Latest openssl update breaks Tor

2010-11-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hey *, the most recent openssl security update [0] breaks Tor. According to our analysis so far, Tor isn't affected by the actual security issue, but the patch as applied in openssl versions 1.0.0b and 0.9.8p causes Tor to fail its handshake as a relay. If you run a relay and have already

Re: Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - their comments on Tor and SSL - I don't understand.

2010-10-27 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Matthew wrote: Hello, There is a “Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers Guide” available at http://ht4w.co.uk/ . The section on proxies includes Tor-related information which I fail to understand: You may actually get more anonymity when using the Tor cloud by

Re: StrictNodes

2010-10-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Geoff Down wrote: [warn] The configuration option 'StrictExitNodes' is deprecated; use 'StrictNodes' instead. It would help if such an option were documented in https://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en or shipped in the expert install package. Where is it

Re: StrictNodes

2010-10-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:05 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:57:42PM +0100, Geoff Down wrote: [warn] The configuration option 'StrictExitNodes' is deprecated; use 'StrictNodes' instead. It would help if such an option were documented in

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-24 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: In any case, Sebastian started a trac entry for this one: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1929 wherein he starts out by listing a reason that we shouldn't fix it. Please

Re: Problems with `dig` and `host` under transparently torified user

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 12, 2010, at 10:32 AM, James Brown wrote: I have a transparently torified user setting up as described there https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy When I run command `dig somedomainname mx` or `dig somedomainname ns` or `host -t mx

Re: Using tor, help

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, forc...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hello, I am running a tor node (unfortunately not exit node because of the hostign company) since a few months on a dedicated server, all is fine. I would like that some Perl scripts running on some websites also hosted on

Re: When is the 'MyFamily' setting unnecessary?

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:24 PM, tor_ml wrote: Hi, I'm curious in which cases tor would _never_ use certain nodes to create one circuit and therefore makes the 'MyFamily' setting unnecessary. I heard only of one rule (I guess on this list but I'm not sure): - tor would not use nodes within

Re: connect Vidalia to a running tor instance

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 12, 2010, at 3:49 PM, tor_ml wrote: Hi, is it possible to connect/attach Vidalia to a tor process that gets started by an init script and is running as user A, while Vidalia is running as user B? Yes. You need to configure your Tor to open a ControlPort and set a password, then

Re: When is the 'MyFamily' setting unnecessary?

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:36 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Making families more scalable would also admit things like semi-public families. E.g. you could share a family key with all the node operators in a common building. Detecting things like same network can be done automatically with enough

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: As I understand it, we changed no behavior except printing out a warn for people who had multiple lines, to tell them that they're expecting behavior that they're

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:05:09 +0200 Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: As I understand it, we

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: In any case, Sebastian started a trac entry for this one: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1929 wherein he starts out by listing a reason that we shouldn't fix it. Please add more pros and cons to the trac entry. it'd be

Re: Why not TOR come up with an encryption system?

2010-06-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mon, June 7, 2010 4:26 am, emigrant wrote: i mean apart from anonymity, can it have something to do the work of SSL? i mean for all connection. thanks a lot No, this is not possible. To do the work of SSL, you need a destination that supports encryption, and unfortunately many still don't

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
All that would do would be to say to all clients, Don't include this node in the same circuit as any of the blutmagie nodes. How would that be an attack? I can list all the nodes I don't control... *** To unsubscribe,

Re: Reducing relays = reducing anonymity ? Tortunnel.

2010-05-19 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Niklas, On May 19, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Attac Heidenheim wrote: Hi everybody, I just tried a little tool called Tortunnel which allows a user to tunnel Tor via Privoxy/Polipo to any selected exitnode. Just one hop instead of three relays. This works by pretending to the exit relay that you've

Re: opening up (exit policy) a bit ...

2010-05-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On May 8, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Dyno Tor wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, John Case c...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: Let's say you run a tor relay with no exit policy: reject *:* And then later you alter that exit policy a bit: accept *:80,reject *:* My understanding is that this system

Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-23 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Brian Mearns spake: Any chance your ISP is throttling you? 100% *not*. Another possibility would be that your relay is heavily overloaded. See the big thread on tor-relays about the problems and potential solutions [0]. Sebastian

Re: Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 17, 2010, at 4:26 AM, krishna e bera wrote: i have been seeing these for a couple of years while running Tor servers on debian and ubuntu and nobody deemed them important enough to worry about and they didnt seem to affect the machine much. We did worry about it, and found and fixed

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: Unfortunate (IMO), the latest versions have the support for .exit either disabled or deleted, apparently leaving us no easy way to perform such tests. I've asked recently on this list whether some other easy way were available, but have

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:25:07 +0200 Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: Unfortunate (IMO), the latest versions have the support for .exit either disabled or deleted, apparently

Re: Howto build static linux binary?

