[tor-dev] Tor Geolocating exit nodes.

2014-06-18 Thread JP Wulf
So Griffin Boyce is canvasing for some input to improve Tor, specifially for Journalists. https://twitter.com/abditum/status/479052228138119168 1. It is known that various actors are trying to compromise Tor comms by establishing own exit nodes. With enough nodes, they can break Tor (see slides).

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Geolocating exit nodes.

2014-06-18 Thread Tom Ritter
If your goal is to choose an exit specially to minimize risk of it being run by a malicious actor, it seems choosing exits run by orgs you trust would be better than choosing based on where someone is hosting a server. But yes, you can choose exits by country. I'm not saying it's a good idea or

[tor-dev] Composing multiple pluggable transports

2014-06-18 Thread Ximin Luo
Hi Steven, Nikita, I was told that you two are interested in the idea of composing multiple PTs together. Here are our ideas on it. We have a GSoC student, Quinn also at Illinois, working on turning this into reality. ## Concepts On the most abstract level, pt-spec.txt defines an input

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Geolocating exit nodes.

2014-06-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/18/2014 04:38 AM, JP Wulf wrote: This geolocation could perhaps be used to validate the integrity of the nodes (how I dont know, maybe by establishing TOR honeypots that can only be compromised through traffic through a compromised (owned) exit node). The Tor client does not trust the

Re: [tor-dev] Composing multiple pluggable transports

2014-06-18 Thread quinn jarrell
Hi, Here's more info on how the server side currently works. When the ServerPTCombiner starts, it opens up a port to listen for incoming connections and reports it to tor like a normal PT. It then builds the chains of PTs by having each PT forward its output to the next PT with the final PT