RE: A quick tor analysis that I did in my spare time.

2010-07-23 Thread Steve Southam
I don't get why this is true: If more than one organisation tries to do this though then the overall quantity of circuits controlled by any organisation drops. If one organization does this, how does that have any affect the next? And if it has no affect and many orgs are doing it the number

executable name

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Southam
Hi If I want to run tor on linux but have it use a different process name can I just 'mv tor newname' or is there a better way to do this during config or make? Thanks Steve *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to

RE: [OFF LIST] Re: attempt from Taiwan to connect to my privoxy port

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Southam
Any packet could be part of an attack. The same packet in different situations can cause many different effects, depending on how the system has already been setup, by admins AND attackers. It depends on the knowledge of the entity that sent the packet, how many more of them there are and

RE: Dir servers on private networks

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Southam
Did you put the info about your authoritative directory servers into config.c? You may need to run the them first to generate the fingerprints. Have you looked at the IP addresses your ORs are publishing to? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

question about cached-status

2008-07-10 Thread Steve Southam
Hi When a network status is downloaded by a client, how does it determine how long the status is usable for? If the server that the status came from goes offline, how does the client know not to use it? Thanks Steve

NumCpus

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Southam
Hello, Anyone know if the NumCpus option in torrc will work correctly with single-cpu dualcore processors Cheers Steve

RE: OSI 1-3 attack on Tor? in it.wikipedia

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Southam
If the layer 1-3 attack is done in conjunction with malicious node ownership how do you force the client to think it chose your path? Can you fake out the onion keys of the routers the client thinks it's using? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Tor meetup in San Francisco this Thursday

2008-01-22 Thread Steve Southam
Hi again Nick, Just a thought, how about meeting at the pub instead of coffee?? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Mathewson Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:13 PM To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Tor meetup in San

TunnelDirConns 1

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Southam
Hi Tormeisters, When I use Tor Privoxy Vidalia bundle v0.1.2.17 with these torrc options: TunnelDirConns 1 PreferTunneledDirConns 1 I still see http between me and the dir servers. Is there something else I need to configure to be fully encrypted? Thanks for you time Steve

Re: Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Southam
Thanks a lot, I'll try this out! icmp30 wrote: --- Steve Southam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logout of my yahoo mail account using Tor it jumps back to the same page. I'm using firefox with Tor 0.1.2.14 (package, not compiling) on Vista. When I toggle torbutton I can logout OK

Re: Received http status code 503 (Directory unavailable) from server

2007-06-21 Thread Steve Southam
Look through src/or/connection.c for Directory unavailable. This happens when you try to ask for a v1-style directory object (either a full directory or a running-routers list), and the directory mirror doesn't have a suitable copy yet. Most commonly this is because the server just started and

Received http status code 503 (Directory unavailable) from server

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Southam
Hi Anyone seen this message before: Jun 20 19:03:39.222 [info] connection_dir_request_failed(): Giving up on directory server at '82.103.132.40:80'; retrying Jun 20 19:03:39.240 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received http status code 503 (Directory unavailable) from server

Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Southam
Hi, When I logout of my yahoo mail account using Tor it jumps back to the same page. I'm using firefox with Tor 0.1.2.14 (package, not compiling) on Vista. When I toggle torbutton I can logout OK. Any ideas? Thanks Steve

Re: Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Southam
Nyet Did you edit the privoxy configuration at all? Comrade Ringo Kamens On 6/12/07, Steve Southam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logout of my yahoo mail account using Tor it jumps back to the same page. I'm using firefox with Tor 0.1.2.14 (package, not compiling) on Vista. When I

Re: Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Southam
/etc. Comrade Ringo Kamens On 6/12/07, Steve Southam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nyet Did you edit the privoxy configuration at all? Comrade Ringo Kamens On 6/12/07, Steve Southam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logout of my yahoo mail account using Tor it jumps back to the same page

Re: Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Southam
Disabled Is this with Java/javascript enabled or disabled? Comrade Ringo Kamens On 6/12/07, Steve Southam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion - but I still get the same behavior. Try disabling all the filters and trying again. (you'll need to restart privoxy after editing

Re: Setup Directory Server

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Southam
config.c is hard coded with the current auth dir servers, you could delete those and put your own in. Steve Yeah. There is an option in the torcc for what kind of server you wish to run. Just change that. Comrade Ringo Kamens On 5/15/07, Eric C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a

2-node circuits Vs 3-node circuits

2007-04-24 Thread Steve Southam
Hello, Is there really any difference in terms of anonymity and encryption between circuits containing 2 nodes or 3 nodes? In a 2-node circuit, if someone is snooping node 1 they can see the IP address of the client but not the traffic and not the destination IP address. If you're snooping

Re: one less onion skin

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Southam
Is it because the ORs don't know where they are in the circuit? Of course OR3 knows it's at the end, but the others either recognize or relay. Steve James Muir wrote: A typical Tor circuit looks like OP -- OR1 -- OR2 -- OR3 where the three -- links are all TLS connections. TLS protects

Re: one less onion skin

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Southam
I'm not sure if this really happens, but if you have a connection open to an OR and a new circuit is required through it, couldn't ORn-1 send a CREATE_FAST to ORn? Steve Southam wrote: Is it because the ORs don't know where they are in the circuit? Of course OR3 knows it's at the end

No available nodes when trying to choose node

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Southam
Hi, I started up a node but get this message No available nodes when trying to choose node. Failing. When I look in my .tor/cached-routers.new file I see lots of routers to choose from. Any ideas? Thanks Steve