Re: [tor-talk] dizum

2012-02-26 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-26, Anne Magarey anne...@adam.com.au wrote: Please, what does this mean, and can I do something about it? It is in the tor Iran obfsproxy bridge log file. I had to turn off my computer and on reboot have this repeatedly in the file. It's been waiting for ~45 minutes so far. [warn]

Re: [tor-talk] how can I direct specific ports to tor?

2012-02-26 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
mail.app i the one I use, and it is sad that it does not support its own proxy; it must be system-wide. :( this is why i ask. -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Chris Wheeler wrote: This would be application specific. From the looks of it you are trying to

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Wheeler
Dr Fu, About the paper you sent, particularly the section on the simulation using continuous-time mix, by the looks of it much of your degradation came from packets arriving in the wrong order. I know the TCP doesn't handle this well natively but what if a wrapper was written? The TCP stream

Re: [tor-talk] how can I direct specific ports to tor?

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Wheeler
You can use freecap with your application. http://www.freecap.ru/eng/?p=download On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jerzy Łogiewa jerz...@interia.eu wrote: mail.app i the one I use, and it is sad that it does not support its own proxy; it must be system-wide. :( this is why i ask. -- Jerzy

Re: [tor-talk] how can I direct specific ports to tor?

2012-02-26 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
that looks good but this is mac osx! -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Chris Wheeler wrote: You can use freecap with your application. http://www.freecap.ru/eng/?p=download On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jerzy Łogiewa jerz...@interia.eu wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Xinwen Fu
Hi Chris, On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Chris Wheeler grin...@gmail.com wrote: Dr Fu, About the paper you sent, particularly the section on the simulation using continuous-time mix, by the looks of it much of your degradation came from packets arriving in the wrong order. I know the TCP

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Xinwen Fu
Sorry, TCP over TCP is believed not a good idea in terms of performance. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Xinwen Fu xinwe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Chris Wheeler grin...@gmail.com wrote: Dr Fu, About the paper you sent, particularly the section on

[tor-talk] bridges - higher risks for hidden services?

2012-02-26 Thread proper
Is it still advisable for users of bridges to host hidden services? Especially for private obfuscated bridges. The bridge users have only a limited number of non-blocked bridge IP addresses. And if the bridge is compromised, isn't the the risk for de-anonymizing the hidden service higher?

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Wheeler
I imagine that you would only need to reorder packets end-to-end since those are the points on the network where a correlation attack compromises identity. If the packets being sent from a public web server on the internet travel through the tor network in a different order than they were seen