Re: [tor-talk] Cryptographic social networking project

2015-01-08 Thread contact
>No, I am just suggesting not to use Tor for something it wasn't built >for. We have been working on a technology that combines anonymization >with multicast distribution and is therefore a lot better suited for >social use cases. I hoped you would see this point and maybe consider >joining forc

Re: [tor-talk] orc- Onion Router Control in Go

2015-01-08 Thread Damian Johnson
> Hey, > > This looks like a pretty good start so far! I'm looking forward to seeing > further development on this. For what it's worth, I think there were some > other people vaguely hacking on Tor ControlPort libraries in Go; perhaps they > will speak up and you all can work together. :) > > Th

Re: [tor-talk] orc- Onion Router Control in Go

2015-01-08 Thread isis
sycamoreone transcribed 0.6K bytes: > Hi, > > I recently started to implement parts of the Tor control protocol in Go. > The result for now is a thin abstraction layer that still might be > useful if somebody wants to use the control protocol from within a Go > program. > > The code is at https:/

Re: [tor-talk] are there privacy benefits of running a bridge node?

2015-01-08 Thread isis
Virgil Griffith transcribed 0.9K bytes: > yeah I figured. Just checking. > > -V The super high-bandwidth Bridges with really good uptime which are included in TBB have many thousands of clients, and push terabytes of traffic. So, if you ran a Bridge like those, then you might see some additiona

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird 31.3.0 doesn't honor Tor proxy configuration

2015-01-08 Thread Nusenu
You probably want to use TorBirdy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ -- 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] New Software: P2P filesharing designed to use Tor

2015-01-08 Thread SecTech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I don't meant to change the hash funktion from SHA-1 to SHA-256, I meant to hash the 100 KB blocks and the higher level hashes with SHA-1 and to provide a SHA-256 hash that is generated from the file itself too. Because two hashes are more secur

Re: [tor-talk] new paper on Tor and cryptography

2015-01-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:32 AM, taxakis wrote: > > Headline: Post-Quantum Secure Onion Routing (Future Anonymity in Today\'s > Budget), by Satrajit Ghosh and Aniket Kate > http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/008 Interesting stuff! I wonder, does anybody around here have the cryptographic background to

Re: [tor-talk] are there privacy benefits of running a bridge node?

2015-01-08 Thread Virgil Griffith
yeah I figured. Just checking. -V On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Xiaolan.Me wrote: > No, bridge is similar an Entry Node... > > 2015-01-08 15:43 GMT+08:00 Virgil Griffith : > >> For example, if you run an exit node, your regular traffic is >> disguised by exit traffic also coming from your ip

Re: [tor-talk] are there privacy benefits of running a bridge node?

2015-01-08 Thread Xiaolan.Me
No, bridge is similar an Entry Node... 2015-01-08 15:43 GMT+08:00 Virgil Griffith : > For example, if you run an exit node, your regular traffic is > disguised by exit traffic also coming from your ip#. Is there > anything similar for running a bridge node? > > -V > -- > tor-talk mailing list -