[tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
I am compiling a list of use cases that Tor's current slowness makes impossible/unpleasant. Roger once said, "Whatever you use Tor for someone will use it for something else." So with this in mind I'm asking you all for things you (or others) would like to do through Tor but slowness makes it too

[tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-27 Thread Virgil Griffith
Thanks Sebastian G! I don't watch much Youtube, but blocked YouTube is a great example! Thank you!! Uploads is also another great use case. If porn isn't a sufficiently canon use-case, while behind Tor, I personally find it difficult to enjoy the video content on NYTimes or the Washington Post'

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
rance/dearth-of-creativity? And just to be clear, Andrea's followup suggestion addresses the special case of cooridination among HSs in which each HS is under your control? -V On Sunday, July 27, 2014, Mirimir wrote: > On 07/27/2014 09:24 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > > >

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
The variability is def a big deal, from a UX perspective, maybe even larger one than raw speed---I can relate to the occasional Pyongyang circuits. Out of curiosity, are there stats on the average speed (error bars would be nice) over the past few years? Just curious. This would be helpful. Im

[tor-talk] Is there an accepted doling rate for the size or bandwidth of the Tor network?

2014-08-01 Thread Virgil Griffith
Theoretically you could look at the historical data from the beginning of time and fit an exponential curve to it and see what it comes out to, but I suspect there is an accepted/established answer to this question. If not, references to the data for me to calculate it would be helpful. -V -- to

[tor-talk] units on https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html

2014-08-06 Thread Virgil Griffith
I have a question on the exported data from metrics.torproject.org. When downloading the "bandwidth" data as a CSV from: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html I've been unable to determine the units of the exported CSV file. For example, according to the graph the current total "advertis

[tor-talk] Cause of drops in network congestion on 2013-10-09 and 2014-06-06

2014-08-07 Thread Virgil Griffith
I've been looking through the various historical data from metrics.torproject.org. If you plot the 'used bandwidth' divided by the 'advertised bandwidth' (meant to be a rough measure of network congestion), you get three distinct groups, seen here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3308162/three_groups.png

Re: [tor-talk] Cause of drops in network congestion on 2013-10-09 and 2014-06-06

2014-08-08 Thread Virgil Griffith
; have a > preceding slope indicating that something started before your limits, > and they seem to be normal variations of a general down slope that > started in 2013. > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > I've been looking through the var

[tor-talk] Is there a known tool/script for analyzing the Tor consensus files?

2014-08-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
Or, if I were to dream, to highlight the differences between two Tor consensus files? -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Is there a known tool/script for analyzing the Tor consensus files?

2014-08-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
And just to be pedantically clear, the data on metrics.torproject.org is computed from the collecTor historical consensus files? -V On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Virgil Griffith wrote: > Or, if I were to dream, to highlight the differences between two Tor > consensus files? > >

Re: [tor-talk] Is there a known tool/script for analyzing the Tor consensus files?

2014-08-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
I am interested in the diffs between two consensus files. E.g., * which relays are in only one of the two consensus files * substantial changes in advertised/read bandwidth for a relay in both consensus files -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change o

[tor-talk] computing the Tor Metric's "advertised bandwidth" and "read bandwidth" from the archived Tor consensus

2014-08-14 Thread Virgil Griffith
I've been parsing the historical collecTor consensus files using the Stem library. I want to be able to recreate the existing numbers before I delve into new stuff, so I am attempting to recreate some datapoints from the Metrics site. The "router status entries", queried by: * https://stem.torpro

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Virgil Griffith
This isn't exactly what you asked, but read the first few sections of this where it looks for bottlenecks. http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf -V On Sunday, August 17, 2014, Mike Fikuart wrote: > Hi Tor-Talk, > > I am interested in the scaling limits to Tor and what present

[tor-talk] Who do I ask about purchasing additional Tor t-shirts (~5-10)?

2014-08-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
Particularly, the cool new onion with the circuit-onion logo? I see you can buy them for $65 each for a donation. Is it possible to get them cheaper, or is the cost of them set artificially high? -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings

Re: [tor-talk] Who do I ask about purchasing additional Tor t-shirts (~5-10)?

