[tor-talk] Wahay: Mumble + Onion Service

2020-05-31 Thread Tom Bell
If you add an icon for Wahay, it can more easily be added to the Menu Editor in Internet as a "New Item".  The icon makes it more readily identifiable in the menu.  Adding it to the menu is pretty cut-and-dried.  It does start in Kubuntu 18.04, but I have not attempted yet to join any meetings

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 18

2019-05-11 Thread Tom Bell
and I had to use a LiveCD to go in and remove the program, then I logged back in and purged all of the program. If you have a laptop then your keyboard will still work and whatever comes with the computer that is not connected to a USB port. If your particular distro does not have this program, the

Re: [tor-talk] Syncing bookmarks

2019-04-01 Thread Tom A.
h content - to refresh the Website one then need of course to have Tor. This might be part of your evaluation to store your URLs in a Database, as it is encrypted and provides options to be searched and brought to your website. Regards Tom On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:56 AM anan wrote: > Hi, >

Re: [tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains

2017-09-11 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Looks fine, you're getting NXDOMAIN, not SERVFAIL. What do you expect a DNS query for a .onion to return? Op 11/09/2017 om 11:23 schreef C. L. Martinez: > Hi all, > > I am trying to figure out the best way to handle DNS requests to both > clearnet and Tor onionland. Currently, I am using two

[tor-talk] Using Raspberry Pi as Tor relay is bad idea??

2017-08-01 Thread Tom Tom
I recently heard that Raspberry Pi could be used as various server, so I'd like to buy and use Raspberry Pi as tor relay. But Raspberry Pi performs slower than normal pc, so I thought it can't perform as well as I expected. 1. Comparing normal pc and RPi as Tor relay, there are no performance d

[tor-talk] Fwd: Android Crypto Chat Apps - over Tor?

2017-07-12 Thread Tom A.
, some of these apps with a proxy over Tor provide it? https://m.heise.de/ix/heft/Entzaubert-3754494.html Regards Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: grarpamp Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 8:02 AM > https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/ https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/#MobileScoreC

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 78, Issue 4

2017-07-07 Thread Tom Tom
http://thehackernews.com/2017/07/ssh-credential-hacking.html?m=1 This post could be helpful. But how CIA could unveil the encryption? Interesting and horrable... 2017. 7. 7. 오후 9:00에 님이 작성: > Send tor-talk mailing list submissions to > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > To subscribe or un

Re: [tor-talk] Tor RPM?

2016-10-09 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Sebastian, As far as I know there's no official Tor RPM channel anymore, and EPEL won't ship alphas. There may be community run repos that have Tor packages (I have one) but as a general rule you can't trust those and they'll lag behind :-) Maybe try compiling it from sou

Re: [tor-talk] Tor RPM?

2016-10-09 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Sebastian, 0.2.8.8 is the latest version :-) Tom > On 9 Oct 2016, at 12:36, Sebastian Elisa Pfeifer > wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to move my Tor Node from Debian to Fedora. The guide tells me to > install the normal packages from the Fedora Repositories > (https:/

Re: [tor-talk] Sorry Jake I know you are innocent

2016-06-09 Thread tom
Hello ja.talk, if you are a man, then block yourself. The main distinction between men an animals is that animals can't choose, they have to suffer their being as they are. Men have always the choice. and are able to change themselfes. So don't spread you stupid "I am an asshole". Think about w

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Bitmessage

2016-01-30 Thread Tom A.
Yes take care and look yourself or believe so called experts or multiplicators. I agree that all closed source crypto is obsolete. Regards Tom Am 30.01.2016 11:47 schrieb "Jeremy Rand" : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 01/30/2016 04:30 AM, A

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Bitmessage

2016-01-30 Thread Tom A.
Anthony, you describe BitMail - http://bitmail.sf.net not, BitMessage, please dont mix it up! Regards Tom On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 01/29/2016 07:05 AM, anonymous coward wrote: > &g

Re: [tor-talk] Ordering a .onion EV certificate from Digitcert

2015-12-15 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
That's not a guide, it just says 'call us' > On 15 Dec 2015, at 17:09, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists > wrote: > > Hello, > > we asked on Twitter to Digicert to provide a quick guide on how order an > x509v3 certificate for TLS for a .onion, they've just published this > small guide: > http

