[tor-talk] [OT] MAC address privacy with IPv6

2013-01-30 Thread grarpamp
Text of possible interest to anons... Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:41:50 +0100 "Sebastian G. " wrote: > > How far along is the Directory Server decentralization in general? > > If you talk about DHT (distributed hash tables) to bootstrap rather > than fetching the consensus from a central place or a mirror... I > remember that it wasn't sa

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake unknown (unkn...@pgpru.com): > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:49:54 -0400 > Mike Perry wrote: > > > Longer term, I'm interested in having some form (or better: many forms) > > of multipath consensus validation: > > May be that algo is relevant to independed control of consensus data: > https

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread unknown
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:49:54 -0400 Mike Perry wrote: > Longer term, I'm interested in having some form (or better: many forms) > of multipath consensus validation: May be that algo is relevant to independed control of consensus data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping Any Tor nod

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle .deb packaging solution

2013-01-30 Thread Micah Lee
On 01/30/2013 10:20 AM, unknown wrote: > Just my personal example. > > I use up to 6 anonymous installations of TBB in one Debian system. > They runs in parallel, with parallel runned X-session from different users > and pointed with iptables to different ports of one system Tor-daemon to > comp

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle .deb packaging solution

2013-01-30 Thread Micah Lee
On 01/30/2013 12:26 AM, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: When a user runs the launcher script, it checks if ~/.torbrowser/$VERSION exists. If it doesn't, it extracts the TBB tarball to there. Then it runs ~/.torbrowser/$VERSION/start-tor-browser. > > How do you handle home directories that are

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Raynardine (raynard...@tormail.org): > On 1/30/2013 11:58 AM, unknown wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:23 -0600 > > Raynardine wrote: > > > >> I just wanted to ask here in Tor-Talk where the efforts to decentralize > >> the Tor directory servers have gone so far? > > One of the goa

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread unknown
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:17:04 -0600 Raynardine wrote: > What happens if a government (such as the United States) > demands the private keys for the Directory Authorities? Would you even > know if it has already happened years ago? And what? Everyone can run your own tor node and see in the consen

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Sebastian G.
Hi, (trimmed) me replying as non-tor-people, non-dev, non-crypto-expert, non-researcher. Raynardine: > How far along is the Directory Server decentralization in general? If you talk about DHT (distributed hash tables) to bootstrap rather than fetching the consensus from a central place or a mir

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle .deb packaging solution

2013-01-30 Thread unknown
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:26:22 +0100 Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > >> Releasing updated versions is simple. The update would include a new TBB > > >> tarball and the launcher script would include a new version, so the next > > >> time a user runs Tor Browser it will extract the new version in their > >

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Raynardine
On 1/30/2013 11:58 AM, unknown wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:23 -0600 > Raynardine wrote: > >> I just wanted to ask here in Tor-Talk where the efforts to decentralize >> the Tor directory servers have gone so far? > One of the goals of centralizing is protect Tor against attacks > based on th

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread unknown
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:23 -0600 Raynardine wrote: > I just wanted to ask here in Tor-Talk where the efforts to decentralize > the Tor directory servers have gone so far? One of the goals of centralizing is protect Tor against attacks based on the desynchronisation and dividing stats for users

Re: [tor-talk] Exit Node Scanning Status

2013-01-30 Thread Roc Admin
Actually, I might be a good fit. Feel free to ping me off-list to discuss. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Damian Johnson wrote: >> Can anyone tell me what mechanisms we (or the Tor Project members) >> have in scanning for malicious exit nodes. Such as nodes that are >> manipulating DNS request

Re: [tor-talk] Exit Node Scanning Status

2013-01-30 Thread Damian Johnson
> Can anyone tell me what mechanisms we (or the Tor Project members) > have in scanning for malicious exit nodes. Such as nodes that are > manipulating DNS requests, stripping SSL, etc. I know of the SOAT > project from Mike Perry but the last I heard there was a GSOC dev > working on the project.

[tor-talk] Exit Node Scanning Status

2013-01-30 Thread Roc Admin
Can anyone tell me what mechanisms we (or the Tor Project members) have in scanning for malicious exit nodes. Such as nodes that are manipulating DNS requests, stripping SSL, etc. I know of the SOAT project from Mike Perry but the last I heard there was a GSOC dev working on the project. Is that st

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle .deb packaging solution

2013-01-30 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Micah Lee: > Right now no one owns the bug in trac, so I don't think anyone is > thinking about it: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236 > > I have limited time and I'm not sure I want the responsibility of being > the TBB deb package maintainer, although it shouldn't be much work s