[tor-dev] [GSoC] BridgeDB Twitter Distributor report

2014-07-26 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Progress/activities since last time: * incorporating BridgeRequest's together with an initial bridge request API over JSON (it's easier to do both as they are tightly related.) The bridge request api is based on isis' initial fix/12029-dist-api_r1; * bogus server-side bridge provider that

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:19:40PM +, isis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Yawning Angel transcribed 2.9K bytes: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:25:31 +0200 Lunar lu...@torproject.org wrote: isis: We can't just make Tor Browser stop accepting obfs2 because

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:07:03PM -0400, Philipp Winter wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:52:44PM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: So, the questions I am posing to those in the community who has an opinion about this: What do you think? What problems do you currently have with this? How can

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:01:34PM -0400, Israel Leiva wrote: Hi. I support what Philipp and Nima say about keywords. The given commands surely look simple for technical users, but what about non-technical users? If the purpose of the distributor is to give info, and you're already

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:16:44PM +, harmony wrote: Nima Fatemi n...@riseup.net: I think bridges works just fine for vanilla bridges and I want to take the opportunity to +1 Philipp's idea on looking for keywords instead of commands, regardless of how they're phrased. Help desk

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 07:32:42AM +, isis wrote: Lunar transcribed 2.1K bytes: isis: PS: why are we still shipping obfs2 bridges?! tl;dr: Because we have them. The protocol is known to be broken and fingerprintable. That's something we know. Not users. If BridgeDB is

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 03:08:38PM +0100, Kevin P Dyer wrote: Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transport in the TBB. 3. Use meek to acquire an up-to-date

[tor-dev] Tor Research Framework

2014-07-26 Thread Gareth Owen
Hi all I am releasing under the GPL a Java based Tor research framework that I have developed. The goal of the framework is to provide a simple and easy to read/modify implementation of the protocol that allows you to do things wrong. This enables researchers to try things out without trying to

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 06:11:45PM +0100, Kevin P Dyer wrote: Is App Engine blocked in China? All Google services are blocked in China since May 31. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/jun/google-disrupted-prior-tiananmen-anniversary-mirror-sites-enable-uncensored-access

[tor-dev] Chutney couldn't start Tor instances

2014-07-26 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I'm doing some research on Tor and I'm trying to set up a small sample Tor network to play with. I cloned the Chutney repository with /$ git clone https://git.torproject.org/chutney.git/ and then I ran /$ ./chutney configure networks/basic/ which generated the keys for each of

Re: [tor-dev] Chutney couldn't start Tor instances

2014-07-26 Thread Sukhbir Singh
Hi, No log files are generated in path/net/nodes/000a, so I don't know what happened. I don't see any conflicts with ports on localhost as far as I can see. Tor version 0.2.4.22 and Python 2.7.5+ are installed. Any ideas? I find it helpful to remove the --quiet switch from

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread Yawning Angel
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:08:38 +0100 Kevin P Dyer kpd...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any roadblocks that prevent us from doing the following? 1. Remove the hard-coded bridge_prefs.js in the TBB. Ok. 2. Set meek as the default pluggable transport in the TBB. Sure that's also fairly easy. 3.

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-26 Thread Ken Keys
On 7/26/2014 1:54 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: We also do try to discard fake requests, isis actually added another yesterday! Could you elaborate on this? I don't understand what you mean my fake requests but the incident sounds interesting. ___ tor-dev