Re: [tor-talk] Question Regarding Routing of Network-Traffic using Tor-Browser

2015-11-01 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
You can't fake a Tor relay, they are cryptographically protected. At best they could tell that you're connected somewhere, or stop you from doing that, but they can't see any of the contents, or MITM it. Tom > On 01 Nov 2015, at 11:23, Felix wrote: > > O.K., so if

Re: [tor-talk] Question Regarding Routing of Network-Traffic using Tor-Browser

2015-11-01 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Felix, Guards' network speeds are assessed based on the view of the network, not the client. What this means for your North Korea example is that the government couldn't affect path selection by slowing down the network, as Tor will still pick the same guards. Tom > On 01 No

Re: [tor-talk] Super speed Tor

2015-10-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Marcos, 1. Do you run a relay yourself yet? 2. Combination of all of them 3. Current speed is good, in the future it will either get better, stay the same, or get worse, depending on how much the community contributes. Tom Op 13/10/15 om 19:38 schreef Marcos Eugenio Kehl: Hello cripto

[tor-talk] Fwd: Adaptive Echo (AE) Routing & Alibi Routing

2015-10-12 Thread Tom A.
> Hello, > > for your further research: reports about Geo Location Routing > > https://alibi.cs.umd.edu/ > http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Surfen-mit-Alibi-2806120.html > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Alibi-Routing-Peer-to-Peer-Technik-zur-Nutzer-Kontrolle-des-Datenverkehrs-2826970.ht

Re: [tor-talk] IBM says Block Tor

2015-08-27 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
hould be taken with a barrel of salt. Tom > On 27 Aug 2015, at 14:57, Paul Syverson wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:08:26AM +0200, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: >> In some corporate environments this would be a reasonable thing to >> do. And the article that

Re: [tor-talk] IBM says Block Tor

2015-08-27 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
seems reasonable. Tom > On 27 Aug 2015, at 08:47, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > "In general, networks should be configured to deny access to websites such > as www.torproject.org" > > Blocking Tor exit nodes is one thing, but this is just bizarre. They could > make a

Re: [tor-talk] future of torstatus.blutmagie.de

2015-08-23 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Olaf, If you can send me the source code and database (if any), I can continue to run it from a more favorable location (say, Amsterdam or Frankfurt). I have the resources/knowledge to do this. Tom > On 23 Aug 2015, at 16:22, Olaf Selke wrote: > > Hello folks, > > my h

Re: [tor-talk] evidence that Tor isn't "amoral"?

2015-07-10 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
ld like to find data to support my belief. Anyone know of such research or statistics? Thanks! Drew https://keybase.io/pdp7 Doing such research, where one would be snooping on Tor users' traffic and most likely without their consent, would be "amoral". Tom -- tor-talk mail

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-05 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Similar from me : torsocks ab -c 10 -n 1 http://eujuuws2nacz4xw4.onion/ Tom Ben schreef op 05/07/15 om 10:02: Much the same, but with some stats (some of which are likely irrelevant, but I poached the line from another script I use) #!/bin/bash torify curl -w "%{http_code},\&

Re: [tor-talk] SOCKS proxy to sit between user and Tor?

2015-05-24 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Jeremy, Yup, that's what I meant. Put haproxy between the user and the socks proxy and it'll nicely pass sockets to Tor instances, transparently. Tom > On 24 May 2015, at 13:30, Jeremy Rand wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > >&

Re: [tor-talk] SOCKS proxy to sit between user and Tor?

2015-05-24 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Jeremy, After reading your message I wonder whether a simple TCP proxy is what you want. Maybe have a look at haproxy? Tom > On 24 May 2015, at 13:15, Jeremy Rand wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello, > > I'm inter

Re: [tor-talk] 100-Foot Overview on Tor

2015-05-09 Thread Tom Ritter
the the maximum limit of 7 hops is > reached. > > That's maybe a bit too deep to explain in the slides so I guess 4 hops > Client <-> Intro is good enough. :) Yea, the extension quirk I think is a bit much, but I fixed the number of hops - now that I think about it clos

Re: [tor-talk] 100-Foot Overview on Tor

2015-05-05 Thread Tom Ritter
. I can export it as powerpoint, html, images, or pdf and send you any one of those five. (Or all of them.) -tom -- 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

[tor-talk] 100-Foot Overview on Tor

2015-05-04 Thread Tom Ritter
https://ritter.vg/p/tor-v1.2.pdf Yes - it is long. There's a lot to tor these days :) -tom -- 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] What is being detected to alert upon?

