Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is released

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:07:38 +0100 Markus Reichelt wrote: > * Nick Mathewson wrote: > > > There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should > > only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and > > report them on gitlab.torproject.org. > > it isnt mentioned in

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

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 08:51:56 -0500 David Goulet wrote: > Can you expand here on why you think an operator using a /64 is worst than an > operator using an IPv4 /24 to run their relays? In the IPv4 a single person will rarely have an entire /24 to themselves; as such connections coming from

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

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 /64 should be treated as an equivalent to 1 address in the

Re: [tor-talk] Expired key for deb.torproject.org?

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:54:39 +0100 Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > I am using the Debian Tor repo on quite a few Debian machines and since a few > days now, none of these machines are able to use the repo. > > "apt update" gives me: > > Err:6 tor+http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Best alternative to Blutmagie?

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 23:17:32 - mimb...@danwin1210.me wrote: > Blutmagie seems to be permanently gone, sadly. > > It was great because you could see the speeds of the exit nodes plus their > country. > > Is there a commonly accepted best replacement? Hello, Check out

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:14:12 +0300 Van Gegel wrote: > Maybe after publication on popular Russian resource Habr:  > https://habr.com/ru/post/448856/ > This is Android app for talking over Tor: > http://torfone.org/download/Torfone.apk > http://torfone.org/download/Torfone_Android_howto.pdf >

Re: [tor-talk] Onion website on "usual" server

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:54:42 +0400 meejah wrote: > Mirimir writes: > > > Even so, that's a little fragile. Mistakes happen. And there's the issue > > of web server error messages from the onion site going to clearnet. > > That's one of the mistakes that got DPR pwned. > > The best solution to

[tor-talk] IPv6 for relay-to-relay or client-to-relay communication?

Hello, Does Tor currently use IPv6 connections for relay-to-relay traffic? I now got some IPv6 relays which access IPv4 via tunneling to a separate router, so it would *really* benefit my setup if some of the Tor traffic would move to going over IPv6 directly. However that doesn't seem to be the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Messenger

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:23:55 +0100 (CET) Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > > So the state of available XMPP Clients today kinda sucks. There's Pidgin > > available for Linux Systems Any issue with Gajim? > The alternative is "chat apps" like Signal by OpenWhisper or Wire by Wire Might as well suggest

Re: [tor-talk] Detective Conan Japanese Cartoon Advertising Tor For Criminal Activity

On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:37:00 + bo0od wrote: > Detective Conan (named as case closed in America) which considered to be > the most famous cartoon in Japan.They produced a Movie in April,2018 > named as "Zero the Enforcer" they mentioned stuff related to Tor Project > but in different ways,

Re: [tor-talk] circpathbias.c : Your Guard vs The Guard

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:18:55 +0200 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 12/18/18 10:07 AM, Kevin Burress wrote: > > How about "A Guard" > Yes, "A guard" would also reduce the potential for confusion, and it's > even shorter. The log error should clearly convey the information of > whose guard is being

Re: [tor-talk] torstatus.blutmagie.de

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:26:34 +0100 Iain Learmonth wrote: > On 16/10/18 13:17, George wrote: > > While metrics. continues to be a next step, I still find myself wishing > > for the simple birds-eye view that your Tor Status provides. > > Can you provide some examples of things you can do with

Re: [tor-talk] torstatus.blutmagie.de

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:58:15 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: Hello, > I'm planning to shut down my Tor network status site within the next > weeks. The payed SSL certificate will expire 11/06/18 You don't have a redirect to HTTPS, I never knew you had that in the first place, always accessing the

Re: [tor-talk] Deploying Alt-Svc on your own website. Hello?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:28:19 +0100 Ben Tasker wrote: > You need to configure your onion server block to respond on port 443 _and_ > to handle your clearnet host header (and serve a publicly trusted > certificate matching that name). Alt-Svc tells the browser to use the > alternate address as a

Re: [tor-talk] Deploying Alt-Svc on your own website. Hello?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:28:19 +0100 Ben Tasker wrote: > Which part are you struggling with? > > The following is assuming you've got a site - www.example.com - that's > accessible at 1234.onion. > > Configure your nginx server block (or apache config) for www.example.com to > include an Alt-Svc

