On 3/28/2015 4:34 AM, A. Johnson wrote:
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
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
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
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
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
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
On 3/26/2015 9:01 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
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
domain as the SOCKS username in Tor Browser 4.5
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
domain as the SOCKS username in Tor Browser 4.5 now, this has the effect
that
