[tor-talk] Hidden services, what is recommended

2014-08-26 Thread Martin S
Hi, I've been approached by some people at our office on IT security issues. Our organisation is increasing our cooperation with partners in "democratically challenged" countries and regions, so the awareness is (finally) rising. Today I've had a conversation with colleague regarding email encryp

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services, what is recommended

2014-08-26 Thread Griffin Boyce
Martin S wrote: Today I've had a conversation with colleague regarding email encryption, encrypted telephony and hidden services on the Tor network. In regards to the latter, what - in your opinion - would be suitable services to put on Tor (.onion) sites? Would you for example put PGP keys excha

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services, what is recommended

2014-08-26 Thread Martin S
2014-08-26 13:50 GMT+02:00 Griffin Boyce : > Actually, what you're describing are some of the more common uses of > hidden services. Some people run xmpp or irc servers as hidden services to > have truly private chat among their friends (plus you can run a web client > like qwebirc). A human r

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services, what is recommended

2014-08-26 Thread Mirimir
On 08/26/2014 06:47 AM, Martin S wrote: > 2014-08-26 13:50 GMT+02:00 Griffin Boyce : > >> Actually, what you're describing are some of the more common uses >> of hidden services. Some people run xmpp or irc servers as hidden >> services to have truly private chat among their friends (plus you >>

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden services, what is recommended

2014-08-26 Thread Griffin Boyce
Martin S wrote: We run an ownCloud server so I have experience with that. Unless anyone knows anything to deter me I'd use that, but still, again, good to know it's being done! They're really similar -- cozy is easy to install via the command line* but is more geared towards individuals than

[tor-talk] Bandwidth Weighted Node selection algorithm

2014-08-26 Thread saurav dahal
Hello, In the paper, "Zhen Ling; Junzhou Luo; Wei Yu; Ming Yang; Xinwen Fu, "Extensive analysis and large-scale empirical evaluation of tor bridge discovery," *INFOCOM, 2012 Proceedings IEEE* , vol., no., pp.2381,2389, 25-30 March 2012", the author has mentioned about Bandwidth Weighted Node se