[tor-talk] Deploying Alt-Svc on your own website. Hello?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:45:33 +0100 Alec Muffett wrote: > I've spent the morning pulling together a bunch of draft thoughts regards > the technical pros/cons of differing forms of site onionification; > thoughts, comments & feedback are warmly welcomed: > >

Re: [tor-talk] alt-svc supported by TBB

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:59:00 + TNT BOM BOM wrote: > whythe hell would anyone use anything from Cloudflare with Tor??? Because people use Tor to browse the Internet, and half of the Internet is nowadays CloudFlare. If you're looking to advance a point of view such as [1] -- which may be

Re: [tor-talk] torjail - run programs in tor network namespace

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:14:12 -0700 Mirimir wrote: > True. But I'd rather use the Whonix approach. It's doable using two VPS. > That is, if the provider will cooperate. One VPS runs the web server, > and it has no Internet connectivity or public IP, just a private IP on a > local network. The

Re: [tor-talk] torjail - run programs in tor network namespace

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:12:24 +0200 bic wrote: > > 2) I enjoy the print output when it's configuring the namespaces, but > > there's no need for so much yelling :) (s/TOR/Tor/) [1] > > > > > print G " * Resolving via TOR" > > > print G " * Traffic via TOR..." > > > print G " * Creating the TOR

Re: [tor-talk] relayor Debian 8 deprecation notice

On Thu, 31 May 2018 11:29:00 + nusenu wrote: > Due to the upcoming end-of-life date of Debian GNU/Linux 8 ("jessie") > on the 17th of June 2018 > > I'll drop support for Debian 8 in > ansible-relayor with the next release (planned for 2018-06), > please upgrade to Debian 9 if you want to

Re: [tor-talk] Who controls Tor's DNS Traffic?

On Thu, 10 May 2018 21:53:00 + nusenu wrote: > I had a look at the Tor DNS landscape: > > An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape > https://medium.com/@nusenu/who-controls-tors-dns-traffic-a74a7632e8ca "Level 3" on the charts is most likely the notorious

Re: [tor-talk] Tor bridges in China

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:37:55 +0500 Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:25:43 -0400 > InterN0T <inter...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > If you can use Tor bridges in China > > You can't: > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats

[tor-talk] Tor bridges in China

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:25:43 -0400 InterN0T wrote: > If you can use Tor bridges in China You can't: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-18=2017-10-16=cn=off Only about 1000 users in a 1.4bn country, bridges don't work there, or at

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:57 +0200 Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists wrote: > Hello, > > a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an > unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey: > >

[tor-talk] Tor bridges over ICMP or DNS

Hello, Has anyone considered making a Tor bridge protocol with ICMP as transport? https://github.com/DhavalKapil/icmptunnel http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/golem/tmp/ptunnel-0.61.orig/web/ http://thomer.com/icmptx/ http://code.gerade.org/hans/ Or tunneling over DNS?

Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 17:04:10 +0200 Jon Tullett wrote: > As it happens, I just recently transferred funds internationally. It > took 36 hours to clear, at a guaranteed rate. My local bank charged > about $8 in fees But that's still within Europe or the like? Internationally

[tor-talk] Tor Logspam

Aug 28 06:19:48.000 [warn] Permissions on directory /var/run/tor are too permissive. Aug 28 06:19:48.000 [warn] Before Tor can create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control2", the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only by the user and group account that is running

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Autonomous System stats

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:55:11 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: > Hello folks, > > blutmagie now offers views on Tor router count and traffic for each AS. > It's just a different php/SQL view on the same db like the main page. > Maybe you find it somewhat useful. > > 1.) List

[tor-talk] Force OpenSSL AES-NI usage on a VPS without the AES CPU flag passthrough

Hello, Today I found that it is possible to force OpenSSL enable the use of CPU AES acceleration even if it doesn't detect the "aes" CPU flag. Many VPS hosts configure their hypervisors in a way that does not have the flag passed through into VPSes, even though all their host nodes surely have

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha is released!

On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 02:19:05 +0500 Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: > > There's a new alpha Tor release available! The source is available > > from the "download" page on the website on the website, and packages > > should be available before long

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha is released!

