Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 4.5a5 will change circuit expiry to 2hrs

2015-03-27 Thread A. Johnson
Hi Mike, Would you still set a max lifetime for a circuit to accept new streams of 2 hours, or would the circuit potentially persist forever? Security losses that such a change would result in (some of which you mention) include: 1. Making it easier for an exit to profile the user because it

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 4.5a5 will change circuit expiry to 2hrs

2015-03-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: Mike Perry: In Tor Browser 4.5a5, we decided to increase MaxCircuitDirtiness to 2 hours (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13766). Because we also use Tor's SOCKS username isolation using the URL bar

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-27 Thread Damian Johnson
Gave it some more thought over the last couple days and think I'll move forward with it. Hi all. I apologize for making more noise on this front but I couldn't shake the feeling that I'm making a mistake. While I like the name 'seth' Mike was right, most people I ran it by associate it with a

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-27 Thread Damian Johnson
Thanks syndikal. I can't say I'm overly concerned about the shadow connotation. In fact, as an anonymity tool I think it's delightfully fitting. There's nothing inherently negative about shadows or secrecy. Privacy is indeed what we're all about, after all. Cheers! -Damian

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-27 Thread syndikal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:51:56 -0700 Damian Johnson ata...@torproject.org wrote: In greek mythology Erebus is a primordial deity and personification of shadow [1]. i may not be very qualified to name projects (and this is my first contribution to

[tor-dev] 0.2.7 triage [almost there!]

2015-03-27 Thread Isabela
Hello there! we are almost done with the triage of 0.2.7 - we have a good chunk of tickets organized into 2 groups at the spreadsheet. Now what I would like to ask people from today till our next IRC meeting (Core Tor meeting on Wednesday) is shape group 1 to be our final list. What that means?

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 4.5a5 will change circuit expiry to 2hrs

2015-03-27 Thread s7r
Indeed, it would be better if this customization will only apply to circuits requested by Tor Browser (web pages, etc.). Many people just keep Tor Browser running in order to open the Tor socks5 port on localhost, and use that socks proxy with other applications/protocols. Are there any clear

[tor-dev] Measurement of the amount of discrimination by website operators on Tor users?

2015-03-27 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out the status of this blog post (from August 2014): https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users Specifically this part: Step one is to enumerate the set of websites and other Internet

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 4.5a5 will change circuit expiry to 2hrs

2015-03-27 Thread Mike Perry
A. Johnson: Hi Mike, Would you still set a max lifetime for a circuit to accept new streams of 2 hours, or would the circuit potentially persist forever? Nick set a max lifetime in his updated version of the patch that also deals with non-Tor Browser activity, but I am not convinced that a

[tor-dev] onionoo-announces

2015-03-27 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Karsten, the latest onionoo update 2.3 triggered a bug in my onionoo client (charset encoding). Even though it is a bug on my side, would you mind announcing future releases/deployments on onionoo-announce [1] including a short changelog?

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 4.5a5 will change circuit expiry to 2hrs

2015-03-27 Thread A. Johnson
Would you still set a max lifetime for a circuit to accept new streams of 2 hours, or would the circuit potentially persist forever? Nick set a max lifetime in his updated version of the patch that also deals with non-Tor Browser activity, but I am not convinced that a max is a great idea

Re: [tor-dev] 0.2.7 triage [almost there!]

2015-03-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Isabela isab...@riseup.net wrote: Hello there! we are almost done with the triage of 0.2.7 - we have a good chunk of tickets organized into 2 groups at the spreadsheet. Now what I would like to ask people from today till our next IRC meeting (Core Tor

Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

2015-03-27 Thread Damian Johnson
Did some searching this morning and found another I like almost just as well, and might be more fitting: Erebus. Actually, I'm warming up to Nyx too, which has the advantage of being shorter. Surprisingly it too doesn't have much in terms of conflicts (mostly just cosmetics and gaming). Both