[tor-dev] Cupcake: browser extension for flash proxies

2013-01-04 Thread Griffin Boyce
site's embed page. If there's much interest in this, I'll switch to a dedicated site since it's maybe not fair to send that many requests to them ^_^; Input, ideas, and tomatoes welcome =) Best, Griffin Boyce -- What do you think Indians are supposed to look like? What's the real difference between

Re: [tor-dev] Cupcake: browser extension for flash proxies

2013-01-04 Thread Griffin Boyce
to the proxy program quickly. David Fifield Sounds good to me. I don't think it would be too difficult to get a couple thousand users through the Chrome Web Store. Best, Griffin Boyce ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-dev] Improving the HTTP interface of BridgeDB: bridges.torproject.org

2013-03-21 Thread Griffin Boyce
SiNA Rabbani s...@redteam.io wrote: Are we also interested in translating this to other languages? Perhaps we can get the Farsi done ASAP, since we now have a country obfsproxy users coming to this page soon :) All the best, SiNA If everyone's open to interface ideas, a rough number of

[tor-dev] Tor Exit Images

2013-03-24 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey all, After talking to Wendy Seltzer, I decided to bring this up on the list. I frequently talk to people who would like to run an exit node, but who aren't as good a sysadmin as they'd like to be. It would be great if there were server images that could be fairly easily installed and then

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Exit Images

2013-03-24 Thread Griffin Boyce
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: To fix that need it would be nice to make a sort of hosting provider (using existing tool for customer management, payments, server/application deployment maintenance) to host Tor Exit. This would definitely be cool, though honestly I

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden service access without TOR

2013-04-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Rather than going through a large process to reach hidden services without the Tor bundle, I'd suggest instead using Tor2Web or Onion.to. Tor2Web is also open-source, but both are fairly reliable. Example: DuckDuckGo Tor only: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.tor2web.org

Re: [tor-dev] Human factors of security software

2013-04-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
While I'm not quite sure it's what you're looking for, cross-cultural factors come into play a lot and seriously affect trust. I work with an organization that (in turn) works with Chinese activists organizers. It's a bit of a catch-22 that tools and guides in Chinese dialects are critically

Re: [tor-dev] New flash proxy facilitator domain fp-facilitator.org

2013-04-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: I moved the flash proxy facilitator to a new domain, fp-facilitator.org. This is to get it away from bamsoftware.com, which also has a lot of unrelated stuff. The old facilitator name tor-facilitator.bamsoftware.com will continue to work (the DNS for

Re: [tor-dev] Status of Torouter project

2013-05-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Yes, it is. I'm working on it and so are a number of other people. All the best, Jacob Good to hear. Is there a tentative date for a beta release? best, Griffin ___ tor-dev mailing list

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread Griffin Boyce
Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: So I think we should make some terms clear (just for the sake of clarity). We have, I guess, three different naming-system ideas floating here: petnames, (distibuted) namecoin-ish, and centralized consensus-based - rough summary. Some months

Re: [tor-dev] New flash proxy facilitator domain fp-facilitator.org

2013-06-30 Thread Griffin Boyce
I've updated the Cupcake extension already. Thanks for the heads up. :) ~ Griffin -- Sent from a phone, please excuse fatfingers and grammatical errors. On Jun 30, 2013 5:55 PM, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:32:08AM -0700, David Fifield wrote: I

Re: [tor-dev] Retiring old user number estimates

2013-09-16 Thread Griffin Boyce
I would actually really appreciate the old numbers (from ~2007-8/2013) being kept online. Estimating growth over time and mapping spikes is kind of a big deal to me. =) ~Griffin On 09/16/2013 02:28 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: Hi everyone, some of you may already know our new approach to

Re: [tor-dev] OnionMail First Test

2013-09-16 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/16/2013 09:51 PM, Liste wrote: Work complete for the version 0.0.0Beta Any chance you could upload your project to github, or a similar site so that people can review it before downloading? Github also uses SSL, which does offer some

Re: [tor-dev] Attentive Otter: Analysis of Instantbird/Thunderbird

2013-10-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So the lack of OTR support in Instantbird is nearly a dealbreaker for me, as it makes it a bit more likely than a rogue exit could intercept a user's communications. Though this depends in part on SSL/TLS support and whether a user *actually

[tor-dev] Browser extension identification/fingerprinting mitigation?