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 15, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I would like to build a statically linked binary of tor. Is there an easy way to accomplish this, e.g. by passing a simply command line option to configure? Thank you in advance, Clemens Hey Clemens, yesterday a patch was accepted

Re: Howto build static linux binary?

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 15, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hmm, I would prefer to have all libraries statically linked (including libc) - so that the resulting executable would have no external dependencies (except for the kernel-syscall interface of course ^^). Sad this isn't possible ... maybe I

Re: An olg bug in new tor-package

2010-03-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sun, March 21, 2010 9:09 am, James Brown wrote: My OS - Debian Lenny AMD64, Tor v0.2.1.25, openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny6 I have the next record in the log of Tor: OpenSSL OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 [90807f] looks like it's older than 0.9.8l, but some vendor s have backported 0.9.8l's

Re: [REGRESSION] Your IP address seems to have changed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Updating.

2010-03-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Tor folks, I updated from 0.2.0.35-1~lenny2 to 0.2.1.23-2~~lenny+1 and use the same configuration. But now I am seeing Your IP address seems to have changed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Updating. every 10 seconds in `/var/log/tor/log`. I

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: Could you bind your exit traffic to IPs outside your University's primary block? Not sure what you mean by bind to outside IP, but our network is a contiguous /16. We would have to register for extra /24s from ARIN, and that costs

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: Why not simply block that entire network in the Exit policy? You're missing the point .. we already blocked our *own* /16 in the exit. The problem was the thousands of academic journals, all of which have distinct addresses, that

Re: Tor Project infrastructure updates in response to security breach

2010-01-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:25 AM, grarpamp wrote: As I wrote someone earlier... It would be easier to just sign the git revision hashes at various intervals. Such as explicitly including the revision hash that each release is made from in the release docs itself. And then signing that release.

Re: TLS renegotiating error persists on FreeBSD 8.0 updated.

2010-01-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 8, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Luis Maceira wrote: The well-known TLS renegotiating error which the tor-0.2.1.21 version was supposed to address persists on FreeBSD-8.0 updated as of today.The unstable version (0.2.2.6) same thing the error

Re: concerning tor bug report #1026

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: I submitted tor bug report #1026 via Jon scr...@nonvocalscream.com , who volunteered to post it to bugs.torproject.org for me because that web site refuses to log me in. (Should I

Re: concerning tor bug report #1026

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: [snip] But *which* descriptor? The last successful one? Or the one that failed? They generate a new one, based on their current config options. BTW, thank you for looking at this so quickly. This one indeed is much less urgent than

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-18 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Timo, On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: Hi, IMHO it's not the problem of 'how TOR works' or the (unquestionable) benefits it provides, it's more the problem of the 'image' of the ISP that hosts (customer's) exit nodes and therefore might have problems with the local law

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Sören Weber wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Fabian Keilfreebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de wrote: Alleged copyright infringements. Yes, of course. He stated that he doesn't believe that these mails are caused by the

Re: Out-of-date Tors (was Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory)

2009-05-26 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 26, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Nils Vogels wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:04 AM, scr...@nonvocalscream.com wrote: On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:33 -0400, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: snip But you're right, this is a real problem. Some of

Bittorrent integration for Thandy

2009-04-24 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I'm happy and thankful that I'll be able to work on Bittorrent integration for Thandy as a Google Summer of Code student! It's great to have this awesome opportunity again, after working on Puppetor during last year's Summer of Code.

Re: exit counts by port number over 61 days

2009-04-19 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Tripple Moon wrote: Your list doesn't include for example 22 (ssh), which is absolutely essential for many of us. Well see...from my point of view SSH is abuse of the tor-network, namely aiding in hacking other systems. (see my other posts for my logic) To use

Re: Does this squid ACL really blocks tor

2008-12-27 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Dec 27, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Arun SAG wrote: Hi, I have found my network admin has added a squid ACL something like acl numeric_IPs url_regex ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ http_access deny CONNECT numeric_IPs all And now vidalia is not able connect to tor network (cant create circuits),

Re: Need help with MPAA threats

2008-12-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Dec 15, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Jon wrote: [snip] ...DMCA, hacking, child exploitation transiting my link. Don't get the context wrong... quote it all if your going to pick it line item. These things (with perhaps the loose exception of DMCA) are illegal in all jurisdictions I believe? If there

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 20.11.08 21:10:08 An: or-talk@freehaven.net Betreff: Problems with irc because of tor? I have been fighting to get tor-0.2.1.7-alpha working on my system for a while and finally appear to have it

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Sebastian Hahn wrote: Unfortunately, some service providers choose to not accept Tor users as part of their userbase and block connections from exit nodes. That wasn't the question, he was wondering why he was using Tor at all though he told his client not to use it. Sorry I didn't

