[tor-dev] Tor2web 2.0 is live!

2011-09-14 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi all, We are glad to announce the release of the new tor2web software. For those of you who are not aware of what tor2web is let us give you a brief description. The goal of tor2web is that of promoting the use of Tor Hidden Services (https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en).

Re: [tor-dev] Implement JSONP interface for check.torproject.org

2012-03-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
Resurrecting a thread from the grave! I have made a patch to check.torproject.org to expose a JSONP interface that would allow people to have the user check client side if (s)he is using Tor. This would allow people to embed a badge on their website (privacybadge.html) that congratulates

[tor-dev] Self publishing over Tor Hidden Services

2012-03-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
Tor Hidden Services are great, though their impact is grossly limited by the fact that they are not at all easy to deploy. Systems such as Tor2web allow people that decide to publish anonymously to be reachable by anybody not using a Tor client. For dealing with the usability aspect of Tor Hidden

[tor-dev] Improving Tor Hidden Services

2012-03-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
Setting aside the issue related with usability there are also some interesting improvements that can be made to make Tor HS more performant. I will summarize here the ideas that have been brought forward along with some that are not detailed anywhere and would like to see more interest in. I

Re: [tor-dev] Implement JSONP interface for check.torproject.org

2012-03-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 3/23/12 4:34 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: On 2012-03-23, Arturo Filastò a...@baculo.org wrote: Since I noticed that check.tpo was removed from the front page I was thinking it would be a good idea to bring back up the topic of migrating check.torproject.org to a JSONP based system. JSONP

Re: [tor-dev] Alternatives to Tor Exit Enclaves

2012-04-18 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 4/18/12 5:33 PM, Andrew Clausen wrote: Do .exit addresses already do what you had in mind? For example, if you add AllowDotExit 1 to your torrc, you can type an address like this No, .exit notation is a bad idea because it allows people to force you to exit through a particular exit node

Re: [tor-dev] Onionoo in Python

2012-07-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 07/10/2012 05:36 PM, Norman Danner wrote: Based on a quick look, it seems like Cyclone provides a slightly nicer way to specify how to handle the various requests than does a plain Twisted web application. Are there any other advantages to using Cyclone as opposed to plain Twisted? To

[tor-dev] [OONI] Designing the OONI Backend (OONIB). RESTful API vs rsynch

2012-07-15 Thread Arturo Filastò
I would like to follow up on the discussion we had in Florence on some design choices behind OONIB. In particular the most controversy was around using HTTP or rsync. Before discussion the pro and contra about one choice over the other it would be useful to frame what are exactly the

[tor-dev] [ooniprobe-dev] Summary of OONI hackfest

2012-08-22 Thread Arturo Filastò
We had a mini hackfest at noisebridge on OONI and this thread is to summarize what we discussed. mct: feel free to add things from your notes that are not detailed here. One of the problems that we mostly focused our attention on was how to detect censorship on HTTP when the user is presented

Re: [tor-dev] Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool

2012-12-21 Thread Arturo Filastò
On Dec 18, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Philipp Winter identity.funct...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Deliverable 6 for sponsor Z says: 6. Start a tool that a censored developer can run to discover why their Tor is failing to connect: brainstorm a list of things to check, and sort them by how

Re: [tor-dev] [ooni] transparent proxy detection

2013-03-06 Thread Arturo Filastò
On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Sam Smith s...@msmith.net wrote: Hey all, Hello :) I'm looking at detection and identification of some transparent proxies (of different kinds). Has anyone already got tests that effectively but generically merge manipulation/http_host and

[tor-dev] [ooni] proposed specification for ooni backend component

2013-03-06 Thread Arturo Filastò
: 2013-03-04 * author: Arturo Filastò This document aims at providing a functional specification of oonib. At the time of writing this document not all parts are fully implemented, though the application interface to oonib is. # 1.0 System overview oonib is the backend component of ooni

Re: [tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
On May 13, 2013, at 7:15 PM, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: Thank you for taking a look. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: I'm not sure, but Tor2web might do something similar. From Onionoo's project page: Tor2web is a web proxy to Tor Hidden

Re: [tor-dev] Running Atlas Application

2013-06-14 Thread Arturo Filastò
On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:22 PM, abhiram abhiram.chintan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to get the Atlas application to run. After installing the required python packages, I keep getting this error. Traceback (most recent call last): File run.py, line 34, in module from

[tor-dev] ooniprobe 1.0.2 released

2014-05-11 Thread Arturo Filastò
We are pleased to announce that ooniprobe 1.0.2 has been released. It includes a series of bugfixes and improvements including: * Add ooniprobe manpage. * Fix various security issues raised by the least authority audit. * Add a test that checks for Tor bridge reachability. * Record the IP

