Re: [tor-talk] Tor DNS Deanonymization

2016-10-19 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 01:15:32AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Philipp Winter wrote: >> [...] >> > There are two ways to mitigate the issue. First, we need better >&

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha is released

2016-10-25 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Dash Four wrote: > Nick Mathewson wrote: >> >> Hi, all! There is a new alpha release of the Tor source code, with >> fixes for a security bug. You should probably upgrade as packages >> become available. >> > I am having troub

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha is released

2016-11-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Dash Four wrote: > Hi Nick, > > > First time this happens (I have been compiling tor sources with this > compiler since around 2009). Not sure about using the -Wlogical-op warning > though. > > Here is what I get: > > == > gcc -std=gnu99 -DHA

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha is released

2016-11-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There is a new alpha release of the Tor source code, with numerous bugfixes. We're getting closer to stable, but we still need testing! You can download the source from the usual place on the website. Packages should be up within a few days. Please remember to check the signature. Plea

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.6-rc is released.

2016-12-02 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There is a new release candidate for the Tor source code, with numerous bugfixes. You can download the source from the usual place on the website. Packages should be up in a few days. This should appear in an alpha TorBrowser release around December 14. (There is also a concurrent relea

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.7-rc is released: small changes, nearly done!

2016-12-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! I just tagged and uploaded Tor 0.2.9.7-rc. The source is available at the usual place in the website. Other packages should be available soon. This Tor release will probably go into the hardened TB series coming out in the next couple of days. (I hear that 0.2.9.6-rc will be in the reg

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is out!

2016-12-19 Thread Nick Mathewson
(Also, Tor 0.2.9.8 and Tor 0.2.8.12 are out. If you didn't know, you should subscribe to tor-announce an/or read the Tor blog!) You can find the Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha source on the website at the usual place. It's an alpha, so please expect plenty of bugs, and be ready to report them. Packages shou

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha is released!

2017-02-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! There's yet another new alpha release. I think we're closing in on stability for this series, which is a pretty nice feeling. You can download the source code from the usual place on the website. It's an alpha, so please expect bugs and be ready to report them. Packages should be out over th

[tor-talk] Towards new stable releases (0.2.4 through 0.2.9)

2017-02-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! As part of an effort to actually be predictable about supporting old releases, I'm hoping to put out stable releases of 0.2.4 through 0.2.9 some time early next month. (See [1] for our planned schedule of when we're dropping support for what.) This isn't an easy effort, though! Some of

Re: [tor-talk] Towards new stable releases (0.2.4 through 0.2.9)

2017-02-28 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > As part of an effort to actually be predictable about supporting old > releases, I'm hoping to put out stable releases of 0.2.4 through 0.2.9 > some time early next month. (See [1] for our planned sche

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.0.4-rc

2017-03-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! We're making progress: Tor 0.3.0.4-rc is now "release candidate" status, which means we think we might be just about stable, but we hope you'll find some more bugs. You can download the source code from the usual place on the website. Packages should be out over the next several weeks, includ

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.0.5-rc: almost stable!

2017-04-05 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi all! Tor 0.3.0.5-rc is now tagged and released. It's in still "release candidate" status, which means we think it should be pretty stable, but we hope you'll find more bugs for us to fix. You can download the source code from the usual place on the website. Packages should be out over the nex

Re: [tor-talk] 0.3.0.6 on fedora 24: systemd?

2017-05-04 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that 0.3.0.6 was out so I started a build. > I noticed this popping up: > > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes > checking for SYSTEMD... no > configure: Okay, checking for systemd a different way...

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is released!

2017-05-22 Thread Nick Mathewson
(Also, 0.3.0.7 was released last week. If you didn't know, you should subscribe to tor-announcements.) Hi, all! You can find the source code for Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha www.torrpoject.org at the usual place. It's an alpha, so please expect plenty of bugs, and be ready to report them. Packages shoul

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is released!