2015-05-01 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
sn't a big deal. Bridges might have some very small benefit from looking like an old Firefox, but this is not proven. Also, pluggable transports completely eliminate the need for fingerprint resistance in Tor. Tom Allen schreef op 01/05/15 om 07:41: I didn't see an answer to this

Re: [tor-talk] Secure DNS Addresses

2015-04-05 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Please clarify "secure"? Tor has its own built-in DNS resolution that will ignore client-side settings. If you're referring to relay DNS: I strongly recommend running a DNS resolver locally, and enabling DNSSEC. That's as secure as you can get them. Tom evervigil...@r

Re: [tor-talk] Hi!

2015-04-04 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
I know of a good one. -T gary02121...@openmailbox.org schreef op 04/04/15 om 17:47: Hi! Are most hidden services bad? Are there more bad hidden services? Thanks! -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
network (not to mention the popularity gain). Oh, and don't forget that the "normal" internet also has quite a high share of this kind of traffic. Tom [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner schreef op 16/01/15 om 21:40: H

Re: [tor-talk] Question about linux-tor-prio.sh

2015-01-11 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Lorenzo, 1Mbit is 125Kbyte. :) Tom > On 12 Jan 2015, at 08:18, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: > > Hi. > I've recently set up a Tor node but bandwidth is running out quickly :) > Since I don't want to throttle BW using Tor's options (which basically turns > it do

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service Hosting (Free experimental offer)

2015-01-02 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Just wanted to point out that I think it's awesome Thomas is doing this! Buy him a beer if you see him. Tom Thomas White schreef op 02/01/15 om 09:42: Hey all, So following my other mail, I just want to offer people on this mailing list a chance to test something out before I go int

Re: [tor-talk] To how many other relays does a relay have connections?

2014-12-27 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
lays that are mainly middle routers or guards. Tom -- 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] Platform diversity in Tor network [was: OpenBSD doc/TUNING]

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Ritter
the obvious that if we're talking about diversity for the purposes of security, the network-accessible parts of tor rely on OpenSSL, which would probably be difficult to swap out, but might be worth it as an experiment. Even if it's to LibreSSL. Maybe the zlib library also, but that o

Re: [tor-talk] Krypton Anonymous: A Chromium Tor Browser

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Ritter
a bridge though. -tom -- 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] Escalating hidden services

2014-07-16 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
you from load balancing a single HS address across multiple nodes. If you run 3 nodes, tell 1 of them to handle the introductions, and have this node communicate with the other nodes which then handle the rendezvous part. It might need some hacking in the Tor code, but this should scale for se

Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Ritter
a couple of Tor users. I would > have used SSH to get to a 'unmonitored network', Tor and then mixmaster. Which is exactly how we got a couple mixmaster nodes raided last year by the FBI. (University of Philadelphia bomb threats) =( -tom -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torp

Re: [tor-talk] Regarding #8244; Including a string not under authority control?

2013-11-25 Thread Tom Fitzhenry
they should look at the block closest(?) to 22:00. -- Tom Fitzhenry 0. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty 1. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/146/what-are-bitcoin-confirmations -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to htt

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Can You Trust NIST?

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Goldman
NOTE: Sorry about sending that duplicate. Best regards, cl34r On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Tom Goldman wrote: > Recently, I stumbled upon a very interesting article at > http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nist > Does this mean that Tor could technically be

[tor-talk] Can You Trust NIST?

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Goldman
Recently, I stumbled upon a very interesting article at http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nist Does this mean that Tor could technically be weakened by the NSA? Best regards, cl34r -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other setti

[tor-talk] Fwd: Can You Trust NIST?