2014-08-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
For whatever it's worth I was going to suggest migrating the shirts to Hanes Beefy Ts. At Caltech it's what we always made department shirts from. They are the standard high-end T-shirt (thickness, long lasting, etc.). -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: [tor-talk] Who do I ask about purchasing additional Tor t-shirts (~5-10)?

2014-08-20 Thread Virgil Griffith
Moritz, you are exactly the person I would expect to know this. I sit disabused and my buying habits corrected. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Who do I ask about purchasing additional Tor t-shirts (~5-10)?

2014-09-03 Thread Virgil Griffith
The Tor Store hasn't been updated with the new design. www.printfection.com/torprojectstore If the onion-circuit-board shirts were available from there, I would buy them. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torp

[tor-talk] Tentative results of analysis of data on metrics.torproject.org

2014-09-03 Thread Virgil Griffith
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SaBK664SchhZOP9XBsB8KK63k4xlmMTlkhfF28f2204/pub I shared some of these with Griffin at USENIX, but I figured it was time to share with the larger Tor community. I'd like to make this a post on Tor blog if someone can hook me up with that. I still consider this

Re: [tor-talk] BBC Horizon: Inside the Dark Web

2014-09-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
I believe in a day in which you don't have to think about the impact on others when streaming gigabytes over Tor. -V On Wednesday, September 3, 2014, CJ wrote: > > > On 09/04/2014 12:23 AM, Tim Retout wrote: > > Hi! > > > > If you can access BBC iPlayer, you might be interested in tonight's > >

Re: [tor-talk] Tentative results of analysis of data on metrics.torproject.org

2014-09-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
> So I guess the question is: what conclusions should we draw from Figure 3? If it levels off or goes down in the future, does that indicate a bad thing in any way? Given that the average bandwidth across the world is increasing, it would be quite concerning if the average relay bandwidth for the

Re: [tor-talk] Tentative results of analysis of data on metrics.torproject.org

2014-09-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
If that ascent is due to you, this screams to the success of the torservers.net model. It might be useful to see that plot without Torservers.net in there. If I figure out how to make sense of the raw consensus file I may plot it. -V On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi Vi

Re: [tor-talk] Micropayment embedded in circuit building? New idea?

2014-09-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
Two points. > I don't think there's a lot of money to be made in the first place The major proposals I've seen don't aspire to make operating a relay profitable, but merely *subsidize* the money + time involved in operating a relay. I see it akin to automated, decentralized grants akin to the ki

Re: [tor-talk] Micropayment embedded in circuit building? New idea?

2014-09-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
carlo, if you want a place to implement these ideas, look at automating traffic peering agreements. It's not very sexy, but it would be an immediate, marketable improvement over the existing system. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settin

Re: [tor-talk] Tentative results of analysis of data on metrics.torproject.org

2014-09-05 Thread Virgil Griffith
Can someone suggest to me how to calculate the probability that a node will be selected for a circuit? Failing that, pointing me to the spec for the selection algorithm might be enough. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to http

Re: [tor-talk] Wired Story on Uncovering Users of Hidden Services.

2014-09-10 Thread Virgil Griffith
> apparently all pedos are windoz-users Odd. I'd think if anything pedos would "think different". -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-15 Thread Virgil Griffith
URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SaBK664SchhZOP9XBsB8KK63k4xlmMTlkhfF28f2204/pub New highlights: * After filtering out the bot-net window, there's a stronger relationship between increasing advertised bandwidth and faster Torperf. * Corroborated the above finding by showing that low "re

Re: [tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-15 Thread Virgil Griffith
I just realized there's a better way to control for some of these effects using multivariate models. Another update will come later. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor

Re: [tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-16 Thread Virgil Griffith
use a suggested reference text. > > is the dataset small enough to use on a desktop stats package or does it > require something beyond a typical desktop? > > > On 15/09/2014 8:57 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > >> I just realized there's a better way to control for som

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Virgil Griffith
Articles like these are irresponsible. But at least the journalist did sufficient homework to find a few "alternatives" I hadn't heard of. -V On Monday, September 22, 2014, Katya Titov wrote: > Article named "Best Alternatives to Tor: 12 Programs to Use Since NSA, > Hackers Compromised Tor Pro

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: IP Banned for running a non-exit relay from home?

