Re: [tor-dev] Porting Tor Browser to the BSDs

2015-02-18 Thread Georg Koppen
Libertas: > Has anyone looked into this? I talked to the maintainer of the OpenBSD > Firefox port, but he wasn't very interested and pointed out the > difficulty caused by the deterministic build system. > > I can verify that it doesn't work out of the box, but haven't had time > to play with it m

Re: [tor-dev] Porting Tor Browser to the BSDs

2015-03-03 Thread Georg Koppen
Dave Huseby: > I'm a Bitrig [0] user and have been slowly patching up gitian-builder > so that it knows how to create build VM's other than ubuntu [1]. I > haven't pushed all of my patches yet, but I have a version of > gitian-builder where make-base-vm understands "--os bitrig --iso > cd10.iso" a

Re: [tor-dev] Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey

2015-03-13 Thread Georg Koppen
Prateek Mittal: > Mashael, Ian -- this looks awesome, congrats! > > A couple of very minor comments come to mind (mainly from looking at Figure > 5): > a) For AS-level adversaries, the following could be useful inclusions: > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029199 > http://moria.freehaven.net/an

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser IsolateSOCKSAuth behavior questions.

2015-06-01 Thread Georg Koppen
Yawning Angel: [snip] > My question is, what causes Tor Browser to set the SOCKS username to > "--unknown--" and what the behavior should be in that case if: Ideally, "--unknown--" would only be used for requests originating from privileged browser code and not belonging to a website/resource a

Re: [tor-dev] Two new tech reports on website fingerprinting

2015-07-01 Thread Georg Koppen
t55w...@cs.uwaterloo.ca: > I'd like to introduce two new works on website fingerprinting I've > written with my supervisor, Ian Goldberg. Thanks! I am looking forward to study your new work and hope we can include it into Tor Browser. > The first is titled ``On Realistically Attacking Tor with We

Re: [tor-dev] Hash Visualizations to Protect Against Onion Phishing

2015-08-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Yawning Angel: > As much as all of these are important issues, if we search for a > solution that works for absolutely everyone, then we will never > implement anything, because IMO no such thing exists. > > I sort of have mixed feelings about this in general, but since enough > people seem to thi

Re: [tor-dev] tor-browser git repository

2015-09-04 Thread Georg Koppen
tordev...@safe-mail.net: > Is there some documentation, how the tor-browser git repository is set up? Not sure what you mean but it is a repository that contains Firefox ESR code and on top of that our patches we need to apply. The branch names encode the ESR version and the Tor Browser version: e

[tor-dev] [Applications Team] New meeting schedule

2015-10-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, at the recent dev meeting we decided to slightly change the applications team meeting procedure in order to focus more on cross-application issues. Instead of a scrum-style meeting we also think it should be agenda-driven. The current plan is to meet once a month (on the first Tuesday) given t

[tor-dev] [Applications Team] First meeting next Tuesday 19:00 UTC

2015-10-29 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, just a reminder that the applications team is starting the monthly meetings next week on Tuesday, November 3 at 19:00 UTC[0] in #tor-project on irc.oftc.net. The proposed topic is still talking about UX/internationalization issues. If there are other things worth discussing we can easily amen

Re: [tor-dev] UX tag

2015-11-02 Thread Georg Koppen
Nima Fatemi: > Lunar: >> Tor Browser folks have been tagging tickets with tbb-usability: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/tags/tbb-usability >> >> Do you want an extra tag for those? > > This is a good question. I'm aware of tbb-usability tag and have already > added it to my filters; b

[tor-dev] [Applications Team] Meeting next Tuesday 19:00 UTC

2015-11-26 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, just a reminder that the applications team is having its monthly meeting next week on Tuesday, December 1 at 19:00 UTC in #tor-project on irc.oftc.net. There is no proposed topic for this meeting yet. Please come up with suggestions if you feel there is something we should discuss. See you t

Re: [tor-dev] Special handling of .onion domains in Chrome/Firefox (post-IETF-standarization)

2015-11-26 Thread Georg Koppen
George Kadianakis: > Hello, > > as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion > names > as special-use domain names [0]. > > This means that normal browsers like Chrome and Firefox can now handle onion > domains in a special manner since they know that they only corre

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: Orbot roadmap feedback

2016-01-12 Thread Georg Koppen
Nathan Freitas: > - Overall improved configuration / settings UI to make tuning Orbot a > better, simpler experience... this is an expansion of the new exit > country selector in Orbot v15.1, but also includes managing things like > network usage and so on. Could you explain that point a bit more,

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: Orbot roadmap feedback

2016-01-14 Thread Georg Koppen
Nathan Freitas: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: >> Nathan Freitas: >>> - Overall improved configuration / settings UI to make tuning Orbot a >>> better, simpler experience... this is an expansion of the new exit >>> country select

Re: [tor-dev] Always up-to-date HSTS preload list for Tor?

