Re: [tor-dev] [Patch] or/config.c for MSVC

2015-07-17 Thread Gisle Vanem
Nick Mathewson wrote: I made the changes conditional on not having GCC, since the GCC syntax will work with older versions of GCC. (Somebody should check whether we care about those versions.) I saw that; from the Changelog: o Minor features (portability): - Use C99 variadic macros

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points

2015-07-17 Thread A. Johnson
This proposal doubles the default number of IPs and reduces the cost of being an IP since the probability of being selected is no longer bandwidth-weighted. Is this a fair tradeoff for the performance improvement? That seems easy to fix. Make the number of Introduction Points the same as it

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 246: Defending Against Guard Discovery Attacks using Vanguards

2015-07-17 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 7/18/2015 12:49 AM, A. Johnson wrote: Not having the third guards be selected by every second guard makes sense when you consider that the adversary may not be able to compromise all relays equally. That was not a consideration I had in

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 246: Defending Against Guard Discovery Attacks using Vanguards

2015-07-17 Thread A. Johnson
Here's another crazy idea that would potentially bring this Vanguards idea closer to Virtual Circuits: What if you divided your third-level Vanguards into NUM_SECOND_GUARDS isolated buckets, and mapped exactly one these buckets to each of your second-level guards? ... That way, if one

[tor-dev] 4th status report for OnioNS

2015-07-17 Thread Jesse V
Hello again everyone, This report covers the period of time that I spent in Washington, DC at the hidden service meetings. I made excellent progress on this project. On the 10th, for example, I pushed nearly 30 commits. I fixed many significant bugs and improved many areas that would make the

[tor-dev] Finding location metadata in large dark market datasets

2015-07-17 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all, I came across a blog post that might interest you all. @techdad did a quick analysis of public images from online black markets (such as Silk Road et al)[2] from 2011-2015, and came to the following conclusion: After parsing hundreds of thousands of images, I came across about