Re: My ISP block Tor Servers

2007-04-18 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Koh Choon Lin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> If you can't or don't want to switch ISP you could > >> rent a server with uncensored net access and use > >> it as proxy. > > I am working in Singapore and the government branded Tor as "criminal > skills". Thus, I have to go through a proxy eve

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> Polipo/tor was still 13% faster? > To which numbers are you referring here? Sorry, I got confused. > However if I understand you correctly, you're saying that > I intentionally... My apologies, I got carried away. Juliusz

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
[CC-ing polipo-users again] >> this is an HTTP/1.0 site. There are fortunately very few of these >> left nowadays. > What exactly is the problem with the site? Watching the circuits in > Vidalia I had the impression that Polipo used keep-alive. HTTP/1.0 keepalives and HTTP/1.1 persistent conne

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Karsten, (strange to write that *g*) > do you run a TOR server on a virtual server without connection faults? > A year ago, I tested a tor server on virtual hardware (Virtuozzo) and I > got many TCP connection faults in "/proc/user_beancounters". >

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With http://www.kde.org/screenshots/: > > So according to this test, this page downloads roughly two times > faster through Polipo/tor than through Privoxy/tor, right? It certainly did for the five samples I took. > > I also tested with another

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> With http://www.kde.org/screenshots/: So according to this test, this page downloads roughly two times faster through Polipo/tor than through Privoxy/tor, right? > I also tested with another website (http://www.spiegel.de/): This test is not representative: this is an HTTP/1.0 site. There are

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
[CC-ing the Polipo-users list] > Speaking of which, it occurred to me a little while ago that > persistent connections between the http proxy and the website, > through Tor, can have an impact on anonymity. > If the user is figuring they're rotating their connections over > different Tor circuits

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread Karsten N.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I would like to contribute some more Tor servers running at different > providers across Germany (probably not in the same /16 network). My > current server is a virtual server at 1blu that has a bandwidth of 931 > KB/s which makes it the 71st fastes

Re: Importance of HTTP connection keep-alive

2007-04-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Gersten: > > > getting keep-alive to work will help a lot with web browsing, > > Fabian Keil: > > > Is this an assumption or did you just forget to show your benchmarks > > to back this claim up? > > I've just tested this by running > >

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread xiando
> Do you think it's a privacy problem to run 3 to 5 servers? All servers > would be non-exit servers because of the current habit of the German > police to collect all exit servers. Of course, I will set the family entry. Please do run as many servers as you can afford. There is absolutely no pri

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What kind of traffic plan to you have with 1blu, and how much do you > pay for it? They offer "1blu-vServer Unlimited" with unlimited traffic volume for 17 euros per month. I don't know if it's the best offering, so I decided to give them a try. Are

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:45:15AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: > I would like to contribute some more Tor servers running at different > providers across Germany (probably not in the same /16 network). My > current server is a virtual server at 1blu that has a bandwidth of 931 What kind of traf

Re: [Fwd: High-traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C. Confirmed]

2007-04-18 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this question is not directly related to the described case. I would like to contribute some more Tor servers running at different providers across Germany (probably not in the same /16 network). My current server is a virtual server at 1blu that