[tor-dev] Request for references for anonymous blocklisting (blacklisting)

2014-02-23 Thread Virgil Griffith
I'm putting together a proposal for adding anonymous blocklisting into the Tor such that websites that block Tor can block single problematic users instead of all Tor exit nodes. Towards this end, I am looking for papers/prior work in this area to draw from. Pointers anyone? Enjoyed the Iceland

Re: [tor-dev] Request for references for anonymous blocklisting (blacklisting)

2014-02-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:46:55AM +, Virgil Griffith wrote: I'm putting together a proposal for adding anonymous blocklisting into the Tor such that websites that block Tor can block single problematic users instead of all Tor exit nodes. Towards this end, I am looking for papers/prior

[tor-dev] GSOC14 Idea

2014-02-23 Thread Devang Thakkar
Hi, Its Devang here, a coding enthusiast studying at IIT Bombay. I am looking forward to contribute to Tor for the upcoming Google Summer of Code 2014 as a prospective student. So I wanted to know if there was a provision for Web Scraping using Tor. If there is, I would to know more about

Re: [tor-dev] Feasibility of using a Tor Browser plugin as a PT component?

2014-02-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 02/22/2014 08:54 PM, Ximin Luo wrote: On 22/02/14 04:08, David Fifield wrote: 2. Run a second browser, apart from Tor Browser, that receives commands from a client PT program and makes the HTTPS requests it is commanded to. You might want to look at MozRepl. More summary here:

Re: [tor-dev] GSOC14 Idea

2014-02-23 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Devang, glad you want to take part in GSoC! We don't know yet if Google has selected us this year - they'll be announcing org selection tomorrow. I'm not very clear on what you're proposing to do over the summer. In case it helps we have GSoC project ideas on...

Re: [tor-dev] obfsproxy dns transport

2014-02-23 Thread David Stainton
Hello David and George and other people who are interested in there being even more obfuscation transports for tor, I appreciate the thought of making a frankenstein butchering of obfsproxy code which transports tor over dns... and speaks socks and tor control port... and works to PT spec...

Re: [tor-dev] obfsproxy dns transport

2014-02-23 Thread David Stainton
We technically don't need to use a tun device for the dns transport... but if a tun device is used for the tor dns transport then we get the reliability layer without having to write it ourselves. It doesn't matter that tun devices are lossy and udp is unreliable; we just spray packets.