[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Tor 0.3.5.18

2022-01-24 Thread David Goulet
Greetings! We just released 0.3.5.18. You can find out about it here: https://forum.torproject.net/t/release-0-3-5-18/1871 It is the last release of the 0.3.5.x series because it is reaching end-of-life in 7 days. Download at: https://dist.torproject.org Inline ChangeLog: Changes in version

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Tor 0.4.6.9 and 0.4.7.3-alpha

2021-12-16 Thread David Goulet
Greetings, We just released 0.4.6.9 and 0.4.7.3-alpha. You can find out about it here: https://forum.torproject.net/t/release-0-4-6-9-and-0-4-7-3-alpha/1265 Download at: https://dist.torproject.org Inline ChangeLog for both versions: Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15 This

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-announce] [RELEASE] 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, 0.4.6.8 and 0.4.7.2-alpha

2021-10-26 Thread David Goulet
On 26 Oct (18:58:53), mick wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:48:54 -0400 > David Goulet allegedly wrote: > > > The Tor Network Team will from now on do its release announcement > > through our new fancy shiny Discourse forum: > > https://forum.torproject.net >

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, 0.4.6.8 and 0.4.7.2-alpha

2021-10-26 Thread David Goulet
Greetings! The Tor Network Team will from now on do its release announcement through our new fancy shiny Discourse forum: https://forum.torproject.net If you are interested in getting notified for each release announcement, you should follow this category (once you get an account):

Re: [tor-talk] New release candidate: Tor 0.4.5.4-rc

2021-02-05 Thread David Goulet
On 22 Jan (22:31:45), Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:02:50 -0500 > Nick Mathewson wrote: > > > o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6): > > - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be > > sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. > > Each

Re: [tor-talk] Help setting up tor dos defense

2020-01-14 Thread David Goulet
On 07 Jan (15:38:46), s7r wrote: > David Goulet wrote: > > Tor relays supporting the HS DoS defense (intro points) at this point in > > time > > are not in majority. Basically >= 0.4.2.1-alpha relays do support it which > > currently represents ~36% in b

Re: [tor-talk] Help setting up tor dos defense

2020-01-06 Thread David Goulet
On 19 Dec (12:38:35), brokenb...@danwin1210.me wrote: > Hello I run a forum hidden service and a former user is constantly > attacking it. > > I now have 0.4.2.5 installed and this is my torrc file the attacks still > persist do I need to add anything else or change these numbers I thought > this

Re: [tor-talk] Dos defense .0.4.2.5

2019-12-16 Thread David Goulet
On 12 Dec (15:09:03), drl...@danwin1210.me wrote: Greetings, > How do I configure my hidden service to use the latest Dos defense in tor > 0.4.2.5. > > In my tor/torrc file underneath my hiddenservice info I added > > HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense 1 > HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSRatePerSec

Re: [tor-talk] more '8443+443' relays; MS3c relays;

2019-10-16 Thread David Goulet
On 13 Oct (19:27:00), nusenu wrote: > you might want to avoid using these Tor relays Bad relay team has asked the dirauths to reject these relays from the network. Cheers! David > >

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.3.0

2018-11-19 Thread David Goulet
Hello everyone! Been a long time since a torsocks release! Many fixes went into this new version which all came from volunteers so huge thanks to you all for this work! ChangeLog below for this version. Please, let me know about any issues! I can't build on all systems so anyone testing this on

Re: [tor-talk] bug in tor 0.3.4.8?

2018-09-17 Thread David Goulet
On 17 Sep (15:06:11), Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > On 15/09/2018 18:14, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > I find a load of these bug mentions in the notices log. > > It happened again. > Any devs reading here? Hello Udo, I've opened https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27750 with this

Re: [tor-talk] V3 censorship ?

2018-04-16 Thread David Goulet
On 16 Apr (14:37:00), George Kadianakis wrote: > hi...@safe-mail.net writes: > > > I run both a V2 and V3 service on my Linux server. I'm using the same Tor > > process with both. The torrc file is fairly standard, except I'm forcing > > some custom entry nodes, and I compile Tor from source on

Re: [tor-talk] torified nodejs: server crashes

2018-02-12 Thread David Goulet
On 10 Feb (23:58:53), Konstantin Rybakov wrote: > Dear developers, > > I am trying to develop a simple networking application based on node.js > 'net'  library. Server supposed to run in torified environment. > > My setup is linux Ubuntu 16.04. On 16.04, "torsocks" package is 2.1.0 which old so

Re: [tor-talk] Questions on the coming next-gen onion services

2017-02-11 Thread David Goulet
On 11 Feb (06:14:34), Lolint wrote: > Hi Hello! > > I have some questions about the coming switch to next-gen onion services: > > o What will happen to current onion services? Will they all be simply > discontinued or will there be a process by which they will be automatically > built again to

