[tor-dev] Issue regarding IRC channel

2017-02-12 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi, As of writing this mail, I can't access the Tor-Dev channel on OFTC neither using my registered nick on desktop client nor through the web interface. Looks like the channel has turned invite only. Would be great if someone could look into this. Regards, Jaskaran Veer Singh ___

[tor-dev] Proposing "Post-Quantum safe handshake implementation" as GSoc Project

2017-02-18 Thread Jaskaran Singh
ws on this. Suggestions, comments, criticism are all welcome. References [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1157.pdf PS: There's Something I noticed while reading the proposal. The portions don't add up to the size of the cell. Here's aSigned fix for it. commit a55692fcd93e3f064f1fffe24796

Re: [tor-dev] Tor in Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-03-07 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi Damian, On Tuesday 07 March 2017 11:54 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: > Finally, write down your project idea using our template [5] and submit > your application to Google before March 25th [6]. I think the deadline is April 3 this year. Regards, Jaskaran

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

2017-03-17 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi, Please have a look at this proposal. Will replace xyz with more meaningful numbers once this is finalized. Comments, suggestions and criticism are welcome. - Filename: xxx-Count-unique-IPs-in-anonymous-way.txt Title: Count Unique IP addresses in an anonymous way Author: Jaskaran V

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

2017-03-21 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi Andreas, On Saturday 18 March 2017 10:06 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: > As an adversary, I wouldn't take down the bridge but either monitor > the traffic to it ($country can also do this on its border gateways), > or modify it to tell me the connecting IP addresses. Absolutely correct. In fact I m

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

2017-03-21 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi, So here's the updated part of the proposal. ยง Threat model & Security Considerations Consider the adversary with the following powers: - Has sufficient computational and storage power to brute force any method that can be brute forced. - Can get the recurrent control of

Re: [tor-dev] Issues With Ticket #7532 - "Count unique IPs in an anonymous way"

2017-03-28 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi Samir, Brute force does affect Bloom filter/hashed-values as you rightly mentioned, but not Probabilistic Counting by Stochastic Averaging (PCSA). PCSA works on the principle that in an input the probability of n consecutive bits having value '0' from the left side(could be right as well, but

Re: [tor-dev] Anonymous Local Count Statistics Using PCSA - GSoC

2017-04-01 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi Aaron, These statistics not just tell about the user's country but also keep a track of unique IP addresses connecting from each country. This is needed so as to present more realistic stats. If we increment counter on any IP address instead of unique IP address then the statistics would also r

Re: [tor-dev] Anonymous Local Count Statistics Using PCSA - GSoC

2017-04-02 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Oops, clicked the SEND button accidentally. Sorry! You can ignore it. > Ah! That reminds me that OP(of this thread) should also aim to fix #8786 > along with that could enable such a counting technique for Pluggable > transports. > > Now coming to the main point, > >> In addition, each user doe

Re: [tor-dev] Open topics of prop247: Defending Against Guard Discovery Attacks using Vanguards

2017-06-11 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi George, On Wednesday 17 May 2017 05:21 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > 1.1. Visuals > > Here is how a hidden service rendezvous circuit currently looks like: > > -> middle_1 -> middle_A > -> middle_2 -> middle_B > -> middle_3 -> middle

Re: [tor-dev] Start contributing to Tor

2017-12-03 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi Aruna, You could have a look at these spec files if you haven't already https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/ Regards, Jaskaran On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Aruna Maurya wrote: > I am new to the community and would like to contribute and help along. I > did a complete read up

Re: [tor-dev] Start contributing to Tor

2017-12-04 Thread Jaskaran Singh
> > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Jaskaran Singh > wrote: > >> Hi Aruna, >> >> You could have a look at these spec files if you haven't already >> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/ >> >> Regards, >> Jaskaran >> &g

Re: [tor-dev] Starting with contributing to Anonymous Local Count Statistics.

2018-02-02 Thread Jaskaran Singh
ect.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/ > 012001.html >https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/ > 012073.html > > I suggest you pick it up by fleshing out the design work and seeing if > it works for you, and then checking out the code to see where you need

Re: [tor-dev] Starting with contributing to Anonymous Local Count Statistics.

2018-02-02 Thread Jaskaran Singh
h a proposal on this IIRC. Until then it would not be considered a valid project? Karsten would have something to say on this. cc: karsten On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:33 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Jaskaran Singh writes: > > > [ text/plain ] > > Hi, > > > >

[tor-dev] Proposal: Check Maxmind GeoIP DB before distributing

2018-06-30 Thread Jaskaran Singh
Hi List, Please have a look at this proposal. Filename: Check-Maxmind-GeoIP-DB-before-distributing.txt Title: Check Maxmind GeoIP-DB before distributing Ticket(s): #26240 Author: Jaskaran Singh Created: June 2018 Status: Open 0. Motivation and Overview We're using Maxmind's (company