Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Matej Kovacic wrote: Well, Zfone is not released under GPL licence. And only development (test) version of it is free. Final version will be proprietary... No, but twinkle is GPL and use ZRTP: http://www.twinklephone.com/ And it should work with Zfone. Unfortunately, majority of SIP provider

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, > You might want to take a look at zfone and zrtp. zfone is a free software > phone that originates zrtp, an encryption scheme about to be implemented into > a number of other free softphones (ekiga, for instance). Well, Zfone is not released under GPL licence. And only development (test)

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:33:33 +0400 James Brown wrote: >Praedor Atrebates wrote: >> On Friday 24 July 2009 10:21:52 am James Brown wrote: >> >>> Gitano wrote: >>> James Brown wrote: > There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many > count

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Praedor Atrebates wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 10:21:52 am James Brown wrote: > >> Gitano wrote: >> >>> James Brown wrote: >>> There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. In the R

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: >> I use 'ihu' as an alternate for skype, but its a peer-to-peer >> application and for Linux only. AFAIK there is no SIP-based VoIP >> Software using Tor. >> > Is it possible to call from it to ordinary telephones (insluding mobiles)? Sorry - no, see also: http://ihu.source

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Gitano wrote: > James Brown wrote: > > >> And what about phone calls, including call to ordinaty telephones? >> > > I use 'ihu' as an alternate for skype, but its a peer-to-peer > application and for Linux only. AFAIK there is no SIP-based VoIP > Software using Tor. > > Is it possible to

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 24 July 2009 10:21:52 am James Brown wrote: > Gitano wrote: > > James Brown wrote: > >> There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many > >> counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. > >> In the Russia, when I live, for example the Putin's and Medv

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: > And what about phone calls, including call to ordinaty telephones? I use 'ihu' as an alternate for skype, but its a peer-to-peer application and for Linux only. AFAIK there is no SIP-based VoIP Software using Tor.

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Lexi Pimenidis
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:21:52PM CEST, James Brown wrote: > > --> http://code.google.com/p/torchat/ > > And what about phone calls, including call to ordinaty telephones? I supervised a master thesis last year which developed a prototype for anonymous VoIP using Tor. The results were promising,

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Gitano wrote: > James Brown wrote: > > >> There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many >> counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. >> In the Russia, when I live, for example the Putin's and Medvedev's >> bloody dictatorial regim now intend to ban VoIP

Re: Newbie needs help [SOLVED]

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:50:14 Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 07/24/2009 08:44 AM, Bob Williams wrote: > > Ah ha! A quick look around this openSUSE linux system reveals > > /etc/rc.d/tor and that accepts the 'stop' option. It tells me that 'tor > > apparently not running (no pid file)'. > > My advice i

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: > There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many > counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. > In the Russia, when I live, for example the Putin's and Medvedev's > bloody dictatorial regim now intend to ban VoIP telephony: > http://www.p

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:50:14 Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 07/24/2009 08:44 AM, Bob Williams wrote: > > Ah ha! A quick look around this openSUSE linux system reveals > > /etc/rc.d/tor and that accepts the 'stop' option. It tells me that 'tor > > apparently not running (no pid file)'. > > My advice i

VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. In the Russia, when I live, for example the Putin's and Medvedev's bloody dictatorial regim now intend to ban VoIP telephony: http://www.point.ru/news/stories/20598/ B

Re: firefox sage add-on

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 07/23/2009 05:31 PM, sigi wrote: > Has anyone tested the firefox sage(too)-addons [1] for the use with tor > yet? Is this (anonymously) safe to use? In my quick and non-thorough testing, it appears to honor the firefox proxy configuration and use tor to grab the feeds. ymmv. -- Andrew Lewm

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 07/24/2009 08:44 AM, Bob Williams wrote: > Ah ha! A quick look around this openSUSE linux system reveals /etc/rc.d/tor > and that accepts the 'stop' option. It tells me that 'tor apparently not > running (no pid file)'. My advice is to start over with Tor, and not use the rpms that come with

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:16:50 Scott Bennett wrote: > On UNIX systems, the default signal sent by kill is SIGHUP. Is that > default signal different on LINUX systems? A SIGHUP will not result in > tor shutting down unless it discovers an error upon rereading torrc. On > a UNIX system, "kill -

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:25:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob > > Williams wrote: > > On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > >> Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` > >> or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:24:45 +0200 Christian Fromme To: Scott Bennett >On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On UNIX systems, the default signal sent by kill is SIGHUP. Is that >> default signal different on LINUX systems? > >Not meaning to sound like a professor here

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: >> Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` >> or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via >> `kill `. Make sure you're the same us

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi Scott, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > On UNIX systems, the default signal sent by kill is SIGHUP. Is that > default signal different on LINUX systems? Not meaning to sound like a professor here, but the default kill signal is SIGTERM on systems I have used. YMMV.