Re: [tor-talk] Not comfortable with the new single-hop system merged into Tor

2016-12-23 Thread David Goulet
On 23 Dec (00:03:00), Ivan Markin wrote: > David Goulet: > > On 20 Dec (23:38:43), hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: > >> I just think that this new single-hop system should have been reserved for > >> a > >> different Tor source/installation, dedicated only to

Re: [tor-talk] privacy of hidden services

2016-12-21 Thread David Goulet
On 21 Dec (19:37:13), Aeris wrote: > > Would anyone outside of myself and those two > > people be able to determine the onion address > > Yes. Your onion address is published on a DHT, hosted accross all nodes with > HSDir flag. Some bad behaviouring relays try to enumerate all onion addresses

Re: [tor-talk] Not comfortable with the new single-hop system merged into Tor

2016-12-21 Thread David Goulet
On 20 Dec (23:38:43), hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: > I just think that this new single-hop system should have been reserved for a > different Tor source/installation, dedicated only to non-anonymous hidden > services, not merge it with the regular Tor software. And this for security. > > I once

Re: [tor-talk] Massive Bandwidth Onion Services

2016-12-19 Thread David Goulet
On 19 Dec (09:04:46), Allen wrote: > AFAIK, HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints >= 3 is also for the benefit > of the client, so if intro point #1 doesn't work for the client, it > can try to connect at intro point #2, and then finally at intro point > #3 before giving up. So let's say my Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Does Facebook Onion Work?

2016-02-17 Thread David Goulet
On 17 Feb (22:10:44), Sebastian Hahn wrote: > Hi blobby, > > > On 17 Feb 2016, at 21:17, blo...@openmailbox.org wrote: > > Does Facebook still provide an onion link? > > > > Because I've tried https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ and I get a > > neverending loop in which the site loads and loads

Re: [tor-talk] single entity running >36% exit probability with 5 relays? scary.

2015-12-10 Thread David Goulet
On 10 Dec (19:04:02), nusenu wrote: > take a look at the "e_prob" column: > > https://github.com/nusenu/tor-network-observations/blob/master/2015-12-10_relay-families.txt > > > How did he manage to get such a high consensus weight > (~10x ipredator's cw)? > > > > these four 0.2.7.5-dev

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service Scaling Summer of Privacy Project

2015-06-15 Thread David Goulet
On 15 Jun (18:28:42), Allen wrote: Hi Donncha, One thing I think I'm seeing is that if I restart the tor process on a hidden server, it chooses new introduction points and any clients that have a cached service descriptor cannot access the hidden service until the cached descriptor

Re: [tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.1.0

2015-05-28 Thread David Goulet
On 28 May (14:54:55), Yuri wrote: On 05/28/2015 06:25, David Goulet wrote: What other pull requests are you talking about? There are a couple of open tickets that need more time and thinking so I released this one because of the amount of fixes that has been accumulating. https://github.com

Re: [tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.1.0

2015-05-28 Thread David Goulet
On 27 May (18:14:37), Yuri wrote: On 05/27/2015 12:19, David Goulet wrote: Hi everyone! This is the release for version 2.1.0 of Torsocks. Special thanks to Yawning that helped a lot with the new features, finding bugs and providing patches! Also, thanks to all contributors and users out

Re: [tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.1.0

2015-05-28 Thread David Goulet
On 28 May (02:38:04), Geoff Down wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015, at 02:29 AM, Geoff Down wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015, at 08:19 PM, David Goulet wrote: Tarball: https://people.torproject.org/~dgoulet/torsocks/torsocks-2.1.0.tar.bz2 (sig: https://people.torproject.org

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.1.0

2015-05-27 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! This is the release for version 2.1.0 of Torsocks. Special thanks to Yawning that helped a lot with the new features, finding bugs and providing patches! Also, thanks to all contributors and users out there providing us with feedbacks! :) Changes that are worth mentionning: -

Re: [tor-talk] 100-Foot Overview on Tor

2015-05-06 Thread David Goulet
On 06 May (19:28:38), teor wrote: Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 18:49:39 -0500 From: Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg On 5 May 2015 at 07:53, Fabian Keil freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de wrote: Great. A couple of comments (about v1.3): Thanks! I made the changes and put up a 1.4 Page 141

Re: [tor-talk] Tor over SSH (torsocks) (?)

