Re: [tor-dev] contribute to org

2014-12-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/14 19:02, Ayush Jhunjhunwala wrote: I am ayush jhunjhunwala. I am interested in the contributing to the project - Rewrite Tor Weather. I have read through the ideas page given in the website. As I am new to this it will be grateful if

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-12-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/14 15:37, A. Johnson wrote: But I don't see the value of binning the result once more. In a sense, we're already binning signal + noise by cutting off the float part. I don't see what we gain by reducing resolution even more. It

Re: [tor-dev] high latency hidden services

2014-12-11 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/14 00:14, grarpamp wrote: Guilty of tldr here, yet similarly, with the easily trackable characteristics firstly above, I'm not seeing a benefit to anything other than filling all links with chaff which then hides all those parameters

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-12-11 Thread A. Johnson
Can you be more explicit with regard to privacy guarantees of the obfuscation schema that is currently implemented: 1) binning, 2) add Laplace noise, 3) no second binning. I’ll discuss this in terms of attacks on the stats of the number of HS descriptors. Binning: Suppose an adversary knows

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-12-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/14 14:31, A. Johnson wrote: Can you be more explicit with regard to privacy guarantees of the obfuscation schema that is currently implemented: 1) binning, 2) add Laplace noise, 3) no second binning. I’ll discuss this in terms of

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-12-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/14 14:31, A. Johnson wrote: Can you be more explicit with regard to privacy guarantees of the obfuscation schema that is currently implemented: 1) binning, 2) add Laplace noise, 3) no second binning. I’ll discuss this in terms of

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-12-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 11/12/14 15:45, Karsten Loesing wrote: Sorry for double-posting! ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] high latency hidden services

2014-12-11 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org wrote: * Which links should carry chaff? First you need it to cover the communicating endpoints entry links at the edges. But if your endpoints aren't generating enough traffic to saturate the core, or even worse if there's

Re: [tor-dev] Distributing TBB and Tails via Torrents

2014-12-11 Thread Sukhbir Singh
* Chuck Peters: I have been trying to download the new Tails the past week via torrent and the tracker seems to be broken. I know it isn't a good idea to use torrents over tor, but why doesn't torproject.org distribute the TBB, Tails and other tor related software with torrents? We

[tor-dev] use tor in my app

2014-12-11 Thread Terry Spearman
I've written an Windows 7 Visual Basic application that downloads info from a website, that I'd like to use tor with. I've downloaded tor browser, and if I open the browser it establishes a connection to the tor network and my application runs just fine. However, if I instead run tor via