2014-09-29 Thread Virgil Griffith
Perhaps weirdly, this fellow does seem to know what he is doing. On page, https://www.dan.me.uk/dnsbl He explicitly offers a different list for blocking just exits. The only thing I can think of is to email a request that he block just exists instead of overblocking all Tor nodes. -V -- tor-ta

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: IP Banned for running a non-exit relay from home?

2014-10-01 Thread Virgil Griffith
Well now that it's been mentioned in tor-talk maybe it'll appear next time Mr. DANIEL AUSTIN MBCS Googles himself. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: IP Banned for running a non-exit relay from home?

2014-10-01 Thread Virgil Griffith
I actually always figured the opposite---that knowing someone was Tor user was surprisingly quite valuable for advertisers. You know the viewer is technically literate and interested in security and privacy. I don't study ads or anything, but this sounds like a target demographic to me. If nothin

[tor-talk] Tech Report on Tor Growth [pdf]

2014-10-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
I hereby submit the following PDF as a Tor Tech Report. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3308162/tor%20growth.pdf I'll be providing the various raw data files to github/torproject shortly. Qualitative conclusions are the same. The methodology is more rigorous than it was before, some quantitative differ

Re: [tor-talk] Tech Report on Tor Growth [pdf]

2014-10-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
ir wrote: > On 10/04/2014 05:57 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > I hereby submit the following PDF as a Tor Tech Report. > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3308162/tor%20growth.pdf > > > > I'll be providing the various raw data files to github/torproject > sho

[tor-talk] Stupid hidden services question

2014-10-06 Thread Virgil Griffith
I'm attempting to quantify the proportion of traffic used by hidden services. When connecting to hidden services, are exit nodes ever used (unless the exit node also has a guard flag)? -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https:

[tor-talk] What was the academic paper in which

2014-10-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
researchers setup an exit node and then recorded what sites people were going to? (I'm writing a funding proposal paper and I need this citation. Sorry for my ignorance, I'm still not quite versed in the Tor academic literature. I should probably just sit down for a month and read the greatest h

Re: [tor-talk] What was the academic paper in which

2014-10-20 Thread Virgil Griffith
Yes! The Huber paper! Thank you Philipp! You rock! -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

2014-11-12 Thread Virgil Griffith
I am working on fixing up some aspects of tor2web. I've heard talk of using the term "onion service" or "tor service" instead of "hidden service". I actually like both of these better than "hidden service" (which I feel is too ambiguous about which aspects are hidden/not-hidden). However, I'm no

Re: [tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

2014-11-12 Thread Virgil Griffith
I'll start trying "onion service" and just see if it catches on. -V On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:39:05PM -0800, Virgil Griffith wrote: >> I am working on fixing up some aspects of tor2web. I've heard tal

Re: [tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

2014-11-12 Thread Virgil Griffith
Onion sites sounds nice to me too. But we might have to change the name to from tor2web to onion2web. -V On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Nathan Freitas writes: > >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: >> > I'll start

Re: [tor-talk] ChatSecure Problem?

2014-11-14 Thread Virgil Griffith
Juan: Poking Alec over his employer is inappropriate. First, any collaboration between facebook and the US government is undoubtably handled by a different department than Alec. Second, Alec is doing valuable work popularizing Tor within a mainstream Silicon Valley company and further "normalizes"

Re: [tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

2014-11-15 Thread Virgil Griffith
If an expensive marketing company were trying to come up with a term to describe more anonymous networks such as .onion, even though "dark net" certainly fits, they would probably discourage it because of the reasons previously mentioned. I don't like "deep web", and I think we can do better than

Re: [tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

2014-11-16 Thread Virgil Griffith
Right now I perceive consensus in accepting the term "onion services" as a synonym for "hidden services", and when it's specifically a website, also suggesting the more specific term, "onion site". Cool. I support that. For nonnative speakers it might sometimes to be useful to say "onion-site" t

[tor-talk] seeking singapore/southeast-asia based groups working on Tor/internet-freedom

2014-12-20 Thread Virgil Griffith
Anyone on list know of anyone? -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Running a Tor node on a Rasberry Pi

2014-12-25 Thread Virgil Griffith
This exists. https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview But I suggest doing it on a Beagle Bone Black. It can handle so much more traffic than a raspberry pi. Joshua Dakto is the point-of-contact for this. -- http://datko.net/ -V On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 8:45 PM, wrote: > I've been very in

