Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:49:38PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:46:17AM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > > 4) Who do you trust? With this remote-proxy, it really depends on what > > you're looking to gain from using the Tor network. Are you looking for a > > censorshi

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:46:17AM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > 4) Who do you trust? With this remote-proxy, it really depends on what > you're looking to gain from using the Tor network. Are you looking for a > censorship circumvention tool? Then you probably don't want to use a > remote-prox

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04:52AM +0530, mahesh wrote: > Hi, I am a third year undergraduate student of Information Technology at > PICT, Pune, India. I'm dying to contribute to tor community as I use it > a lot. There's an opportunity for me in GSOC-2013. I read tor's idea > page and came to k

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:11:37PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35:45PM +, adrelanos wrote: > > > I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > > > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > > > censors

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35:45PM +, adrelanos wrote: > > I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > > censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. > > It

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread adrelanos
> I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the > purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and > censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. It's not so easy if users host their own torified CGIproxies on their o

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. Cheers, Sreenatha On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, mahesh wrote: > H

[tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread mahesh
Hi, I am a third year undergraduate student of Information Technology at PICT, Pune, India. I'm dying to contribute to tor community as I use it a lot. There's an opportunity for me in GSOC-2013. I read tor's idea page and came to know that would have to contribute to existing project. But, I w