Re: [tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

2012-02-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
Sounds like an interesting idea. Another potential solution is Namecoin, which supports mapping memorable .bit addresses to .onion addresses. In theory, the only way to seize/censor a .bit address is a 51% attack. I believe there are already some .onion addresses using .bit addresses. On 2

Re: [tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

2012-02-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
Not correct; Namecoin supports mapping names to Tor hidden services, as well as I2P and Freenet sites. Obviously you need to use a Namecoin implementation that's a proxy instead of a DNS server, but that's not a big deal (nmcsocks already implements this). On 2/24/2012 3:22 PM, Andreas Krey w

Re: [tor-talk] Almost anon real time chat

2012-09-10 Thread Jeremy Rand
On 9/10/2012 5:16 AM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: Pidgin is one. But I have read about it having leaks, thus the removal from the TBB. Jake Applebaum talked about Jitsi. Truly a Skype replacement on steroids. Only it needs Java. And I have no idea if it leaks. Do you know any clients built with ano

Re: [tor-talk] Tor DNS

2014-08-04 Thread Jeremy Rand
e trusted... the Namecoin developers are actively looking at solutions such as SPV+UTXO, which has much better trust properties than trusting a quorum of 3 random relays, and doesn't use much storage or bandwidth. Any questions, feel free to ask -- we're more than interested in working with

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Services - how to implement something like Round Robin DNS?

2014-09-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
at feature yet. Namecoin would also give you human-readable names. (Also Namecoin isn't anonymous, which might or might not be a problem depending on the use case.) - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUJ6RLAAoJEFgMI9bDV/

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Services - how to implement something like Round Robin DNS?

2014-10-05 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/2014 05:28 PM, coderman wrote: > On 9/27/14, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> ... Namecoin would make this pretty easy. Last I checked the >> current Namecoin domain name spec only supports round-robin DNS >> for IPv4/IPv6 and not

Re: [tor-talk] Is Tor a VPN or ISP?

2015-01-02 Thread Jeremy Rand
ing-customers-150102/ In > case anyone wants to go digging through the bill, here's what I think is the relevant text: http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5697419&File=72 Look for 41.25 and 41.26 The usual "I'm not a

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

2015-05-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I'm interested in having a SOCKS proxy sitting between the end user and the Tor-provided SOCKS proxy, which can do really simple stuff like redirect from one host to another. (Just on the level of the host requested via SOCKS, not HTTP heade

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

2015-05-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/24/2015 06:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > After reading your message I wonder whether a simple TCP proxy is > what you want. Maybe have a look at haproxy? > > Tom Hi Tom, The intention is to have end user applications lik

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

2015-05-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/24/2015 06:42 AM, s7r wrote: > Hi Jeremy > > Why do you want this and why do you think this is a good idea? > What are you trying to solve? The socks5 which Tor open is not a > simple socks5 protocol implementation, it has some customizations

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

2015-05-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/24/2015 08:54 AM, l.m wrote: > Hi, > > Is the Socks-to-Socks proxy absolutely necessary? This could be > done as a browser plugin couldn't it? You might find the work of > the FreeSpeechMe team interesting. They have the objective of > integra

Re: [tor-talk] Importance of individual useragent items

2014-06-23 Thread Jeremy Rand
On 06/23/2014 12:11 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > I noticed there are at least 2 different references in Torbrowser for > useragent over ride strings. > > The Panopticlick site picks up this one: "/Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; > rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0/," though there's another shown in >

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-08 Thread Jeremy Rand
> https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ > It's theoretically possible to use naming systems like Namecoin to specify TLS fingerprints for connections to Tor hidden services, which would eliminate the need for a CA. I'm hoping to have a proof of concept of such funct

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-08 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/09/2015 01:04 AM, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Jeremy Rand writes: > >> It's theoretically possible to use naming systems like Namecoin >> to specify TLS fingerprints for connections to Tor hidden >> services, which

Re: [tor-talk] Making TBB undetectable!

