two TOR questions

2015-03-12 Thread John Lee
For devs,   1) Where can I get a previous version of Tor Bundle for Windows? I'm looking for the version when it jumped from Firefox 24 ESR (or something below Firefox 28.0) to the new Firefox GUI that occurred when going above version 28.0   2) How involved would it be to use a current version

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-10-20 Thread John Brooks
ke and there > is no problem in having lots of them. People are wondering how well > these applications scale and whether they are using the Tor network > the right way. See John Brooks' mail for a small analysis: > https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000434.htm

Re: [tor-dev] Patches to improve mobile hidden service performance

2014-10-07 Thread John Brooks
ctl > > I've only done small-scale testing of these patches so far. If they > seems like they might be useful I'll create a trac ticket to merge them. > > Cheers, > Michael > > ___ > tor-dev mailing list >

Re: [tor-dev] Coordination of censorship analysis tool

2014-03-04 Thread John Mood
Hi Piotr, This page should help: https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer#project-tor On 04/03/14 15:17, sarni...@student.agh.edu.pl wrote: Hi everyone, could you provide some information about your progress on the project? I am interested in developing the tool, but I don't want to

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

2014-02-20 Thread John Bond
Hello Nick, Thanks for your response. This is very helpful and somewhat in line with my expectations. I will forward this thread to the IETF list, please let me know if there is more to add. Thanks John -Original Message- From: Nick Mathewson Reply-To: Date: Sunday 16 February 2014

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

2014-02-13 Thread John Bond
there any privacy concerns considering the organisation could now answer the DNS queries mentioned above. I.e. If a user requested notatrap.onion without tor configured instead of getting no response the could be redirected to a site controlled by the new owner of the .onion domain. Thanks John [1

Re: [tor-dev] Torsocks development status

2013-07-03 Thread John Luttig
Hey dgoulet, Thankfully, your torsocks update seems to work well on OSX! I apologize for not getting back to you sooner; there were some family issues that kept me busy. Have you made any progress on torsocks since we talked? I am understanding the pure C code fairly well at this point. What's

Re: [tor-dev] tbb-build for Windows [initial test feedback: Windows 7 x64]

2012-05-06 Thread John Crain
ndows XP, someone smarter than me can provide a solution for the above Firefox 12 build issue. Thanks! [0] https://git.torproject.org/torbrowser.git [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/shondoit/torbrowser.git/tree/personal-build -- John Crain johncr...@eml.cc On Sun, May 6, 201

Re: [tor-dev] tbb-build for Windows

2012-05-06 Thread John Crain
t benefits of something like [0,1]? [0] #3978: "Better TBB about:config settings(?); re: browsing and loading speed, etc." https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3978 [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/3978/tbb-ff-pgo.patch -- John Crain john