Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-11 Thread Lunar
Marc Juarez: I think website fingerprinting is one of the most threatening attacks to Tor because it can be deployed with moderate resources and the information that can be extracted as a result is highly sensitive (e.g., browsing history). It basically defeats one of the main privacy

Re: [tor-dev] Combining obfsproxy+scramblesuit with OpenVPN

2014-03-11 Thread George Kadianakis
irregula...@riseup.net writes: Hello people, I'm investigating how may we combine the traffic obfuscation provided by obfsproxy+scramblesuit with OpenVPN instead of Tor. I completely understand how this combination does not provide anonymity, but nevertheless I think it will be of some

Re: [tor-dev] Volunteering

2014-03-11 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi, I've been directed to this email address by Matt in regards to volunteering for the project. Currently I work as a consultant that specialises in providing hosted services to my clients. I am a keen learner of technology and have learnt (mostly self taught) various languages (C/C++,

[tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-11 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lunar: Have you read Mike Perry's long blog post on the topic? https://blog.torproject.org/blog/critique-website-traffic-fingerprinting-attacks It outlines future research work in evaluating the efficiency of fingerprinting attacks, and also

Re: [tor-dev] HTTP-requesting browser extension WIP (works in Firefox, not in Tor Browser)

2014-03-11 Thread Mark Smith
On 3/10/14, 11:23 PM, David Fifield wrote: I started trying to write a Firefox extension that makes HTTP requests outside of the proxy settings. I have one that works in Iceweasel 24.3 and does the Host header trick used by the transport. However it doesn't work in Tor Browser, and I'm looking