Re: [tor-talk] All I Want For X-mas: TorPhone

2014-12-25 Thread Virgil Griffith
Petition the blackphone people for this. If they are willing to fund it certainly possible to get it done. -V On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 2:47 AM, wrote: > Hello everybody, > > With all of the great development happening around the Tor network this > holiday season, it seems fitting to ask for som

Re: [tor-talk] All I Want For X-mas: TorPhone

2014-12-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
The X in Xmas derives from the Greek letter Chi, which stands for Christ. This usage dates back at least to the Middle Ages. -V On Friday, December 26, 2014, m wrote: > It's CHRISTmas you jerk, not xmas > > stop that insulting nonsense already > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.tor

Re: [tor-talk] All I Want For X-mas: TorPhone

2014-12-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
gt; > > On 12/26/2014 03:19 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > >> The X in Xmas derives from the Greek letter Chi, which stands for Christ. >> This usage dates back at least to the Middle Ages. >> >> -V >> >> On Friday, December 26, 2014, m wrote: >> &

[tor-talk] Is there a representative of the LizardSquad on this list?

2014-12-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
If yes, it'd be nice to know what your aims are in the Sybil attack. Because thus far it is unclear to me what your motives or objectives are. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

[tor-talk] # clients and # of Tor operators

2014-12-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
I need to estimate these numbers for research proposal I am writing. >From the metrics.torproject.org data, I calculate approximately ~2.5 million clients. Is this correct? Likewise, from metrics.torproject.org, I see approximately 6500 relays. Is there an estimate on the number of *distinct re

[tor-talk] What month/years did the Tor consensus file format change substantially?

2014-12-30 Thread Virgil Griffith
I could look this up via the trac, but I suspect someone on the list "just knows" the answer. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-01 Thread Virgil Griffith
If an existing website simply wants to improve performance for Tor users, my understanding is that it's more efficient simply to run an Exit Enclave instead of a hidden service. Is that true? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ExitEnclave -V On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Colin

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-01 Thread Virgil Griffith
ve. > > T > > Xiaolan.Me: >> does any CA can issue SSL-CERT to an .onion address? >> >> 2015-01-02 9:17 GMT+08:00 Virgil Griffith : >> >>> If an existing website simply wants to improve performance for >>> Tor users, my understanding is that it&

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-05 Thread Virgil Griffith
I think the claim is that by default people want to be anonymous, but also be able to (voluntarily) prove their identity. If someone wants to do that, who am I to judge their anonymity goals? We can argue that this is too impractical to accomplish, but if it's not a huge amount of effort, the mor

[tor-talk] are there privacy benefits of running a bridge node?

2015-01-07 Thread Virgil Griffith
For example, if you run an exit node, your regular traffic is disguised by exit traffic also coming from your ip#. Is there anything similar for running a bridge node? -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] are there privacy benefits of running a bridge node?

2015-01-08 Thread Virgil Griffith
yeah I figured. Just checking. -V On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Xiaolan.Me wrote: > No, bridge is similar an Entry Node... > > 2015-01-08 15:43 GMT+08:00 Virgil Griffith : > >> For example, if you run an exit node, your regular traffic is >> disguised by exit traff

[tor-talk] DNSSEC better protecting users?

2015-01-10 Thread Virgil Griffith
i am concerned about https not being enough to protect tor2web users. In particular, I am concerned about what subdomain a user is visiting being leaked. Are there any established ways of preventing the subdomain from being leaked? Because none spring to my mind. -V -- tor-talk mailing list -

[tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-11 Thread Virgil Griffith
I present: http://onion.city currently searching ~348,000 pages according to site:onion.city on GOOG. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-11 Thread Virgil Griffith
See the FAQ. It's on the roadmap. On Feb 11, 2015 2:17 PM, "Alexandros" wrote: > On 02/11/2015 11:10 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > I present: > > > > http://onion.city > > > > currently searching ~348,000 pages according to site:onion.city on

[tor-talk] Project MEMEX's search engine

2015-02-12 Thread Virgil Griffith
Is there any difference between the MEMEX dark-web search engine and something like ahmia.fi or onion.city? Because if they are funding a search engine I'd claim leveraging extant community projects is a good idea. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
- How does the custom google search thing works? Where does it get its index? You expose all the tor2web onions on your sitemap, so google crawls them and generates an index? Correct :) Everything available on the Google Custom Search is also available on a regular google search with the qu

