Re: [tor-talk] Awareness for identity correlation through circuit sharing is almost zero.

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Perry
S password to isolate web activity by urlbar domain/navigation session. The "Request Origin" roughly translates to the referer domain. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3455 We'll probably also use "mozilla" or "TBB" as the SOCKS username, t

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Perry
over who is viewing what at all times. At some point, you simply run out of differentiating bits to extract from size and timing information to properly segment the userbase. And as far as I know, no one has really considered the full impact of userbase size on correlation in the research community (asid

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org): > > But passive correlation is adequate anyway, even at very low sampling > > rates (cf. Murdoch and Zielinski, PETS 2007). This is long known and > > well understood. It's why we have always said that onion routing >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Perry
maybe the NSA. The "Obfsproxy" button would remove "Tor" from those points (due to protocol obfuscation). 3. I agree with the Raccoon that the NSA's data sharing link is most accurately described as "Uncertain". Maybe the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-12 Thread Mike Perry
rence implementations exist for all of these protocols? -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Setting up Tor on Ubuntu

2012-03-21 Thread Mike Perry
your ISP from easily telling you're even using Tor. It is meant for deployment in censored locations with a high degree of risk and/or conflict. But I bet people concerned with privacy will be interested in it too. It's a bit early for end users to just jump in and start using it, though. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox security bug (proxy-bypass) in current TBBs

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Perry
on again. See also #3846 and consider signing up to test builds in your hardened, auditing setups. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] testing TBBs

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Perry
oject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/build/BuildSignoff You did the right thing. Adding yourself to Cc on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3846 will keep you appraised of the process as it materializes. > Where does one get the info that a new version is about to be released? > Where are pre-relea

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser disabling Javascript anonymity set reduction

2012-05-13 Thread Mike Perry
* believe we can capture that userbase if we ship a JS-disabled-by-default browser. 2. Exploitable vulnerabilities can be anywhere in the browser, not just in the JS interpreter. We disable and/or click-to-play the known major vectors, but the best solutions here are providing bug bounties (Mozill

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser disabling Javascript anonymity set reduction

2012-05-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Maxim Kammerer (m...@dee.su): > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > > I do *not* believe we can capture that userbase if we ship a > > JS-disabled-by-default browser. > > First, I would like to say that I agree that Javascript and other > pop

Re: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies tracking & No Script whitelisting tracking sites

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
looked into THESE special types of cookies & if they > potentially compromising anonymity or even increasing chances of > fingerprinting, due to information they transmit about every site > you visit? >

Re: [tor-talk] any issue with TBB extensions auto updating?

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
___ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies tracking & No Script whitelisting tracking sites

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
; > > > On Monday, May 14, 2012, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > > On 5/14/2012 1:56 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > > >> The short answer is "Yes, we've looked into it. New Identity removes > >> evercookies." > >> > >> The long answer i

Re: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies tracking & No Script whitelisting tracking sites

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
zen blog posts on the topic, several tor-talk posts, and probably a few dozen mailinglist threads, may of which you yourself participated in. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproj

Re: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies tracking & No Script whitelisting tracking sites

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org): > Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > > > How, pray tell, does clicking New Identity remove evercookies from > > 12 - 15 possible locations? The cache isn't the only place > > evercookies can be stored. H

Re: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies tracking & No Script whitelisting tracking sites

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > On 5/14/2012 1:56 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > >The short answer is "Yes, we've looked into it. New Identity removes > >evercookies."... > > > >The footnote is "Please help us test this shit in new release

Re: [tor-talk] Towards a Torbutton for Thunderbird (torbutton-birdy)

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Perry
rwise, you're condemning the user to get owned as their client gradually gets more and more exploitable from the date they install Torbirdy. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] JScript on/off

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Perry
__ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing

[tor-talk] Volunteer QA: The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Perry
ect.org/projects/tor/ticket/5791 4. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5767 5. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5837 6. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3688 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [tor-talk] Volunteer QA: The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Perry
e everything via direct email, especially to start. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Technical Documentation for the TBB Update Notification Mechanism

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Perry
o myself to update the TBB design doc to describe the update check. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5273#comment:2 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https:

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
nst Facebook and other companies who are simply using the tracking technology provided to them by browser makers; and weird filter addons like Request Policy and Ghostery to try to filter "bad actors" (who can simply reappear under new domains on a moment's notice anywa

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org): > Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > > > A few months ago, someone raised the question of TBB or any included > > addon not blocking web beacons / trackers and perhaps something like > > Ghostery should be

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
h are fairly straight forward, w/ a little > explanation, even though users must go to Adobe's site to change > them (tricky, huh?). Even I could write / "borrow" instructions on > how to change settings in Windows Flash manager, for better privacy. > Cookies & disk

Re: [tor-talk] Adobe Flash

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
it by myself at the moment, so long as we're able to accept a significant lag time on rather serious issues being fixed, and able to accept that almost nothing other than violations of our privacy and security requirements will *ever* get fixed. Sadly, this will lead to a shitty user experience

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > On 5/19/2012 3:14 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > >...Normal web browsers do not consider the ability to link your > >accounts and activity across multiple url domains to be a problem. > > As a result, we have all sorts of

Re: [tor-talk] Adobe Flash

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
rous to assume that Google's position wrt Chrome will always remain what it is now. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
ng to the internet. Maybe it would have value once the > browser is closed, Flash proxy bypass has already occurred. Unless > you're talking about something else. Yes, it would require a custom sandbox of our design. Current sandboxing tech (Seatbealt, AppArmor, Seccomp, SELinux)

Re: [tor-talk] google analytics says it can track across separate domains

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
between us before we can expect to come to an understanding. Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > On 5/19/2012 9:17 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > >I'm confused. What vectors do you belief remain that we have not > >covered a few dozen times in this thread and others? You

Re: [tor-talk] Torbutton-birdy version 0.0.2

2012-05-25 Thread Mike Perry
ac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5797#comment:12. If the prefs don't cause a warning of some kind first, you might need to adapt that component I linked to in comment 11... -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-tal

Re: [tor-talk] circuit_send_next_onion_skin(): Bug: Unexpectedly high circuit_successes

2012-07-27 Thread Mike Perry
r guard =. You get both this message and the above message for the same guard? What ranges of values of M, m, and n have you seen? -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org htt

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Perry
gal/Questionable" category, and guess what, it's #42 at 0.15% of the traffic: http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf I don't know what you're looking for, but perhaps your own desire for everyone to use Tor for "illegal and questionable" stuff is biasi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Perry
In particular, I work on Tor Browser because every time I am forced to use a browser that does not defend against third party tracking, I cringe. > >No offense to the weirdos, though. You guys are my people :). > > Really? You don't come across as very friendly to the 'weir

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Maximum Camera (m...@dee.su): > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > The Tor users page is in my mind a reflection of what our demographics > > will look like as we improve our technology enough to be useful for > > everyone who wants Internet

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Perry
ated crawlers... Still, it is a little surprising they can't trace bitcoin yet, though. Maybe they can. I think my bet is also on Silk Road not surviving in the long run for that reason... It's very interesting to watch, for sure. It's like we're getting an extra season of Th

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-11 Thread Mike Perry
al. (Also, as you know from your path bias warn bug, it turns out there's a damn lot of crazy codepaths in circuit construction. Who knew? I didn't write the original code. I just tried to help modify it to make it slightly safer). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-11 Thread Mike Perry
h, this is probably also likely. I wonder if they started sporting the bling yet. Unless they're *also* cackling madly from their space ship, wondering why the monkeys didn't learn the futility of this whole game a century ago with alcohol... -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-11 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake antispa...@sent.at (antispa...@sent.at): > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012, at 00:14, Mike Perry wrote: > > .onion is another thing that is tragically failing to reach its > > potential because no one tries to make it useful for normal stuff. I > > rather intensely dislik

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-12 Thread Mike Perry
e should be spending a couple of bucks here and there to pay to keep exploits out of the hands of the lunatics, and make sure the bugs actually get fixed, for *everyone*? Also, you know what, fuck the drug war too. It's going to consume us all like a cancer. That shit is so *over*. P.S.