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 16:30:35 -0400 Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > There's a new alpha Tor release available! The source is available > from the "download" page on the website on the website, and packages > should be available before long. So I am using: > deb

Re: [tor-talk] Using Raspberry Pi as Tor relay is bad idea??

On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 01:57:49 +0900 Tom Tom wrote: > I recently heard that Raspberry Pi could be used as various server, so I'd > like to buy and use Raspberry Pi as tor relay. Make sure you get the Raspberry Pi version 3. It is much more powerful than previous ones,

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Android Crypto Chat Apps - over Tor?

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:06:03 +0200 "Tom A." wrote: > Hi Grump, > thanks for the classification. who is able to evaluate this? rather than > posting vagueness? > at which apps can you add/apply customized e2e encryption? >

[tor-talk] atlas.torproject.org problems

Hello, Does https://atlas.torproject.org/ work very poorly for anyone else? Half of the time it fails to find any information about the requested relay (by fingerprint), after some reloads it works. Searches also often fail with "Atlas is unable to get a response from its backend server." Also,

[tor-talk] Russian social networks, search engines, E-Mail services blocked in Ukraine

Hello, https://www.rt.com/business/388502-ukraine-bans-vk-yandex/ Correspondingly we see a hockey stick graph for Tor users in Ukraine: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-02-18=2017-05-19=ua=on

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

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 06:25:18 -0700 Mirimir wrote: > On 12/22/2016 06:00 AM, laurelai bailey wrote: > > Then i completely misread the previous threads. That happens sometimes o_o > > Well, you didn't _completely_ misread the thread. > > By default, users will be installing a

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

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:38:43 -0500 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.

Re: [tor-talk] Intel ME / AMT + NSL vs Tor Nodes

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:20:41 - "podmo" wrote: > I could ...turn AMT off entirely. Unfortunately that's only what it wants you to believe. With the capabilities it has, and with its code being entirely closed source and unaudited, for a truly secure system you can't rely

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:12:54 -0700 Mirimir wrote: > > Also: "-A OUTPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT" is neither a valid rule, nor is it > > necessary, since loopback traffic is already allowed at input and stateful > > inspection is enabled both ways. > > Not valid? It works for me.

Re: [tor-talk] Multiple CPU cores?

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:38:21 +0200 Aeris wrote: > > Except you can only run two per IPv4 address, and more IPv4 addresses bear > > additional cost (and some management overhead). > > Why can you only run 2 instances per IP ? > AFAIK, you can run any instances you want,

Re: [tor-talk] Multiple CPU cores?

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:42:02 +0200 Aeris wrote: > > So does this mean it is useless to run an exit on my 8 core system? > > Just run enough Tor instances to fill you cores or bandwidth :) > Except you can only run two per IPv4 address, and more IPv4 addresses bear

Re: [tor-talk] 2 hop mode for people that only want to use Tor for censorship circumvention to conserve bandwidth and decrease latency?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:17:08 +0500 Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: > > entry node---> exit node ---> website > > You don't even need 2 hops in this case. Why not propose 1-hop? Oh actually, just remembered reading about that somewhere -- and turns out it w

Re: [tor-talk] 2 hop mode for people that only want to use Tor for censorship circumvention to conserve bandwidth and decrease latency?

On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:56:34 +0200 gdfg dfgf wrote: > I have read the proposal for non hidden .onion services for sites that don't > need anonymity but want to use Tor's end to end encryption and > authentication, for  example Facebook. > > Could the same be done for people

Re: [tor-talk] Are squid proxies acceptable on exit nodes?

On Mon, 9 May 2016 16:28:33 +0200 Andreas Krey wrote: > To me it looks like the tor exit is using a squid > proxy - is that an acceptable thing to do as a > relay operator? Squid itself is just a tool, sure it can cache, it can log all requests, but is it configured to do so? Not

Re: [tor-talk] FPGA Tor Relay

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:21:42 -0800 Ryan Carboni wrote: > http://netfpga.org/site/#/systems/1netfpga-sume/details/ > > This is apparently available for an academic price of around two > thousand dollars. And then you have a programming job on your hands to adapt Tor into the

Re: [tor-talk] Sites blocking Tor

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:57:57 +0200 Lars Noodén wrote: > I checked the FAQ and it is unclear about precisely what to do about > sites that gratuitously block Tor. Just recently I noticed that > www.justice.gov blocks Tor. For example the URL > >

