Re: [tor-talk] Other bridge distribution methods [was: why does gettor require Yahoo or Gmail?]

2014-07-28 Thread isis
Griffin Boyce transcribed 0.7K bytes: > Matthew Finkel wrote: > > This actually has very little to do with trust, and (as Roger said) > > these providers were chosen because of the difficulty of creating new > > accounts. > > Preventing bridge enumeration is a hard problem to solve, but I don't

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
The variability is def a big deal, from a UX perspective, maybe even larger one than raw speed---I can relate to the occasional Pyongyang circuits. Out of curiosity, are there stats on the average speed (error bars would be nice) over the past few years? Just curious. This would be helpful. Im

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-28 Thread Ben Bailess
There are some built-in protections in TBB that keep honored requests for known fingerprinting data to a minimum, so the TBB does not function like a normal browser in this instance. It most notably limits the high entropy factors -- responses for fonts and plugin microversions. And as long as you

Re: [tor-talk] how many verify their tbb ?

2014-07-28 Thread shm...@riseup.net
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 02:09:12PM +1000, shm...@riseup.net wrote 0.3K bytes > in 0 lines about: > : are there any stats available to see the % of people who verify their > : tbb download (cross ref same IP for both the .xz and .asc or shasum txt > : file ???) as a % of to

[tor-talk] using locally installed Tor in TBB

2014-07-28 Thread shm...@riseup.net
in 3.6.3 TBB linux amd-64 i changed the port to 9050 my local install of Tor is on the jessie alpha channel when i close & restart TBB i get: Something Went Wrong! Tor is not working in this browser. this is repeatable behaviour opening/closing TBB some Tor log looks ok though and apart from l

[tor-talk] Fwd: [guardian-dev] Orbot 14.0.5 Release Candidate 1

2014-07-28 Thread Nathan Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Forwarded Message Subject: [guardian-dev] Orbot 14.0.5 Release Candidate 1 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:06:13 -0400 From: Nathan of Guardian Organization: The Guardian Project To: guardian-...@lists.mayfirst.org The latest Orbot

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey Virgil, I'd say that the issue with Tor's speed is one of inconsistency, rather than outright slowness. Give you an example: I was watching a friend set up a new laptop, and she elected to fetch drivers direct from the manufacturer's website. So someone downloads a few dozen files

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
Mirimir, I understand you're saying faster HS-HS connections would be jolly. But I didnt understand exactly why. This is to allow coordination between hidden services? I get that coordination between HSs is cool, but no immediate application comes to mind. Can you disabuse me of my ignorance/de

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/28/2014 3:34 PM, Craw wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for your answer! I've just thought a bit about various methods to prevent fingerprinting browser profile (incl. UA/screen resolution/time zone/fonts/etc.), and here is two ways I've found: a) all tor-user

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-28 Thread Craw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for your answer! I've just thought a bit about various methods to prevent fingerprinting browser profile (incl. UA/screen resolution/time zone/fonts/etc.), and here is two ways I've found: a) all tor-users have the same browser profile b) a

Re: [tor-talk] problem with tor in linux mint 17

2014-07-28 Thread luo_hei
Ok, I had to install from sources, not the bootstrap is completed. Firefox can successfully connect using tor as socks5 proxy. But if I configure tixati bittorrent lcient to use tor, I got an error about proxy auth failed. Here is the tor log: Jul 28 15:39:24.000 [warn] Socks5 username/passwor

Re: [tor-talk] problem with tor in linux mint 17

2014-07-28 Thread Ben Bailess
You might have already tried this, but have you tried just reinstalling Tor? Since your Tor is out of date, it's probably a good thing that it's stopping you from connecting considering the recent issues with OpenSSL. If you're building it yourself, you should just purge your existing configs and

Re: [tor-talk] problem with tor in linux mint 17

2014-07-28 Thread luo_hei
On 07/28/2014 01:34 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:06:56AM -0400, luo_...@yahoo.es wrote: Jul 28 08:51:10.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server. (DONE; DONE; count 10; recommendation warn) This indeed means it isn't bo

Re: [tor-talk] Android app: Torrific (renamed to orWall)

2014-07-28 Thread CJ
On 07/28/2014 08:08 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote: > > > On 07/28/2014 12:41 AM, CJ wrote: >> So, orWall. So be it. Welcome, little one:). > > orBot welcomes you! Just returning from an offline vacation and happy > to see this thread and news. > > I would be more than happy to direct Orbot users who wa

Re: [tor-talk] Android app: Torrific (renamed to orWall)

2014-07-28 Thread Nathan Freitas
On 07/28/2014 12:41 AM, CJ wrote: So, orWall. So be it. Welcome, little one:). orBot welcomes you! Just returning from an offline vacation and happy to see this thread and news. I would be more than happy to direct Orbot users who want this functionality to your app, once its stabilizes,

Re: [tor-talk] problem with tor in linux mint 17

2014-07-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:06:56AM -0400, luo_...@yahoo.es wrote: > Jul 28 08:51:10.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10%: > Finishing handshake with directory server. (DONE; DONE; count 10; > recommendation warn) This indeed means it isn't bootstrapping. My first thought is that you have

[tor-talk] problem with tor in linux mint 17

2014-07-28 Thread luo_hei
Hi all I have been using tor without problems under Fedora 19 and Mint 16. But 15 days ago I upgraded to Mint 17 and noticed that tor wasnt working at all. After watching the logs for a couple of days, I found this warnings and errors: Jul 28 08:51:10.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck a

[tor-talk] What does the world's fastest Tor node have to do with Bitcoin?

2014-07-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bwds2/what_does_the_worlds_fastest_tor_node_have_to_do/ -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Russia's Interior Ministry searching for someone to crack TOR

2014-07-28 Thread OpenPGP
Dne Mon 28. of July 2014 14:12:32 Leon Johnson napsal(a): > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/25/putin_crack_tor_for_me_and_ill_make > _you_a_millionaire/ ...a b*tch ! :O :-\ ✡ __ http://www.openpgp.org https://www.gnupg.org __

[tor-talk] Russia's Interior Ministry searching for someone to crack TOR

2014-07-28 Thread Leon Johnson
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/25/putin_crack_tor_for_me_and_ill_make_you_a_millionaire/ -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:45:33AM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > On 07/27/2014 09:24 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > > > > Any others that come to mind from anyone? > > I'm very intrigued by possibilities of multiple hidden services with > fast HS-HS links via Tor. One use case would be the standard >

Re: [tor-talk] EFF / applied law mailing list?

2014-07-28 Thread Jim
For some reason this didn't go through a couple days ago. Try again ... Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 7/26/14, grarpamp wrote: Is there such thing as an applied law / best practices mailing list in the digital field... perhaps suited to service providers, but also covering users, and meta-orgs o

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Mirimir
On 07/27/2014 09:24 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > Any others that come to mind from anyone? I'm very intrigued by possibilities of multiple hidden services with fast HS-HS links via Tor. One use case would be the standard front-end/back-end website design. Another would be "smart" load-balancing

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-28 Thread Mirimir
On 07/27/2014 01:40 PM, isis wrote: > Mirimir transcribed 1.1K bytes: >> Please excuse the repetition, but DNS-based fast flux (Proximax) with >> selection-based dropping of domain names associated with bridge blocking >> is the best possibility that I've seen. Rather than trying to prevent >> a