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Perry
web.archive.org/web/20100416150300/http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Sep-2008/msg00016.html might be the last full public copy other than your repost. I've added the Raccoon on Cc so s/he can hopefully do a full repost if the seul archives end up being destroyed forever. -- Mike Perry signa

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Maxim Kammerer (m...@dee.su): > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > > The Raccoon has made a believer out of me, but there are some limits to > > both of his/her proofs.. The full proofs can still be found here: > > http://web.archive.org/we

Re: [tor-talk] [Tails-dev] Please review Tails stream isolation plans

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Perry
some kind to determine the optimal circuit isolation mechanism network-wide, but that seems like a waste of time to me, since what I'm proposing doesn't strike me as very resource-intensive in the common case. I'm open to suggestions on how t

Re: [tor-talk] Distribution of Linux static tor binary?

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Perry
reason, I think a dynamic binary+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH+shared libs is the best option for third party bundlers.. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] About path selection (or node selection) strategy in Tor

2012-09-24 Thread Mike Perry
ob/master:/path-spec.txt -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
PP specs to fact-check before composing this email: http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/rfcs/ I was unable to determine if torchat even has property 1 in that time... -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and P2P

2012-09-26 Thread Mike Perry
f options to prevent such abuse, but I am not opposed to stopgaps such as throttling loud clients and QoS mechanisms to impact the popularity of resource-intensive filesharing apps... I suspect most of the other Tor folks in favor of "Tor and P2P" are in the same boat. -- Mike Perr

Re: [tor-talk] ads slow Tor Browser dramatically

2012-11-06 Thread Mike Perry
probably a lot of work to implement and get the UI right, and so it's not high on the priorities list compared to other things. It's also one of the few areas where I think partial solutions will do us way more harm than good. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description:

Re: [tor-talk] ads slow Tor Browser dramatically

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Julian Yon (jul...@yon.org.uk): > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:44:37 -0800 > Mike Perry wrote: > > > I am deeply opposed to shipping an always-on universal adblocker with > > the default TBB. I think it would be political suicide in terms of > > accomplishing o

Re: [tor-talk] Reduced latency transport for TOR

2012-11-08 Thread Mike Perry
ram-testing-plan-2012-03-16.pdf -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot blocks internet connection when off wifi (issues when on mobile data network only)

2012-11-09 Thread Mike Perry
EDGE? If it is significantly slower than your wifi (especially in terms of ping times/latency), this could be bug #3443: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3443 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk ma

Re: [tor-talk] upgrading procedure for TBB

2012-11-28 Thread Mike Perry
44. I find this annoying because I actually like having local TBB browsing history. On the plus side, any custom Firefox extensions you have in your TBB do stay active after updating this way (though the usual caveat about choosing your extensions carefully to avoid leaks and

Re: [tor-talk] Botnets through Tor

2012-12-09 Thread Mike Perry
phisticated operations. This would also be consistent with it just being a one-man operation run by the IAmA poster on reddit. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Roger's status report, Nov 2012

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Perry
who framed our > exit relay funding debate as an "if you" vs "now that" game. When you > incentivize people with "if you X, I'll Y", they behave differently than > when it's "now that you've X, I'll Y". Does this theory hav

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Bitcoin? [OT]

2013-01-13 Thread Mike Perry
nto an "Identity provider" for the Internet. Good luck with that, guys... I for one love a good lolocaust ;). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Bitcoin? [OT]

2013-01-13 Thread Mike Perry
Oct 2012 > From: Mike Hearn > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - > fake voicemail / sms anyone? Thanks for clarifying this for me. Sorry for the misunderstanding. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on small and cheap devices

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Perry
their assumption holds equally well for these CPUs, I would also guess that the interrupts even from passively scanning WiFi should provide enough entropy even without driver support, though. From the table in that that url, it looks like the least amo

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on small and cheap devices

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Perry
actually have these things see real use. [1]. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/pets08metrics.pdf, section 6. [2]. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
ol that automatically stores consensus history for later out-of-band comparison against the public git repo, or even for live multipath validation. Might be a fun intro project for someone interested in getting involved in Tor, actually, and it would potentially be a helpful validation tool for

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake unknown (unkn...@pgpru.com): > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:49:54 -0400 > Mike Perry wrote: > > > Longer term, I'm interested in having some form (or better: many forms) > > of multipath consensus validation: > > May be that algo is relevant to inde