[tor-dev] Rescheduling of next OONI development meeting

2014-08-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
The next weekly OONI development meeting is supposed to happen on the 15th of August. Since the this day is holiday in a lot of countries I am going to propose we skip next weeks meeting and move it to the week after: the 22nd of August. The time will be the same 5 PM CET (3 PM UTC). The

[tor-dev] Feedback on new OONI test deck format

2014-08-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
* date: 2014-08-13 * author: Alejandro López (kudrom), Arturo Filastò # 0. Terminology Analyst: The person who writes a deck. Collector: A machine running the ooni-backend that collects the reports generated by the execution of ooni-probe. Nettest: A test whose execution by ooniprobe creates a report

[tor-dev] ooniprobe 1.1.0 is out!

2014-08-19 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello beautiful humans! We are very pleased to announce that a new version of ooniprobe is now out. In this new release of ooniprobe we have added a new command line tool for listing the reports that have not been published to a collector and that allows the probe operator to choose which ones

[tor-dev] Reminder: OONI dev meetings Friday 15:00 UTC (17:00 CET)

2014-08-21 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that the weekly dev meeting will be happening on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net this Friday (tomorrow and every following Friday) at 15:00 UTC (17:00 CET). Everyone is invited. ~ Art. ___ tor-dev mailing list

[tor-dev] oonibackend 1.1.0 released

2014-09-02 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, I am pleased to announce that a new version of oonibackend has now been released. Here are some of the changes introduced in the new version: * Make changes to the bouncer API to make it aware of the policy of collectors. * Improve the bouncer API to make it more RESTful.

[tor-dev] Rescheduling of OONI dev meeting of next week

2014-09-05 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, Next week (on Friday 12th at 17:00 CET) we were supposed to have our weekly ooni dev meeting. Some of, though, will be at the OTF summit in DC and will therefore not be able to attend. After discussing this at todays weekly meeting we concluded to ask for feedback on whether

[tor-dev] Reminder OONI dev meeting happening tomorrow

2014-09-18 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi Oonitarians, This is a reminder to inform you that tomorrow (Friday 19th of September) there will the weekly dev meeting. It happens on IRC (irc.oftc.net) on the channel #ooni at 17:00 CET (15:00 UTC). Everyone is invited! See you tomorrow! ~ Art.

[tor-dev] ooniprobe 1.2.0 and oonibackend 1.1.4 are out!

2014-10-01 Thread Arturo Filastò
Greetings! We are very pleased to announce the release of new versions of ooniprobe and oonibackend. One of the most interesting new features that are now part of ooniprobe is the ability to generate test decks for the country you are in a way that is much easier than before. As a matter of

[tor-dev] Schedule change for ooni dev meeting at 19:00 CET on Thursday October 2 2014

2014-10-01 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder to inform you that the weekly dev meeting will happen today at 19:00 CET Thursday October 2. Note: That the schedule has changed from Friday to Thursday. Adjust your calendaring software accordingly. See you! ~ Art.

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-relays] French Flag

2014-10-03 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 10/3/14, 12:22 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: [Please don't cross-post. Removed tor-relays@.] On 02/10/14 17:00, Sebastian Urbach wrote: Hi, I saw that a lot of services around tor are using a bright blue in the french flag. It should be a dark blue like the one used in the Dutch flag for

Re: [tor-dev] On the visualization of OONI bridge reachability data

2014-10-06 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 10/6/14, 6:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:27:22PM -0700, M. C. McGrath wrote: These were a few possibilities for visualization that we came up with at the OTF summit (I can send the full notes from that discussion if everyone is okay with it): Is this something

Re: [tor-dev] On the visualization of OONI bridge reachability data

2014-10-08 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 10/7/14, 8:56 PM, Nima Fatemi wrote: This is awesome. one quick question tho. isn't it better to hash the fingerprints? Yes you are right. The fingerprints are now hashed. ~ Art. ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org

[tor-dev] ooniprobe v1.2.2 is out

2014-10-17 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi all, This mail is to inform you that a new version of ooniprobe has just been released. Here is the changelog: v1.2.2 (Fri, 17 Oct 2014) - Who said friday 17th is only bad luck? * Add two new report entry keys test_start_time and test_runtime * Fix bug that lead to

[tor-dev] OONI hackfest summary

2014-11-04 Thread Arturo Filastò
From October 24th to 26th the OONI team gathered in Berlin for a hackfest. Around 20 people ended up showing up and although most of them were seasoned Oonitarians some fairly new people joined us that I hope will become part of the growing OONI community. The scope of the hackfest was that of

[tor-dev] OONI weekly dev meeting reminder and possible rotating schedule for next meetings

