[tor-dev] [Update] Network Status APIs

2023-10-03 Thread Mattia Righetti
Greetings Tor devs, I wanted to give a quick update on the progress of the Network Status APIs[0]. First of all, a couple of weeks ago we have deployed an initial version of the service internally so that we can benchmark and test it and see how it holds. Plus, we now have developed three more

Re: [tor-dev] PT bridge reporting significant numbers of IP addresses after upgrade to 0.4.8.6; Conflux related?

2023-10-03 Thread trinity pointard
Hi, I'm highly suspicious of commit 3e18507dc75afcf0c6560e966c9f18942406b0c8 which adds a call to geoip_note_client_seen with a NULL (==no PT) in src/core/or/channeltls.c It's fine for DoS defense, but it's likely what's messing up stats. Regards, trinity-1686a On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 21:12,

[tor-dev] PT bridge reporting significant numbers of IP addresses after upgrade to 0.4.8.6; Conflux related?

2023-10-03 Thread David Fifield
The Snowflake bridges do not expose their plain ORPort (they have `ORPort 127.0.0.1:auto` in torrc), and consequently they have always reported ≈0 IP addresses in the bridge-ip-transports line of bridge-extra-info descriptors, with virtually all connecting IP addresses being instead attributed to

[tor-dev] Fact-checking a claim about relay/bridge fingerprint authentication

2023-10-03 Thread David Fifield
Cecylia, Arlo, Serene, Shelikhoo, and I are writing a research paper about Snowflake. Here is a draft: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/snowflake/snowflake.20231003.e6e1c30d.pdf We're writing to check a factual claim in the section about having multiple backend bridges. Basically, we wanted