2017-05-26 Thread Nick Mathewson
(Also, 0.3.0.7 was released last week. If you didn't know, you should subscribe to tor-announcements.) Hi, all! You can find the source code for Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha at www.torrpoject.org at the usual place. It's an alpha, so please expect plenty of bugs, and be ready to report them. Packages sho

[tor-talk] Upcoming Tor releases tomorrow, to fix Hidden Service remote DoS bugs

2017-06-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Tomorrow we'll be putting out new releases in all supported series (0.2.4 through 0.3.1) to fix two vulnerabilities that we have found in the hidden service code. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause a hidden service to crash with an assertion failure. We believe that is the

Re: [tor-talk] Upcoming Tor releases tomorrow, to fix Hidden Service remote DoS bugs

2017-06-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > Tomorrow we'll be putting out new releases in all supported series > (0.2.4 through 0.3.1) to fix two vulnerabilities that we have found in > the hidden service code. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha is released (with security fix for hidden services)

2017-06-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! The latest alpha, 0.3.1.3-alpha, is now released. The source is available on the website, and packages should be available before too long. It has a security fix for hidden services, so if you are running a hidden service, you should upgrade to this version (or to one of the 7 other versions

[tor-talk] 0.3.1.4-alpha is released (with guard-related security fix)

2017-06-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! The latest alpha, 0.3.1.3-alpha, is now released. The source is available on the website, and packages should be available before long. The Tor Browser team expects to get a release out early next week. This release has a security fix for clients, so if you are running any 0.3.0.x or 0.3

Re: [tor-talk] 0.3.1.4-alpha is released (with guard-related security fix)

2017-06-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > The latest alpha, 0.3.1.3-alpha, is now released. Argh. I knew I'd make a copy-and-paste error. The new release is 0.3.1.4-alpha, of course. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubsc

[tor-talk] Reminder: Support for 0.2.4, 0.2.6, and 0.27 will end on 1 August 2017

2017-07-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! This is a reminder that we will not be making new releases for the 0.2.4, 0.2.6, or 0.2.7 release series after 1 August 2017. If you are running one of those series, please make a plan to upgrade some time before then! 0.2.5 will still be supported until 1 May 2018. 0.2.9 support will conti

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha is released!

2017-08-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release available! The source is available from the "download" page on the website on the website, and packages should be available before long. The Tor Browser team expects to get a release out early next week. This is an alpha release: if you aren't up for find

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.6-rc is released!

2017-09-05 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate available! The source is available from the "download" page on the website on the website, and packages should be available before long. The Tor Browser team expects to get a release out later this month. This is a release candidate; please help find

[tor-talk] Advisory: Stack disclosure in hidden services logs when SafeLogging disabled

2017-09-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
[TROVE-2017-008. CVE-2017-0380. Severity: medium] Hello! We have found a possible problem with the code that reports an error during the construction of an introduction point circuit. Because of this bug, it is possible that some hidden services will sometimes write sensitive informatio

[tor-talk] New alpha release: 0.3.2.1-alpha (and new release series too!)

2017-09-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, everybody! After lots of work, we've got a tasty new alpha ready for you to find bugs in! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.or

[tor-talk] New alpha release: 0.3.2.3-alpha

2017-10-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a fun new alpha you can run and look for bugs in! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org ; if you build Tor from s

[tor-talk] New alpha release: Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha

2017-11-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello, everyone! There's a groovy new alpha you can run and look for bugs in! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org ; if you build

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is released

2017-11-22 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! There's a fun new alpha you can run! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org ; if you build Tor from source, why not give it

[tor-talk] Security releases tomorrow for Tor

2017-11-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! I'm sending this message to announce that we will be releasing new stable and versions of Tor tomorrow, to fix 5 security bugs. I apologise for the short notice; we've had to move up our intended release date in order to try to match with release deadlines for downstream projects. We have

[tor-talk] New Tor security releases: 0.2.5.16, 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0.13, 0.3.1.9, and 0.3.2.6-alpha

2017-12-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
There are new releases of Tor to fix several security issues. If you build Tor from source code, you can download them from the download page on the website. If you need an older release series, go to https://dist.torproject.org/ . For users who do not build from source: packages should be availa

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.2.7-rc is released!