2014-11-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is reminder that today (Thursday 13th of November 2014) there will be the weekly ooni dev meeting in #ooni on irc.oftc.net. The time will be: 18:00 UTC 19:00 CET 13:00 EST 12:00 CST 10:00:00 PST I take this opportunity to also propose a solution that was brought up

[tor-dev] Next OONI weekly meetings

2014-11-19 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, Sorry for not sending this email sooner, but this week has been a bit hectic. A couple of people have said that they cannot attend the weekly meeting on thursday at 18:00, because it conflicts with another recurring appointment they have. For this reason I am going to suggest

Re: [tor-dev] Next OONI weekly meetings

2014-11-24 Thread Arturo Filastò
to attend. I will nonetheless send out a reminder about it and if it does not work out to do it that date the next one will be on December 8th. ~ Arturo On 11/19/14, 7:37 PM, Aaron Gibson wrote: On 2014-11-19 11:20, Arturo Filastò wrote: Hello Oonitarians, Sorry for not sending this email

[tor-dev] Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)

2014-12-01 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. As I am writing this I am on a plane heading towards London and will be working on a GlobaLeaks workshop in some office there. The schedule for the workshop is not very well defined so I am not 100% sure I will manage to

Re: [tor-dev] Tor bridge reachability timeline being updated?

2014-12-16 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi David, Thanks for your interest! On 12/16/14, 3:18 AM, David Fifield wrote: Arturo, I really like http://reports.ooni.nu/analytics/bridge_reachability/timeline/. Is it still being updated? Are updates going to a different place? The visualization is currently not being updated with

[tor-dev] Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2014-12-22 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)

2014-12-22 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

[tor-dev] Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2015-01-26 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)

2015-01-26 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

[tor-dev] Let's come up with the roadmap for the future of OONI

2015-02-10 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians and Divisionists, I would love to have your feedback on what you believe to be the most important topics for the future of OONI. I have made a list of what I believe are all possible and interesting tasks to perform, but we can't do them all and for sure we can't do them all at

[tor-dev] Event at NEXA center and next OONI dev meeting

2015-01-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians! We skipped this weeks meeting due to a lot of us being busy with an event at the NEXA center. It was a very interesting opportunity to meet a lot of great network measurement and network neutrality researchers and discuss possible areas of collaboration. I will give a brief

[tor-dev] Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2015-01-05 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)

2015-01-05 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

[tor-dev] Request to reschedule ooni dev meeting to Tuesday 13th

2015-01-11 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hi, I have to study for an exam on Tuesday so it would be ideal for me if we could move the next ooni dev meeting to Tuesday. Does that work for those interested in attending? I would suggest we do it at the same time (19:00 CET). ~ Arturo ___

Re: [tor-dev] Request to reschedule ooni dev meeting to Tuesday 13th

2015-01-12 Thread Arturo Filastò
From IRC it seems like it's ok to move the meeting. So unless something else comes up in the next hours it's going to happen tomorrow at 19:00 CET. I will send out a reminder for the meeting later today. ~ Arturo On 1/11/15 7:16 PM, Arturo Filastò wrote: Hi, I have to study for an exam

[tor-dev] Reminder for ooni weekly meeting today at 19:00 CET

2015-01-13 Thread Arturo Filastò
This is to remind you that today Tuesday 13th of January at 19:00 CET (18:00 UTC) there will be the weekly ooni dev meeting. The channel is #ooni, the network is irc.oftc.net. See you there. ~ Arturo ___ tor-dev mailing list

[tor-dev] OONI weekly dev meeting today Monday 9th of March 18:00 UTC

2015-03-08 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, As discussed during the last meeting we did not gather this week because of the OpenITP festival. It was a very fruitful and interesting event, that we should update people that could not attend about. We shall therefore gather at the usual 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST,

[tor-dev] OONI weekly dev meeting today Monday 23rd of February 18:00 UTC

2015-02-23 Thread Arturo Filastò
Hello Oonitarians, We have skipped the last two weekly dev meetings because of various necessities, but I am going to suggest we try and make it today. There are a lot of interesting things to discuss and think about together. These are the topics that I have in mind, feel free to append to

Re: [tor-dev] ooniprobe depending on a badly written lib (Re: FTBFS for ooniprobe on Fedora 21)

2015-05-18 Thread Arturo Filastò
On May 18, 2015 at 4:19:09 PM, Jacek Wielemborek (d33...@gmail.com) wrote: I do have libpcap-devel installed, it's just this pcap-int.h header that  is both missing and not to be found in any Fedora package:  $ rpm -qa | grep pcap-dev  libpcap-devel-1.6.2-1.fc21.x86_64  Note the following