[tor-talk] Testers Wanted: Human-meaningful onion service names via Namecoin in Tor Browser Nightly

2020-02-26 Thread Jeremy Rand
Hi Tor community! As we all know, onion services have rather unwieldy randomly derived base32-encoded names. This is, of course, a reasonable design, given the design constraints that onion services have to deal with. And it works pretty well, all things considered. That said, the unmemorable n

[tor-talk] node-Tor - phases 4 and 5

2020-02-26 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Please see the current status here: https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor#phases-and-funding Quick reminder: this is a javascript implementation of the Tor protocol inside nodes and browsers Phase 4 (evented pipes) has been developped (self funded) but is not fully tested/released, however the doc is

Re: [tor-talk] How secure is a hidden service?

2020-02-26 Thread Robin Lee
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 08:15 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > On 2/20/20, Robin Lee wrote: > > I'm wondering how hidden a hidden service actually is? > > ... > > Is it just a function of time and amount of traffic, i.e. the > > longer > > you are online and the more traffic you generate, the more probable