[tor-talk] using UDPGW and tun2socks over Tor

2014-10-23 Thread Nathan Freitas
Is there any reason we shouldn't consider supporting UDP over Tor with Orbot, by tunneling the packets using the combination of badvpn's tun2socks and udpgw ("udp gateway") feature? This has come up as we are implementing the Android VPNService, and discovered how easy to implement and well perfor

[tor-talk] Russian Tor exit relay messing with traffic

2014-10-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
Hi Josh, I tried to write this comment at the bottom of http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modified-binaries/ but your comment system wouldn't let me write into the name and email address boxes. So I've written it here. """ Thanks for the detailed analysis! We've now set the Ba

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-23 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Mike Perry wrote: > I skimmed this paper this morning, and the crux of the attack is the > interplay of the Bitcoin DoS protection mechanisms and the limited > supply of Tor Exit IPs. Could this situation be improved if people ran limited exit nodes that only alloed the bitcoin p2p protocol to ex

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-23 Thread Mike Perry
Öyvind Saether: > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079v1.pdf > > "Abstract > —Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P digital currency in which coins are > generated by a distributed set of miners and transaction are > broadcasted via a peer-to-peer network. While Bitcoin provides some > level of anonymity (or r

[tor-talk] *Everyone*

2014-10-23 Thread raiogam mestri
Hey, A bunch of employees at the FCC, from young staff to senior lawyers, really want to do something to support net neutrality, but are unsure about taking a stand on their own. They need to hear from enough internet users that they feel it is their responsibility to speak up. When they go

[tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20141022 released

2014-10-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by hardening the kernel and binar

[tor-talk] tor v0.2.5.x hits 'stable' repos / ControlPort auth behaviour change?

2014-10-23 Thread Nusenu
Just a heads up in case your tor daemon does not come up after the update as it did in my case (actually my fault). If you use torproject's RPM repo at https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/ you might realize that you are getting tor v0.2.5.x(-rc) instead of 0.2.4.x (since 0.2.5.x is prob

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-10-23 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 10/23/14, flapflap wrote: > Jacob Appelbaum: > >> The GnuPG signature that signed this email is also the same key that >> signs the TorBirdy releases. > > forgot to sign the email? > > The release is signed. In the future, we hope to sign it with multiple keys. All the best, Jacob -- tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-10-23 Thread Nima Fatemi
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Greetings from Berlin! > > TorBirdy 0.1.3 is now out; we think it is the the best release so far > and we encourage you to upgrade. Awesome! I've been waiting for this release for so long. > We're especially looking for translations of TorBirdy into Persian - > if you'd

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in other software

2014-10-23 Thread Seth David Schoen
Derric Atzrott writes: > Good day all, > > Would it be useful at all, when developing other software, > to route its communications through Tor? > > I'm mostly just curious if it would be useful to the Tor > project to design software that makes use of Tor in order > to help provide more cover t

[tor-talk] Tor in other software

2014-10-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
Good day all, Would it be useful at all, when developing other software, to route its communications through Tor? I'm mostly just curious if it would be useful to the Tor project to design software that makes use of Tor in order to help provide more cover traffic for the Tor network. Thank you,

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-10-23 Thread flapflap
Jacob Appelbaum: > The GnuPG signature that signed this email is also the same key that > signs the TorBirdy releases. forgot to sign the email? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settin

[tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-23 Thread Öyvind Saether
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079v1.pdf "Abstract —Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P digital currency in which coins are generated by a distributed set of miners and transaction are broadcasted via a peer-to-peer network. While Bitcoin provides some level of anonymity (or rather pseudonymity) by encoura

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-10-23 Thread Griffin Boyce
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Call for help: We're looking for assistance with Translations - if you'd like to translate TorBirdy, we'd gladly accept a patch that prepares TorBirdy for translation work. We now have an amazing number of translations! Even if you can't help translate, we'd love to know w

Re: [tor-talk] Copyright troll trying to shake down a Pirate Party member

2014-10-23 Thread Sebastian Mäki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/2014 04:28 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Sebastian Mäki > wrote: >> Someone had been downloading a torrent "This Ain't Game Of >> Thrones XXX" via TOR or my wireless network. The law firm Hedman >> Partners,

[tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-10-23 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Greetings from Berlin! TorBirdy 0.1.3 is now out; we think it is the the best release so far and we encourage you to upgrade. This release is the fourth in our beta series. It's still experimental - of course. Use at your own risk and especially if you're using it with Enigmail and GnuPG without