Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
Yes if you redirect DNS requests to Tor's DNSPort you should be safe against DNS leaks. Do I have to use AutomapHostsOnResolve 1 as well? Seems to be pointless without defining AutomapHostsSuffixes. I guess you are talking about a local setup without a middlebox involved. If my assumption is

Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread tagnaq
On 02/13/2011 03:20 PM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: Do I have to use AutomapHostsOnResolve 1 as well? Seems to be pointless without defining AutomapHostsSuffixes. No it is not pointless because also if you do not use AutomapHostsSuffixes in your config .exit and .onion are AutomapHostsSuffixes per

Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
From the Tor Project FAQ https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ChooseEntryExit: We recommend you do not use these — they are intended for testing and may disappear in future versions. You get the best security that Tor can provide when you leave the route selection to Tor; overriding the entry /

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread tagnaq
On 02/13/2011 03:43 PM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: Now, it's a little bit confusing for a novice, let me explain why. People both on this mailing list and else where on the Internet are often referring to excluding bad/evil exit nodes (I'm aware that it's a bit ambiguous concept) and yet there is

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:51 +0100, tagnaq wrote: No you do not need to exclude them because your client will not use nodes with the BadExit flag as an exit node anyway. The torstatus website does not flag them, it just shows you that they have this flag because the DirectoryAuthorities flagged

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread tagnaq
On 02/13/2011 04:19 PM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: Now I'm even more confused! What is DirectoryAuthorities? Could you point me somewhere I can find more informations about matters relating to exit nodes? https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#KeyManagement (Coordination section) General

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:07 +0100, tagnaq wrote: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#KeyManagement (Coordination section) General Design Document: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#DesignDoc https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.html

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 2/13/2011 10:19 AM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: [snip] How someone can recognise if an exit node *might* be doing something suspicious - like sniffing traffic for passwords? As far as I can tell (with my limited knowledge that is!) it's by checking which ports the node in question is making

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Tomasz Moskal ramshackle.industr...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Would you recommend using not Tor connection when one is forced to use unencrypted protocols? I think I'm safer using Tor even with unencrypted traffic that using regular connection but again I can be

Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread tagnaq
On 02/13/2011 05:21 PM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: OK, so to wrap it all up last (hopefully!) couple of questions... iptables script/rules set: #!/bin/sh # the UID Tor runs as TOR_UID=109 iptables -F iptables -t nat -F # Redirects DNS traffic to the local port 53 iptables -t nat -A

Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
Could you describe your use case + thread model? I'm terrible sorry for chaos I'm causing but right now I'm a very small and confused person :-) Let me start from the beginning... I'm using Privoxy + Tor combination. For Privoxy to properly handle TCP/HTTP requests and send them over Tor

Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Ransom
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:50:19 + Tomasz Moskal ramshackle.industr...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why your uid should be different everytime you reboot, but you can also use the name of the user instead of the numerical value. Well I can't tell you why but that how it is. To double check I

Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread scroogle
I've been fighting two different Tor users for a week. Each is apparently having a good time trying to see how quickly they can get results from Scroogle searches via Tor exit nodes. The fastest I've seen is about two per second. Since Tor users are only two percent of all Scroogle searches, I'm

Re: Yet another UDP / DNS quiestion...

2011-02-13 Thread Tomasz Moskal
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 11:04 -0800, Robert Ransom wrote: That's a process ID, not a user ID. Arrrgh! My brain is slowly melting. I think what I will do now is to give up on Tor and attempts to understand it. I will explore more how to properly and effectively use Linux. Then I shall delve some

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, scroo...@lavabit.com wrote: [snip] I'm getting to the point where I'm tempted to offer my two exit node lists (yesterday plus today, and previous six days plus today) to the public. If I had more confidence in the lists currently available to the public, I

Re: Sent e-mails going into spam folders.

2011-02-13 Thread Karsten N.
Am 13.02.2011 00:54, schrieb Matthew: Incidentally, in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ gpfTOR4 is listed as being in the Czech Republic while gpfTOR5 and gpfTOR6 are in Netherlands. Is this correct? Yes, coorect. In the last years we see much less trouble by using non-German ISPs for our Tor

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Matthew
On 13/02/11 19:09, scroo...@lavabit.com wrote: I've been fighting two different Tor users for a week. Each is apparently having a good time trying to see how quickly they can get results from Scroogle searches via Tor exit nodes. The fastest I've seen is about two per second. Since Tor users

Re: Sent e-mails going into spam folders.

2011-02-13 Thread Matthew
On 13/02/11 21:03, Karsten N. wrote: Am 13.02.2011 00:54, schrieb Matthew: Incidentally, in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ gpfTOR4 is listed as being in the Czech Republic while gpfTOR5 and gpfTOR6 are in Netherlands. Is this correct? Yes, coorect. In the last years we see much less

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread scroogle
Gregory Maxwell wrote: As far as performance goes, you can download a list of nodes which can reach a particular address at https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py?ip=1.2.3.4 but, these results have the same problem with omitted nodes that I mentioned. That's the

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:09:56 -0500 (EST) scroo...@lavabit.com wrote: I've been fighting two different Tor users for a week. Each is apparently having a good time trying to see how quickly they can get results from Scroogle searches via Tor exit nodes. I've talked to a few services that do one

Re: or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
A reminder that this migration occurs this week. On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:05:03 -0500 Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org wrote: Hello or-talk subscribers, On February 19, 2011, we are migrating or-talk from or-t...@seul.org to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. We will migrate your e-mail

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org wrote: I've talked to a few services that do one of the following: - Run a Tor exit enclave, which would only allow exit through Tor to  your webservers.  There are a few services that run a tor client and  simply block