2017-12-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Tor 0.3.2.7-rc is released. If you build Tor from source code, why not fetch it from our download page and try it out? If you use precompiled packages, then there should be releases soon, including a Tor Browser alpha release likely next week. Here are the changes since 0.3.2.6-alpha:

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.2.8-rc is released

2017-12-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Tor 0.3.2.8-rc is released. If you build Tor from source code, why not fetch it from our download page and try it out? If you use precompiled packages, then there should be releases soon. There probably won't be a Tor Browser release for this one; this issues fixed here are mainly (but

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is released!

2018-01-25 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is released

2018-02-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

[tor-talk] Upcoming security releases for Tor 0.2.9 and up.

2018-02-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! This coming week, we'll be putting out new stable releases for 0.2.9 and later to fix a few security bugs. The highest-severity bug to be fixed is severity "medium". These releases will also backport the anti-DoS features from Tor 0.3.3. Relays and authorities should be sure to upgrade once

[tor-talk] New releases today: relays, please consider upgrading.

2018-03-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! There are new security releases today. The official announcement just went to tor-announce, but I want to make sure that people on this list see it too. In brief: * Directory authorities should upgrade. * Relays running 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9 should upgrade. * Relays running 0.3

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha source code is released

2018-03-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release available as source code! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from sou

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.3.5-rc: source code is released!

2018-04-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate available as source code! Because it's an release candidate, you should only run it if you're ready to find bugs, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from sou

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha: source code now released

2018-05-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

Re: [tor-talk] Post Quantum Tor

2018-05-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
For current work on postquantum handshake support in Tor, see proposals 263, 269, 270, and ticket #24985. A digression: Personally, I don't agree that the evidence is so convincing about the NSA being able to break 256-bit ECDSA today: if they have it, then they'd treat it as a big secret, and no

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha is released!

2018-06-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha is released

2018-06-26 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.4-rc is released

2018-07-09 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! Because it's not a stable release yet, you should only run it if you're ready to find bugs and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it

Re: [tor-talk] The Onion Report at #hopeconf (video)

2018-08-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM David Niklas wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:51:00 + > nusenu wrote: > > > https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1022840807374635009 > > > > > If you > > > missed The Onion Report at #hopeconf last week with Steph, Alison, > > > George, David, and Matt, you

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.6-rc is released

2018-08-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! Because it's not a stable release yet, you should only run it if you're ready to find bugs and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html; if you build To

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.7-rc is released!

2018-08-24 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! Because it's not an official release,, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source,

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is released!

2018-09-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on the download page of www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source,

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha is released

2018-09-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try?

Re: [tor-talk] bug in tor 0.3.4.8?

2018-10-05 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 9:48 AM Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > On 17/09/2018 17:46, David Goulet wrote: > > Quickly like that, I can't tell you why this is happening or any workaround > > you could do so keep an eye on the ticket. If this is an 0.3.4.x regression, > > we'll find it quickly. > > Iss

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha is released

2018-10-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try? An

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha is released.

2018-11-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the Download page on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a

Re: [tor-talk] Fixing Orchid (again), need help!

2018-11-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 6:12 AM Masayuki Hatta wrote: > > Hi! > > As I wrote here some time ago, I fixed Orchid the Java Tor, and it > worked for a while. > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2018-April/044133.html > > Recently (I think it was around July-Aug), Orchid became unworkab

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha is released

2018-11-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the downlaod page on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a t

[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.6-rc is released!

2018-12-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a tr

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is released!

2019-01-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on the www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-announce] Tor 0.3.5.7 is released

2019-01-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 6:23 AM Jim wrote: > > Nick Mathewson wrote: > > You can download the source code from the usual place on the website. > > Packages should be available within the next several weeks, with a new > > Tor Browser some time in the next month or so. &

[tor-talk] Upcoming stable releases to fix a medium-severity security issue

2019-02-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! I'm planning to put out new Tor source releases some time Thursday or Friday. They will be versions 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, and 0.4.0.2-alpha. These versions will, among the usual array of bugfixes, fix a medium-severity security issue: a remote denial-of-service attack vector against r

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is released

2019-02-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try?