2016-01-18 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Ivan Ristic: > Dear Tor developers, > > My SSL Labs server test has a feature where it checks for preloaded HSTS > in Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Tor. > > You can see it near the bottom of this report, for example (under "HSTS > Preloading"): > > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=

Re: [tor-dev] GSOC: Panopticlick

2016-03-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, - -: > Hello! > > My name is Akito Ono. I'm a computer science student in Japan and very > intrested in participating in GSoC this year. > I read docs about projects and I was particularly intrested in Panopticlick > project. > And I have some questions about Panopticlick. > > > Is this pro

Re: [tor-dev] GSOC: Panopticlick

2016-03-15 Thread Georg Koppen
Akito Ono: > Hi, > > Thanks for quick answer. > >> For the tests themselves there will probably mainly JavaScript used + some > CSS/HTML. > > So if I understand correctly, students have a choice about sever-side > language? > I have developed Web application, so I'm concerned about whether I can

Re: [tor-dev] "Not our bug" bugs

2016-03-19 Thread Georg Koppen
Griffin Boyce: > Hey all, > > There have been quite a few bug reports that discuss incompatibility with > various Firefox extensions and with websites. In most cases, I can't > replicate > these bugs -- either because the extension in question has been patched, > the > website reported no longer e

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC'16 proposal: the Torprinter project (a Panopticlick-like website)

2016-03-19 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi Pierre, thanks for this proposal. Gunes has already raised some good points and I won't repeat them here. This is part one of my feedback as I need a bit more time to think about the code example section. Pierre Laperdrix: > Hi Tor Community, > > My name is Pierre and I'm really interested in

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC'16 proposal: the Torprinter project (a Panopticlick-like website)

2016-03-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Pierre Laperdrix: [snip] >>> Technical choices >>> In my opinion, the website must be accessible and modular. It should >>> have the ability to cope with an important number of connections/data. >>> With this in mind and the experience gained from developing AmIUnique, I >>> plan on using the Pla

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC'16 proposal: the Torprinter project (a Panopticlick-like website)

2016-03-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, here comes feedback to the remaining part of the proposal. Pierre Laperdrix: [snip] > Code sample > In 2014, I developed the entire AmIUnique.org website from scratch. Its > aim is to collect fingerprints to study the current diversity of > fingerprints on the Internet while providing full

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC proposal: Panopticlick

2016-03-22 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi Akito, Akito Ono: > Hello! > > I'm writing a proposal for the Panopticlick project. > Would you advise me about this proposal? > https://gist.github.com/ak1t0/1bf1b6bd4e3fc99e2097 Thanks for this proposal. Looking over it and your PoC I have two questions so far: 1) What does "Improve a peri

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC proposal: Panopticlick

2016-03-24 Thread Georg Koppen
Akito Ono: > Hi Georg, > > Thank you for your advice, always! > >> 1) What does "Improve a peripheral test suite and design" mean? Where >> does this peripheral one come from? > > It meant measuring fingerprint's uniqueness and I rewrote it. > >> 2) Looking at the screenshot of your panopticlic

Re: [tor-dev] SHA-256 checksum mismatch

2016-06-02 Thread Georg Koppen
Tuuranton: > The SHA-256 checksum of the downloaded file > https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/6.0/TorBrowser-6.0-osx64_en-US.dmg > is on my computer > 0f4f6ca01028c2956c811dd94d67a76feb507cad176c031f32e6f95873003b4c > > But according to the text file > https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowse

Re: [tor-dev] [GSOC16] Fingerprint Central - Status report n°2

2016-06-20 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi! Pierre Laperdrix: > Hi everyone, > > Here is my second status report for my GSOC project. > A little reminder that the repo is located on GitHub: > https://github.com/plaperdr/fp-central > > 1 - I have progressed faster than I expected in the last two weeks. Here > is everything that I have