2015-02-19 Thread David Goulet
On 16 Feb (00:27:40), James Murphy wrote: On 02/15/2015 03:22 PM, blo...@openmailbox.org wrote: I want to login to my VPS over SSH. Is torsocks still a safe way to do this? A lot of the documentation (such as it is) is several years old. I would also like to know this. SSH

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0 stable

2014-08-11 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! Following the discussion of bug #10007[1], this is the *stable* release 2.0.0 for torsocks. Nothing major went in since -rc7, see the change log below. 2014-08-11 torsocks 2.0.0 * Fix: compilation issue on Debian kfreebsd-i386 * Fix: add LICENSE file to repository * Fix:

Re: [tor-talk] OTFC IRC issues - new Tor friendly IRC network?

2014-07-02 Thread David Goulet
On 02 Jul (04:03:20), Matt Pagan wrote: BlueStar88: 37lnq2veifl4kar7.onion:6697 is up and running fine. When connecting with `screen torsocks irssi -c 37lnq2veifl4kar7.onion -p 6697` I get the error message: [(status)] [Jul 01 22:33:27] WARNING torsocks[26459]: [connect]

[tor-talk] Torsocks 2.x status report

2014-05-14 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! Took me a while to do it but there it is! For those not following torsocks development, this is a status report of the project. As of April 4th 2014, the release candidate 7 was released. With that release, the main code is now on torproject.org which is now the official upstream of

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc7

2014-04-04 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! This is the release candidate 7 for torsocks 2.x. Nothing major, fixes and some code refactoring went in. From this point on, the upstream torsocks git[1] is now updated with that new code in the master branch but no stable release yet. With that, my github repository will become a

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc5/6

2014-03-17 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! Here is the release candidate 5 *and* 6 for Torsocks 2.x. Unfortunately, right after the release 5, I've noticed a critical issue that made the new allow inbound option misbehaved quite badly so I'm immediately releasing rc6 containing that fix. Basically, you can ignore rc5 if you

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc4

2014-03-03 Thread David Goulet
Hi everyone! After a big code review from Nick and help from a lot of people contributing and testing, this is the release candidate 4 for the new torsocks. Hopefully this is the last stretched before pushing this effort upstream but for that we need help with code/documentation review (again)

Re: [tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc2

2013-11-05 Thread David Goulet
On 05 Nov (20:44:08), adrelanos wrote: Lunar: For those too lazy to build torsocks manually, I have just uploaded an updated package to Debian experimental [1]. Given that David said he plans to discuss a new name for torsocks soon... And also to keep compatibility with existing

Re: [tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc2

2013-10-23 Thread David Goulet
On 23 Oct (06:11:59), adrelanos wrote: Lunar: David Goulet (2013-09-02): After a week or so, the release candidate 2 is now out after receiving various contributions for BSD and OS X support. A quick note. Please use the Github bug tracker for any issues

[tor-talk] [RELEASE] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc2

2013-09-02 Thread David Goulet
Greetings everyone! After a week or so, the release candidate 2 is now out after receiving various contributions for BSD and OS X support. A quick note. Please use the Github bug tracker for any issues and *not* trac.torproject.org. Until this code base is accepted as a potential replacement for

[tor-talk] Torsocks 2.0.0-rc1 release

2013-08-24 Thread David Goulet
Greetings everyone! Two months ago I sent an email [1] to the tor-dev mailing list explaining some important issues with torsocks. I proposed myself to do a complete rewrite for the reasons detailed in the email. I've released today the first release candidate for a 2.0.0 version.

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks/usewithtor only for .onion?

2013-08-15 Thread David Goulet
I guess that could be an option useful to add to torsocks for that. As of now, with the current version of torsocks (1.3.x), you can't. We could add something like torsocks --only-onion ... ? Thanks! David Moritz Bartl: Hi, Is there any way to torify applications so they can reach .onion

Re: [tor-talk] Torifier for Windows

2013-06-17 Thread David Goulet
Hi, I've been working on a re-engineering of torsocks recently and I would really like to support Windows natively! However, since I'm far from a Win. developer, some important portability issues need to be address. On *nix system we LD_PRELOAD the program thus hijacking the necessary symbols to

Re: [tor-talk] News from Iran

2012-10-04 Thread David Goulet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message Just a quick note on China and IPsec. Less than a month or so, I know and confirmed that a certain company inside China still uses Cisco IPsec to communicate with their outside division (EU). I

Re: [tor-talk] Tor exit node IPv6

2012-10-01 Thread David Goulet
, 2012 at 12:08:27PM -0400, David Goulet wrote: I'm looking to run a Tor exit node but IPv6 only. Anyone do/did that and got useful information about that? I don't know the state of the Tor network using IPv6. Is there some statistics somewhere about the number of nodes (or estimation) ? I

Re: [tor-talk] VPS provider

2012-09-25 Thread David Goulet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is a good start :) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs Cheers! David Webmaster: Can anyone suggest a vps provider that is friendly to tor hidden services. This would not be for an exit node.