Re: [tor-relays] Spam

2014-06-28 Thread Jann Horn
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:08:51PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > One workaround is to obfuscate the E-Mail you use in your contact details as > I mentioned, either lightly or not, I have seen some really creative ways > people obfuscate their E-Mail to avoid spam-crawlers. Which is a great thing i

Re: [tor-relays] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-04-01 Thread Jann Horn
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:12:05PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > Well, the subject line pretty much says it all: Lots of Tor relays send out > globally sequential IP IDs, which, as far as I know, allows a remote party to > measure how fast the relay is sending out IP packets with high

Re: [tor-relays] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-03-31 Thread Jann Horn
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 04:34:20PM -0800, I wrote: > I don't understand but I really want secure relays. > All my relays are on VPSs running Debian 6/7 64 and I only know enough Linux > to get Tor going. > Is being updated enough? On Linux, that should be sufficient – looking at

Re: [tor-relays] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-03-31 Thread Jann Horn
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:25:46PM -0400, Tor Relay wrote: > Could you please translate your instructions into XP that I might > check and, if necessary, fix my relay? (OnionTorte) If you don't have hping, you could also e.g. start a capture in wireshark or so, then connect to your host with teln

Re: [tor-relays] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-03-31 Thread Jann Horn
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:45:47PM -0800, I wrote: > How? How to fix it, you mean? Good question. Probably depends on your OS. If your OS doesn't let you change it and you can't patch it, I'm afraid you'd have to use another OS (or a newer version of the one you're using). https://en.wikipedia.or

[tor-relays] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-03-31 Thread Jann Horn
Well, the subject line pretty much says it all: Lots of Tor relays send out globally sequential IP IDs, which, as far as I know, allows a remote party to measure how fast the relay is sending out IP packets with high precision, possibly making statistical attacks possible that could e.g. pinpoint t