Warnings on the download page (was: yet another tor attack)

2007-03-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:14:33PM -0600, Mike Perry wrote: The Tor download page should have a concice Things to know before downloading section that lists a few key points about the most easy ways your identity can be revealed through Tor. Something like Mike and I just whipped up an early

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread sy16
My suggestions as a no-tech user: Perhaps the Warning should be put on top of the page, before the download links - sometimes people don't go further than the download links. Also, might I suggest NoScript to be used in conjunction with QuickJava? And please add a line reminding users to

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake sy16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My suggestions as a no-tech user: Perhaps the Warning should be put on top of the page, before the download links - sometimes people don't go further than the download links. Also, might I suggest NoScript to be used in conjunction with QuickJava?

Re: Warnings on the download page (Re: QuickJava update req)

2007-03-08 Thread light zoo
--- Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps he would be amenable to fixing his extension against moore's on-the-fly HTML generation. However his email address is not listed on the author page :( Well it looks like Mr. Greene prefers to receive feature requests on his blog, not email.

Re: Warnings on the download page (Re: QuickJava update req)

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake light zoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): --- Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps he would be amenable to fixing his extension against moore's on-the-fly HTML generation. However his email address is not listed on the author page :( Well it looks like Mr. Greene prefers

Re: Warnings on the download page (Re: QuickJava update req)

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thus spake light zoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): --- Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps he would be amenable to fixing his extension against moore's on-the-fly HTML generation. However his email address is not listed on the

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread H D Moore
Hello, I just subscribed to the or-talk list and would be happy to answer any questions related to the recent catching pedophiles article and the decloak test tool. I am in the process of updating the decloak demonstration to explain each of the tests and provide source code for the

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:12:10PM -0600, H D Moore wrote: I am in the process of updating the decloak demonstration to explain each of the tests and provide source code for the components. What may not be obvious (especially from the ZDNet article), is that I believe in the Tor project's

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread H D Moore
Thanks for the feedback! Keep in mind this is the first applet I have ever written :-) Any information about the new API would be appreciated. Do you happen to know what versions it is compatible with? Bizzare that they would explicitly allow non-proxied connections. I used the Datagram Socket

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake H D Moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for the feedback! Keep in mind this is the first applet I have ever written :-) Any information about the new API would be appreciated. Do you happen to know what versions it is compatible with? Bizzare that they would explicitly allow

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Roger Dingledine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:12:10PM -0600, H D Moore wrote: I am in the process of updating the decloak demonstration to explain each of the tests and provide source code for the components. What may not be obvious (especially from the

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Watson Ladd
If there is a security manager, its checkConnect method is called with the proxy host address and port number as its arguments. This could result in a SecurityException. Just configure the security manager to prevent unproxyed connections. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread H D Moore
On Thursday 08 March 2007 19:05, Mike Perry wrote: Actually, I'm also curious about your on-the-fly applet tag generation. Were you aware that it would bypass that security.enable_java setting or was it just a general evasive thing you did for filtering? Do you have any information if this is

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread H D Moore
Looks like the Practical Onion Hacking paper covered many features I was working on, as well as touching on the warez/movie/music leeches and the child pornography traffic. I should have released this back in August when I presented on it the first time :-) The big differences are: 1) They

Tor 0.1.2.10-rc is out

2007-03-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
This is the second release candidate for the 0.1.2.x series. We made it work better on Windows again -- this time for sure. :) This is a release candidate! That means that we don't know of any remaining show-stopping bugs, and this will become the new stable if there are no problems. Please test

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread James Muir
Watson Ladd wrote: If there is a security manager, its checkConnect method is called with the proxy host address and port number as its arguments. This could result in a SecurityException. Just configure the security manager to prevent unproxyed connections. Even if all Java connections are

Re: Removing 1 modular exponentiation

2007-03-08 Thread James Muir
The following recent preprint deals with the subject of this thread: A. Kate, G. Zaverucha and I. Goldberg Pairing-Based Onion Routing pdf CACR 2007-08 http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2007/cacr2007-08.pdf -James

Re: Removing 1 modular exponentiation

2007-03-08 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- James Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following recent preprint deals with the subject of this thread: A. Kate, G. Zaverucha and I. Goldberg Pairing-Based Onion Routing pdf CACR 2007-08

Security Focus story

2007-03-08 Thread James Muir
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11447 A number of comments made on the list are referred to in this story. One of Nick's posts has been quoted. -James

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread H D Moore
Flash is now supported: http://metasploit.com/research/misc/decloak/ -HD On Thursday 08 March 2007 20:33, H D Moore wrote: Seems like two big items I need to add to decloak are Flash and the shiny no-proxy Java connection mode (which seems to apply to TCP sockets only).

need help with Uninstall for Mac

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Edwards
I installed the bundled package posted on the site last week. I don't know the Terminal well but this is what I get back... jason-edwards-computer:~ Jason$ cd /Library/Tor jason-edwards-computer:/Library/Tor Jason$ sudo -s Password: jason-edwards-computer:/Library/Tor root#

Re: Security Focus story

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 3/9/07, James Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11447 A quote which worries me: Tor servers meet the definition of an Internet service provider, which means that operators are not required to know what data passed through the server, said Kevin Bankston, staff

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thus spake Roger Dingledine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:12:10PM -0600, H D Moore wrote: I am in the process of updating the decloak demonstration to explain each of the tests and provide source code for the components.