Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread grarpamp
> Paul Syverson wrote: [... some history of Tor ...] The posts regarding this history are useful for the historical perspective and could be put on the website. Then anyone asking can simply be pointed there, including trolls. Ultimately, Tor is open and of a reasonably simple and documented desi

Re: [tor-talk] secure and simple network time (hack)

2013-04-07 Thread Elly Fong-Jones
(apologies for the busted threading; the archives don't seem to contain message-ids and I just subscribed.) I'm the lucky engineer that owns tlsdate-in-chromeos. We absolutely do use it, and have been using it since late last year. Our local clone of it is here:

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake unknown (unkn...@pgpru.com): > On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:54:34 -0400 cmeclax > wrote: > > > > *The NSA runs a Tor relay called Eve. It's picked as the rendezvous > > point for a hidden service. Can Eve read the plaintext? > > No. Encryption with HS is end-to-end in any case. Eve cann

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake cmeclax (cmeclax-sa...@ixazon.dynip.com): > On Thursday, April 04, 2013 08:17:29 Nick Mathewson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Bernard Tyers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there a reason 1024 bit keys, instead of something higher is not used? > > > Do higher bit keys affe

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
Paul Syverson wrote: > Lots of people with lots of different employers, funders, affiliations, > etc. have contributed. Whether they were employees or contractors > of the Tor Project, Inc., they were all part of the Tor Project. > > aloha, > Paul Interesting! I actually did not know most of

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread unknown
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:54:34 -0400 cmeclax wrote: > *The NSA runs a Tor relay called Eve. It's picked as the rendezvous point for > a hidden service. Can Eve read the plaintext? No. Encryption with HS is end-to-end in any case. Eve cannot reroute data to fake HS without knowledge of onion ide