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Goldman
Recently, I stumbled upon a very interesting article at http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nist Does this mean that Tor could technically be weakened by the NSA? Best regards, cl34r -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other setti

[tor-talk] Fuck the Hell: VICE Magazine about "the Darknet"

2013-09-17 Thread tom
Just my 2 cents: trying to read that page using my (untorified) Web Browser with NoScript enabled, those want to execute javascript: twitter.com cloudfront.net google.com googletagmanager.com google-analytics.com outbrain.com tynt.com chartbeat.com ooyala.com stumbleupon.com ad-vice.biz quantserv

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay activity from Antarctica

2013-08-28 Thread Tom Ritter
eing as it's likely the research stations are supplied internet through government connections, I'd be interested in using Tor if I were on such a station... -tom -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] How to designate specific node as exit node

2013-08-13 Thread Tom Ritter
is way is likely to decrease, not increase, your security and anonymity. -tom -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] HS drop

2013-08-11 Thread Tom Ritter
Hey grarpamp, You may have explained this elsewhere, but if so I missed it (potentially while on an internet moratorium for the past week) - how are you observing these statistics? Thanks, -tom -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go

Re: [tor-talk] NSA, Tempora, PRISM And Company always know who is behind Tor?

2013-07-19 Thread Tom Ritter
these sorts of questions once her slides go up in a couple weeks.) Regarding their ability to monitor EC2 - well it depends on what datacenter. The bulk of EC2 is in the Virginia one - and yea the NSA probably has a line on that one or it's upstream ;) But what about the on

Re: [tor-talk] Will Tor affect Internet Explorer? (newbie question)

2013-07-12 Thread Tom Ritter
On Jul 11, 2013 11:41 PM, "cl34r" wrote: > > On 07/11/2013 11:24 PM, Gabrielle DiFonzo wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> > Hi > >> I am currently running Windows 7 and my usual browser is Internet Explorer. If I download Tor, will I still be able to use Internet Explorer when I want to? > > You can config

Re: [tor-talk] Plans about Askbot?

2013-06-17 Thread Tom Ritter
rt of dump, containing all the data up until the last day, after they shuttered a site, I would consider them as having COMPLETELY violated the principles the site was founded on, and would go over to their office (they're in NYC) and see if I could plead with them into giving it to me on a th

Re: [tor-talk] Plans about Askbot?

2013-06-17 Thread Tom Ritter
logins, emails and passwords) > could be retrieved through <http://data.stackexchange.com/>, but it > looks a bit tedious to get a full export. Also, given there's a CAPTCHA, > I am not sure backups could be automated. Did they stop doing the database dumps? -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] What are some good VPS providers for Tor?

2013-05-28 Thread Tom Ritter
mages run Obfs Bridges, so it's better to run one of those than roll your own. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] What are some good VPS providers for Tor?

2013-05-28 Thread Tom Ritter
ases single points of failure. If you cannot find a VPS you can afford to run an exit node on, consider running a bridge or a relay node on a VPS that (you think) other people aren't also using. Sorry there's no easy answer, -tom ___

[tor-talk] Anonymity of Leaking Servers (Was Re: [tor-dev] "Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization")

2013-05-27 Thread Tom Ritter
hat regard, HS are still good, because as you said "sources are forced to use Tor, [with] end-to-end crypto without relying on CAs". -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Ritter
to deal with the complaints at all, but they won't do that either. -tom (who also uses Linode for his server, but runs it as a middleman) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] You could use ModX to create .onion sites,

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Ritter
On 24 May 2013 09:25, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2013 07:22:28 +0000, Tom Ritter wrote: > ... >> ... Actually that's not true. I could have bought a certificate for a >> .onion address, any .onion address, from any CA until the end of 2015. > > How that? .

Re: [tor-talk] You could use ModX to create .onion sites,

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Ritter
talk to a HS over SSL, and attempt to negotiate an anonymous, non-confidential ciphersuite (to reduce the CPU needed) or make other provisions to accommodate it, like ignore PKIX validation and showing no security indicators. -tom [0]https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/wiki/ConfigOptions#Debugging_

Re: [tor-talk] You could use ModX to create .onion sites,

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Ritter
resource push features of SPDY might be a hugely tremendous boone, without requiring re-architecture web apps. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] You could use ModX to create .onion sites,

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Ritter
es and content (or even entire pages) that the user is likely to want while they are browsing the page f) potentially, I haven't tried this, using the new prefetch directives for bleeding-edge browsers Those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. It

Re: [tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Ritter
e test of VLC as opposed to my subjective hand-waving, but I'm not aware of one. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] memory cached pages should reload instantly-but DON'T

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Ritter
ypes of bugs are pretty tricky to track down. I did want to point you in the right direction for maybe finding the culprit though. -tom. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Ritter
anonymous proxy. I don't even care about paying 25% more at that point, I just want to do it anonymously. These days, my opinion is that I hope bitcoin matures to the point where a system like this is both possible and widely implemented. [1] -tom [0] There's definitely some parallel

Re: [tor-talk] HTML5 video and Tor anonymity.