Re: [tor-dev] [GSOC16] Fingerprint Central - Cookies and localStorage

2016-06-30 Thread Georg Koppen
Pierre Laperdrix: > Hello everyone, > > I know the next status report is not due until next week but I wanted to > get some feedback on how I use cookies and localStorage on FP Central. > > Right now, due the very short lifespan of cookies in the Tor browser, I > don't use cookies as an identific

[tor-dev] Tor Browser downloads and updates graphs

2016-09-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi all! So, Karsten, Nicolas and I were sitting together for a while and were looking at past data for figuring out how many users downloaded and updated their Tor Browser over time. We actually got more questions than we were able to answer but I guess that's fine for a start. Here are the grap

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser downloads and updates graphs

2016-09-14 Thread Georg Koppen
David Fifield: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:12:15AM -0400, Mark Smith wrote: >> On 9/11/16 3:45 PM, David Fifield wrote: * We don't know what (8) or (9) is but it seems to us we are losing users over time and are only getting them back slowly if at all. A weekday/weekend pattern is v

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 273: Exit relay pinning for web services

2016-10-18 Thread Georg Koppen
Philipp Winter: [snip] > 2. Design > > 2.1 Overview > >A simple analogy helps in explaining the concept behind exit relay >pinning: HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) allows web servers to express >that browsers should pin certificates for a given time interval. >Similarly, exit rel

Re: [tor-dev] handling TLS Session Ticket/Identifier for Android

2016-10-25 Thread Georg Koppen
Tom Ritter: > The info I gave you was for Tor Browser, the the latter (about session > ID) is actually wrong. TBB disables both. > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20447#ticket > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/security/manager/ssl/nsNSSComponent.cpp?h=tor-brows

Re: [tor-dev] Release: sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.2

2016-12-14 Thread Georg Koppen
Roger Dingledine: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 08:52:47PM +, Yawning Angel wrote: >> I tagged sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.2 (0.0.1 is also tagged, but it has >> a few issues), so this is the obligatory release announcement. >> >> Official binaries should be available sometime next week, so I strongl

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

2017-03-26 Thread Georg Koppen
Tom Ritter: > Hi Nur-Magomed, > > Great to have you interested in this! > > So we would want to use the Crash Reporter that's built into Mozilla > Firefox (which is called Breakpad, and is adapted from Chromium). At > a high level, I would break down the project into the following > sections: T

Re: [tor-dev] [linux-elitists] Browser fingerprinting

2013-10-14 Thread Georg Koppen
>> Check out firegloves. It's outdated, and I'd love to see it getting >> some love, but it's a great POC for anti-fingerprinting in Firefox. Firegloves is broken last time I checked. All the hooks are not applied if you are sending your payload via FTP as the extension is doing the hooking via a

Re: [tor-dev] Apple App Store Redux

2013-11-17 Thread Georg Koppen
Erinn Clark: > I am at this point in favor of signing OSX packages with their codesigning but How is this supposed to work with Gitian? Georg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-dev] Tor project automation work

2013-12-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi Nicolas, some remarks are below. Nicolas Vigier: > In order to help me doing that, I'm very interested to receive from > developers of any tor components : > > - a description or ticket number of bugs that you wish could have been > detected earlier with automated tests https://trac.torpro

Re: [tor-dev] Tor project automation work

2013-12-12 Thread Georg Koppen
Nicolas Vigier: > In addition to this, an other thing that we could do automatically is > rebasing the tor-browser patches onto the unreleased next mozilla esr > from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr24/ in the default branch. > This allows to see in advance if rebasing the patches on the

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Failure (pt branch only?)

2013-12-14 Thread Georg Koppen
tor-admin: > On Friday 13 December 2013 14:21:10 David Fifield wrote: >> Do you have the same symptoms we experienced? That is, during the build >> of tor for lucid-i386, you have a qemu process running with image >> target-precise-amd64.qcow2? And if you ssh into the VM with >> ssh -oNoHostAu

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Failure (pt branch only?)

