Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 07/02/2009 11:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: There are many people who would like to run tor exits but whom don't because of the inevitable flood of abuse complaints. This is a fine use of exit policies. If potential exit-node operators feel this gives them safety and security, then they

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-04 Thread Peter Hultqvist
Drake Wilson skrev: My initial impulse would be to allow end sites to declare that they are willing to receive connections via Tor. Using DNS records, for instance, of a style like: _toraccept.example.net TXT toraccept1: 80,443,6667,9000,, (and/or)

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
be widespread enough to provide a real increase in effective exit bandwidth. If the safe list doesn't include some of the highest bandwidth sites then its introduction (in whatever form) would probably decrease the available can reach anything exit capacity. I think some of the most many safe

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-03 Thread Michael
it be to create a community managed list of 'safe destinations' distributed by the directory servers as a single object which exit operators could include in in their exit policies and further refine with local rules? Some exit operators would likely switch to safe-mode, reducing the total amount of universal

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-03 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Gregory Maxwell wrote: How awful would it be to create a community managed list of 'safe destinations' distributed by the directory servers as a single object which exit operators could include in in their exit policies and further refine with local rules? I would not like _one_ list

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-03 Thread Drake Wilson
to connect again because of this. How awful would it be to create a community managed list of 'safe destinations' distributed by the directory servers as a single object which exit operators could include in in their exit policies and further refine with local rules? My initial impulse would

Safe destinations

2009-07-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
of 'safe destinations' distributed by the directory servers as a single object which exit operators could include in in their exit policies and further refine with local rules? Some exit operators would likely switch to safe-mode, reducing the total amount of universal-exit capacity but if the safe

Re: Safe destinations

2009-07-02 Thread Erik Heidt
Gregory - I have been struggling with a similar question. I do not have an answer as to the perfect list of 'safe' sites (wikipedia is at the top of my list). But I have authored a bash script to turn a list of domains ( mail.google.com, wikipedia.com, etc.com) into rules The following script