2015-09-26 Thread Jeremy Rand
have the same fingerprint as each other, which the TorBrowser devs seem to be doing a good job on. Cheers, - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWBvWBAAoJEAHN/EbZ1y06EoQP/2s4V0dsGFyism2rSSpsd6fo gt0a40kLdIBb2wegtYbpWtjdL2N9hvc6HWgcob

Re: [tor-talk] staggeringly unhelpful

2015-12-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
with DKIM to know if the DKIM signature is sufficient to prove that I received such an email. - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWfI8CAAoJEAHN/EbZ1y06NDsP/0bGwLD/cfuiOzLiJCO3JFGj f9MqK6QNbTICgeT0i4vGgRYfXzxtzk0zevGzTA+FjBsmDyrDqpj7hcSY/sjYA7Um w/fgpA28r0M

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Bitmessage

2016-01-30 Thread Jeremy Rand
e at home, GoldBug falsely claimed to be a project of EFF and CCC. It would be wise to assume that BitMail is malware or backdoored unless proven otherwise. As with all other software hosted by SourceForge these days. - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBC

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Here is the exact link: >>>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>>> it jumped from 4 to 6 in the past

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/19/2016 01:44 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: > On 2016-02-19 01:40, Jeremy Rand wrote: On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, > CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: >>>> >>>> That chat program you are referring to would be ricochet

Re: [tor-talk] Tracking blocker

2016-02-19 Thread Jeremy Rand
to make tracking less effective without resorting to a blacklist [1], so in theory you don't need a blacklist anyway. Cheers, - -Jeremy Rand [1] Of course, Tor Browser is imperfect in this area, so it is at least plausible that a blacklist might help in some limited circumstances. I

Re: [tor-talk] Not able to download Tor to droid

2016-02-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
Firefox for Android is not sufficient for good anonymity. Something like Orfox or Orweb is probably much safer. (Sorry for top post, I'm on a phone.) On February 24, 2016 3:18:14 PM CST, libertyinpe...@riseup.net wrote: >Did a factory reset on the droid tablet. Was finally able to properly >do

Re: [tor-talk] FBI harassing Tor devs

2016-05-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
said this at his CCC talk.) - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXPS0CAAoJEAHN/EbZ1y06gK4QAIYJPkT4/w1akaPZX+j2z7Au aoPBN3FcVMMSHlUfPCmuMNt+CYpexjoSOTFU6maxXPMxqIJsEyK/Y6JUcwIjmVeJ NwihmFAlgMHmgP+CjTCVPj6EK2w5XisqDHYyT8JHo5Bzk/TnuR

Re: [tor-talk] FBI harassing Tor devs

2016-05-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/18/2016 10:28 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >> If I recall correctly, Mike Perry considered pressure on >> individual > developers to be sufficiently threatening that it was a major > reason why he set up reproducible builds. (I believe he said t

Re: [tor-talk] Question for those who say "Tor is pwned"

2016-06-20 Thread Jeremy Rand
that isn't particularly accurate. It's not fun to engage in such discussions, but it is sometimes worthwhile. Cheers, - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXaOKqAAoJEAHN/EbZ1y06jQQQAMTMCMXAum1wl5haUZ5TXQtS yq9rEZ6K0G+SzV8td2xHMg2kNm3B/Z9iE5H

[tor-talk] Senate Funding Bill For State Dept. Asks It To Figure Out Ways To Stop Bad People From Using Tor

2016-07-06 Thread Jeremy Rand
? - -Jeremy Rand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXfTzoAAoJEAHN/EbZ1y06dPkQAJJ3vHUBLXeUZcdLdZw5ow+l 23M0DSIvIOSptFEydB8mCBBSR8BTwAcDZK6CKmzOgs8BcYgE7gLPInjsdNu8WfgS q0LqT1tBMPE38oOOd5WIUd89g5j02gUrjNjeCfcQ+cP7RwJJzjxaavMVJWXbLZL3 PMF4PIY2++rX9dt6sO1IrYdRULLcEW8RIAfnBLpdq8N

Re: [tor-talk] These Maps Show What the Dark Web Looks Like

2016-07-08 Thread Jeremy Rand
the last of these > technologies I would opt for. > > What else is around? AFAIK ZeroNet doesn't rely on Bitcoin's PoW for anything. It only relies on Namecoin's PoW as an optional naming system. Freenet doesn't have a decentralized naming system at

[tor-talk] SELinux issue with Tor?

2016-08-13 Thread Jeremy Rand
has encountered this issue in Fedora (or any other distros), that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, -Jeremy Rand signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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] SELinux issue with Tor?