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is released!

2019-03-22 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a tr

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is released

2019-04-11 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! It's not a release yet, but if no serious bugs are found, the next stable release will be (almost) identical to it. The source code is available at https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.4.0.4-rc.tar.gz . If you build Tor from source, why not give it a try

[tor-talk] Reminder: 0.3.4 reaches end-of-life on June 10

2019-05-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! This is a reminder that we're going to stop supporting Tor 0.3.4 on June 10, per our policy and schedule at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases . After this date, we won't do any more security fixes or bugfixes for 0.3.4. If you need the latest

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.1.1-alpha is released

2019-05-22 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/; if you build Tor from source

[tor-talk] New release: Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha

2019-06-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try? An

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha is released

2019-06-25 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you build Tor from sourc

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.1.4-rc is released

2019-07-25 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try? A

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.2.2-alpha is released

2019-10-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/; if you build Tor from source

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.2.3-alpha is released

2019-10-24 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a tr

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is released

2019-11-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! Because it's a release candidate, we'd really like to know about any remaining bugs in it, so we can try to fix them before calling the series stable. As usual you can report bugs on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual pl

[tor-talk] New alpha release: Tor 0.4.3.2-alpha

2020-02-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ . If you build Tor from sourc

[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

[tor-talk] New alpha release: 0.4.3.3-alpha (with security fix)

2020-03-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.3.3-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should be available over the coming days, including a new alpha Tor Browser release. Remember, this is an al

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Post-Quantum Cryptography

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:42 PM bo0od wrote: > > I wonder if Tor has a roadmap for applying pqc into their design, great > to see that some projects trying to add it for experimental state: > Hi! There are several proposals for this: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/263-n

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.4.1-alpha is released

2020-06-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on the bugtracker (or here, while we're getting the new bugtracker working). The source code is available from the download page on www.torproject.

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha is released

2020-07-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the download page at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you build Tor from sou

Re: [tor-talk] Connection padding set to 1 vs auto

2020-08-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:59 PM proc...@riseup.net wrote: > > Hi. I was wondering if setting the connection padding setting in torrc > to 1 instead of auto has any benefit in protecting against a passive > adversary outside the Tor network. I don't think it'll have much effect? The "auto" option

[tor-talk] New release candidate: Tor 0.4.5.4-rc

2021-01-22 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new release candidate! Unless we find significant new major bugs, this will probably be almost the same as the final 0.4.5.x stable release. Please test it if you can! The source code is available from the download page at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you bui

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is released

2021-02-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new Tor release candidate! We think this will be the last one before 0.4.5.x is stable. The source code is available from the download page at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a try? And if you don't build Tor from source,

[tor-talk] Upcoming releases next week to fix denial-of-service bugs in Tor

2021-03-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! Early next week -- around Tuesday -- we plan to put out new Tor releases to fix a pair of denial-of-service issues that we have found. We are tracking these issues as "High" and "Medium" severity respectively under our security policy at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis

Re: [tor-talk] Upcoming releases next week to fix denial-of-service bugs in Tor

2021-03-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:54 AM Nick Mathewson wrote: > To the best of our knowledge these vulnerabilities are not being > supported in the wild. Oops! I meant to say, "To the best of our knowledge these vulnerabilities are not being exploited in the wild". -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Upcoming releases next week to fix denial-of-service bugs in Tor

2021-03-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:12 PM Geoff Down wrote: > > Thanks Nick, > btw when I recently verified the sig on the Tor source download, it said > your key had expired. You might need to refresh it; I've updated the expiration dates. If the keyservers aren't working for you, try https://people.to

[tor-talk] Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is released

2021-04-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on gitlab.torproject.org. The source code is available from the download page at https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ; if you build Tor from s

[tor-talk] Upcoming security releases

2021-06-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! In around two weeks–likely on the 14th or 15th­– we plan to put out new stable Tor releases to fix issues in all currently released versions of Tor. There are three issues that will be fixed, with severity levels between "Medium" and "High" according to our classification system. The most

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