Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-26 Thread tor-operator
Flamsmark wrote: 2009/11/26 Scott Bennett mailto:benn...@cs.niu.edu>> Bzzzt!! That would eventually get an exit marked as a bad exit, too. Why? Because the root name servers serve only information in the root domain and the so-called top-level domains (e.g., .com, .edu, .go

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

2009-11-26 Thread Xinwen Fu
Most timing attacks require global adversary like a government or ISP since the attacker wants to find out two parties communicating with each other. Our attacks have that constraint. For parameters of the attack in 2, the paper has Lemma 1 for that. That is, the signal to noise ratio affects the

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

2009-11-26 Thread Just A. User
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30 -0500, "Xinwen Fu" wrote: > 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 v

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-26 Thread Flamsmark
2009/11/26 Scott Bennett > >Changing the DNS server to DNS rootservers would fix this problem. > > > Bzzzt!! That would eventually get an exit marked as a bad exit, too. > Why? Because the root name servers serve only information in the root > domain and the so-called top-level domains (e.

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-26 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > LJ said that they're going to change their status page shortly to > explain the block. They're also working on methods to block the lj2rss > people and not every single user of the Tor network. I hope this is > helpful and tha

Re: DisableAllSwap question

2009-11-26 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Scott Bennett wrote: > I'm currently running 0.2.2.5-alpha but will probably move to > 0.2.2.6-alpha fairly soon. In the Changelog there is a note about a new > option available in 0.2.2.6-alpha called DisableAllSwap. I'm running > FreeBSD, and my only swap area is GELI-encrypted disk slice.

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

2009-11-26 Thread basile
Georg Sluyterman wrote: > 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 :-) > > This is a good idea and will be included. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Chair of Information Technolog

DisableAllSwap question

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Bennett
I'm currently running 0.2.2.5-alpha but will probably move to 0.2.2.6-alpha fairly soon. In the Changelog there is a note about a new option available in 0.2.2.6-alpha called DisableAllSwap. I'm running FreeBSD, and my only swap area is GELI-encrypted disk slice. Doesn't that effectively ac

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:21:39 -0500 Gregory Maxwell wrote: >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Ted Smith 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 st

Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:30:42 -0500 Flamsmark cross-posted: >2009/11/25 Nils Vogels >> >> Would changing the DNS server for the tor exitserver solve this? If >> so, I think the exit admins should solve this, and if not risk a >> badexit flag. > > >Changing the DNS server to DNS rootservers wo

cross-posting abuse (was Re: Danish TPB DNS Blocks - tor-ramdisk DNS fix, how?)

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:56 +0100 Georg Sluyterman posted: >To: or-talk@freehaven.net >CC: tor-relays Please, all of you who have been doing this, *STOP* cross-posting between these lists. A message only of interest to relay operators should go to the TOR-RELAYS list. All others sho