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Perry
; care if those I know also left Tor, but if you guys do not take this > matter seriously, Tor will become irrelevant. Signed consensus documents that everyone can globally verify are the best way we know of to "take this matter seriously". -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digi

Re: [tor-talk] tor crashing: [err] circuit_build_times_get_xm(): Bug: circuitbuild.c:803: circuit_build_times_get_xm: Assertion bin_counts > 0 failed; aborting

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Perry
the state file got truncated? If you can reproduce the issue reliably, can you perhaps send us the results of something like 'grep "Build" /var/lib/tor/state'? Private email is fine. Don't ever publish the entire state file though: it is dangerous to your hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser does not work with mediafire.com

2013-02-01 Thread Mike Perry
t.org/blog/new-firefox-17-and-tor-alpha-bundles Be aware that it is an alpha, and more auditing work needs to be done on Firefox 17 in general, though. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Starting out: Project Coordinator

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Perry
ase let me know. > > I am trying to get some patches merged into the Linux TBB bundle start > up script "start-tor-browser". I started with a trivial one: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7266 > > Already mailed Mike Perry, but no response. If you have

Re: [tor-talk] How to obfuscate the Tor Browser activity from the Time/Size correlation attack?

2013-03-14 Thread Mike Perry
ning the Entry Node or it is being hosted on Google, the > Google would still be able to correlate the Size and Time? > > ___ tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] What would Tor v1.0 look like?

2013-03-15 Thread Mike Perry
sn't strike me as the right move. We do have quite a bit more work to do before this stuff is actually usable by most of the population, and I think that is what a 3.x version number represents to most people (or at least it used to). After all, we are attempting to do what is more or l

Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla Persona and Tor

2013-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
of their users is visiting, especially over a number of days of repeated activity, and especially for smaller identity providers (or malicious providers that set very low cert expiration times for both user certs and their own IdP certs). I guess I probably should bring these issues up

Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla Persona and Tor

2013-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
like we can certainly hammer it in there if we have to ;). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
e long-lived by default. As far as I can tell, also having the onion key doesn't get you much beyond what the identity key enables, especially if you're an "external" adversary (such as we would presume the NSA and other intelligence agencies to be). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
s shouldn't be too hard to hack up with a well-documented controller library such as Stem: https://stem.torproject.org/ I would be happy to help mentor someone to do this for GSoC, etc. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
etection > and interception, but goes further than that, and makes traffic > itself plausibly deniable, not just the content of or parties to a > particular instance of communication. > > Tor needs to evolve very rapidly and become impossible to detect,

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
rocess. Otherwise, thanks for your concern/veiled threats/trolling. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
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 Dis

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/torb

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

Re: [tor-talk] HTML5 video and Tor anonymity.

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Perry
t.. I believe we even have an upstream deliverable for a flash sandbox.. Not my area of personal expertise or interest, though. I'm with Steve Jobs on this one: kill that fucker until it is dead. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Perry
y serve to allow us to more effectively rate limit abuse. 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Finger printing

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Perry
gt; > > > ___ > > tor-talk mailing list > > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > > ___ > tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] Rewriting a text to avoid stylometry

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Perry
edia.org/wiki/Feature_selection Ad-hoc techniques as simple as making a conscious effort to "sound" like someone else have also been shown to be effective without requiring much practice, but it can also be difficult to break certain key stylistic habits. -- Mike Perry signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] Skype banned tor-nodes?

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Perry
ypothesis is right I ask owners of Exit-nodes, if it > possible, to let that port in their ExitPolicies. Not sure if that's actually the problem, but if the only way you can get to Skype is to use a Bittorrent-supporting exit, it certainly seems like a possibility. Th

[tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
or-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/gitian/README.build Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/ -- Mike Perry sig

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
and sign that tag? > l11n: > At least the German translation should see some improvements before you > do a final release. I'll look into Transifex within the next days. The > blog post announcing the alpha should call for help in that regard. > > Some dial

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
quot;2.3.25-9-Linux", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-MacOS", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-Windows", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-Linux" > "3.0-alpha-1-Linux" > "3.0-alpha-1-MacOS" > "3.0-alpha-1-Windows" > ] > > There missing commas at the end of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Matt Pagan: > On 6/15/13, Georg Koppen wrote: > > On 15.06.2013 09:15, Andreas Krey wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +, Mike Perry wrote: > >> ... > >>> Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > >>> pos