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Ritter
IP doesn't help. But it can still make a proxy-circumventing request. Putting Flash in a VM and restricting the VM from making any request except through the proxy (or routing all requests through the proxy) alleviates that concern. -tom ___ tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] FlashProxy and HTTPS

2013-03-31 Thread Tom Ritter
t otherwise perhaps you can provide a little more feedback, or elaborate on what areas you believe are factually inaccurate? -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] FlashProxy and HTTPS

2013-03-30 Thread Tom Ritter
itator communication channel go up: it must now be bi-directional and support up to 1K of data or so. - The signing of certificates would introduce a DOS channel. This can be mitigated in some sense by rejecting requests for an IP if you've signed a ce

Re: [tor-talk] Mail services: Hotmail / Live, Outlook

2013-03-16 Thread Tom Ritter
a your alternate email or phone) on the first login from an anonymous proxy service, after that they flag your account so they don't bother you again. I haven't test the limits or implementation of this. -tom. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@list

Re: [tor-talk] Mail services: Hotmail / Live, Outlook

2013-03-16 Thread Tom Ritter
On 15 March 2013 18:34, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Don't know if this will always work, for all providers, but I have set torrc > to use only exit nodes in my country I don't think this should be a recommended practice, because (while you are in that country) it explicitly enables your government to pe

[tor-talk] Fwd: Starting out: Project Coordinator

2013-03-04 Thread Tom Lowenthal
Hello! I'm Tom Lowenthal; we may have spoken before, but I can tell you all about me later. I'm Tor's new project coordinator, starting forthwith. I'm here to deal with logistics and communication, and all kinds of other interfering nonsense so that Tor folks can focus on th

Re: [tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Ritter
On 9 January 2013 10:33, Alexandre Guillioud wrote: > Wooo thank's Tom ! First time using mailing lists, i'm going to like it :D > (and it's not a problem to answer from work :DD). > Ok, so i understand what you're meaning by high/low latency network. > >

Re: [tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Ritter
algorithms for pooling, and we'll go into more detail about them and > pool attacks later. As a mix node, if I accumulate 8 same-size messages, and then send them all out at once to 8 recipients, you can't use traffic analysis to see who I sent which message out to -

Re: [tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers

2013-01-08 Thread Tom Ritter
Roger once, many moons ago, I recall he expressed the desire that one day, in an ideal world, Alpha Mixing would indeed be the main mixing of the network, to allow for transit of other types of things, like email. -tom [0] http://www.freehaven.net/doc/alpha-mixing/alpha-mixing.pdf

Re: [tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers

2013-01-07 Thread Tom Ritter
bad). That's all assuming you mean abuse from the perspective of the recipient, and not abuse form the perspective of the remailer operator. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers

2013-01-07 Thread Tom Ritter
I'm hoping this will be of interest to this list. To encourage interest in the waning art of remailers, I'm starting what I aim to be a long series on how they work, design choices, technical limitations, and attacks. The first five are now live at https://crypto.is/b

Re: [tor-talk] Status reports archive, blog and git?

2012-12-19 Thread Tom Ritter
nts out of a database and display them on the page. Now the comments are stored elsewhere and the page in git has some boilerplate javascript to load the comments. You can even let uses markdown-style their comments. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser protections

2012-12-18 Thread Tom Ritter
> > Thanks. Niles. > Yes. At least based on what I see here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/tree/HEAD:/src/current-patches/firefox and in particular here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/src/current-patches/

Re: [tor-talk] Synchro of database server over Tor

2012-12-02 Thread Tom Ritter
I'd design as much or all of the db-parts of the site to load over AJAX as possible, so you can put up a nice "Loading..." message. Keep a persistent connection to the database; don't connect for every client (pconnect in PHP). Maybe do a redundant design that aims for eventual consistency if you

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Ritter
on a HS on a VPS outside the country. Or for something that costs nothing, Host the blog on blogger.com or wordpress, and connect to it over Tor, signing up using non personally identifiable information -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] Request: would someone create a tutorial on how to examine an app for leaks?

