[tor-dev] Privacy Pass

2017-11-23 Thread bancfc
Hi. Are there any plans to include Privacy Pass addon in Tor Browser by default? Privacy Pass is the result of some great work by Ian and his team at University of Waterloo to spare Tor users the torture of solving infinite captchas from Cloudflare.[0][1] [0]

[tor-dev] PQ crypto updates

2017-08-18 Thread bancfc
If I understand correctly, DJB describes how NTRU-Prime is more robust against certain attack classes that Ring-LWE is more prone to: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/880086983057526784 *** About two months later DJB releases a streamlined version of NTRU-Prime that is faster, safer and

[tor-dev] Extending Tor stats to cover anon OSs?

2017-06-18 Thread bancfc
@TPO devs Since you do a great job safely collecting useful stats on the network, would you be open to adding a self-identifying anonOS distro option to the protocol? Would this be OK or is it mission creep? On the flip side it would be much more accurate than anything we can do to estimate

[tor-dev] Further New Hope Improvements

2017-05-23 Thread bancfc
New paper released a week ago makes further improvements on New Hope, reducing decryption failure rates, ciphertext size and amount of entropy needed. This new version will be submitted as a NIST PQ competition candidate. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/424

[tor-dev] GNU Guix and Tor Browser Packaging

2017-03-13 Thread bancfc
There is a serious Tor Browser packaging effort [3][4] being done by ng0 (GNUnet dev) for the GNU Guix [0] package manager. GNU Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles and most importantly reproducible builds. I have checked with

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser and Mozilla addon verification

2017-02-17 Thread bancfc
On 2017-02-18 01:29, teor wrote: Future questions about Tor Browser would best be directed to: tbb-...@torproject.org If you post this question to tbb-dev, please let this list know to direct responses there. T My bad. I reposted my question there at:

[tor-dev] Tor Browser and Mozilla addon verification

2017-02-17 Thread bancfc
Hi, does Tor Browser check addon code for tampering for addons from the Mozilla server? ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] SipHash Impact on TCP ISN skew fingerprinting

2017-01-11 Thread bancfc
SipHash a fast PRF by DJB has been adopted upstream across the Linux networking stack landing in 4.11. It deprecates a lot of ancient and broken crypto like MD5 for initial sequence number hashes. Its my guess that that timer values added in ISNs should now be indistinguishable from the rest

[tor-dev] TBB Isolation Impact on Alternative Anon Nets

2016-12-05 Thread bancfc
TBB sandboxing is a great hardening measure. I was wondering if there are side-effects such as breaking setups that involve using anonymous networks other than Tor. Such as: https://thetinhat.com/tutorials/darknets/i2p-browser-setup-guide.html As a workaround we can document how to toggle the

[tor-dev] Hidden Services and identity-based encryption (IBE)

2016-12-03 Thread bancfc
Read the Alpenhorn paper. Really neat stuff. It is able to guarantee forward-secrecy for identities and metadata and doesn't need out-of-band identity sharing. Can any of this stuff be borrowed for HSs? https://vuvuzela.io/alpenhorn-extended.pdf ___

[tor-dev] Shor's Algorithm meets Lattices

2016-11-26 Thread bancfc
In a new paper Peter Shor extends his quantum algorithm to solving a variant of the Closest Lattice-Vector Problem in polynomial time. With some future tweaking it can be used against the entire family of Lattice based crypto. While an error in the calculations has been pointed out and the

Re: [tor-dev] Browsers, VMs and Targeted Hardware Bit-Flips

2016-11-18 Thread bancfc
On 2016-11-18 00:03, teor wrote: Hi all, There have been a series of recent attacks that take advantage of "rowhammer" (a RAM hardware bit-flipping vulnerability) to flip bits in security-critical data structures. VMs sharing the same physical RAM are vulnerable, and browsers and mobile apps

[tor-dev] Distributed RNG Research

2016-11-18 Thread bancfc
New research on Distributed RNGs is published: "Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness" eprint.iacr.org/2016/1067 ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Different trust levels using single client instance

2016-10-21 Thread bancfc
Summarized question: Do you recommend allowing Workstation VMs of different security levels to communicate with the same Tor instance? Note that they connect via separate internal networks to the Gateway and have different interfaces & controlports so inter-workstation communication should

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Relays on Whonix Gateway

2016-10-19 Thread bancfc
On 2016-10-17 10:24, isis agora lovecruft wrote: ban...@openmailbox.org transcribed 1.7K bytes: On 2016-10-17 03:04, teor wrote: >>On 7 Oct 2016, at 08:11, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: >> >>Should Whonix document/encourage end users to turn clients into relays >>on their machines? > >Probably

