[tor-talk] Removal of v2 onion service support (was: Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is released)

2021-03-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Nick Mathewson wrote on 2021-03-18: > Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18 > Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It > improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and > improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It als

Re: [tor-talk] Document Leak: German Agency BND cooperates with NSA and GCHQ to attack Tor

2017-09-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-das-anonymisierungs-netzwerk-tor-angegriffen-und-warnt-vor-dessen-nutzung/ > (German link) > > Netzpolitik.org (a german news blog focused on politics surrounding the > digital world) today released a leak of

[tor-talk] Slides from 1C2 talk about location hidden block storage

2015-09-18 Thread Fabian Keil
A couple of months ago I gave a German talk about accessing block storage through one or more hidden services using ElectroBSD, zogftw and (obviously) Tor. The slides are available online now: https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/versteckter-block-speicher/ Most of the slides contain pictures, code or

Re: [tor-talk] ConnLimit issues with tor-0.2.7.2-alpha

2015-08-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Chris Dagdigian wrote: > However I'm having issues getting it to operate. I keep seeing this as > the last log entry: > > [warn] ConnLimit must be at least 32. Failing. > > .. despite setting ConnLimit to 1024 in torrc and testing the OS via > "ulimit -H -n" I still see the "Failing" message

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

2015-05-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Tom Ritter wrote: > On 5 May 2015 at 07:53, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Is the source of the PDF available under a free license? > > > > I'm currently preparing a (German) presentation about location > > hidden block storage and could reuse the HS-related parts: &

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

2015-05-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Tom Ritter wrote: > I've put together a slide deck that aims to provide a 100-foot > overview on little-t tor and Tor Browser. 100 foot, meaning I go into > a lot of technical detail, but not 10 or 1 foot which means some > things are definitely glossed over or handwaved a little. My > consistenc

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > The Privoxy part of the chain could be an issue. What is your > > reason for using Privoxy? > > In general, I find Tor to be faster overall, since overhauls in > > TorBrowser - when they stopped using Priv

Re: [tor-talk] multiple local proxy ports

2014-06-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Wayland Morgan wrote: > I have a shared host with as many as five users that will be logged in > at a time, all to use Tor. In the current arrangement if one person is > using Tor then no one else can bind to the local proxy port to forward > their traffic out across the Tor network. The ultimate

Re: [tor-talk] multiple local proxy ports

2014-06-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Wayland Morgan wrote: > Anyone know of a quick way that I can facilitate multiple concurrent Tor > sessions from the same computer all with their own exit IP? I found a > few how-to's using privoxy but this information seems to be a couple of > years old and want to see if there is a more efficie

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot v14 alpha: obfsclient, Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha

2014-05-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Nathan Freitas wrote: > On May 2, 2014 6:34:25 PM EDT, intrigeri wrote: > >Nathan Freitas wrote (02 May 2014 19:44:35 GMT) : > >> We are also experimenting with a switch to Polipo > >> (https://github.com/jech/polipo.git) from Privoxy. > > > >Jacob was strongly advocating that we do the exact o

[tor-talk] Protest against mass surveillance: Cologne, Germany, 2014-04-12

2014-03-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Through the German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) I'm involved with the organisation of a protest weekend against mass surveillance on 2014-04-12 in Cologne, Germany: http://cologne.stopwatchingus.info/demo-12-april/en.html Obviously this would be a good opportunity for Tor advocacy,

Re: [tor-talk] VOIP and tor

2013-10-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Juan Garofalo wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:24 PM +0200 Andreas Krey > wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:52:07 +, Juan Garofalo wrote: > > ... > >>How is that 'pirate radio'? They had an actual RF transmitter that they > >> accessed through a hidden service? > > > > O

Re: [tor-talk] OT - Stop Watching Us NSA rally on 10/26/2013

2013-10-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Johnny Carson wrote: > For those interested and close enough this rally to attend: > > https://rally.stopwatching.us/ And if Germany is closer to you: http://stopwatchingus.org/termine We (AK Vorrat Köln-Bonn) will have a booth before and after the rally in Cologne where we'll also talk to int

Re: [tor-talk] Vista DEP and TBB

2013-03-07 Thread Fabian Keil
eliaz wrote: > I'm writing to ask if there's been some network or server problem the > last few days? I've run into a variety of error msgs & non-reproducible > difficulties, and before I tear my system apart I want to be sure that's > what I need to do. Details: > > All night the TBB hasn't b

Re: [tor-talk] Problem about verify signatures

2013-02-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Nam Su wrote: > When I tried to verify signatures with GPA, gpg frontend, it was failed. > I download Tor packages in torproject.org https version. > > Strangely, when I tried to verify with GPG command line, it was success. Using gpg directly seems to be the recommended way: https://www.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Hendrik Neumann wrote: > I've been running an exit node from my home network for ca. a year or > so. Now I've receviced mail from 21st Century Fox's lawyers in Germany > accusing me of torrenting a movie. Since all I offer via Torrent are > some old PC-BSD-ISOs and "House on Haunted Hill", I'm pr

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Asad Haider wrote: > You can find the full interview and more information at > http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ | I was handed the interrogation transcript, which I agreed to sign | after reading it. I was free to go, but again they failed to inform | me of something of critical importance – that I

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Julian Yon wrote: > This story has now hit Ars Technica: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/ There doesn't seem to be any indication that he has been charged with anything. Usually raids happen to collect evidence that m

