Re: [tor-talk] Using EOTK to put clearnet websites onto onion addresses

2017-02-08 Thread Nurmi, Juha
Thanks Alec! This is very useful. Especially plain HTTP sites are unsafe because the attacker might inject something to HTTP traffic. For some weird reason many popular sites, like CNN in your example, are not supporting HTTPS. As a result, exit node or someone else can inject something nasty to t

[tor-talk] Can anyone ELI5 prop 271 for the new guard selection implemented in Tor 0.3.x-a?

2017-02-08 Thread Lolint
Hi Can anyone explain like i'm five proposition 271 for the new guard selection implemented in Tor 0.3.x-a? https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt What makes it different from previous ones? Thx --Jeff -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@list

[tor-talk] Guard selection impact on anonymity for bridge users

2017-02-08 Thread Lolint
Hi I see that guard selection is a very important criteria for ensuring anonymity with Tor. But I've never seen it being discussed in the context of bridge users who usually have to input those bridges manually. I have a couple of questions: o The recommended behavior is to take the 3 or 2 bri