Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread Allen
> > Secondly, with the requirement that nickn...@sitename.tld to be unique, > I could write that nickname on a business card and hand it out. People > could verify at a verification service that there is only one > certificate (and public key) for that name and be sure to have gotten > *my* public

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread Guido Witmond
Hi Allen, Good questions. On 02/23/16 22:26, Allen wrote: > I don't understand. If a message is associated with an identity, then it > is not anonymous, it is at best pseudo-anonymous. Which are you proposing, > truly anonymous messages that have no identity associated with them, or > pseudo-a

[tor-talk] Tor Browser for OpenBSD update

2016-02-23 Thread George
The Tor BSD Diversity Project (https://torbsd.github.io/) has done some substantial overhauling of TB for OpenBSD in the past week, with a bunch of releases aimed at refining the port. We are still at version 5.5 and are in development mode, but we'll be working on 5.5.2 in the near future. We are

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread Allen
I don't understand. If a message is associated with an identity, then it is not anonymous, it is at best pseudo-anonymous. Which are you proposing, truly anonymous messages that have no identity associated with them, or pseudo-anonymous messages that have a pseudo-anonymous identity associated wi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread Guido Witmond
On 02/23/16 19:51, m...@beroal.in.ua wrote: > On 23.02.16 20:31, Guido Witmond wrote: >> The answer is to let strangers - who never met before - exchange >> public keys in a verifiable way. > This very statement makes no sense to me. Verifying strangers? Indeed, verifying strangers doesn't make se

[tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi folks, The last month I have been playing with cheap Tor router hardware. This turned out to be quite a nice experience and it got me thinking about the benefits of running Tor on the router. My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both security and usability. It further

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread krishna e bera
On 02/22/2016 04:03 PM, Guido Witmond wrote: > If either the blogger or responder wishes to send a private message, > they can use the others' persons public key after validating there is no > MitM. Message transport goes through the site. After a few round trips > of messages, there is certainty

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread me
On 23.02.16 20:31, Guido Witmond wrote: The answer is to let strangers - who never met before - exchange public keys in a verifiable way. This very statement makes no sense to me. Verifying strangers? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other setting

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread Guido Witmond
On 02/23/16 11:16, m...@beroal.in.ua wrote: > Hi. I still don't understand what is the use of this contrived scheme. Hi, The answer is to let strangers - who never met before - exchange public keys in a verifiable way. After the exchange is verified to be free of MitM's, they can communicate in

[tor-talk] Tor-users per capita in Tor metrics

2016-02-23 Thread chloe
Hello, I thought it would be a great idea to have data on how many Tor-users each country has per capitaa as it would show a more accurate number on how active a country uses Tor. How can I reach out to the Tor Metrics devs to get this data implemented? Regards, Chloe -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

2016-02-23 Thread me
Hi. I still don't understand what is the use of this contrived scheme. On 22.02.16 23:03, Guido Witmond wrote: Dear Tor community, I came across this message[1] about Shari Steele wanting to bring Tor to the mainstream. I humbly believe I have something that might assist her in this quest. I ca

Re: [tor-talk] Which webmail providers are Tor friendly.

2016-02-23 Thread Cain Ungothep
> Please see below for a couple of questions. Thanks for your input. > >> Sigaint.org is an excellent option. Their onion mailservers peer with >> some of the other onion mailservers. And they have a clearnet gateway, >> unlike many of the other other onion mailservers. But users can only >> access

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Cryptopolitik and the Darknet

2016-02-23 Thread Cain Ungothep
> cyber > survival > darkness, darknet, dark web, "hidden in the dark" > useful analogy for explaining onion services: Alice buys drugs from Bob > "research": grab a bunch of hidden addresses from ahmia and other indexes > our "research" shows how onion services are used in practice > manuall