2013-12-16 Thread Georg Koppen
tor-admin: > On Saturday 14 December 2013 19:26:41 Georg Koppen wrote: >> >> FWIW, this is probably https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10153 >> >> Georg > > I am seeing the following error for the Mac bundle: > > ** Starting TorBrows

Re: [tor-dev] TBB 3.5 build failure

2014-01-02 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Steve Snyder: > Attempting to build tbb-3.5.1-build1, and failing. See below for failure. > > I am building on a fully-updated Ubuntu v12.04LTS/x86_64 system. I am using > the USE_LXC method because KVM won't work in this VMware VM. > > On my first attempt I did a "make all". That didn't

Re: [tor-dev] gitian replacement proposal

2014-01-13 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Nicolas Vigier: > Hello, > > You can find at this URL a proposal to refactor the tor browser bundle > build process, using an other tool to replace gitian: > https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/automation/tor-automation-proposals.html#build-tool > (also added as attached file to this email)

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 227: Include package fingerprints in consensus documents

2014-02-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Nick Mathewson: > Here's a new proposal for a thing that Mike wants for TBB. Please review! [snip] > 2. Proposal > >We introduce a new line for inclusion in votes and consensuses. >Its format is: > > "package" SP PACKAGENAME SP VERSION SP URL SP DIGESTS NL > > PACKAGEN

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 227: Include package fingerprints in consensus documents

2014-02-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Georg Koppen: > Hmm... What happens in cases like the following: > > 4 authorities include a PACKAGENAME/VERSION pair with URL1 and DIGEST1 > and 4 other authorities include the same PACKAGENAME/VERSION pair with > URL2 and DIGEST2 and, say, 1 authority includes no such > PACKAG

Re: [tor-dev] Panopticlick summer project

2014-03-17 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Gunes Acar: > Dear All, > > My name is Gunes Acar, a 2nd year PhD student at Computer Security and > Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group of University of Leuven. > > I work with Prof. Claudia Diaz and study online tracking and browser > fingerprinting. I'd like to work on "Panopticlick" >

Re: [tor-dev] Panopticlick summer project

2014-03-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Gunes Acar: > Thanks for all the feedback Mike, > I'll be in touch with you and Georg on the Tor side. > > For the other discussion: I don't think open-sourcing Panopticlick is > critical for this work. Sure, we can always write new code. That said, if you want to do that (I am still not sure abo

Re: [tor-dev] Panopticlick summer project

2014-03-21 Thread Georg Koppen
Georg Koppen: > code could somehow be shared with tests needed for QA. Maybe the feature > extraction part could be modularized in a way that both can share, say, > the feature extraction part. That should have been "Maybe the tests could be modularized in a way that both can s

Re: [tor-dev] Panopticlick summer project

2014-04-22 Thread Georg Koppen
Gunes Acar: > Sorry everyone for the long pause. > > I wrote down a proposal (and some code) to address issues raised by > Mike and George: > https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/summer_2014.pdf > > Looking for your comments and critics... I am happy with getting 1), 2) and 3) done in tha

Re: [tor-dev] Panopticlick summer project

2014-04-23 Thread Georg Koppen
Gunes Acar: > On 04/22/2014 10:35 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: >> I am happy with getting 1), 2) and 3) done in that order but am a >> bit wondering why that does not match your suggestion in the >> timeline. There you plan doing something like 2) (+ maybe the >> "Implem

Re: [tor-dev] TBB: default setting for security.tls.version.max prevents use of TLS 1.2

2014-05-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, Maciej Soltysiak: > Hi, > > It's my first post in tor ml, hope it's the right place to write this. > > I am using the latest TBB. The default setting for the maximum version > of TLS (comming from Firefox) is TLS 1.0 (security.tls.version.max = > 1) > > ssllabs.com tests would confirm the r

Re: [tor-dev] Orbot & Orfox - GSoC bi-weekly report 4

2014-07-18 Thread Georg Koppen
Amogh Pradeep: > Status Report 4 > July 18th, 2014. > > Things I am working on: > > 1)Setting up repos and building: > After having built fennec, we have now started to try to get it built > on the jenkins server. Hopefully we will be successful and will be > able to push out a version of the bro

Re: [tor-dev] Please merge these anti-fingerprinting bugfixes

2014-07-28 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi, faether: > Can a TBB developer please push these very simple but important anti- > fingerprinting prefs through: > > pref("full-screen-api.enabled", false); > pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 0); > pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true); > > Fixing: > > https://trac.tor

Re: [tor-dev] "firefox --app" for meek-http-helper

2017-03-29 Thread Georg Koppen
David Fifield: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 02:28:00PM +, anonym wrote: >> Tails uses the Tor Launcher shipped in Tor Browser, but it's run as a >> stand-alone XUL application (`firefox --app ...`), so the *web* >> browser isn't started as part of it. > > Sorry to change the subject, but should w

Re: [tor-dev] Are we planning to use the "package" mechanism?