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Ritter
ects/tor/wiki/doc/PreventingDnsLeaksInTor - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxyLeaks It's long, but you're now doing work as a developer, not a user - you owe it to the users of *your*

Re: [tor-talk] Can we come up with a lighter, easier torified client apps ?

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Ritter
roblems to overcome would be to figure out a way to track upstream easily and identifying use cases where people would really benefit from specific tools, to focus on those first. TorPidginOTR seems like it'd be a likely candidate... unless there'

Re: [tor-talk] new tld question

2012-07-29 Thread Tom Ritter
I'm just thinking aloud, and if the idea of exposing HS to the normal web through .onion is desirable, we could start brainstorming in advance of the several hundred pages of paperwork applying for a gTLD requires. -tom [0] If every DNS Request returned the IP of Entry Guard or similar node,

Re: [tor-talk] Torbirdy and gpg --throw-keyids

2012-07-20 Thread Tom Ritter
st seems like it could be worth codifying a preference in the OpenPGP standard. Potentially interpreting http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.17 to also imply throw-keyid or adding a new option. - -tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iEYEARECAAYFAlAJ/DwACgkQJZJIJEzU09tWhwCfbW9CKWh

Re: [tor-talk] How to pin the SSL certificate for torproject.org?

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Ritter
trol to verify the certificate through external validators or notify you if the certificate changes (respectively). In other applications: IE, wget, curl, etc - there aren't any 'prebuilt' options - you'd have to write some sort of plugin or hook yourself. -tom __

Re: [tor-talk] Roger's status report, May 2012

2012-06-24 Thread Tom Ritter
he blog. If you are, perhaps a separate 'Tor Engineering' blog? If you do separate it into a second blog, you could disable comments, simul-post to the tor-dev list, and say all comments should go on-list -tom ___ tor-tal

Re: [tor-talk] Torbutton-birdy version 0.0.2

2012-05-27 Thread Tom Ritter
that important? It seems like it would be. As an example, go through this thread, and see whose reply header is of the form "On X, Y wrote:" and now you know who's not running the latest version. -tom [1] https://ritter.vg/blog-no_email_security.html ___

Re: [tor-talk] Webserver on 127.0.0.1 only?

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Ritter
wall which abstracts iptables to configuration files that make (more) sense. -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor with ttdnsd and unbound

2012-04-29 Thread Tom
On 29 April 2012 12:53, anonym wrote: > > So, you have to switch from using Google's DNS (which blocks Tor > nowadays) to OpenDNS or whatever DNS server you trust. You'll still be > unable to do multiple DNS requests at a time, though. > > Yes, you are right! So for now I'm scraping the ttdns+un

[tor-talk] Tor with ttdnsd and unbound

2012-04-28 Thread Tom
Hello, Inspired by Tails design documents I'm trying to set up DNS resolving through Tor with Unbound and ttdnsd. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work... This is what I have done so far: ls /var/lib/ttdnsd pid tsocks.conf ttdnsd.conf cat /var/lib/ttdnsd/tsocks.conf # This is the config

Re: [tor-talk] Evening Standard Article - Invisible Web

2012-04-23 Thread Tom Cheshire
x27;s an added bonus. If you'd like to talk, please drop me an email – t chesh...@gmail.com. I'm happy to keep names anonymous and out of print if you'd prefer. My deadline is May 8. Many thanks, Tom Tom Cheshire Associate editor - WIRED magazine (UK) _

Re: [tor-talk] Another openssl advisory: Tor seems not to be affected (Chroot?)

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Ritter
dd another data point, Colin Percival has blogged about how he terminates SSL connections in a jail to mitigate this risk. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-09-28-securing-https.html -tom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] Arm 1.4.3 Release

2011-07-17 Thread Tom L
Nice work! Those are some seriously awesome improvements. -Tom On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Damian Johnson wrote: > Hi all. A new release of arm (http://www.atagar.com/arm/) is now > available. This completes the codebase refactoring project that's been > a year in the work