Re: [tor-talk] A little more hostility towards Tor from Twitter

On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:10:49 + demos wrote: > by the way a current alternative to twitter is twister: > http://twister.net.co/ Speaking of Twitter alternatives, I find GNU social can be made into a really nice one. Example: https://quitter.se/ It's not full

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:57:53 +0100 Ben Tasker wrote: > Google will redirect you to a region specific version of Google based on > geo-location of your source IP. This the the IP of the Tor exit node you're > using, which is why it differs to your location. > > If you set

Re: [tor-talk] Potential uses for the Tor network

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:39:13 -0400 Bryan Gwin wrote: > My name s Bryan Gwin (I have my masters in computer science) and I have a > quick question. Is it possible for someone to design some software that can > utilize the Tor network (i.e. software that will allow users

Re: [tor-talk] TWN Submission

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 23:06:28 +1000 Luke Millanta wrote: > Hello, > > Karsten asked me to send a quick introduction about my new web service, > OnionView.com Upon clicking any of the circles it takes me to the maximum zoom level at the corresponding city/location (literally

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:55:02 +0200 blaatenator blaatena...@openmailbox.org wrote: Are there more recommendations regarding this sort of stuff? Like a 'best buy' guide for secure hardware, or ways to work around insecure hardware. Take a look at http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw -- With

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:11:23 +0200 blaatenator blaatena...@openmailbox.org wrote: Indeed, some (coincidentally???) big corps do block relays. For a while I ran a relay from my home connection and for instance Nike was not reachable without the use of a VPN (I don't mind, and even favor, Nike

Re: [tor-talk] future of torstatus.blutmagie.de

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 16:22:18 +0200 Olaf Selke olaf.se...@blutmagie.de wrote: not everybody feels comfortable relying on a service from Moscow On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 16:53:47 +0200 Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: run it from a more favorable location Really now, so everyone is silently

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:28:01 -0700 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 08/11/2015 15:13, Ryan Carboni wrote: Why is there no multicore support for Tor? I haven't been able to find an answer to this question. This is maybe because even with the quite high for the Tor network bitrates of

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:08:45 -0700 Ryan Carboni rya...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone in Tor want to name a price to get this task done? The price of a public dedicated ip address is at worst, $20 a month. What. More like $3-5, and that's indeed at worst, with the price more commonly

Re: [tor-talk] Any Windows Software shipping Tor 0.2.4.23?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:58:40 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:36 PM, nusenu nus...@openmailbox.org wrote: Is anyone aware of software (incl. malware) that ships Tor v0.2.4.23 for Windows?

Re: [tor-talk] comicskingdom.com inaccessible by Tor?

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:54:59 + (UTC) bao song michaelw...@yahoo.com.au wrote: A few weeks ago, I suddenly could not access comicskingdom.com with Tor. For several years before that, I had no problem accessing comicskingdom.com with Tor. It might be interesting to figure out how they are

Re: [tor-talk] USB Sticks for Tails - CCCamp

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:59:43 -0700 Apple Apple djjdjdjdjdjdj...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 Jul 2015 13:22, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: DVD drives are programmable computers until we find evidence suggesting the opposite. And USB host controllers? DVD drives really are; see for

Re: [tor-talk] Question regarding some strange behavior on some exitnodes

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:42:35 +0200 chloe ch...@countermail.com wrote: Hello, I have a question regarding some strange behavior on some nodes(11 of them). See this access-log: 81.89.0.201 - - [25/Jun/2015 12:25:30] GET /db/backups/965110218-2015 HTTP/1.1 200 5057 37.187.202.46 -

Re: [tor-talk] Creation of TOR Linux distribution for relay or server with everything preconfigured

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 05:25:04 -0400 Griffin Boyce grif...@cryptolab.net wrote: Most of the configuration (at least in my case) has to do with deciding on the right speed for the relay and setting a bandwidth cap. And when using a VPS, I set AccountingMax and AccountingStart to stay

Re: [tor-talk] Atlas

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:02:32 -0700 C B cb...@yahoo.com wrote: Any chance of creating a non-javascript version of the Atlas, at  https://atlas.torproject.org/ ? I can access it by allowing temporary all access, but it seems that it would be easier if a non-javascript version could be

Re: [tor-talk] messing with XKeyScore

On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 03:59:28 + Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: This problem makes me sad on many levels, and I'm not opposed to implementing mitigation techniques (within reason) based on the rulesets, however we shouldn't do anything that will hurt our users nor should be

Re: [tor-talk] Benefits of Running TBB in a VM?