2013-10-26 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hi all, I'm looking at possibly replacing the images used by Cupcake with inline SVG XML, to reduce the possibility of fingerprinting/identifying Cupcake users who use Chrome [1]. One of the more talked-about methods of identifying a user's browser extensions is to look for images used by the

Re: [tor-dev] Help me guague how full your plate is via regular check-in conversations

2013-10-30 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 10/29/2013 07:30 PM, Tom Lowenthal wrote: Any questions or suggestions? -Tom Is this a tor dev thing, or a devs who work on tor-related projects but who are not part of tor thing? ~Griffin -- Cypherpunks write code not flame wars. --Jurre van Bergen #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR:

Re: [tor-dev] Registering special-use domain names of peer-to-peer name systems with IETF

2013-11-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nick Mathewson wrote: establishing the precedent that if you make a P2P network that uses a new virtual TLD, you can officially own that TLD forever for free Well, if the barrier-to-entry is ten(ish) years of hardcore development, a robust research community, and hundreds of thousands of

[tor-dev] Finalizing translation strings

2013-11-12 Thread Griffin Boyce
So I'm hiring translators for Cupcake, for Persian and Urdu translations. As it turns out, this is surprisingly inexpensive. Because I'm hiring translators anyway, I want to go ahead and donate translations of Tor project strings. (Especially Urdu, which is inexpensive, but difficult to find

Re: [tor-dev] Finalizing translation strings

2013-11-12 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nima Fatemi wrote: I didn't find it on torproject page. but anyways here it is: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/cupcake/language/fa/ Please donate the /whatever amount of/ money you had in mind for this translation to Tor Project. My

Re: [tor-dev] Apple App Store Redux

2013-11-20 Thread Griffin Boyce
Sorry for taking so long to respond to this thread. Responses are (mostly) inline below. At a training event a couple of days ago, a user was sketched out by the warning her Mac gave her -- in spite of the advance notice she'd been given by the trainers. Erinn Clark wrote: Please see Ralf's

Re: [tor-dev] What happened to Tor Router?

2013-11-23 Thread Griffin Boyce
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: I mean supporting many hardware devices, rather than going with a custom hardware? Hey Naif, Access Labs' openwrt-based torouter firmware is still the best and most stable. It worked pretty well for me back in August on a TP-Link N750, and earlier on a

Re: [tor-dev] exit-node block bypassing

2013-12-31 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey Ximin, I don't think it's been discussed in-depth before (at least not on-list), but I've thought a fair bit about it. While it's an interesting idea, I don't think that the risks for deploying it far outweigh any minor reward that could come of it. This idea has come up several times

Re: [tor-dev] Projects to combat/defeat data correlation

2014-01-16 Thread Griffin Boyce
Ximin Luo wrote: In my understanding, the anonymity set doesn't apply to use of PTs since this is only at the entry side. The exit side does not know[1] what PT the originator is using, so is unable to use that information to de-anonymise. [1] at least, in theory should not know, perhaps

[tor-dev] Fwd: [OpenITP Dev] Python Javascript volunteer?

