[tor-talk] Roger's status report, Nov 2012

2012-12-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
Six big things I did in November: 1) Attended the NSF PI meeting for our new grant (joint with Georgia Tech and Princeton). Met dozens of professors and renewed connections to dozens more. One standout: I met a nice economist who framed our exit relay funding debate as an "if you" vs "now that" ga

Re: [tor-talk] Pluggable Transports metrics?

2012-12-18 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:11:08PM +0100, Sebastian G. wrote: > For Flashproxy could there be a metric how many flash proxies > (JavaScript Web socket proxies running on volunteer machines) have been > available at a given time? (Maybe a graph over time.) > > The last can be probably provided by

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser protections

2012-12-18 Thread Tom Ritter
On 18 December 2012 17:52, wrote: > Hello everyone. > I have a small question. > > Does Tor Browser protect against IP/DNS leaks more than regular Firefox? > If I change the network settings in regular Firefox to local proxy and then > disable the Tor service, I cannot connect to the Internet, so

[tor-talk] Tor Browser protections

2012-12-18 Thread niles24
Hello everyone. I have a small question. Does Tor Browser protect against IP/DNS leaks more than regular Firefox? If I change the network settings in regular Firefox to local proxy and then disable the Tor service, I cannot connect to the Internet, so it doesn't look like anything can leak unle

Re: [tor-talk] OpenPGP and Windows - offtopic

2012-12-18 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/2012 02:45 PM, Juan Garofalo wrote: This will be my last OT post - Juan, after this let's take it offlist to raise the s/n ratio. > Is there a list of such front ends for windows? Let's see... I've used and taught classes on http://www.gpg

Re: [tor-talk] OpenPGP and Windows - offtopic

2012-12-18 Thread Juan Garofalo
At 01:27 PM 12/18/2012 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 12/17/2012 07:40 PM, starwars1...@gmail.com wrote: >> Anyone know of any basic but good email encryption programs Ie >> elderly or young children might understand > >That's a difficult question to answer.

Re: [tor-talk] OpenPGP and Windows - offtopic

2012-12-18 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 07:40 PM, starwars1...@gmail.com wrote: > Anyone know of any basic but good email encryption programs Ie > elderly or young children might understand That's a difficult question to answer. "Basic" tends to imply "bad" or "snake oil." "