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
Leeroy, to avoid being indexed by Googlebot et al, place the appropriate /robots.txt at your root. It's described in the FAQ. http://www.onion.city/faq.html As a historical note, the reason Aaron and I chose Tor2web's URL design was so search engines would automatically see any /robots.txt an on

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
> Are OnionCity staff reviewing and redacting those lists to protect users from themselves? Or is redaction based only on complaints? We do both. > For some privacy, users can instead search https://startpage.com/ with "site:onion.city", and then view using the Ixquick Proxy. Could OnionCity scr

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-03-05 Thread Virgil Griffith
I'm not too surprised that list ruffled some feathers. Per your request, I'll take it down. :) If/when people get more used to the idea of being seen on the clear-net the Disallowed might be resurrected. Give the changes a few days to propagate. -V On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:16 AM, George Kadia

Re: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)

2015-03-07 Thread Virgil Griffith
> If a list stops fulfilling these criteria, people like us unsubscribe, leaving the list to its inevitable decline, > destined to join the ever-lengthening roll of moribund, flame-filled lists that no longer exist or have ceased > to serve any useful function on the net. I personally support more

Re: [tor-talk] Blocking Baseless Speculation

2015-03-08 Thread Virgil Griffith
I suppose it's sufficient just to block the tinhatters on the client end. It also means automagically not feeding them---a nice bonus. *mad tinhatters added*. -V On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Lara wrote: > Libertas: > > I think that "legitimate" can probably be defined as "containing some >

Re: [tor-talk] Who runs the Tor Network? An Overview using MyFamily Data

2015-03-20 Thread Virgil Griffith
"We still lack the "gamification" Relay Challenge website that Virgil was talking about. It would just sum up all relays of a family, and then it really does not matter any more." for what it's worth this website has been started. I'll post a beta to tor-talk when it's presentable. I remain very

Re: [tor-talk] Virgil's "gamification" website

2015-03-21 Thread Virgil Griffith
Here's the gist: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-June/006975.html On Saturday, March 21, 2015, Nusenu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > > "We still lack the "gamification" Relay Challenge website that > > Virgil was talking about. It would just s

Re: [tor-talk] New site attempting to help Tor grow

2015-04-18 Thread Virgil Griffith
I've heard of some ISPs having metered ipv4 but unmetered ipv6. Make all of your instances ipv6 only and you might be able to get more bang-per-buck. -V On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:55 AM, nusenu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > >> - Bandwidth: the instances being used

Re: [tor-talk] 100-Foot Overview on Tor

2015-05-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
Tom: wonderful summary! Thank you for putting it together! Minor quip: On pages 15 and 16, you say that the Tor network is speeding up. When you normalize by the average bandwidth around the world, I came to the conclusion that Tor speeds where actually flat. See table 2 of https://research.torp

[tor-talk] reverse enumeration attacks on bridges (re: 100-foot overview on Tor)

2015-05-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
Tom: If a hostile relay receives a connection from a ip-address A that is not listed in the Tor consensus, as far as I understand the hostile relay stills has two possibilities about ip-address A: (1) A is the client (2) A is a bridge I do not understand how the "reverse renumeration" attack you

[tor-talk] Are there any performance benefits for clients to use IPv6 over IPv4?

2015-05-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
If so can initiate making all tor2web clients use IPv6 by default. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Are there any performance benefits for clients to use IPv6 over IPv4?

2015-05-30 Thread Virgil Griffith
I mean having the Tor clients on tor2web sites set "ClientUseIPv6 1" and/or "ClientPreferIPv6 1". -V On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > Do you mean having the Tor clients on tor2web sites set "ClientUseIPv6 1" > and/or "ClientPreferIPv6 1"? -- tor-talk mailing list - t

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 'roots circuit' Logo

2015-06-22 Thread Virgil Griffith
Anything for you buttercup. https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/presentations/images/tor-logo-root-design.svg -V On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Jan GUTH wrote: > Hello list, > > Does someone have any idea where I am able to find the 'roots-circuit' > [0] logo in a higher resolution, or ev