2014-01-29 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OpenITP TA3M have had a python dev ask if STEM or txtorcon need assistance =) For more details, talk to Sandy (sandraordo...@openitp.org). ~Griffin - Original Message Subject: [OpenITP Dev] Do u needa Python Javascript

Re: [tor-dev] Weekly Tor dev meeting: Tuesday 25 Feb, 20:00 UTC

2014-02-24 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 2014-02-24 12:59, Roger Dingledine wrote: I see this was answered on irc, but to answer it here for completeness: it is my understanding that the Tuesday dev meeting will be held on Tuesday this week. :) Is this for little-t tor, or more user-facing projects like TBB? ~Griffin

[tor-dev] Novel distribution mechanisms (was: s3 alternatives on libtech)

2014-03-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nathan of Guardian wrote: Github? Maybe not whole sites, but specific files. I've been working with users who have networks in censored countries to expand access to specific software bundles (not just Tor). My two approaches right now are Google Web Store and torrents attached to a stable

Re: [tor-dev] Novel distribution mechanisms (was: s3 alternatives on libtech)

2014-03-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nathan Freitas wrote: Have you looked into BitTorrent Sync? You can do semi-private (I believe) Dropbox-like Torrent shares, that could be provisioned based on emails or other requests from users. There is a really nice mobile BitTorrent Sync app, so I have particularly been interested in

Re: [tor-dev] Novel distribution mechanisms (was: s3 alternatives on libtech)

2014-03-10 Thread Griffin Boyce
David Fifield wrote: GitHub is how Chinese users download GoAgent. It's a little weird, but they keep the binary right there in their source tree (goagent.exe). https://github.com/goagent/goagent/tree/3.0/local GitHub is great because it's HTTPS only, projects are subdirectories rather

[tor-dev] TBB for Chromebooks?

2014-03-16 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all, Is there a plan to port TBB for chromebooks? ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Moving ownership to TheTorProject

2014-04-01 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In your git config, you can define a pushurl that is different from url. Which effectively means that you can pull from github but push to tor. So in .git/config, your entry would look something like this (double-check pushurl syntax): [core]

[tor-dev] [Flashproxy] Some sites filtering users?

2014-04-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey all, Got a report from a friend* who noticed that twitch.tv stops letting him watch broadcasts while flashproxy is in an active state. He uses Cupcake, which shows flashproxy's status in the icon bar, and he only has an issue when the cupcake icon has a mustache. Has anyone noticed

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC: Pluggable Transports Combiner

2014-04-26 Thread Griffin Boyce
quinn jarrell wrote: Hi everyone, My name is Quinn Jarrell and I'm a student University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I'm excited to join GSoC and I'll be working on building a pluggable transporter this summer for Google summer of code. The pluggable transports combiner will allow

Re: [tor-dev] Torspec proposal for adding new X- fields to relay descriptor

2014-07-03 Thread Griffin Boyce
In addition to explicitly forbidding newlines, perhaps it would be a good idea to either strip them entirely or ignore any value with a newline. -- Sent from my tracking device. Please excuse brevity and cat photos.___ tor-dev mailing list

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-24 Thread Griffin Boyce
isis wrote: Do you have a better suggestion for what to call vanilla bridges? I keep calling them standard bridges (as opposed to fancy, monocle-wearing bridges). People seem to understand immediately that other types of bridges are special somehow if I call regular/vanilla/non-obfs

Re: [tor-dev] Email Bridge Distributor Interactive Commands

2014-07-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lunar wrote: We can't just make Tor Browser stop accepting obfs2 because some people are using obfs2 bridges right now. But we shouldn't add more people to the set of users of a broken protocol. We should really be reaching out to those running

Re: [tor-dev] Decentralized VOIP (or video chat) over Tor

2014-08-15 Thread Griffin Boyce
This is similar, though not *quite* the same. A while back ioerror released FreeNote[1], which makes it easier to broadcast audio and video on a hidden service. This is a pretty cool idea and works pretty well. AND it should be pointed out that two one-way conversations can be a two-way

[tor-dev] Debian popcon as a vulnerability?