On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 10:05:10 -0700 Bobby Brewster bobbybrewster...@yahoo.com wrote: if your non-VM host system has been compromised, there is absolutely no notable advantage to using a vm.  your vm will be affected by the malware that sits on the host system.  I don't understand this. If

Re: [tor-talk] visa.com blocked // livejournal.com

On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 04:15:37 - Paul A. Crable p...@crable.us wrote: It appears to me that visa.com is blocking access to its site by users using TOR. Yes, and they even block IPs of non-exit relays. But that's somewhat of an old story, in this case it is still Akamai who's to blame, and

Re: [tor-talk] StartCom certs untrusted

On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:49:03 -0700 Garth Patil ga...@tunnel19.com wrote: Hi, I'm using Tor Browser 3.6.2-MacOS. I have a site that uses a free class 1 SSL cert from StartCom https://www.startssl.com/. Recent versions of Chrome and Firefox don't seem to have this problem, but Tor Browser

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:28:42 +0100 Mark McCarron mark.mccar...@live.co.uk wrote: I have been examining the number of what would normally be deemed as illegal sites sites on Tor. Eliminating the narcotics trade, as these tend to be intelligence agency backed enterprises, a serious decline

Re: [tor-talk] Running an exit node which exits on a different IP than it listens to

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:07:16 +0200 Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.com wrote: The reason would be to minimize the chances of the exit IP ending up in some overzealous blacklist. I think the long-time position of the Tor project was that if someone wants to block all Tor exit relays, they

Re: [tor-talk] Ad Blocking Software

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:49:01 +0200 Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Antonio Z adbeiler4...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that it is not necessary, but I believe that making your own ad blocking software would bring more people to tor. It does not

[tor-talk] Problematic ORPorts

Hello, Recently on this mailing list and on tor-relays there have been some cases when relay nodes using standard ports commonly used for other services as their ORPort cause issues with ISPs of someone else running a relay. Notably once a relay on port 53 have triggered high DNS traffic anomaly

[tor-talk] Setting up an IPv6-supporting obfs3 bridge?

Hello, The [1] page currently does not mention anything about IPv6 at all; after following the instructions in it, the bridge only listens on IPv4. If I add an IPv6 ORPort as described in [2], this does make Tor itself listen on IPv6, but still the obfsproxy only opens an IPv4 port: May 22

Re: [tor-talk] Small server, not much bandwidth

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:24:00 +0100 John Williams j...@pond-weed.com wrote: 3. If I run obfsproxy, should I open the regular tor port 9001 to the internet also? Or will that get me onto blacklists of known tor bridges and cause my whole IP address to be blocked? The regular tor port doesn't

Re: [tor-talk] Terminology: Deep v Dark Web

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:33:12 -0700 Mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: Analogous private networks, generally called anonets, are also routed via VPNs through the Internet. There is anoNet/anoNet2 [1] which are a very specific particular project; but that's the first time ever I hear that private

Re: [tor-talk] Businesses blocking Tor access

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:25:38 -0800 (PST) C B cb...@yahoo.com wrote: A different error code, this time from http://www.funtrivia.com/ Access Denied: code FTTT  F*** This Troublesome Tor? :) -- With respect, Roman signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Any risks with another application using Tor's SOCKS 5 interface?

On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:57:36 -0800 James Marshall ja...@jmarshall.com wrote: SOCKS 5 is insecure if the client and server are on different hosts and What exactly that insecurity consists of? If your aim is to open an client-less in-proxy to Tor network for anyone to use, then you might just as

Re: [tor-talk] Open Source Router

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:59:39 -0600 Ed Fletcher e...@fletcher.ca wrote: There has been lots of discussion on this list about the Safeplug, which didn't garner much enthusiasm from the list members. I haven't seen this project mentioned: http://www.orp1.com/ An open-source software and

