Re: [tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

2012-09-15 Thread Katya Titov
Runa A. Sandvik: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:42 PM, r...@tormail.org wrote: This notice- There is a security update available for the Tor Browser Bundle appears after a installing Tor 0.2.2.39 Is this a cause for concern? I've noticed the same thing. The notice disappears if you

Re: [tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

2012-09-15 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Katya Titov katti...@yandex.com wrote: Runa A. Sandvik: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:42 PM, r...@tormail.org wrote: This notice- There is a security update available for the Tor Browser Bundle appears after a installing Tor 0.2.2.39 Is this a cause for

Re: [tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

2012-09-15 Thread Katya Titov
Runa A. Sandvik: o Any reason why there was no testing via tor-qa? Tor 0.2.2.39 was a security-fix release for a fairly severe bug and we wanted to get a new release out as soon as possible. OK, understood. o Any reason why the release wasn't sent to tor-talk? We announce new Tor

[tor-talk] onion id calculation

2012-09-15 Thread grarpamp
rend-spec... permanent-id is the permanent identifier of the hidden service, consisting of 80 bits. It can be calculated by computing the hash value of the public hidden service key and truncating after the first 80 bits: permanent-id = H(public-key)[:10]

Re: [tor-talk] onion id calculation

2012-09-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On 9/15/12, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: openssl rsa -in private_key -pubout -outform DER | sha1 | cut -c 1-10 python -c import base64, sys; print base64.b32encode(sys.stdin.readline().rstrip('\n')).lower() gu4dsm3cmi3dkyzw What am I doing wrong besides being sleepy? You're using the

[tor-talk] How does Tor use my Computer?

2012-09-15 Thread David Carlson
I have noticed in recent months a change in the behavior of the exit relay I have set up on my computer. I often have the bandwidth usage graph visible on my desktop. In the Olden Days the incoming and outgoing traces generally followed each other pretty closely, but now there are Bursts of

Re: [tor-talk] Logging on to Tor

2012-09-15 Thread Chris Smart
Hugh, Find the file on your system named Start Tor Browser.exe. Right-click it and pick Send To. From that sub-menu pick Desktop (Create Shortcut). that will, not surprisingly, add a shortcut to your desktop. Chris, assuming you're using Windows

Re: [tor-talk] scaling .onion site?

2012-09-15 Thread warms0x
warms0x: There's a couple of problems with this approach: [...] * The amount of time required to negotiate an HTTP request being proxied from A.onion - B.onion and then sending a request from B.onion - A.onion - Client would very likely brush up against HTTP timeouts (120s) I don't

Re: [tor-talk] onion id calculation

2012-09-15 Thread Nick
On 9/15/12, Robert Ransom wrote: On 9/15/12, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: u...p.onion -BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY- ... -END RSA PRIVATE KEY- openssl rsa -in private_key -pubout -outform DER | sha1 | cut -c 1-10 python -c import base64, sys; print