Re: [tor-talk] Server / Browser html PGP Encryption

2015-09-24 Thread Ken Cline
What are you trying to accomplish? First note that hidden servers already use RSA, the public key algorithm at the heart of OpenPGP. The jumble of characters in the hidden service name is actually the fingerprint (or equivalent) of the service's public key. The service sends you its full publ

Re: [tor-talk] Carnegie Mellon's Paid Snitches - Responsibile For More Arrests

2015-12-22 Thread Ken Cline
> On 21 Dec 2015, at 11:36 PM, juan wrote: > > in other words, all it takes to find a 'hidden' service is a couple of > 'hacking' parasites from academia Don't confuse the Software Engineering Institute (CERT-CC is part of SEI) with academia, even if it is managed by Carnegie Mellon Uni

Re: [tor-talk] Kernel OOPS through Tor - report or ignore?

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Cline
> On 23 Jan 2016, at 4:29 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:05 PM, creo wrote: >> Does it make sense to report the content of the oops notice and > > Typically > Kernel panics go to the OS people. > Program crashes go to the app people. > Neither should happen, so people should

Re: [tor-talk] Kernel OOPS through Tor - report or ignore?

2016-01-24 Thread Ken Cline
> On 24 Jan 2016, at 12:08 AM, grarpamp wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ken Cline wrote: >> I reported a Tor crash, only to find it was caused by a failing disk. > > Apps should not crash due to failed i/o, rather should retry, block, > fail, or ex

Re: [tor-talk] automatic Tor browser updates

2016-02-14 Thread Ken Cline
> On 13 Feb 2016, at 10:33 PM, Mirimir wrote: > > I can't say that I trust the MAR update protocol as much as > checking GPG signatures. In practice, the OpenPGP format used by GPG is unsatisfactory for automatic software updates. GPG does not provide a library for creating or reading this f

Re: [tor-talk] How to make the Tor service to stop faster?

2016-02-15 Thread Ken Cline
> On 15 Feb 2016, at 7:22 AM, nusenu wrote: > > > > Pickfire: >> Is there any reason for the ShutdownWaitLength to be 30s? That's too >> long, no wonder it is so slow to restart the tor service. > > It is just the nicer way to say goodbye to clients - I guess. I bet shutdown delay has to hav

Re: [tor-talk] Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity

2016-07-12 Thread Ken Cline
Descriptions of what the links are about would be appreciated. Otherwise this kind of post looks awfully spammy to my eye. But since we are on the topic, I am curious whether packet delivery shuffling will be added to Tor, and also what other notable security features distinguish these network

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project Corporate Document FOI Request

2016-08-08 Thread Ken Cline
> On 8 Aug 2016, at 6:24 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > On 7/31/16, Paul Syverson wrote: >> I don't know the extent to which this covers what you were looking for, > > People are certainly familiar serving on, in, and with boards of > directors, founding > positions, and executive positions, as such