2017-06-19 Thread Georg Koppen
Nick Mathewson: > With proposal 227 in 0.2.6.3-alpha, we added a way for authorities to > vote on e.g. the latest versions of the torbrowser package. > > It appears we aren't actually using that, though. Are we planning to > use it in the future? It might be a candidate for update hardening, e.g

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Metrics Roadmap 2017/18

2017-11-17 Thread Georg Koppen
Karsten Loesing: > Hello everyone, > > we, the Tor Metrics Team, have finished writing our roadmap for the 12 > months between October 2017 and September 2018: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/raw-attachment/wiki/org/teams/MetricsTeam/metrics-team-roadmap-2017-11-17.pdf > > https://t

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Metrics Roadmap 2017/18

2017-11-20 Thread Georg Koppen
Karsten Loesing: > On 2017-11-17 21:29, Georg Koppen wrote: >> Karsten Loesing: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> we, the Tor Metrics Team, have finished writing our roadmap for the 12 >>> months between October 2017 and September 2018: >>> >&

Re: [tor-dev] Privacy Pass

2017-11-23 Thread Georg Koppen
ban...@openmailbox.org: > 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] That's

Re: [tor-dev] UX improvement proposal: Onion auto-redirects using Alt-Svc HTTP header

2017-12-14 Thread Georg Koppen
George Kadianakis: > As discussed in this mailing list and in IRC, I'm posting a subsequent > version of this proposal. Basic improvements: > - Uses a new custom HTTP header, instead of Alt-Svc or Location. > - Does not do auto-redirect; it instead suggests the onion based on > antonella's mockup

Re: [tor-dev] DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH) in Firefox/Torbrowser

2018-05-22 Thread Georg Koppen
nusenu: > Hi, > > since Mozilla did tests [0] on DOH [1] in Firefox I was wondering > if Torbrowser developers have put any thought into that as well? Actually, the study did not get done yet. The start date is scheduled for June 4th, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446404 We'

Re: [tor-dev] is that the correct URL in the TBB design document?

2018-06-15 Thread Georg Koppen
nusenu: > Hi, > > > https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability > writes: > >> While the vast majority of web requests adheres to the circuit and >> connection unlinkability requirement there are still corner cases we >> need to treat separately or that lack a

Re: [tor-dev] Tor port restriction option was removed

2018-07-04 Thread Georg Koppen
Jonathan Marquardt: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 05:46:48AM -0700, Keifer Bly wrote: >>> I admit, a separate button that says “Configure” there could really be >>> beneficial to void confusion. I agree, I think that future tor browser s >>> having a dedicated “configure” button is a good idea for th

Re: [tor-dev] anchors in the Tor Browser design document?

2018-07-06 Thread Georg Koppen
nusenu: > > > nusenu: >> It would be nice if every subsection (i.e. "SPDY and HTTP/2" would have an >> anchor >> so we can easily link to it) > > in what trac component would I file this request? > > "Webpages/Website"? Sounds good to me, thanks. Georg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [tor-dev] Ready to Integrate/Review New Marionette Version into Tor

2018-07-26 Thread Georg Koppen
David Fifield: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 04:12:21PM -0400, John Helmsen wrote: >> We are in the process of writing the documentation for Marionette, but the >> documentation on the web page should be sufficient for at least getting a >> full >> evaluation started.  We'd like to have the evaluation

Re: [tor-dev] Archiving old Components in Trac

2018-08-29 Thread Georg Koppen
teor: > Hi, > > Is anyone still using these trac components? [snip] > Obfuscation/FTE Let's leave that one right now. We still ship FTE on some platforms in Tor Browser. We'll probably reevalute that soon and then can deal with the trac component in case we think it's not worth keeping it. Geo

