Re: [tor-talk] Who runs the Tor Network? An Overview using MyFamily Data

2015-03-20 Thread Virgil Griffith
"We still lack the "gamification" Relay Challenge website that Virgil was talking about. It would just sum up all relays of a family, and then it really does not matter any more." for what it's worth this website has been started. I'll post a beta to tor-talk when it's presentable. I remain very

[tor-talk] Who runs the Tor Network? An Overview using MyFamily Data

2015-03-20 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, currently we use globe [1] compass [2] or old school torstatus [3] to get an overview of what relays are around and who might operate them. None of these 'tools' provide an easy way to aggregate relay data to have a look at the bigger picture (

Re: [tor-talk] Pre-announcement: source for Tor 0.2.4.26 and 0.2.5.11 is available.

2015-03-20 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nick Mathewson: > o Minor bugfixes (statistics): - Increase period over which > bandwidth observations are aggregated from 15 minutes to 4 hours. > Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. That is probably the reason why atlas graphs are looking a bit

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Thanks! Good question about the audio communication channel. For this work we only considered communication through game moves. Our reasoning for avoiding using voice/text communication channels were: * it's been shown in the past that mimicking human voice traffic is very very hard, we didn't want

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Speak Freely
Interesting concept. Did you think about using in-game voice communications to speed up throughput? Taking the covert data and encoding it into an encrypted audio stream, and make it look like normal game chatter? Just a thought. Is there a reason for the references to be unordered? 16, 1

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Jan Reister
Il 20/03/2015 04:45, Rishab Nithyanand ha scritto: > Title: Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert > Channel [ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05904v1.pdf ] Thank you for pointing out this research paper, it made a very interesting read. Jan -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Lara
Rishab Nithyanand: > I can't replicate all client and browser configurations, exit relays before > posting a link to the most popular paper repository around. Sorry. You are obviously unable to edit the reply either. Excellent references. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
I can't replicate all client and browser configurations, exit relays before posting a link to the most popular paper repository around. Sorry. On Mar 20, 2015 3:04 AM, "Lara" wrote: > > Rishab Nithyanand: > > Hey all, > > > > I just thought I'd share and get feedback about some recent work from

Re: [tor-talk] Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Lara
Rishab Nithyanand: > Hey all, > > I just thought I'd share and get feedback about some recent work from our > team at Stony Brook University. > > Title: Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert > Channel [ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05904v1.pdf ] I say maybe, just maybe, it