[tor-talk] Recommended private key management and recovery

2015-07-15 Thread Virgil Griffith
Hello tor-talk! I have an operations question for those in high-security orgs: * How do you manage your private keys? * How do you do recover from a key-compromise? I ask because there's talk among Singaporean financial tech firms about migrating to more transparent (yay!) blockchain-based crypto

[tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-07-29 Thread Virgil Griffith
intending to use Tor for? I know the classic story of US intelligence agents wanting to phone home from Beijing hotels without Chinese intelligence knowing they were phoning home as a partial motivation for open-sourcing Tor. But what was the Navy/military originally hoping to use Tor-related pro

Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-07-29 Thread Virgil Griffith
> old at that point.) We had a picture where the ordering > information went over the Web from the Pentagon to Domino's and was > routed by an enemy (Iraq at the time of the putative pizza channel > concern). I remember a point I would make during presentations was > that the enemy could see the n

Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-07-31 Thread Virgil Griffith
> shut which i think is profoundly antithetical to > anything ANYONE working on tor project would > desire Being asked to take a conversation to another room so the communal space remains productive in other ways coincides with the desire of many adults working on the Tor project. On Sat, 1 Aug 20

Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-07-31 Thread Virgil Griffith
I propose the creation of an alternative mailing list where pressing issues like the ones in this thread can get airing, attention, and discussion they deserve. For such a list I propose the candidate name of tor-o...@lists.torptoject.org -V On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 at 04:45 Virgil Griffith wrote

Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-08-02 Thread Virgil Griffith
I delegate this thread to tor-opent...@lists.torproject.org On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Juan wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 07:16:43 +0300 > Cari Machet wrote: > >> https://youtu.be/qXajND7BQzk?t=27m40s >> >> here is on camera explanation of why the navy wants you to use >> tor ... if YOU don

Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

2015-08-03 Thread Virgil Griffith
t;The Pizza Channel" or enabling field-agents to covertly phone home. -V On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Juan wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:41:18 +0800 > Virgil Griffith wrote: > >> I delegate this thread to tor-opent...@lists.torproject.org > > > By the way,

Re: [tor-talk] IBM says Block Tor

2015-08-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
"In general, networks should be configured to deny access to websites such as www.torproject.org" Blocking Tor exit nodes is one thing, but this is just bizarre. They could make a claim that privacy from your boss is something they wish to prevent, but I saw no such claim. On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 at

[tor-talk] What is the current best-practice for hidden service diagnostics?

2015-08-31 Thread Virgil Griffith
For example, some things I'd like to know: * Is a specified hidden-service listed in the directory servers at all? * What is the specified introduction point for a hidden service? * Is the specified introduction point for the HS reachable? etc. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torpr

[tor-talk] OnionCloner

2015-09-07 Thread Virgil Griffith
At tor2web we've found a number of popular .onion sites coming up as infinite redirects. It seems this is due to sites wishing to protect themselves from the Onion Cloner script and tor2web is collateral damage. I have a two questions: (1) what are the current techniques for detecting Onion Cloner

Re: [tor-talk] OnionCloner

2015-09-08 Thread Virgil Griffith
n. Maybe OnioNS will improve matters. -V On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 at 11:20 grarpamp wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > At tor2web we've found a number of popular .onion sites coming up as > > infinite redirects. > > > tor2web is collate

Re: [tor-talk] What good is using Facebook through https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ ?

2015-09-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
The usual example given for this is, "if you don't want to share your amount of Facebook use with your ISP or the NSA, Facebook supports you doing that." On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 17:19 Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 09:19:12AM +0300, Qaz wrote: > > What good does https://facebookc

Re: [tor-talk] What good is using Facebook through https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ ?

