[tor-talk] Introducing Torsion, hidden service IM with real-world ambition

2014-03-27 Thread John Brooks
I’d like to present a project that I hope will interest some of you: Torsion is a ready-to-use hidden service instant messaging client with bigger goals and better implementation than the previous work on this concept. The goal [2] is to have a real solution for anonymous chat, with no servers

Re: [tor-talk] Introducing Torsion, hidden service IM with real-world ambition

2014-03-27 Thread Elrippo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hy John. Nice idea. Are you considering a package for Linux also, aka a tarball with installing instructions? Kind regards, elrippo On 27. März 2014 06:20:49 MEZ, John Brooks john.bro...@dereferenced.net wrote: I’d like to present a project that

[tor-talk] Download Speed

2014-03-27 Thread Jeff
Hi... can you tell me why my download speeds are so slow ? I've reduced the upload speed to minimum but lately the download speed has been 2-3kbps when downloading movies. It has been 1mbps at times, but its mostly the lower figure. Regards, Jeff ps: please speak english ! I'm not

[tor-talk] Failed to connect to tor netword with the provided obfs3 bridges when using the tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1.

2014-03-27 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, I'm very glad to know that the tor-browser-bundle issue the latest beta release as follows: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/3.6-beta-1/tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_en-US.tar.xz In this release, it support threes types of build-in bridges: 1- obfs3 (recommented) 2- fte 3-

Re: [tor-talk] Download Speed

2014-03-27 Thread Nima Fatemi
Jeff: Hi... can you tell me why my download speeds are so slow ? I've reduced the upload speed to minimum but lately the download speed has been 2-3kbps when downloading movies. It has been 1mbps at times, but its mostly the lower figure. Regards, Jeff ps: please speak

Re: [tor-talk] Failed to connect to tor netword with the provided obfs3 bridges when using the tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1.

2014-03-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:51:09PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: In my case, considering that I use router for surfing and don't set the port fordwarding on the router, I don't test the flashproxy bridges shipped with the above tor-browser-bundle. Ok. If the other two stop working for you, maybe

Re: [tor-talk] Download Speed

2014-03-27 Thread Mirimir
On 03/27/2014 01:32 AM, Jeff wrote: Hi... can you tell me why my download speeds are so slow ? I've reduced the upload speed to minimum but lately the download speed has been 2-3kbps when downloading movies. It has been 1mbps at times, but its mostly the lower figure. Regards,

Re: [tor-talk] Introducing Torsion, hidden service IM with real-world ambition

2014-03-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:20:49PM -0600, John Brooks wrote: The goal [2] is to have a real solution for anonymous chat, with no servers to trust with your communication habits, that any reasonable person can use safely. Neat! I encourage people here to play with it and let us know what you

Re: [tor-talk] Download Speed

2014-03-27 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Nima Fatemi: Jeff: Hi... can you tell me why my download speeds are so slow ? I've reduced the upload speed to minimum but lately the download speed has been 2-3kbps when downloading movies. It has been 1mbps at times, but its mostly the lower figure. Regards, Jeff ps: please

Re: [tor-talk] Failed to connect to tor netword with the provided obfs3 bridges when using the tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1.

2014-03-27 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Yes, I'm from China. And the GFW is a annoying thing ;-( 2014-03-27 16:55 GMT+08:00 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:51:09PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: In my case, considering that I use router for surfing and don't set the port fordwarding on the router, I don't

Re: [tor-talk] Failed to connect to tor netword with the provided obfs3 bridges when using the tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1.

2014-03-27 Thread mick
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:11:02 +0800 Hongyi Zhao hongyi.z...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: Yes, I'm from China. And the GFW is a annoying thing ;-( That is probably the finest example of understatement I have seen. - Mick

[tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Kus
Greetings from Turkey, Today, Tor Project and Youtube websites are blocked in Turkey by the biggest Turkish ISP, TTNet. However, other ISPs in Turkey will block them too. Besides, I'm not sure they're going to block Exit Nodes in days to come but probably they'll. ~Kus -- The most violent

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Kus, Kus: Harmony: Might be worth spreading some mirrors around (on that Twitter website that no one can get to)? Last week, for example, there was a new one set up in Turkey: http://tor.kslt.tk/. Thanks for the link. Many Turkish users

[tor-talk] Restricting TOR ports

2014-03-27 Thread Peter Decker
I checked off This computer goes through a firewall that only allows connections to certain ports and the allowed ports are 80,443. Questions: 1. From a netstat it looks like there is still some connections going to 9001 and imaps (143). Why is that? 2. Will this change also effect hidden

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Kus
Hey Gordon, Hi Kus, As an American with minimal understanding of regional politics, I found this article about Erdogan's censorship quite enlightening. I'd suggest it to others as well - h/t @quinnnorton, who is a great person to follow. Everyone Is Getting Turkey’s Twitter Block Wrong:

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:01:00PM +0200, kusbu...@riseup.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Today, Tor Project and Youtube websites are blocked in Turkey by the : biggest Turkish ISP, TTNet. However, other ISPs in Turkey will block them : too. Besides, I'm not sure they're going to block