Re: [tor-talk] Time to set up and connect to hidden service

2011-04-24 Thread Gitano
On 2011-04-25 02:54, cmeclax-sazri wrote: > When two people talk to each other with TorChat, each connects to a hidden > service set up by the other. This often takes about a minute. This is normal timeout. I use TorChat 0.9.9.534 with Tor v0.2.2.24-alpha on Ubuntu 10.04 and it works very well.

[tor-talk] Time to set up and connect to hidden service

2011-04-24 Thread cmeclax-sazri
When two people talk to each other with TorChat, each connects to a hidden service set up by the other. This often takes about a minute. What are the steps in setting up and connecting to a hidden service, and how long does each take? cmeclax ___ tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Sunday 24 April 2011 20:24:07 tagnaq wrote: > On 2011-01-29 Alice decides to create a new example.com account > (al...@example.com) using her home IP address - the same as her Tor node > is using [86.59.30.36] . (Alice is not using Tor for browsing the web > but she uses Torbutton in Transparent

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread tagnaq
On 04/25/2011 01:11 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 03:55:59PM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 1.4K bytes > in 25 lines about: > : > If you run a Tor node at your home IP address you will loose the > : > positive side effect of a dynamic IP address and your IP layer anon

[tor-talk] Firefox 4 Tor Browser Bundle for Windows

2011-04-24 Thread Erinn Clark
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/firefox-4-tor-browser-bundle-windows You can download here: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/tor-browser-2.2.24-1-alpha_en-US.exe https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/tor-browser-2.2.24-1-alpha_en-US.exe.asc The build infrastructure has moved to a

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread tagnaq
On 04/24/2011 07:18 PM, tagnaq wrote: > Even the fact that you are running a tor node is sensitive information > because this reduces your anonymity set from on out of ~2^32 to one out > of 2^32 ;) correction: [...] reduces your anonymity set from on out of ~2^32 to one out of <2500.

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity projects on Facebook :)

2011-04-24 Thread andrew
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:22:41AM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 0.5K bytes in 15 lines about: : Are any of these official? Are there others? : Note some of the other interesting groups linked from these pages. : And of course... +1 :) : : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29572092848 : htt

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread andrew
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 03:55:59PM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 1.4K bytes in 25 lines about: : > If you run a Tor node at your home IP address you will loose the : > positive side effect of a dynamic IP address and your IP layer anonymity : > decreases to that of a static IP address because yo

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Sunday 24 April 2011 15:55:59 grarpamp wrote: > For those users who do, by whatever means, end up with a different IP > address each time they go online, and who wish to avoid tracking across > said IP changes by regenerating their Tor keys each time... what is the > minimum recommended time tha

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Gmail, lol

2011-04-24 Thread Erinn Clark
* Javier Bassi [2011:04:24 16:56 -0300]: > Also now you must verify your cel via SMS in order to create an > account. (also facebook added this). They just can't process that some > of us don't have celphones. I tested this through a couple of exit nodes and it seems to only happen on the non-US

[tor-talk] List of Email providers

2011-04-24 Thread grarpamp
FYI, while looking around for mail providers I found this useful coverage of some of them on The Hidden Wiki: http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion/wiki/index.php/Email ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Gmail, lol

2011-04-24 Thread Javier Bassi
Also now you must verify your cel via SMS in order to create an account. (also facebook added this). They just can't process that some of us don't have celphones. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:04 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Got this new militant full screen at login today. Used to be > only a popup naggin

Re: [tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread grarpamp
> If you run a Tor node at your home IP address you will loose the > positive side effect of a dynamic IP address and your IP layer anonymity > decreases to that of a static IP address because your node identity > links all your public IP addresses. Many (most) residential ISP's allocate their use

[tor-talk] [OT] Gmail, lol

2011-04-24 Thread grarpamp
Got this new militant full screen at login today. Used to be only a popup nagging. Never mind that the password is locally backed up and encrypted. Nor that SSL is in use preventing, ooo, hijacking, lol :) Somehow I suspect those of us having legacy accounts and refusing to link a phone number to t

[tor-talk] Better Privacy for Tor Node Operators

2011-04-24 Thread tagnaq
the original subject was "reducing the negative anonymity impact for Tor node operators running nodes at home" but then I thought it is a bit to long for a subject line :) As a tor user you gain anonymity - as a Tor node operator you loose anonymity. I would call this a valid statement under cer