Re: [tor-dev] UX improvement proposal: Onion auto-redirects using Alt-Svc HTTP header

2018-09-21 Thread Georg Koppen
George Kadianakis: > Georg Koppen writes: > >> [ text/plain ] >> George Kadianakis: >>> As discussed in this mailing list and in IRC, I'm posting a subsequent >>> version of this proposal. Basic improvements: >>> - Uses a new custom HTTP header,

Re: [tor-dev] UX improvement proposal: Onion auto-redirects using Alt-Svc HTTP header

2018-10-12 Thread Georg Koppen
Rusty Bird: > Georg Koppen: >> FYI: the proposal is now the first Tor Browser proposal: >> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser-spec.git/tree/proposals/100-onion-location-header.txt > > Sounds great. One nit: > > | Website operators should be aware that tools l

Re: [tor-dev] Empty menu item in Help menu

2018-11-12 Thread Georg Koppen
scootergrisen: > I tried testing Tor Browser in macOS (VirtualBox) and at the bottom of > the Help menu i see a empty menu item. > > If i remember correct nothing happened if i clicked it. Yeah, that's https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22942. Thanks, Georg signature.asc Descript

Re: [tor-dev] #3600 tech doc

2019-01-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Richard Pospesel: > And here's a link that actually works: > https://storm.torproject.org/shared/Kw99Ow0ExZFFC6FKD5CeryfVFAoAL9Z_iEVlflI0fiL Thanks for collecting and sharing all the possibly ideas here. Some comments come to mind after thinking a bit about it. 1) We probably won't get that featu

Re: [tor-dev] #3600 tech doc

2019-01-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Richard Pospesel: > And here's a link that actually works: > https://storm.torproject.org/shared/Kw99Ow0ExZFFC6FKD5CeryfVFAoAL9Z_iEVlflI0fiL Thanks for collecting and sharing all the possible ideas here. Some comments come to mind after thinking a bit about it. 1) We probably won't get that featu

Re: [tor-dev] xp + T

2019-02-26 Thread Georg Koppen
Iain Learmonth: > Hi, > > On 13/02/2019 16:56, n...@neelc.org wrote: >> I don't think this is the right mailing list. > > This is entirely the correct mailing list as it is discussing a > technical policy of the network team. I am not sure whether that's actually the intention of the original qu

Re: [tor-dev] Anti-censorship discussion with Briar devs

2019-02-26 Thread Georg Koppen
Cecylia Bocovich: > Hi, > > I just had a really great conversation with some of the developers at > Briar about the recent work they've done in integrating some pluggable > transports into their messaging application. I thought I would summarize > some key points from the conversation here. In par

Re: [tor-dev] Anti-censorship discussion with Briar devs

2019-02-27 Thread Georg Koppen
Torsten Grote: > On 2/26/19 11:19 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: >> I think we should be able to provide that with our Tor Browser builds >> once we have all the PT pieces sorted out (which is rather soon). > > That would be nice! > >> So, probably the easiest way

Re: [tor-dev] Anti-censorship discussion with Briar devs

2019-02-28 Thread Georg Koppen
Nathan Freitas: > > On 2/27/19 4:54 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: >> Torsten Grote: >>> On 2/26/19 11:19 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: >>>> I think we should be able to provide that with our Tor Browser builds >>>> once we have all the PT pieces sorted out (

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Friendliness Scanner

2019-03-05 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi! Kevin Gallagher: > Hello tor-dev! > > My name is Kevin and I'm a PhD student at NYU. Recently I've been > working on creating a "Tor Friendliness Scanner" (TFS), or a scanner > that will measure what features of a given website are broken > (non-functional) when accessed on the Tor Browser (T

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal for PoW DoS defenses during introduction (was Re: Proposal 305: ESTABLISH_INTRO Cell DoS Defense Extension)

2019-06-19 Thread Georg Koppen
Watson Ladd: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:29 PM Chelsea Holland Komlo > wrote: >> >> There are a couple approaches to consider. >> >> POW via hashing goes for a relatively simple to implement approach. >> However, this incurs a high cost for all clients, and also environmental >> damage, per previo