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
le place so that we don't get into a > situation where there's an updated version but TBL can't find it? There will always be a chicken/egg problem here. We need to update the recommended versions file before the bundles get uploaded so that the first people who download them don&

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:09:28 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > For everyone who is experiencing these crashes: Do you have a system tor > > installed? If so, if you uninstall it and reboot, does TBB still crash? > > Not sure what 'system tor' i

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Matt Pagan: > On 6/16/13, Andreas Krey wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:09:28 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > > ... > >> For everyone who is experiencing these crashes: Do you have a system tor > >> installed? If so, if you uninstall it and reboot, does TBB still cra

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha is out

2013-06-16 Thread Mike Perry
rspec.git. Fixes bug 8965. > > o Code simplification and refactoring: > - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory > objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead, > build smartlists of strings, and concatenate the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
ve the infrastructure to set up and seed magnet links atm. Should I just serve them out of people, and should Tor Browser Launcher use my people homedir instead of www? In the meantime, I've synced the mirrors to create this url, which should be up shortly: https://www.torproject.org/dist/to

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
:Andreas Krey > > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:15 AM > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds > > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > > post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. > > > > https://people.torproject.org/~

Re: [tor-talk] Binary patch downloads (for updating TBB)?

2013-06-29 Thread Mike Perry
wnloading a new one to replace it, though.. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Binary patch downloads (for updating TBB)?

2013-06-29 Thread Mike Perry
Nick Mathewson: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > David Balažic: > >> Hi! > >> > >> You don't realize how big the TBB is until you're forced to use a slow > >> connection. > >> > >> In that light, are

Re: [tor-talk] Theft of Tor relay private keys?

2013-07-02 Thread Mike Perry
city. > Would it be able to keep the nickname or would it have to change also? > Would this have effect on the onion address if I had a hidden server? No and no, but your hidden server might have brief downtimes/descriptor publish times that correlate with your key rotation. Not

Re: [tor-talk] Theft of Tor relay private keys?

2013-07-02 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:33:10 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > But I got distracted by more pressing issues before I could finish the > > scripts.. Also, many of those encrypted+authenticated Tor container > > things probably don't make much

Re: [tor-talk] Should I warn against Tor?

2013-07-06 Thread Mike Perry
think protocol-level active attacks (such as RPW's hidden service Guard discovery attack, and the Raccoon's bitstomping/tagging attack) are far more likely to be how intelligence agencies and others will attack Tor: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf https://lists.torproj

Re: [tor-talk] Exit snooping 'research'

2011-02-24 Thread Mike Perry
pers/PETS08_slides.pdf There's quite a few other side channels available if you can get on the same ethernet segment as a sniffer, or on the same VM host as a suspicious tor node. Most of these techniques are also fairly easy to evade, if you try. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fsck

Re: [tor-talk] Advice for high throughput Tor node

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Perry
eplies? > > I am sorry if all this is already somewhere written. ;-) > > (And all this is still just in a planning stage, we will have to see > if the budget will support it.) > > > Mitar > ___ > tor-talk mailing list >

Re: [tor-talk] blog.torproject.org - SSL certificate expired

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Daniel Bryg (ferment...@gmail.com): > ...earlier today. Not sure who's maintaining it, so posting this here. Thanks, this has been taken care of. Sorry for the delay. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs pgpfNqHb0DeKK.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: [tor-talk] Making TOR exit-node IP address configurable

2011-03-10 Thread Mike Perry
to only break "just some kind" of malicious traffic is bound to fail (and in rather hilarious ways). Skynet just isn't that good yet. Maybe some day the machines will protect us from ourselves, but that day is not today. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs p

[tor-talk] How evil is TLS cert collection?

2011-03-20 Thread Mike Perry
can gather information on the extent of targeted, CA-authenticated MITM events. They want to find a silver bullet against the CA model, to conclusively prove that it can't possibly provide the security properties it claims. The Perspectives protocol is not set up to do this. -- Mike Perry Mad Com

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