2015-09-22 Thread Virgil Griffith
ple, Fast, Flexible, and Cheap Website Authentication" > pdf of paper and > slides available at http://ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2SP/ > > We also have a revised and expanded paper reflecting subsequent > developments in the works. > > aloha, > Paul > > On Sat, Sep 1

Re: [tor-talk] New logos and wordmarks for ExoneraTor, Metrics, and CollecTor

2015-09-26 Thread Virgil Griffith
The CollecTor logo made me smile. +1 Rest are good too. Obviously improvements over the old! Now we just want a Roster logo? ;) -V On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 4:17 AM Karsten Loesing wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > > Leiah Jansen made three wonderful n

[tor-talk] Accessing Cloudflare sites on TBB

2015-10-02 Thread Virgil Griffith
For unrelated reasons I'm meeting with Cloudflare. Can someone enlighten me on the current state of the captcha situation? Presuming they are unwilling to completely drop the captcha, what would be a step in the right direction? The last I heard from Cloudflare is: https://support.cloudflare.com

Re: [tor-talk] Accessing Cloudflare sites on TBB

2015-10-02 Thread Virgil Griffith
These are all wonderful. Thank you all! Okay, I'll bring these up and see if I can nudge the needle in the right direction. It's not much, but every little bit helps? -V On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 at 08:25 Griffin Boyce wrote: > Virgil Griffith wrote: > > For unrelated reaso

Re: [tor-talk] Accessing Cloudflare sites on TBB

2015-10-03 Thread Virgil Griffith
he cached version. But if a cached version does not exist, cached version exists, to spit it out, but if a cached copy does not already exist, to return the captcha? -V On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:07 PM wrote: > Quoting Virgil Griffith (2015-10-03 01:40:22) > > Presuming they are > >

Re: [tor-talk] tor + CryptoCoin = TorCoin

2015-10-06 Thread Virgil Griffith
Please see: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-incentives-research-roundup-goldstar-par-braids-lira-tears-and-torcoin -V On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:04 PM Alex NoName wrote: > Hello! > I have some ideas to improve tor project and I'm not sure that I'm writing > in right place. I'm operating a to

Re: [tor-talk] Super speed Tor

2015-10-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
At current growth rates it will be a while. https://research.torproject.org/techreports/tor-growth-2014-10-04.pdf On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 at 10:44 Marcos Eugenio Kehl wrote: > Hello cripto experts! > > 1. When we will have a super speed Tor? I mean, a HD video streaming from > a hidden service. >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor

2015-10-18 Thread Virgil Griffith
I re-iterate a request for the tor-opentalk@ list. -V On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM Josef Stautner wrote: > Hello Juan, > > I can't understand why you subscribe to a list of "scammers" then. You > escalated very quickly and showed a rude attitude most people can't > stand and normally silentl

Re: [tor-talk] Tor

2015-10-19 Thread Virgil Griffith
I accuse Juan of being the actual mole here. He so masterfully keeps us muttering to each other/him instead of working productively. http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/workplace-bureaucracy-simple-sabotage/ On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:35 PM grarpamp wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Justi

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-dev] Desired exit node diversity

2015-10-27 Thread Virgil Griffith
Instead of WOT, it seems more desirable, and better fit diversity, to have both your best friends and worst enemies on the same circuit. Ergo, minimizing chance of collaboration. -V On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 at 01:30 grarpamp wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, tor-dev had: > > I agree with Roge

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-dev] Desired exit node diversity

2015-10-27 Thread Virgil Griffith
is motivation above is a plausible reason to have more "non-activist" types running Tor relays---we just have too many friends, a few foes would be a welcome addition! -V On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:11 PM Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > > On 28 Oct 2015, at 14:31, Virgil

Re: [tor-talk] Onionmap, a free software worldmap of Tor relays

2015-11-11 Thread Virgil Griffith
Im not sure how one proposes this, but could we get a code review on OnionMap and then move it to https://map.torproject.org ? -V On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 at 06:39 Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 11/11/2015 10:55 PM, opi wrote: > > I made some improvements recently; Onionmap now supports Onionoo > > reques

Re: [tor-talk] Accessing Cloudflare sites on TBB

2015-11-11 Thread Virgil Griffith
aking CloudFlare employees aware of Tor needs. -V On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 at 06:10 wrote: > Quoting Virgil Griffith (2015-10-03 01:40:22) > > For unrelated reasons I'm meeting with Cloudflare. Can someone enlighten > > me on the current state of the captcha situation? Presuming the

Re: [tor-talk] Onionmap, a free software worldmap of Tor relays

2015-11-12 Thread Virgil Griffith
Thank you moritz! You are the blond panda bear of love. On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 at 09:12 Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 11/13/2015 12:59 AM, I wrote: > > http://relaymap.torservers.net/ brings a 404 > > It has moved to http://map.torservers.net/ -- sorry for the confusion. > > opi, we could move the thing

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