2014-09-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all! I am wondering whether to force-uninstall Debian's popularity-contest package as part of Stormy's installation process. It would be good to have an idea how popular Stormy is, but on the other hand, I'm not sure how anonymous the reporting is on Debian's end. This is also

Re: [tor-dev] Making and distributing custom TBB with a new home-page

2014-09-21 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 2014-09-21 11:32, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Have you considered just distributing Tails USB sticks along with the .onion address on a piece of paper? We've considered it, but it was outside the logistically doable opportunity, as far as i understood. Sounds like the most apparently

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-10-21 Thread Griffin Boyce
Roger Dingledine wrote: h) Back to the community again. There have recently appeared a few messaging protocols that are inherently using HSes to provide link layer confidentiality and anonymity [1]. Examples include Pond, Ricochet and TorChat. There are also a fair few IRC and XMPP

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden Service authorization UI

2014-11-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
So most of my work over the next three days is writing and editing documentation on hidden services. I'm in Boston and the purpose of this trip is to rewrite existing documentation to be more useful, but with authenticated hidden services, what's available is extremely sparse. GlobaLeaks and

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden Service authorization UI

2014-11-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 2014-11-09 15:30, Fabio Pietrosanti - lists wrote: On 11/9/14 8:58 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: For example, it would be interesting if TBB would allow people to input a password/pubkey upon visiting a protected HS. Protected HSes can be recognized by looking at the authentication-required

Re: [tor-dev] Of CA-signed certs and .onion URIs

2014-11-14 Thread Griffin Boyce
Lee wrote: c) Get .onion IANA reserved It doesn't look like that's going to happen. Yeah. Though the biggest use-case for cert+onion is when trying to match a clearnet service to a hidden service -- such as Facebook or Erowid. ~Griffin ___

[tor-dev] Stormy - request for feedback

2014-11-17 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all, So as some of you know, I've been working on installers for hidden services, to ideally make very common services (such as blogs and plain websites) easy to deploy and automatically update. This is a very rough version of the one-click hidden service installer, but I'd love to

Re: [tor-dev] Stormy - request for feedback

2014-11-28 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey all, Sorry for the delay in responding -- comments inline. Fabio Pietrosanti - lists wrote: I would suggest to add a Tor2web policy that, looking at X-Tor2web: HTTP header, enable or disable access to the Blog trough he internet: What is your reasoning for disabling access via

Re: [tor-dev] Distributing TBB and Tails via Torrents

2014-12-10 Thread Griffin Boyce
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: On 12/10/14 7:53 PM, Chuck Peters wrote: The torrent files are available through https with a valid certificate. We would love to distribute Tor Browser Bundle via Tor2web, useful for specific use-cases:

Re: [tor-dev] Distributing TBB and Tails via Torrents

2014-12-10 Thread Griffin Boyce
SiNA Rabbani wrote: We can also use S3's bit-torrent feature: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.html It's relatively painless. Tor has its own Amazon account, I am also more than happy to provide my own S3 for to mirror Tor's binaries. Hi Sina, Thanks for this - I

Re: [tor-dev] Research repository [was: Master's Thesis]

2015-02-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
grarpamp wrote: Is there a project to collect, index and archive all the relevant papers from all the various internet sites, homepages, anonbib, etc... into one central, easily mirrored and referenced repository? git would seem more useful for this than the various disparate http resouces of

Re: [tor-dev] thanks redditt

2015-03-19 Thread Griffin Boyce
Tyrano Sauro wrote: This is funny Oh, I agree :D There was an outtake where Karen (development director) was walking around with a tiny orange tree saying Orange Routing! Orange Routing! It was pretty great ^_^ ~Griffin -- “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser sha256 checksums for old versions?

2015-03-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
David Fifield wrote: I don't know if there's a place where they're all in a single file, but you can get them for historical releases here: https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/ Thanks! That's perfect :D Satori's new version will detect version based on the hash.

[tor-dev] Tor Browser sha256 checksums for old versions?

2015-03-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey all, I was just wondering if it's possible to get a gpg-signed list of sha256 checksums for the Tor Browser. The website only shows the current version's list of hashes. Which is really useful, but it would be great to have them all if possible. thanks, Griffin -- “Sometimes the

Re: [tor-dev] #15060: Decide the fate of MyFamily / prop242 better families

2015-03-23 Thread Griffin Boyce
So, what do we think? I'd say that MyFamily is likely to continue to MyFamily is also critical for people who are running a lot of relays. It's ideal to list keys, but in a scenario where I run two dozen relays or more, having a good shorthand for them would make it easier to group them.