Re: [tor-dev] reproducible builds for Android tor daemon

2019-09-12 Thread Georg Koppen
Hans-Christoph Steiner: > > Hey all, > > I'm currently working on tor for Android as part of a Guardian Project > project. One key goal is making a shareable, reproducible build process > for the tor daemon for Android. Then this would be published to > MavenCentral as an Android AAR package to

Re: [tor-dev] reproducible builds for Android tor daemon

2019-09-13 Thread Georg Koppen
Hans-Christoph Steiner: > Georg Koppen: >> Hans-Christoph Steiner: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I'm currently working on tor for Android as part of a Guardian Project >>> project. One key goal is making a shareable, reproducible build proc

Re: [tor-dev] New Orbot, tor-android and AndroidPluggableTransport updates

2019-09-13 Thread Georg Koppen
Nathan Freitas: > A new Orbot is out, with a bug fix related to obfs4proxy installation, > and a new tor! Good stuff! Is it intended that I only see an x86_64, x86, and arm64-v8a version but no armv7 one available? It seems suddenly Orbot is not compatible anymore with my device (and I suspect a b

Re: [tor-dev] Onion Service v2 Deprecation Timeline

2020-06-16 Thread Georg Koppen
Roger Dingledine: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:34:17PM -0400, David Goulet wrote: >> 1) September 15th, 2020 >> 0.4.4.x: Tor will start warning onion service operators and clients that >> v2 is deprecated and will be obsolete in version 0.4.6 > > Thanks David. "Late 2020" is a

Re: [tor-dev] CAPTCHA Monitoring Project's Dashboard

2020-08-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Barkin Simsek: > Hi everyone, > > I created a wiki page [1] for "describing" the graphs that will be > used to visualize the CAPTCHA Monitor dataset [2]. There are already a > few graphs on the dashboard [3] and they will be replaced with the new > ones described on the wiki page. Thanks for that

Re: [tor-dev] CAPTCHA Monitoring Project Final Report

2020-09-07 Thread Georg Koppen
Gaba: > El 8/31/20 a las 9:22 AM, Barkin Simsek escribió: >> Hi everyone, >> >> The end of the Google Summer of Code period has arrived, and you can >> find my GSoC final report for the CAPTCHA Monitoring project here [1]. >> This was my first time working with an active open source community >> an

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser 10.0.5 not functional on Fedora Rawhide

2020-11-23 Thread Georg Koppen
Ian Laurie: > Regular Firefox became briefly non-functional on Fedora Rawhide due to > the following (now resolved) bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891234 > > The issue was that all tabs immediately crashed making the browser > unusable.  I believe Tor is now suffering from

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 328: Make Relays Report When They Are Overloaded

2021-03-02 Thread Georg Koppen
Mike Perry: > > > On 3/2/21 6:01 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: >> >> David Goulet writes: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Attached is a proposal from Mike Perry and I. Merge requsest is here: >>> >>> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/22 >>> >> >> Hello all, >> >> while wor

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal: "Res tokens: Anonymous Credentials for Onion Service DoS Resilience"

2021-06-13 Thread Georg Koppen
George Kadianakis: > Hello all, > > after lots of investigation on anonymous credentials, we are glad to > present you with a draft of the onion services anti-DoS proposal using > tokens. Thanks! I finally managed to read through and think about the proposal (but note: I've not read proposal 327

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-12 Thread Georg Koppen
Roger Dingledine: [snip] > That is, I think these extra restrictions (avoiding the relays) would be > a slight improvement to security in theory, but I see that as outweighed > by the loss of robustness and by the other security angle (avoiding > letting people probe our internal network knowledg

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-15 Thread Georg Koppen
David Goulet: > On 14 Sep (11:31:02), Neel Chauhan wrote: >> Hi Roger, > > Hi Neel! > > Thanks for your proposal!! > >> >> On 2021-09-12 20:48, Roger Dingledine wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:17:37PM -0700, Neel Chauhan wrote: If a relay has the MiddleOnly flag, we do not allow it t

Re: [tor-dev] HAROI: Human Readable Authenticated Relay Operator Identifier

2021-12-08 Thread Georg Koppen
nusenu: Hi, below is a partial proposal draft for human readable relay operator IDs that are authenticated by directory authorities. If there is any interest in implementing something like this I'll complete the draft and submit it via gitlab. I think I am confused a bit. So, how does that r

