Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] Intro & Questions

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alan, Well, I'm not a fan of giving out my phone number in public forums. But I can be reached by email (m...@markpcohen.com) and on IRC (mpcsh on freenode and oftc). Everything is on my website at https://mpcsh.xyz/about. ~Mark -BEGIN PGP

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - Project "Crash Reporter for Tor Browser"

2017-03-30 Thread Damian Johnson
>> P.S. Have I to send proposal to GSoc as draft? > > I don't know the answer to this, but hopefully Damian does? It would be useful if you uploaded a draft to the site, but really the only hard requirement is that the proposal is uploaded before the deadline. ;)

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] Intro & Questions

2017-03-30 Thread Alan S
I am your IT Genius but why do you not leave a phone number or contact? On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Mark Cohen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello everyone! > > My name is Mark, and I'm a 2nd year undergraduate at UChicago, majoring in

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - Project "Crash Reporter for Tor Browser"

2017-03-30 Thread Tom Ritter
On 28 March 2017 at 16:22, Nur-Magomed wrote: > Hi, Georg, > Thank you! > >> We should have a good user interface ready giving the user at least an >> explanation on what is going on and a way to check what is about to be >> sent. > > I've also thought about that, I suppose we

[tor-dev] [GSoC] Intro & Questions

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone! My name is Mark, and I'm a 2nd year undergraduate at UChicago, majoring in CS and math. I greatly admire the Tor community, and as a longtime user I've always wanted to give back. As far as relevant experience goes, I've taken

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - Questions

2017-03-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: [...] >> Also wanted to know if specific knowledge about circuit >> cryptography was required? As I know of it, but I certainly cannot make my >> own fully homomorphic cryptosystem, is it more in the steps of the system

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - Questions

2017-03-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Krishna Shukla wrote: > Hey, > > I'm Krishna Shukla, I'm studying a bachelors of computer science at the > University of Queensland. > I guess the relevant subjects I've studied so far covers C and Unix > programming, Computer Networks,

Re: [tor-dev] Comments on proposal 279 (Name API)

2017-03-30 Thread Ivan Tham
Hi, I would like to do some addition as well. Section 2.3. System configuration [TORRC] - Do we really need a priority list? - Should we just make a priority based on the ordering? Section 2.3.1. Tor name resolution logic - Should tor check the based on regex? - How should it reponds when is

Re: [tor-dev] Interest in collaborating on a standard Ed25519 key blinding scheme?

2017-03-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Nick Mathewson > wrote: >> >> Hi! I guess we could keep an eye on the process, though I don't know that >> I'd have much to contribute myself: I'm more of a crypto

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal xyz : Count Unique IP addresses in an anonymous way

2017-03-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
This looks plausible to me. As a formatting note: we usually don't give the non-proposed solutions equal treatment with the proposed solutions. Instead, we usually mark them as not proposed. From this document, I _think_ you're proposing PCSA, and suggesting that we not do the others? But I'm

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - unMessage: a privacy enhanced instant messenger

2017-03-30 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Felipe Dau wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. It should be possible to support multiple > kinds of transport, but we still need to do some research on that > because it might make some attacks > possible/easier (e.g., partitioning attacks)? It