Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Seth David Schoen (sch...@eff.org): > Alex M (Coyo) writes: > > > It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you > > contribute anything to the tor project. > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/ > https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/en/design/index.html.en > https://ww

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 01:29 AM, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Alex M (Coyo) (c...@darkdna.net): On 04/13/2013 12:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: If you have a specific list of design flaws that aren't couched in long rants, we can perhaps help instruct you on how you might solve them in your redesign with Mr

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 01:45 AM, Seth David Schoen wrote: Alex M (Coyo) writes: It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you contribute anything to the tor project. https://gitweb.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/en/design/index.html.en https://www.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 01:54 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Alex M (Coyo) wrote: >I must have somehow missed it. > >I would really appreciate a link. I cannot seem to find it on my own. > >Thank you in advance. Here are the common ways: roll a bunch of bridges using Amazon's cloud [1], have friends/allies

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Gregory Disney
OnionCat? Anything more extreme than that is going to have be built from the ground up. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Alex M (Coyo) wrote: > On 04/13/2013 01:54 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > >> Alex M (Coyo) wrote: >> >> >I must have somehow missed it. >>> > >>> >I would really appreciate a l

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 13.04.2013 04:30, Alex M (Coyo) wrote: > Is Tor ever going to include support for isolated, independent bridge > relay communities that can host their own bridge directory authorities I'm working on setting up (yet) another non-profit organization with limited liability in Germany (gGmbH). Over

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Alex M (Coyo): > I have still not gotten a straight answer about whether or not the > bridge community featureset has been released in the stable tor client. It's all in there. https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en AlternateBridgeAuthority [nickname] [flags] address:port fingerprint

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Alex M (Coyo): > On 04/13/2013 12:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: >> Otherwise, thanks for your concern/veiled threats/trolling. > > Because obviously criticism and actual concern for the well-being of a > foss project is always trolling and threats. > > I hope you aren't a contributor. See https://www

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
Alex M (Coyo) wrote: > On 04/13/2013 01:54 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: >> >> Here are the common ways: roll a bunch of bridges using Amazon's cloud >> [1], have friends/allies/interesting frenemies run bridges using Vidalia >> [2], or just use a garden-variety VPN/proxy before entering the Tor >>

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Alex M (Coyo): > On 04/12/2013 10:37 PM, adrelanos wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> these are interesting thoughts. I wrote something related a while ago. >> >> Tor: lobbies vs lobbies - Who will prevail?: >> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025109.html >> >> Alex M (Coyo): >>> I

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
I think you're right. On 04/13/2013 04:32 AM, Gregory Disney wrote: OnionCat? Anything more extreme than that is going to have be built from the ground up. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Alex M (Coyo) wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:54 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Alex M (Coyo) wrote: >I must

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 05:02 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 13.04.2013 04:30, Alex M (Coyo) wrote: Is Tor ever going to include support for isolated, independent bridge relay communities that can host their own bridge directory authorities I'm working on setting up (yet) another non-profit organization with

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 10:27 AM, adrelanos wrote: Alex M (Coyo): I have still not gotten a straight answer about whether or not the bridge community featureset has been released in the stable tor client. It's all in there. https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en AlternateBridgeAuthority [ni

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 10:29 AM, adrelanos wrote: Alex M (Coyo): On 04/13/2013 12:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: Otherwise, thanks for your concern/veiled threats/trolling. Because obviously criticism and actual concern for the well-being of a foss project is always trolling and threats. I hope you aren't a

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Alex M (Coyo)
On 04/13/2013 10:35 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Alex M (Coyo) wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:54 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Here are the common ways: roll a bunch of bridges using Amazon's cloud [1], have friends/allies/interesting frenemies run bridges using Vidalia [2], or just use a garden-variety V

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread grarpamp
> I mean, most overlays out there are NOT for anonymity Not for strong anonymity at least. Many are closes source windows blobs and generally weighted towards filesharing and vague vpn privacy claims. Those are definitely the ones to avoid. If you can't see and change the code it's not worth one b

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
adrelanos wrote: > Alex M (Coyo): > > I have still not gotten a straight answer about whether or not the > > bridge community featureset has been released in the stable tor client. > > It's all in there. > > https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en > > AlternateBridgeAuthority [nickname

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread grarpamp
>>> It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you >>> contribute anything to the tor project. Mike does a good deal of fine work for the Tor project. And I'm happy to see the torbrowser project come in place with as part goal of working with Mozilla to finally upstream fix FF fo