[tor-dev] onbasca - the next-generation bandwidth scanner

2022-02-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello everyone! As many of you know we have been working on a simple bandwidth scanner (sbws) over the last years to deal with the old and unmaintained Torflow code on our bandwidth authorities. We learned a lot during that process, especially after we started to replace Torflow with the new s

Re: [tor-dev] Want to build circuit via unpublished relay, can't add microdesc using control port

2022-07-11 Thread Georg Koppen
ValdikSS via tor-dev: Hello everyone. I'm experimenting with Tor network and wanted to build a circuit via unpublished relay (PublishServerDescriptor 0). To do so, I set up a relay, got its authority descriptor, imported it with +POSTDESCRIPTOR in the client using control port and tried to bu

Re: [tor-dev] Release new version of stem

2022-09-16 Thread Georg Koppen
Hefee: Hey, nodens(nod...@debian.org) and me are currently packaging the new version of onionshare for Debian and stumbled over the dependency cepa[1], what is a fork of stem. After digging deeper into it, I found out, that the main reason why they do so is the support for Client Auth v3 onions[

Re: [tor-dev] Release new version of stem

2022-09-19 Thread Georg Koppen
Hefee: Hey, That is tricky as stem is not maintained anymore and therefore deprecated. That is a pitty. It would be nice if you can actually make this obvious on the git repo like "currently stem is unmaintained and therefore deprecated" and maybe search for people in the community to take ov

Re: [tor-dev] Release new version of stem

2022-10-03 Thread Georg Koppen
Hefee: Hi hefee, we've released stem 1.8.1 [1] including v3 onion services patches [2]. There'd be a pypi package soon (in aprox. 1 day) and stem's website update. Please, let us know whether that works for you, Thanks a lot. It looks fine for our use case. And good that you now communicate

[tor-dev] Network Health team and analysis work

2023-07-06 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello everyone! The Network Health team is best known for its work in the bad-relays area and being concerned with providing metrics + keeping an eye on the health of the Tor network. While that involves doing analyses to answer our own questions it was not clear so far what we should do with

Re: [tor-dev] terminology explaination: identifier.

2024-08-26 Thread Georg Koppen
eff_03675...@posteo.se: Hi, On the following URL : http://hctxrvjzfpvmzh2jllqhgvvkoepxb4kfzdjm6h7egcwlumggtktiftid.onion/ stats.html the quote: *All per-graph statistics files are available for download via an URL of the form:* *https://metrics.torproject.org/identifier.csv* Remains am

[tor-dev] Improving Private Browsing Mode/Tor Browser

2011-06-22 Thread Georg Koppen
After reading Mike's blog post and the material contained in it (via links) I thought it would be helpful to start a discussion about it. First of all thanks for explaining the idea of improving the private browsing mode. That aim seems worthwile but I want to focus more on the needs for high anony

Re: [tor-dev] Improving Private Browsing Mode/Tor Browser

2011-06-23 Thread Georg Koppen
> If you maintain two long sessions within the same Tor Browser Bundle > instance, you're screwed -- not because the exit nodes might be > watching you, but because the web sites' logs can be correlated, and > the *sequence* of exit nodes that your Tor client chose is very likely > to be unique. A

Re: [tor-dev] Improving Private Browsing Mode/Tor Browser

2011-06-23 Thread Georg Koppen
> Additionally, we expect that fingerprinting resistance will be an > ongoing battle: as new browser features are added, new fingerprinting > defenses will be needed. Furthermore, we'll likely be inclined to > deploy unproven but better-than-nothing fingerprinting defenses (so > long as they don't

Re: [tor-dev] Improving Private Browsing Mode/Tor Browser

2011-07-10 Thread Georg Koppen
> However, when performed by the exits, this linkability is a real > concern. Let's think about that. That sounds more like our > responsibility than the browser makers. Now I think I see what Georg > was getting at. We didn't mention this because the blog post was > directed towards the browser ma

Re: [tor-dev] Improving Private Browsing Mode/Tor Browser

2011-07-10 Thread Georg Koppen
>> Hmmm... If that is the answer to my questions then there is nothing like >> avoiding getting tracked by exit mixes in the concept offered in the >> blog post. Okay. > > That is not entirely true. Because identifiers would be linked to > top-level urlbar domain, gone are the days where exits cou

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