Re: [tor-talk] Revisiting youtube blocking TBB, virtually all 1st attempts to load YT

2020-03-16 Thread joebtfsplk
On 3/9/20 12:49 PM, nusenu wrote: Mirimir: On 03/08/2020 02:40 PM, nusenu wrote: What would stop a bad actor from creating a bunch of new circuits and making all Tor IPs look bad if they were so inclined? yes there are distribution strategies that can prevent that or make that very expensive

[tor-talk] Upcoming Tor security releases to fix a denial-of-service issue

2020-03-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! Some time this week, we currently plan to put out a set of security updates for all supported versions of Tor. These releases will fix a pair of denial-of-service bugs: one that we are classifying at "low" severity, and one that we are classifying at "high" severity. Our recommendation wi

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

2020-03-16 Thread Jeremy Rand
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. > >