Re: [tor-talk] Tor web browsing http connection establish procedures

2012-10-31 Thread Fabian Keil
jiang song wrote: > but with tor, my understanding and questions are: > >DNS query :C -> TOR network -> exit node > -> DNS server >DNS response:DNS server -> exit node > --

Re: [tor-talk] answers of Ms Kroes on EP questions

2012-10-08 Thread Fabian Keil
Rejo Zenger wrote: > On 8 okt. 2012, at 13:13, and...@torproject.is wrote: > > Can they share the data about 'cyber-attacks' and why Tor is chosen as > > a technology to be blocked? I'm interested in learning the details of > > quantity and quality of attacks via Tor against the Europa infrastruc

Re: [tor-talk] TBB advantages in VM

2012-09-28 Thread Fabian Keil
adrelanos wrote: > Abel Luck: > > Given the following conditions: > > > > 1) Firefox (15.0 lets say) is running in an isolated VM, and only > > Firefox is running (i.e., no other user apps) > > Bad. You'd be one of the very few people not using TBB. There are much > more TBB users than Mozilla

[tor-talk] Freedom not Fear 2012: Great opportunity for Tor advocacy

2012-08-21 Thread Fabian Keil
There's an upcoming bar camp in Brussels (2012-09-14 - 2012-09-17) that is relevant to our interests, but doesn't seem to be on the calendar yet: http://www.freedomnotfear.org/ https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2012 It's likely to be attended by a fair number of non-technica

Re: [tor-talk] How to force redirect each application through separate SocksPorts? (preventing identity correlation)

2012-06-30 Thread Fabian Keil
wrote: > freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de wrote: > > wrote: > > > > > wrote: > > > > That's incorrect. Privoxy can change the forwarding settings based > > on > > > > tags: > > > > > > > > http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER > > > > > > > > Excuse me, if I misu

Re: [tor-talk] How to force redirect each application through separate SocksPorts? (preventing identity correlation)

2012-06-27 Thread Fabian Keil
wrote: > wrote: > > That's incorrect. Privoxy can change the forwarding settings based on > > tags: > > > > http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER > > Excuse me, if I misunderstood. It doesn't look like anyone done that > ever before (and documented that onlin

Re: [tor-talk] How to force redirect each application through separate SocksPorts? (preventing identity correlation)

2012-06-11 Thread Fabian Keil
wrote: > Many applications, such as wget, apt-get, gpg, etc. do not speak socks, > are unlikely to speak socks anytime soon, but support http. > > Privoxy or polipo are of no help. They provides only one http port, with > the one big drawback: all http connections will be presses through the > s

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Ransom wrote: > On 2012-03-02, Andrew Lewman wrote: > > > The trick is, I like to think I know what I'm doing and that I'll > > notice if apt-get or my VM image fails to transfer untouched. Whether > > I'll actually notice a sophisticated exploit in deb packages or my vm > > image modifi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

2012-01-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Gijs wrote: > Why not run something like "redsocks" (first hit on transparent socks) > http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/ on VM1 ? It is a program that sits in between > the proxy and client. You then configure the firewall running on VM1 to > redirect traffic only through redsocks and allow no other

Re: [tor-talk] question about socks 4, 5

2011-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Joe Btfsplk wrote: > was playing w/ latest TBB & seeing how other apps (like email - Tbird, > or other apps) behaved, just to experiment. > > 1) Question about changes in proxy settings of late(er) TBB (Aurora - FF > 6) use. Notice that ONLY things filled in on network > settings page is: > -

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Node Operator Raided in USA.

2011-09-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin Fick wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/31/11, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Martin Fick > > wrote: > > > > > --- On Mon, 8/29/11, Matthew > > wrote: > > > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-alone-dont-identify-criminals >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Node Operator Raided in USA.

2011-08-31 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin Fick wrote: > --- On Mon, 8/29/11, Matthew wrote: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-alone-dont-identify-criminals > > > > > > If you run an exit relay, consider operating it in a > > Tor-friendly commercial facility instead of your home > > to make it less

Re: [tor-talk] specify exit for only one website?

2011-07-24 Thread Fabian Keil
cmeclax-sazri wrote: > Is it possible to specify in Privoxy or Polipo that a particular website > will be accessed through an exit in a particular country, while all > other websites will be accessed through a randomly chosen exit anywhere? It's possible if you enable the AllowDotExit option, bu

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia 0.3.0-alpha is out

2011-05-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Tomas Touceda wrote: > On 13:15 Fri 13 May , Fabian Keil wrote: > > Tomas Touceda wrote: > > > > > Vidalia-0.3.0-alpha is out! > > > We are going to be doing a series of alpha releases in parallel with the > > > stable 0.2.x to have a wider

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia 0.3.0-alpha is out

2011-05-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Tomas Touceda wrote: > Vidalia-0.3.0-alpha is out! > We are going to be doing a series of alpha releases in parallel with the > stable 0.2.x to have a wider audience for some changes that are kind of > "core" for Vidalia, or they are really big to put them on the stable > before testing them for

Re: [tor-talk] server4you

2011-03-03 Thread Fabian Keil
"Karsten N." wrote: > Am 02.03.2011 19:28, schrieb morphium: > > please move server4you (on this page: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs) > > from the good to the bad providers. > I can recommed non-German ISPs like Leaseweb.nl or coolhousing.net (CS) >