Re: Reducing relays = reducing anonymity ? Tortunnel.

2010-05-20 Thread krishna e bera
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:21:15PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Sebastian Hahn > wrote: > > >> Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number > >> of relays ? > > > > Yes, unfortunately quite a few people use it. > > It hurts the ne

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-20 Thread Moritz Bartl
>> By the way, Paypal is the most widely used paypent processor > Well, in the open social networking space, sure. > There's all sorts of traditional commercial processors such as: > https://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/pricing/ Yes, I was implicitly talking about projects that l

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-20 Thread grarpamp
> By the way, Paypal is the most widely used paypent processor Well, in the open social networking space, sure. There's all sorts of traditional commercial processors such as: https://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/pricing/ **

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-20 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 12.05.2010 18:56, Anders Andersson wrote: > A thought: Currently there is a "Donate!" section on torproject.org, > that doesn't mention what the money is used for or how much money that > comes in. By the way, Paypal is the most widely used paypent processor, but also the most expensive. Espec

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:50:00PM +0200, bacardic...@gmail.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 28 lines about: : Would it be possible for my to include myself in the MyFamily line? Yes. When I ran 10 nodes, this is what I did. One config for all 10 was easier to maintain than 10 unique configs. -- And

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:44:36PM -0500, benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote 4.7K bytes in 91 lines about: : including some tor developers, did not bother to read the proposal by Bruce : from perfect-privacy.com. He did *not* propose, for example, any equivalent : to #include statements. He did *not* prop

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Syverson
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:36:01PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > Hi Paul, > On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:12:38 -0400 Paul Syverson > wrote: > > > >Your interpretation of what Bruce said makes sense. But it is not > >how I parsed, "BelongToFamily xyz" in his message. I read it the same > >way it see

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
Hi Paul, On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:12:38 -0400 Paul Syverson wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:44:36PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious! I go to sleep for a few hours, and the >> discussion descends into total confusion because a number of participants, >> incl

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Syverson
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:44:36PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious! I go to sleep for a few hours, and the > discussion descends into total confusion because a number of participants, > including some tor developers, did not bother to read the proposal by Bruce > f

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Nils Vogels
Hey Andrew, On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 13:44, wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:31:47PM +0200, t...@wiredwings.com wrote 0.9K > bytes in 19 lines about: > : >From what I understand, yes, at the moment both "partners" have to list > : each other. That's what the fuss is all about, because this be

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:31:17 +0200 Moritz Bartl wrote: >On 20.05.2010 06:25, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> The trouble here is that if we make family declarations one-sided, then >> I can tell everybody that I'm in blutmagie's family (and X's family and >> Y's family and Z's family and ...), and

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious! I go to sleep for a few hours, and the discussion descends into total confusion because a number of participants, including some tor developers, did not bother to read the proposal by Bruce from perfect-privacy.com. He did *not* propose, for example, any equiva

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread xiando
> [snip] > The trouble here is that if we make family declarations one-sided, then > I can tell everybody that I'm in blutmagie's family (and X's family and > Y's family and Z's family and ...), and suddenly I'm influencing the > path selection of other clients in a way I shouldn't be able to. > >

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 20.05.2010 13:28, Oguz wrote: >> I too do not understand this. Already an evil entry node can list all >> nodes that it does _not_ control in its family option to try to force >> circuit through the nodes it controls, though it would obviou

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thursday May 20 2010 09:39:00 Flamsmark wrote: > On 20 May 2010 07:44, wrote: > > If Mallory lists Alice > > and Bob, but neither Alice nor Bob list Mallory, it's not a valid > > Family. Otherwise, Mallory could list every node in the network and > > screw everyone. > > Why would this screw e

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Damian Johnson
Oops, apologies - didn't realize this had already been answered. (a pox upon thread forking...) On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Damian Johnson wrote: > The trick is that both parties need to list each other as family for this > to work. As per the man page.. > > "When two servers both declare t

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Damian Johnson
The trick is that both parties need to list each other as family for this to work. As per the man page.. "When two servers both declare that they are in the same 'family'..." The attacker would need to be listed in every other relay's torrc for the attack you described to work. I'm pretty sure li

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Watson Ladd
On May 20, 2010, at 08:39 AM, Flamsmark wrote: > On 20 May 2010 07:44, wrote: > If Mallory lists Alice > and Bob, but neither Alice nor Bob list Mallory, it's not a valid > Family. Otherwise, Mallory could list every node in the network and > screw everyone. > > Why would this screw everyone?

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Flamsmark
On 20 May 2010 07:44, wrote: > If Mallory lists Alice > and Bob, but neither Alice nor Bob list Mallory, it's not a valid > Family. Otherwise, Mallory could list every node in the network and > screw everyone. Why would this screw everyone? I admit that I don't fully understand how families ar

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Syverson
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:44:51AM -0400, and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:31:47PM +0200, t...@wiredwings.com wrote 0.9K > bytes in 19 lines about: > : >From what I understand, yes, at the moment both "partners" have to list > : each other. That's what the fuss is all abou

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:31:47PM +0200, t...@wiredwings.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 19 lines about: : >From what I understand, yes, at the moment both "partners" have to list : each other. That's what the fuss is all about, because this becomes hard : to manage when you run a lot of nodes. Yes, thi

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Flamsmark
Though I appreciate Jim's signature proposal, that could become difficult and convoluted to implement quite quickly. I think that perfectprivacy's initial suggestion was actually quite compelling: allow ``#include'' type statements to be used in a torrc. Currently, an operator of multiple relays h

Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 20.05.2010 13:28, Oguz wrote: > I too do not understand this. Already an evil entry node can list all > nodes that it does _not_ control in its family option to try to force > circuit through the nodes it controls, though it would obviously be a > dead give away listing many unrelated nodes as w

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Oguz
On 5/20/10, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 20.05.2010 06:25, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> The trouble here is that if we make family declarations one-sided, then >> I can tell everybody that I'm in blutmagie's family (and X's family and >> Y's family and Z's family and ...), and suddenly I'm influencing t

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 20.05.2010 06:25, Roger Dingledine wrote: > The trouble here is that if we make family declarations one-sided, then > I can tell everybody that I'm in blutmagie's family (and X's family and > Y's family and Z's family and ...), and suddenly I'm influencing the > path selection of other clients i

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Jim
Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:44:21PM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: - Medium - Tor servers, Tor community wants to disable your nodes - General Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:46:04 +0200 From: Perfect Privacy Administration Organiza

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 20 May 2010 07:37:17 + The23rd Raccoon wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> =A0 =A0 On Thu, 20 May 2010 00:40:42 -0400 =3D?utf-8?Q?Jerzy_=3DC5=3D81og= >iewa?=3D >> wrote: >>>I apologize for altering the nature of this thread, but can someone =3D >>>pl

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread The23rd Raccoon
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >     On Thu, 20 May 2010 00:40:42 -0400 =?utf-8?Q?Jerzy_=C5=81ogiewa?= > wrote: >>I apologize for altering the nature of this thread, but can someone = >>please summarize what this discussion is about? Who is = >>perfect-privacy.com and why a