Re: Exit node connection statistics

2008-07-18 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course you can. And if you are able to bring yourself under the top 100 of 500 exit nodes in one day, you can solve it even in two days. Just use a different destination IP for each exit

Re: Router Flags

2008-05-23 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, a correction included below: On May 23, 2008, at 10:26 AM, F. Fox wrote: [snip] Exit Nodes which can be the last node in a circuit. They take the encrypted traffic from the network, take the last layer of encryption off, and send it toward its final destination. That is wrong. A node

Re: GPG Public Keys

2008-05-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On May 22, 2008, at 1:26 AM, Nathaniel Dube wrote: I noticed some of you have GPG keys. I tried searching key servers so I can add your public keys to my list. It would seem either I'm not searching the right servers or none of you have uploaded them. So I'm asking that all of you

Re: Tor security advisory: Debian flaw causes weak identity keys

2008-05-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On May 14, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Arjan wrote: Two questions: Do I have to do something to get the old key blacklisted to make sure that someone can't impersonate it? (Old fingerprint: $C33ABC15B69DA274588CA1869CC1EE7B1DC11DAD) no, that key is already blackliste Should I rename my node? It

Hi from Sebastian, one of this year's Google Summer of Code students!

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi everybody, I'm excited to be able to work for the Tor project in this year's Google Summer of Code! Thanks to everybody who has helped me get familiar with Tor so far, and special thanks to Nick Matthewson as he will be mentoring me in my attempts to create an application able of

Re: Hi from Sebastian, one of this year's Google Summer of Code students!

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 22, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: If you have any comments, I'm glad to hear from you! I will post some notes indicating progress during the summer, so people can see where I am. If you want to discuss the project with me or generally have a little chat, #Tor on freenode

Re: getting more exit nodes

2008-04-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, On Apr 20, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Alexander Bernauer wrote: [snip] The basic idea is to develop a browser plugin which while active turns the computer into both an Tor client and a Tor exit node. The target group is a Windows XP or Vista user with almost no technical skills but fear of

Re: server

2008-04-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 7, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Dark Clouds wrote: hi there there's someone thinking of helping out tor by running a server. will one of the admins care to or please recommend someone nice enough to help on setting up one? Hi, I'm not an admin, but I can help you in the process if you

Re: server

2008-04-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:17 AM, F. Fox wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dark Clouds wrote: hi there there's someone thinking of helping out tor by running a server. will one of the admins care to or please recommend someone nice

Re: Proposal: Tor User Agent Carousel (TUAC)

2008-04-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thank you for the reply! Also, when the user agent changes on a website that you logged onto, they are going to link the two This is a good point, if the rotation occurs during the period of login, but one may choose a longer

Re: Proposal: Tor User Agent Carousel (TUAC)

2008-04-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, thank you for your reply, my comments follow below: On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thank you for the reply! Also, when the user agent changes on a website that you logged onto, they are going to link the

Re: [GSoC] Torflow question.

2008-04-02 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Wojtek, there are already 5 applications for improvements to the Scanner, so if you think something else interests you, you may be better suited to choose that. Sebastian On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Wojciech Walczak wrote: Hello All, I just wanted to ask if there is anybody working

Re: Tor: Client works, relay doesn't

2008-03-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
I think you have an error in your forwarding setup... If you want to talk about it, please join #tor on irc.oftc.net. If not, please post some log messages indicating the failure Sebastian On Mar 29, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Pollo wrote: I use tor 0.1.2.19 under SuSE linux 10.3. I istalled it

Re: Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is out

2008-03-22 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 22, 2008, at 4:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:58:25AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.6K bytes in 23 lines about: : I downloaded the : vidalia-bundle-0.2.0.22-rc-0.1.1-tiger.dmg and : installed it. I now have Tor 0.2.0.22-rc and Vidalia : 0.1.1. I also have

Re: How do I volunteer? #6 Improvements on our active browser configuration tester

2008-03-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Rochester TOR Admin wrote: I've been doing some work on a better system to check the privacy of a browser [server side DNS tests, flash tests, etc] and humbly think that I may have some good contributions. Looking at the tor volunteer page i see that #6 is the

Re: max number of file descriptors hard coded

2008-02-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: Narf! debugging the [warn] Error creating network socket: Too many open files messages I just found the max number of file descriptors apparently being hard coded in or.h to a value

Re: .onion sites fail to load with: (waiting for rendezvous desc)

2008-02-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Feb 17, 2008, at 6:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:03:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing this message in terminal running Tor when trying to connect to any .onion sites: [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving

Re: .onion sites fail to load with: (waiting for rendezvous desc)

2008-02-16 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, after reading this I went ahead and with the help of Phobos compiled an installed trunk. On Feb 16, 2008, at 11:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:46:54 +0100, Karsten Loesing [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Some days ago there was a guy on #tor with a similar problem.