2016-08-14 Thread Jeremy Rand
grarpamp: > On 8/13/16, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> #zeronet IRC >> I've obtained permission to post a partial chatlog. > > It's a public channel, on an insecure server, plugged into clearnet. > Do you have any idea how many users, publicly accessible archives, >

Re: [tor-talk] A community concern that needs to be addressed,

2016-08-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
xtra usability issues in order to get better anonymity? Even some blogposts would be great -- perhaps some of the projects like Tails, Qubes, Whonix, and Subgraph might be willing to collaborate with Tor on some blogposts explaining how the threat models, usability, and intended audiences diff

Re: [tor-talk] Bitmessage still alive?

2016-08-19 Thread Jeremy Rand
er Bitmessage is a protocol that makes sense from an engineering perspective is an entirely orthogonal issue, which I've heard concerns raised about, but which I'm probably not qualified to make any statements on. Cheers, -Jeremy Rand signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatu

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-09-24 Thread Jeremy Rand
t remember ever being blocked from it due to coming from a Tor exit. I wonder why your experience differs from mine. Cheers, -Jeremy Rand signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-09-26 Thread Jeremy Rand
Joe Btfsplk: > > > On 9/25/2016 12:15 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> hi...@safe-mail.net: >>> You can't use Google Translate at all with most Tor exit nodes, while >>> there are no sane reaons why they would block Tor users from just >>> translating text

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-09-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
Joe Btfsplk: > On 9/26/2016 11:57 PM, Jeremy Rand wrote: >> If it matters, I usually have Tor Browser in Medium-High security level, >> so Javascript is enabled for HTTPS sites (including Google Translate). >> >> Cheers, >> -Jeremy >> > Yep, mine can be

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-10-03 Thread Jeremy Rand
that location-anonymity isn't desired, and that all we want is the integrity/authencitity/encryption properties that .onion gives you, wouldn't .tlsexplicit be a lot more efficient and a lot less complex? Cheers, -Jeremy Rand signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-10-03 Thread Jeremy Rand
Jeremy Rand: > Alec Muffett: >> Irregardless of the political and privacy issues there are also technical >>> benefits to using Tor for day to day traffic. >> >> >> Totally. So many people are fixated on "anonymity" and completely ignore >> the

Re: [tor-talk] tweetdeck trouble

2017-01-07 Thread Jeremy Rand
Andreas Krey: > Hi there, > > is there anybody else using tweetdeck via tor? > > I have the strange phenomenon that I get a > '... Something went wrong. Please try again.' > on the initial tweetdeck.twitter.com screen, > and, while I can log into twitter.com, tweetdeck > itself won't work. The in

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

2017-01-07 Thread Jeremy Rand
Alec Muffett: > In my previous e-mail I suggested removing Tor from Debian precisely > because of this future-staleness problem. > > I still believe that this is a decent idea, because stale code sucks. > > Another possible solution would be creation of a "Tor Server Bundle" - > designed and main

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2017-01-27 Thread Jeremy Rand
hi...@safe-mail.net: > https://duckduckgo.com has become increasingly better lately. Only during > the past 6 months or so, their search results have become almost on par > with the big ones, like Google, Bing, etc. > > In regards to Google, it all comes down to censorship and anti-privacy. La

Re: [tor-talk] Problem with TOR-browser on iMac

2017-04-06 Thread Jeremy Rand
ing Tor Browser from connecting to Tor (which would presumably be 127.0.0.1:9150). I wouldn't expect this to be caused by Tor being unable to talk to the Internet. Cheers, -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile PGP: 2158 0643 C

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread Jeremy Rand
is the path to improving it. > > //Sidju It wasn't obvious to me whether OP intends to give their analysis to the Tor Browser devs (seems ethical) or instead keep it for proprietary purposes (seems unethical). Can OP clarify on this point? Cheers, -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Applicati

[tor-talk] Continuous Integration for testing application proxy leaks?

2017-05-20 Thread Jeremy Rand
x27;m curious if someone has already tried to tackle this, or if there's a better way. (H/t to pabouk at https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/118 for the idea of using strace.) Cheers, - -- - -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile OpenPGP:

Re: [tor-talk] Continuous Integration for testing application proxy leaks?

