[tor-dev] Special handling of .onion domains in Chrome/Firefox (post-IETF-standarization)

2015-11-02 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello, as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion names as special-use domain names [0]. This means that normal browsers like Chrome and Firefox can now handle onion domains in a special manner since they know that they only correspond to Tor. How would we like

Re: [tor-dev] Special handling of .onion domains in Chrome/Firefox (post-IETF-standarization)

2015-11-02 Thread Paul Syverson
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:05:26PM +0200, George Kadianakis wrote: > Hello, > > as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion > names > as special-use domain names [0]. > > This means that normal browsers like Chrome and Firefox can now > handle onion domains in a

[tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-02 Thread starlight . 2015q3
I am considering starting up a passive BWauth in order to understand how they work and fix bugs. What is the minimum and ideal hardware configuration for a BWauth? Have my eye on an OVH config with unmetered 1G, a fuzzy promise of 500mbps minimum bandwidth and a 3.4GHz 4core/8thread AES-NI CPU:

Re: [tor-dev] UX tag

2015-11-02 Thread Griffin Boyce
Georg Koppen wrote: Nima Fatemi: Lunar: Tor Browser folks have been tagging tickets with tbb-usability: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/tags/tbb-usability Do you want an extra tag for those? This is a good question. I'm aware of tbb-usability tag and have already added it to my

Re: [tor-dev] UX tag

2015-11-02 Thread Georg Koppen
Nima Fatemi: > Lunar: >> Tor Browser folks have been tagging tickets with tbb-usability: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/tags/tbb-usability >> >> Do you want an extra tag for those? > > This is a good question. I'm aware of tbb-usability tag and have already > added it to my filters;

[tor-dev] Tor dev meeting times this week and beyond!

2015-11-02 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello all! As a reminder, we have a weekly patch workshop and a weekly developer's meeting on the #tor-dev IRC channel on OFTC. With the ending of DST in the US, these times are now convenient for even fewer people than before. With that in mind, we're changing! The new times will be effective