[tor-dev] Pluggable transport biweekly meeting - Friday Oct 11

2013-10-11 Thread vmonmoonshine
Just a gentle reminder that the PT meeting is today in few hours: Friday - Oct 11 at CEST: 18:00 BST (Summer GMT): 17:00 UTC: 16:00 EST: 12:00 MNT: 10:00 PST: 9:00 @ #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net asn is going to moderate the session. (I have a very slow connection but I'll try to join) See you all

[tor-dev] Pluggable transport biweekly meeting - Friday Sept 27

2013-09-26 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello PT devs, We'll have our next meeting (almost) today Friday - Sept 27 at CEST: 18:00 BST (Summer GMT): 17:00 UTC: 16:00 EST: 12:00 MNT: 10:00 PST: 9:00 @ #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net As last time asn is going to take us through this after identifying the participant we go one by one and updat

[tor-dev] Pluggable Transport *Biweekly* Meeting, hence no meeting today

2013-09-19 Thread vmonmoonshine
Thanks for everybody who participated last week. The summary of the meeting can be found here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/meetings/20130913BiWeeklyPT We decided that we are going to have these meetings biweekly till we see if we need more or less frequen

[tor-dev] Pluggable transport weekly meeting - Friday Sept 13

2013-09-12 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello pluggable transport devs, As there was no objection to the proposed time, we are going to have our first one today/tomorrow: Friday - Sept 13 CEST: 18:00 BST (Summer GMT): 17:00 UTC: 16:00 EST: 12:00 MNT: 10:00 PST: 9:00 @ #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net And stick to it in future. The format wil

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable transport weekly meeting

2013-09-06 Thread vmonmoonshine
> From: Yawning Angel > > Assuming not today (2013/09/16) isn't "soon", the times specified works > for me and I will make an effort to attend. > No, I didn't mean today. I just wanted to send it as soon as found out it hasn't been out. Perhapse it was better to wait few hours. But I would like to

[tor-dev] On status of Stegotorus on github vs SRI

2013-07-09 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hi Jeoren, Thanks for your comments or tor-dev IRC channel. I thought I may as well take my time and reply to them here so I can also include Zack, Vinod and others into the discussion. >I think the large chunks of commits without specific >goals/descriptions what the commit fixes will be timeco

Re: [tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Fundamental problem with ack/retransmission mechanism

2013-04-18 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hey Zack, Thanks for replying so fast. Zack Weinberg writes: >and the retransmit of packet 1 ought to be happening on a >*different* connection, if we have one. (Which steg are you using?) I'm using nosteg steg. I thought if something is going to work, better, it works with the simplest steg. n

[tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Fundamental problem with ack/retransmission mechanism

2013-04-18 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello Zack, In testing the retransmission algorithm, I encounter situations that the ack/retransmission algorithm is unable to resolve by design. It happens when the header of a packet gets deliver but the middle part gets dropped. For example in the following scenario Server sends packet 1 len 4

[tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Stegotorus stuff

2013-03-24 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello TorDev, Here, I'm reporting my recent progress on Stegotorus as well as answering some questions from past. During past month, I mainly worked in "retransmit = false" mode trying to restore reliable browsing. I have resolved quite few bugs. Some of them where due to incomplete implementatio

[tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Dropping proxy test result

2013-02-10 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hi Zack, I added --drop-rate option to the tester-proxy and committed it to f--bad-proxy-ack-tester branch. I confirm that Stegotorus fails webpage-tester test when the drop-rate >= %10. Now, I'll go and look at the problem in more depth. Generally speaking, firefox is less successful in fetching

Re: [tor-dev] All the problems about Stegotorous

2013-01-30 Thread vmonmoonshine
I summed up the discussion plus what I had in mind with in 15 tickets that I put on the track. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=needs_information&status=needs_review&status=needs_revision&status=new&status=reopened&component=Stegotorus&order=pri

Re: [tor-dev] All the problems about Stegotorous

2013-01-16 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hi Roger, Thank you very much for replying to my appeal. I hope that other people who are critical of Stegotorus jump-in along the line. > 1) Like the FTE paper... I'm going to discuss your first point at the end because it is not criticism of Stegotorus per se, but of http transport in general.

[tor-dev] All the problems about Stegotorous

2013-01-10 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello everybody, I was talking to Roger yesterday on the IRC, and he mentioned that "[S]tegotorus ... has a whole lot of problems". I have heard this many times in different forms by now (in Florence, The sponsor F discussion, etc). But I never saw these "lot of problems" are broken down in a lis

Re: [tor-dev] RFC on obfs3 pluggable transport

2012-12-12 Thread vmonmoonshine
>The only issue with your trick, is that I'm not looking forward >implementing a custom DH key exchange in Python (especially the DH >parameter generation and public key validation parts). >From the conversation of Zack with Steven at the breakfast table at Hotel Cellai, I'm pretty sure that Stego

[tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Re: Do you have time to poke at ST

2012-10-25 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello Zack, Sorry for being bit out of touch as I'm traveling and my access to Internet is sporadic. I'm still working on Stegonotorus. I developed the webpage_tester (now on f--webpage-tester branch on github), that is curl using Stegotorus to download anything on the web and compare it with th

[tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] update

2012-08-13 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello Tor-devers, In last two weeks I was busy implementing the protocol by which the st server sends a url dictionary to the client, so they the client can communicate with server using this url code. It was bit tricky because chop needed to be involved to distinguished between the data being ser

[tor-dev] http_apache_steg_t is working now

2012-08-08 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hey Zack, I have pushed the working version of http_apache_steg_t. On server side it asks apache for the load, on the client side it uses the url dictionary and parameter values. http_apache_steg_t is inherited from http_steg_t. But because of all those macro hackish tricks (which expect you to i

[tor-dev] ApachePayloadServer pushed

2012-07-24 Thread vmonmoonshine
Disc.:In the spirit of our discussion in Italy about unifying mailing list and that we should submit our technical discussions on tor-dev instead of tor-assistants, I'm moving my conversations with Zack here. If there's a strong opposition I'll go back to the old model (but you should have opposed