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Rand
erfere with the remainder of the test (and therefore make it difficult to tell whether any additional leaks were made undetectable by the change in program behavior caused by the initial leak being blocked). Hope I'm making sense, and apologies if my initial post was unclear. Cheers, - -- - -

Re: [tor-talk] Use of TBB behind a physically isolated Tor router?

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Rand
cess. I will explore this idea to see if it > would work for my usecase. > > Is there any comments on the way Whonix gateway and TBB work > together? You might find this documentation on Whonix with physical isolation interesting: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Build_Documentatio

[tor-talk] Do onion services have forward secrecy?

2017-06-23 Thread Jeremy Rand
data being exchanged? Some Googling didn't yield anything, other than this unanswered StackExchange question: https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/760/what-is-the-reasoning-behind - -keeping-hidden-service-onion-rsa-keys-at-1024-lengt Cheers, - -- - -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor E-mail gateway - how to transfer messages from the Tor Network ?

2017-07-17 Thread Jeremy Rand
d a good experience with cock.li so far (been using them for about a year). A little bit of occasional downtime every now and then, but I can't say I expect a service run by one guy for fun to be as reliable as Gmail. Cheers, - -- - -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile

Re: [tor-talk] Building Tor Browser on ARM

2019-05-08 Thread Jeremy Rand
you're concerned that asking questions in the Trac thread would harm the signal-to-noise ratio there. Cheers, - -- - -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile OpenPGP: 2158 0643 C13B B40F B0FD 5854 B007 A32D AB44 3D9C Send non-security-

Re: [tor-talk] Snowflake vs China

2019-10-02 Thread Jeremy Rand
the UX issues that caused Flash Proxy to be deprecated.) (Full disclosure: I'm not super familiar with the details of Snowflake, so maybe I've made errors in the above. Anyone who's more knowledgeable about Snowflake is encouraged to correct any errors in what I stated, if there are a

Re: [tor-talk] facebookcorewwwi on brief hiatus

2019-12-13 Thread Jeremy Rand
tuations) where the Tor daemon and the application are in separate trust domains, and in those threat models, there is an advantage to using TLS combined with onion (compared to only onion), because TLS is terminated in the application rather than the Tor daemon. Cheers, -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Applica

Re: [tor-talk] Did twitter change its tor policy in 2020?

2020-01-05 Thread Jeremy Rand
ith the start of > 2020? > > thanks, > nusenu I signed into TweetDeck with Tor Browser today with no issues. So, there are probably some additional variables at play here. Cheers, -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile Op

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser without Tor

2020-02-02 Thread Jeremy Rand
gt; > Jason Tor Browser, last I checked, has a transproxy mode (enabled via an environment variable) that I suspect would make it work fine without Tor. No idea if it's documented properly; I've only seen it mentioned on the Whonix wiki (in the "disable stream isolation&qu

[tor-talk] Testers Wanted: Human-meaningful onion service names via Namecoin in Tor Browser Nightly

2020-02-26 Thread Jeremy Rand
e following links: 36C3 CDC Slides: https://www.namecoin.org/resources/presentations/36C3/Adventures_and_Experiments_Adding_Namecoin_to_Tor_Browser_36C3_CDC.pdf 36C3 CDC Video: https://youtu.be/mc51zyflpa8?t=22638 Cheers! -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin Mobile email: jeremyrandmob...@airmail.cc Mobile OpenPGP: 2158 0643 C13B B40F

Re: [tor-talk] Testers Wanted: Human-meaningful onion service names via Namecoin in Tor Browser Nightly

2020-03-16 Thread Jeremy Rand
Jeremy Rand: > Hi Tor community! > > As we all know, onion services have rather unwieldy randomly derived > base32-encoded names. This is, of course, a reasonable design, given > the design constraints that onion services have to deal with. And it > works pretty well, all

Re: [tor-talk] Idea for a stand-alone browser based on Tor browser source code

2020-07-08 Thread Jeremy Rand
nment variables to customize the official Tor Browser binaries' behavior. More info here: http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/wiki/SecBrowser The usual warnings about "this isn't endorsed by The Tor Project" apply. Cheers, -- -Jeremy Rand Lead Application Eng