[tor-dev] Pluggable transports meeting tomorrow (16:00UTC Wednesday 3rd of December 2014)

2014-12-02 Thread Yawning Angel
Hello! just wanted to remind you that the regular biweekly pluggable transports meeting is going to occur tomorrow at 16:00 UTC. Place is the #tor-dev IRC channel in the OFTC network. Thanks for your attention! -- Yawning Angel pgpgttQ9aqVoM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-assistants] Researching Tor for Master's Thesis

2014-12-02 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:57:09PM +, George Kadianakis wrote: > This is worth researching and even implementing a PoC of. There are > various places in the Tor protocols that PIR could be applied. > > However I don't know how feasible it is for an MSc thesis. I remember > that Ian Goldberg

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-assistants] Researching Tor for Master's Thesis

2014-12-02 Thread George Kadianakis
Florian Rüchel writes: > Hi everyone, > > I am attaching the conversation from the assistants list over. > > Here is the TL;DR: I want to write my master's thesis on Tor, > preferrably on a topic that has to do with Hidden Services and/or > Cryptography in Tor. > > I have followed George's recomm

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics

2014-12-02 Thread A. Johnson
> The next problem is how to find the proper parameters for the Laplace > distribution. I guess the mean μ needs to be 0, but the hard part is > 'b'. In a few papers I read, they set 'b' to (Δf/ε). > > In the above, Δf is the "largest change a single participant could > have on the output" of the

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics

2014-12-02 Thread A. Johnson
Comments on proposal 238: 1. I’m not convinced that the proposed amount of obfuscation is sufficient for the HS descriptor count. Adding noise to cover the contribution in a single period of any single HS doesn’t cover its vector of contributions. Thus, if over time the number of HSes stays the

Re: [tor-dev] Is PublishServerDescriptor needed to collect metrics?

2014-12-02 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/10/14 11:56, isis wrote: > Karsten Loesing transcribed 4.5K bytes: >> On 16/10/14 10:57, isis wrote: >> >> Having private bridges in public bundles is actually harmful, >> because it makes it look like bridges are not much used. If we >> want t

Re: [tor-dev] New documentation for Tor Metrics website

2014-12-02 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 28/11/14 06:06, Virgil Griffith wrote: > At the top of the page, > >> *And if you come across something that is missing here, please let us know. > > > For "let us know", put an href to an email address/contact-info for > submitting ideas. Indeed, good catch. I'm currently talking to other