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:55:49 Scott Bennett wrote: > Okay. Next, open a firefox Preferences panel. I haven't decided to > switch to firefox3 yet, so I don't know whether the procedure is the same, > but in firefox2 one selects the preferences option from the Edit menu. > In the Preferences pa

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` > or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via > `kill `. Make sure you're the same user that started Tor when you > kill it. Check if its still runn

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:06:55 +0200 Christian Fromme wrote: >On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bob >Williams wrote: >> 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> killall tor >> 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc >> Jul 24 12:54:15.469 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental software. Do >> not rel

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > I guess your Tor is ok. Please follow the instructions provided by others. > > Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` > or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via > `kill `. Make sure yo

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 13:03:57 DM wrote: > Look at the line in the config file containing the Socks listener > entry and see if you added an extra character after the port number. > This is what I have, unaltered from the original sample file: ## Replace this with "SocksPort 0" if you plan to run

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> killall tor > 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc > Jul 24 12:54:15.469 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental software. Do > not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) > Jul 24 1

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread DM
Look at the line in the config file containing the Socks listener entry and see if you added an extra character after the port number. On Jul 24, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 12:47:41 Christian Fromme wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob Williams

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:47:41 Christian Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob > > Williams wrote: > > On Friday 24 July 2009 12:37:50 Christian Fromme wrote: > >> Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile? > >> If not, you seem to have changed so

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:40:39 +0100 Bob Williams wrote: >On Friday 24 July 2009 12:26:39 Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:18:52 +0100 Bob Williams >> >> wrote: >> >On Friday 24 July 2009 12:09:48 Bob Williams wrote: >> >> On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: >> >> > Go

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 12:37:50 Christian Fromme wrote: >> Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile? >> If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the >> meantime, breaking it. > > Thanks.

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > Why do you think that? What he posted above shows that tor started > up okay, successfully built a circuit, and has encountered no situation > since that time that would require logging a notice-level message. What > is broken about

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:37:50 Christian Fromme wrote: > Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile? > If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the > meantime, breaking it. Thanks. How do I restart Tor? I originally started it with ~> tor -f /etc

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:50 +0200 Christian Fromme wrote: >On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bob >Williams wrote: >>> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or >>> see anything at all? >>> >> I have the following line uncommented in torrc >> >> Log notice file /var/l

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:26:39 Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:18:52 +0100 Bob Williams > > wrote: > >On Friday 24 July 2009 12:09:48 Bob Williams wrote: > >> On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: > >> > Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address >

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bob Williams wrote: >> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or >> see anything at all? >> > I have the following line uncommented in torrc > > Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log > > and that file contains the following > > ---q

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:17:23 Christian Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Bob > > Williams wrote: > > On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: > >> Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address > >> with your assigned addressed. > > > > That shows my

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:18:52 +0100 Bob Williams wrote: >On Friday 24 July 2009 12:09:48 Bob Williams wrote: >> On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: >> > Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address >> > with your assigned addressed. >> >> That shows my correct WAN

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: >> Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address >> with your assigned addressed. > > That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume that > shows that

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:09:48 Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: > > Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address > > with your assigned addressed. > > That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume > that shows that tor

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: > Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address > with your assigned addressed. That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume that shows that tor is not working. -- Bob

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread DM
Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address with your assigned addressed. On Jul 24, 2009, at 4:17 AM, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 00:03:03 Michael Gomboc wrote: Have you changed privoxy's config file for use with tor? I have now (see Andrew Lewman's

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 00:03:03 Michael Gomboc wrote: > Have you changed privoxy's config file for use with tor? I have now (see Andrew Lewman's post and my reply). I have added the following two lines to my privoxy config forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . forward-socks5 / 127.0.0

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 24 July 2009 01:20:30 Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 07/23/2009 06:36 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > > 18:58 user:~> privoxy /etc/privoxy/config > > Jul 23 20:29:33.391 Privoxy(7fb481fa96f0) Info: Privoxy version 3.0.10 > > Jul 23 20:29:33.391 Privoxy(7fb481fa96f0) Info: Program name: privoxy > > J