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Relays on Whonix Gateway

2016-10-16 Thread bancfc
On 2016-10-17 03:04, teor wrote: On 7 Oct 2016, at 08:11, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: Should Whonix document/encourage end users to turn clients into relays on their machines? Probably not: * it increases the attack surface, * it makes their IP address public, * the relays would be of

[tor-dev] Tor Relays on Whonix Gateway

2016-10-06 Thread bancfc
Should Whonix document/encourage end users to turn clients into relays on their machines? ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] archive.is alternative for CFC addon

2016-10-01 Thread bancfc
Since there were plans to use this service to circumvent Cloudflare CAPTCHAs and now its behind Cloudflare itself (it requires users to execute JS to access content) what alternative is planned for the upcoming CFC addon? *** PS. My username was around long before this addon and is not

Re: [tor-dev] Constraining Ephemeral Service Creation in Tor

2016-09-29 Thread bancfc
On 2016-09-29 08:38, teor wrote: On 28 Sep 2016, at 07:59, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hello, We are working on supporting ephemeral onion services in Whonix and one of the concerns brought up is how an attacker can potentially exhaust resources like RAM. CPU, entropy... on the Gateway (or

Re: [tor-dev] prop224: Ditching key blinding for shorter onion addresses

2016-07-29 Thread bancfc
On 2016-07-29 17:26, George Kadianakis wrote: Hello people, this is an experimental mail meant to address legitimate usability concerns with the size of onion addresses after proposal 224 gets implemented. It's meant for discussion and it's far from a full blown proposal. Anyway, after

Re: [tor-dev] Tor with collective signatures

2016-07-22 Thread bancfc
On 2016-07-21 17:05, isis agora lovecruft wrote: Nicolas Gailly transcribed 59K bytes: Hi, Here's a new version of the proposal with some minor fixes discussed with teor last time. 0.4: - changed *included* to *appended* - 3.2: end of paragraph, a valid consensus document contains a

Re: [tor-dev] Using Tor Stealth HS with a home automation server

2016-07-08 Thread bancfc
On 2016-07-08 18:53, Nathan Freitas wrote: I've been working on some ideas about using Tor to secure "internet of things", smart devices other than phones, and other home / industrial automation infrastructure. Specifically, I think this could be a huge application for Tor Hidden Services and

[tor-dev] Comments on Yawning's Draft proposal for Debian

2016-06-12 Thread bancfc
I thought the proposal [1] is well written but there is one major point it should include: Sometimes apt/dpkg can contain remotely exploitable bugs which s a big risk when updates are fetched over HTTP. As it happens, anyone could have been in a position to poison the update process and take

Re: [tor-dev] TUF Repository for Tor Browser

2016-06-11 Thread bancfc
On 2016-06-10 18:27, Lunar wrote: ban...@openmailbox.org: Rehash of previous discussions on the topic: See #3994. The major reasons why TBB is not in the Debian repository: * The reproducible build system depends on a static binary image of (then Ubuntu) which runs counter to Debian

[tor-dev] TUF Repository for Tor Browser

2016-06-10 Thread bancfc
In light of the technical obstacles that prevent packaging Tor Browser (see below), I propose operating a repository that relies on The Update Framework (TUF) [0]. TUF is a secure updater system designed to resist many classes of attacks [1]. Its based on Thandy (the work of Roger, Nick,

[tor-dev] Paper: SoK: Towards Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism

2016-06-06 Thread bancfc
A paper presented at the Security and Human Behaviour 2016 conference examining how Tor pluggable transports old up against dozens of detection techniques. Censors focus more on detecting circumvention techniques during the setup phase than after the fact - opposite of most academic work in

Re: [tor-dev] [proposal] Post-Quantum Secure Hybrid Handshake Based on NewHope

2016-05-20 Thread bancfc
On 2016-05-19 15:28, isis agora lovecruft wrote: ban...@openmailbox.org transcribed 7.3K bytes: This brings up another point that digresses from the discussion: Dan and Tanja support more conservative systems like McEliece because it survived decades of attacks. In the event that

Re: [tor-dev] [proposal] Post-Quantum Secure Hybrid Handshake Based on NewHope

2016-05-17 Thread bancfc
On 2016-05-16 18:53, isis agora lovecruft wrote: Hello, I am similarly excited to see a more comprehensive write up on the NTRU Prime idea from Dan's blog post several years ago on the idea for a subfield-logarithm attack on ideal-lattice-based cryptography. [0] The idea to remove some of

[tor-dev] User Behavior Tracking defenses in VMs

2016-03-14 Thread bancfc
Intended for qemu-discuss /cc/ libvir-list, whonix-devel, tor-dev *** Hello. I work on WhonixOS an anonymity distro based on Tor. This feature request is related to the topics of privacy and anonymity. Its a complex topic and probably not in your area of focus but I think it has important