Re: [tor-dev] Urdu Hindi translations of Tor browser ?

2015-04-19 Thread Griffin Boyce
Sukhbir Singh wrote: I am sure other users from India/Pakistan can back this up, but personally, even though my native language is Punjabi and Hindi, I have always selected English when installing Debian. Similary, I have almost never seen a copy of Windows in any of the local languages,

Re: [tor-dev] Summary of meek's costs, April 2015

2015-05-05 Thread Griffin Boyce
Mike Perry wrote: David Fifield: Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for April 2015. total by CDN $3292.25 + $3792.79 + $0.00 = $7085.04 grand total https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transportstart=2015-02-01end=2015-04-30transport=meek

[tor-dev] Urdu Hindi translations of Tor browser ?

2015-04-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all, Whenever I attend events with a large Pakistani or Indian contingent, I'm asked why there isn't an Urdu or Hindi translation of Tor Browser. And I'm not totally sure what to say. There's clearly a large need, given Pakistan's history internet censorship. At a recent event in

Re: [tor-dev] Please vote on times for the Pluggable Transports, Bridges, and BridgeDB Meeting!

2015-04-06 Thread Griffin Boyce
So, just to clarify, this would be 10pm EST on Tuesday or Wednesday night, correct? ~Griffin On 2015-04-06 16:31, Brandon Wiley wrote: I can't do 0200 UTC on Wednesdays. I could potentially do 0200 on some Thursdays. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, isis i...@torproject.org wrote: Last

[tor-dev] Stormy update

2015-06-30 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey all, It seems like time to give the tor-dev list an update on Stormy's development. Right now, the scripts are undergoing third-party testing to identify any obvious bugs before sending them to security auditors. Testing should be finished imminently, any bugs found will be fixed this

[tor-dev] Finding location metadata in large dark market datasets

2015-07-17 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hello all, I came across a blog post that might interest you all. @techdad did a quick analysis of public images from online black markets (such as Silk Road et al)[2] from 2011-2015, and came to the following conclusion: After parsing hundreds of thousands of images, I came across about

Re: [tor-dev] UX tag

2015-11-02 Thread Griffin Boyce
Georg Koppen wrote: 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

Re: [tor-dev] Introducing Snowflake (webrtc pt)

2016-01-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
Serene wrote: Q: Why is it called Snowflake? There's a bunch of "ICE" negotiation happening for WebRTC, and it also involves a great abundance of ephemeral and short-lived (and special!) volunteer proxies... Anyhow, if Snowflake seems like it would be useful / desired here, it would be awesome

[tor-dev] "Not our bug" bugs

2016-02-23 Thread 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 exists, or the issue can't

Re: [tor-dev] Request for feedback/victims: cfc

2016-03-23 Thread Griffin Boyce
Yawning Angel wrote: Inspired by https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361 I've been working on way to improve the situation. Neat. In the thread someone mentions that it's possible to derive the answer for the old-style street number captchas using tesseract [1].

Re: [tor-dev] Is it possible to leak huge load of data over onions?

2016-04-03 Thread Griffin Boyce
How do you transmit an elephant? One byte at a time... But on a serious note, it's possible to transfer 2.6TB over Tor in small pieces (such as file by file or via torrent). Given the size, however, I'd suspect they mailed hard drives after establishing contact with journalists. Even on a

Re: [tor-dev] Scheduled changes to Tor Metrics CSV files in the Performance and the Traffic category

2018-12-06 Thread Griffin Boyce
Thanks for the heads up  On December 6, 2018 3:52:43 PM EST, Karsten Loesing wrote: >Hi, > >if you're not pulling CSV files from the Tor Metrics website in an >automated fashion, you can stop reading now. > >We just scheduled some changes to the Tor Metrics CSV files in the >Performance and