Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread coderman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:45 AM, nb.linux wrote: >... I use Ada only for a short time. But I don't > want to use C (or C++ or Java) again, because a paradigm of "everything > is an integer" simply seems not appropriate to me in this millennium. old C: int* modern C++: std::vector move constructo

Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread coderman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Stevens Le Blond wrote: >... > We are a team of researchers working on the design and implementation of > a traffic-analysis resistant anonymity network... is this an implementation of existing research, or experimentation with novel architectures? tell us more :

Re: [tor-talk] Is Tor network still vulnerable to Heartbleed?

2014-04-18 Thread sssheep
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:42:09 + (UTC) Артур Истомин wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:45:16PM +, antispa...@sent.at wrote: > > In his announcement, arma noted it would be a good idea to stay away > > from the Internet. Is it ok? > > Yeah, let's go to FIDO! :) > > The more you wait (wit

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
[Replying to Stevens and tor-talk only. Crossposting runs against my religious beliefs.] On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Stevens Le Blond wrote: > > Hello, > > We are a team of researchers working on the design and implementation of > a traffic-analysis resistant anonymity network and we would l

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread Ted Smith
OCaml. http://ocaml.org/ 1. OCaml is more obscure than many languages, but it supports programming in imperative, object-oriented, and functional styles (though it's obviously best suited for a functional style). I've seen people write Java in OCaml and produce clean,

Re: [tor-talk] Time synchronisation

2014-04-18 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Gareth Owen: > Does tor do any form of time synchronisation? No. See also: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8170 Cheers, Patrick -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread nb.linux
Stevens Le Blond: > Hello, > > We are a team of researchers working on the design and implementation of > a traffic-analysis resistant anonymity network and we would like to > request your opinion regarding the choice of a programming language / > environment. Here are the criteria: Hi, (disclai

[tor-talk] securely reading and posting to mailing lists (was google)

2014-04-18 Thread tor
>I'm a bit of a newb at this (all of it). But this email thread >(tor-talk) is completely unencrypted, right? And it has to be that >way? You can see this thread securely using lynx with this URL: snews://news.gmane.org:563/cacykwb0hzfvsa_k_a6dp4-ppoacjonn+htntlbvxymmrpon...@mail.gmail.com Ir

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Redefining anything in js is visible as "your nose on your face", as well as importing silently anything, whatever obfuscation/minification means are used it's trivial to check. But here you do not have necessarly to import things and/or libraries, you can package everything with your app so y

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 18/04/14 11:30, Aymeric Vitte wrote: [...] > - nodejs is easy to audit (assuming that modules like V8 can be > audited), you can override node's functions/objects if you like [...] Actually, in my mind, that's one point against safety of Node.js applications. Redefining, say, Array.prototype.fo

Re: [tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Without any hesitation: js + nodejs (note: I am not part of the node's team) - the code is very reduced and transparent, difficult to backdoor including nodejs itself - js is familiar but not trivial as many people think - works on any platform, can even be browserified (see links below) --> n

[tor-talk] Programming language for anonymity network

2014-04-18 Thread Stevens Le Blond
Hello, We are a team of researchers working on the design and implementation of a traffic-analysis resistant anonymity network and we would like to request your opinion regarding the choice of a programming language / environment. Here are the criteria: 1) Familiarity: The language should be fam