[tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread HardKor
Hello, Let's say Alice is a political opponent in a repressive regime. Alice hosts his blog as a tor hidden service hosted at home. The government knows about the blog and monitor it. It also monitor the internet at a nation scale. Case 1 : the government dosen't suspect any individual of being

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Ritter
On 12 November 2012 08:27, HardKor wrote: > Looks easy no ? > Any way for Alice to mitigate such attacks ? > Two nodes hosting the same .onion in diffrent locations ? > Something else ? I think different operational practices would solve the problem. For example, Host the blog on a HS on a VPS

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread andrew
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:21:34AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 1.3K bytes in 29 lines about: : Thanks, but I'm still a little unclear. You say "no"- it's basically the TBB workings, but it seems an open question atm? So is there anything else apart from disk cache ...swap files..flash

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread andrew
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:27:22PM +0100, hardkor.i...@gmail.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 33 lines about: : Looks easy no ? : Any way for Alice to mitigate such attacks ? : Two nodes hosting the same .onion in diffrent locations ? Host the .onion in multiple locations. Simply copy the private/public k

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread adrelanos
HardKor: > Hello, > > Let's say Alice is a political opponent in a repressive regime. Alice hosts > his blog as a tor hidden service hosted at home. > > The government knows about the blog and monitor it. It also monitor the > internet at a nation scale. > > Case 1 : the government dosen't suspe

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread HardKor
>Host the .onion in multiple locations. Simply copy the private/public keys to multiple computers. However, this isn't load-balancing, but rather redundancy. As soon as one HS goes down, the next will become available. Intresting ! So if I undestand it well the two servers will work in a kind or a

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread k e bera
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:20:20 + and...@torproject.is wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:21:34AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 1.3K > bytes in 29 lines about: > : Thanks, but I'm still a little unclear. You say "no"- it's basically the > TBB workings, but it seems an open question atm

[tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-12 Thread whistler
I have been using socat to torify connections. Since I was unsure where a network address was being translated, I supposed that I could avoid the issue by first using tor-resolve to translate the address to a numerical IPV4 address, and then pass that to socat. I have now been told that this use

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services home hosting

2012-11-12 Thread grarpamp
> Intresting ! So if I undestand it well the two servers will work in a kind > or active / passive mode ? No. There is no awareness between them or any other thing. It's merely whichever is the newest descriptor in the directories and when you fetched it. > Any way for Alice to mitigate such atta

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread grarpamp
> But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they > see one? I can't speak to that, it's certainly a possible default. People have some irrational fears of disabling swap. Just because you see swap used in top doesn't mean you need it. So long as you have enough ram just

[tor-talk] how to make firefox transmit dns query to tor

2012-11-12 Thread esolve esolve
Hi, I'm using firefox with Tor for some tests work( can't use TBB because it doesn't allow me to keep cookies the next time it opens). I set the firefox proxy port to 9050, so firefox is using Tor for network access, however, DNS queries are bypassing the proxy. How can I make the DNS query tra

Re: [tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-12 Thread grarpamp
> I have been using socat to torify connections. Since I was unsure > where a network address was being translated tor-resolve is not needed, socat is sufficient. Both can resolve dns via socks4a and/or socks5. Verify the behavior with tcpdump, etc. ___

Re: [tor-talk] how to make firefox transmit dns query to tor

2012-11-12 Thread tor-admin
On Monday, 12. November 2012, 21:57:01 esolve esolve wrote: > Hi, > >I'm using firefox with Tor for some tests work( can't use TBB because it > doesn't allow me to keep cookies the next time it opens). I set the firefox > proxy port to 9050, so firefox is using Tor for network access, however,

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha is out

2012-11-12 Thread Roger Dingledine
Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays, makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics, https://www.torproject.org/dist/ Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13 o Major bugfixes: - Fix an ass