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Alex M (Coyo): > On 04/13/2013 10:29 AM, adrelanos wrote: >> Alex M (Coyo): >>> On 04/13/2013 12:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: Otherwise, thanks for your concern/veiled threats/trolling. >>> Because obviously criticism and actual concern for the well-being of a >>> foss project is always trolling a

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 01:14:16PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > Sure, i2P exists, but who wants to spin up a huge honking java virtual > > machine just to participate in that relay pool? > > It's actually pretty easy and can run on modest hardware as a node. I disagree about modest hardware. Anyth

[tor-talk] Family path selection

2013-04-13 Thread Sebastian G.
Hi, Quote from the path-specification (2.2) https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/path-spec.txt "We do not choose any router in the same family as another in the same path." Made me think that if one declares family for the entire network except his/her own nodes he would se

[tor-talk] ExcludeEntryNodes

2013-04-13 Thread hamahangi
In a recent crypto.is post, Tom Ritter provides a clear explanation of the traffic correlation attack that can be performed if the adversary can see the first and last connections. (I know this is Tor 101, but he has nice diagrams). If I live in freedom-loving State (B) and want to view informatio

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread andrew
I'm killing this thread. It's long ago moved beyond any point of usefulness for the tor-talk community. Thanks for the understanding. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.t

Re: [tor-talk] Family path selection

2013-04-13 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 13.04.2013 20:10, Sebastian G. wrote: > Seems to explain it better; like I would expect it to work. Only if two > relays declare family with each other they will be excluded from being > in the same path. Yes. > I mean I assumed it would work in the way that "A" AND "B" declare > family with

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Sebastian G.
13.04.2013 06:39, Alex M (Coyo): > On 04/12/2013 11:01 PM, adrelanos wrote: >> Griffin Boyce: >>> There's really nothing keeping you from making a private bridge network. >>> The documentation's all there. >> Indeed. One can even make its own (private) Tor network. It will require >> a considerab

Re: [tor-talk] ExcludeEntryNodes

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Apr 13, 2013 2:19 PM, "hamahangi" wrote: [...] > So why is there no ExcludeEntryNodes option? It seems to have been > present at some point as there's reference to it in old mirrors of the > documentation and on the blog[0], and the helpdesk advised me that it > was still there, but I've tried

Re: [tor-talk] ExcludeEntryNodes

2013-04-13 Thread hamahangi
#5903 and #6523. There seems to have been some fiddling with both but no comments to speak of. Thanks for clearing up the reasoning behind your decision. Also a web search for "ExcludeEntryNodes" brought up a preparatory commit you seem to have made earlier this year [https://lists.torproject.org/

Re: [tor-talk] ExcludeEntryNodes

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM, hamahangi wrote: > #5903 and #6523. There seems to have been some fiddling with both but no > comments to speak of. Thanks for clearing up the reasoning behind your > decision. Thanks; I've marked #5903 for 0.2.5 and closed #6523 as a duplicate. That's not a commi

Re: [tor-talk] ExcludeEntryNodes

2013-04-13 Thread hamahangi
Nick Mathewson: > > I think that's actually a false dichotomy, and an interesting one. In > order to help users get security, an option needs to work in a way > that they they expect. Otherwise, when they try to avoid using nodes > in one way, and they wind up telling Tor to do something else > e

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake grarpamp (grarp...@gmail.com): > >>> It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you > >>> contribute anything to the tor project. > > Mike does a good deal of fine work for the Tor project. > And I'm happy to see the torbrowser project come in place > with as part goa

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Sebastian G. : > (Fun part?) Not a fun part for me. It's sad that these concern have been raised by a troll (or someone who doesn't know how to behave). However, these concerns are valid, and from my perspective, I can't understand why they are easily dismissed. > About assassinating (double ass)

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Gregory Disney
Let's not dread on things out of our control; IMO we should use these concerns to develop solutions then turn them into soultions that we can implement. Obviously we can't develop around assassinations nor state funded terrorism, but we can develop a solution for backdoors and information leaks.

[tor-talk] Deterministic Builds - was: Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread adrelanos
Hi Gregory! Gregory Disney: > Let's not dread on things out of our control; IMO we should use these > concerns to develop solutions then turn them into soultions that we can > implement. Obviously we can't develop around assassinations nor state > funded terrorism, but we can develop a solution fo

Re: [tor-talk] Deterministic Builds - was: Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:44 PM, adrelanos wrote: > I assume you're the Gregory Disney who is also one builder of those > Bitcoin deterministic builds? Since you're involved in Tor as well, I > seems to me you could be a great help by providing some information > about the Bitcoin build process.