Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-25 Thread Nils Vogels
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:33, Flamsmark flamsm...@gmail.com wrote: A number of Danish ISPs have blocked thepiratebay.org, by redirecting the DNS entry for that domain to a page stating that the site is blocked. This sometimes results in Danish exits giving this inappropriate result for that

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 11/25/2009 02:20 AM, James Brown wrote: It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I think this is what the original poster meant, anyways. Yes, I meant exactly that. If I understand this

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the list of relays directly, somebody could still make a lot of connections through Tor to a test site

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-25 Thread Georg Sluyterman
Flamsmark wrote, On 2009-11-25 04:33: A number of Danish ISPs have blocked thepiratebay.org, by redirecting the DNS entry for that domain to a page stating that the site is blocked. This sometimes results in Danish exits giving this inappropriate result for that domain. Should the IP addresses

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks - tor-ramdisk DNS fix, how?

2009-11-25 Thread Georg Sluyterman
Georg Sluyterman wrote, On 2009-11-25 18:29: ---cut I have changed it to OpenDNS now. ---cut--- Or maybe not.. It seems that i can not get an IP via DHCP and manually change the DNS-resolver address, because (as far as i can see) shell support is removed in recent Tor-ramdisk releases. What

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:21:39PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the list of relays directly,

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Paul Syverson syver...@itd.nrl.navy.mil wrote: Two words: Hidden service Okay. I'm now running a HTTP forwarder to LJ as a hidden service. Email me for the hidden service address and port number. ... I'll be posting the mapping of the LJ accounts and passwords

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks - tor-ramdisk DNS fix, how?

2009-11-25 Thread Flamsmark
Perhaps you'll just have to wait for the developer to fix the problem? 2009/11/25 Georg Sluyterman ge...@thecrew.dk Georg Sluyterman wrote, On 2009-11-25 18:29: ---cut I have changed it to OpenDNS now. ---cut--- Or maybe not.. It seems that i can not get an IP via DHCP and manually

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks - tor-ramdisk DNS fix, how?

2009-11-25 Thread Georg Sluyterman
Flamsmark wrote, On 2009-11-25 20:52: Perhaps you'll just have to wait for the developer to fix the problem? I will send a feature request :-) -- Venlig hilsen Georg Sluyterman *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to

Timing attacks from a user's point of view

2009-11-25 Thread Just A. User
Hello, As the recent (and not so recent) research shows [1, 2], it is quite possible for a low-bandwidth adversary controlling the exit node or destination server to identify all the nodes in a circuit. If the victim is unlucky, the further deanonymization may use a malicious entry node.

Re: Timing attacks from a user's point of view

2009-11-25 Thread Xinwen Fu
I guess the approach will not be quite useful. 1. Delay is a big enemy of Tor. Read http://www.cs.uml.edu/%7Exinwenfu/paper/IPDPS08_Fu.pdf. How much delay is a problem too. 2. An attack can be dynamic against your mechanism by varying the parameters of the attack. We already tested the impact of

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-25 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Marcus Griep wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote: I spoke again to Livejournal today. They've mostly lifted the block. They're working on future ways to block abusers of LJ