Re: [tor-talk] Safeplug

Some more information from [1] - users can whitelist certain sites so that their use is not run through Tor. - Users can also set up Safeplug to work on a per-browser basis, so for example Firefox may always run through Tor while Chrome won’t. - users can also set themselves up as Tor nodes

Re: [tor-talk] Safeplug

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:25:33 -0500 Sean Alexandre s...@alexan.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 04:50:44PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: https://pogoplug.com/safeplug Someone should buy this and post a teardown. :) (via http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/11/22/49-safeplug-tor-router

Re: [tor-talk] Safeplug

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:56:55 -0500 and...@torproject.is wrote: Out of all the concerns about how they implemented it and such, my main concern is that it just adds more clients to the network without giving back in the form of relays or bridges. If these are all real people using and getting

Re: [tor-talk] Safeplug

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:45:35 -0800 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Also, without the device being open source (and how can it really be?) Why can't it be? Well, maybe not the whole device down to the CPU Verilog design level, but they could post source-code for the firmware with the instructions

Re: [tor-talk] Why my relay doesn't get any traffic and doesn't show up in the list torstatus.blutmagie.de ?

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:39:47 -0800 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have a tor relay running with default parameters, see torrc below. Ports 9001 and 9030 are forwarded WAN-tor server on LAN in router, and LAN-WAN is open. There are no messages in log, all seems to be ok. 'No messages'? So

Re: [tor-talk] TOR network topology

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:17:57 + Mads Tinggaard Pedersen m...@itu.dk wrote: shape of the network, perhaps based by country? what nodes in the network graph is connected to one another. There is no real shape or topology or any fixed node-to-node connections to speak of, really. Each client

Re: [tor-talk] VOIP and tor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:23:48 -0700 Bry8 Star bry8s...@inventati.org wrote: As far as i'm aware there are few voice text language physical-machine based translator, that can convert language, and then speak it out with another speakers voice in

Re: [tor-talk] linux configuration, root installation

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:42:02 -0400 krishna e bera k...@cyblings.on.ca wrote: What if TBB was labelled as Portable Tor Browser Bundle or Portable TBB? (on each appropriate platform) ...then everyone who doesn't need to use it in an actual portability scenario (on an USB stick) would look

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and tor-relays as a bitcoin wallets

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:40:52 + Trigger Happy triggerha...@openmail.cc wrote: Just an idea. In theory : is it possible to implement bitcoin wallet into tor-relay and TBB 1) ? TBB users could tip tor-relays (f.e. 1 satoshi for guard and middle

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and tor-relays as a bitcoin wallets

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:41:27 +0200 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:09:52PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: 1).I think Cody Wilson is working on a bitcoin wallet in a browser. Please stop trying to make people build buttcoin wallets into everything

Re: [tor-talk] The NSA's problem? Too much data?

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:58:34 +0200 Antispam 06 antispa...@sent.at wrote: On 20.10.2013 18:09, Anonymous wrote: What about users own domains? :) Checked that list. Mostly vanity domains like $fist_name@$last_name.com. I think it's the same with car licence plates. I am not sure what about

Re: [tor-talk] The NSA's problem? Too much data?

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:00:23 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Ironic to see them using these to link to recent revelations when... - it's centralized, Irony here is that all three of you are still using GMail. :) -- With respect, Roman signature.asc Description: PGP signature --

Re: [tor-talk] dynamically adjusting bandwidth

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:25:02 -0400 starli...@binnacle.cx wrote: Hello, I've recently established a full-time relay running on a fast Linux router. Working nice with version 0.2.4.17-rc. Have a daily offsite backup that was butting heads with TOR traffic, so I wrote a 'tor_bwreduce' and

[tor-talk] Stop pushing stackexchange in every thread

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:41:34 + mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: There's already a question about this on https://tor.stackexchange.com/. On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:39:01 + mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: Better would be creating questions on https://tor.stackexchange.com/ :) So? Have

[tor-talk] Make 0.2.4.17 the recommended default

Hello, I was surprised to see that Version 2.3.25-12 is still the Recommended at https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en From the looks of it, that one might not be too useful at the moment: root@asuka:~# grep stats /var/log/tor/log | tail -n3 Sep 17 08:39:26.000 [notice]

Re: [tor-talk] Torrenting

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:12:18 -0345 Nathan Suchy theusernameiwantista...@gmail.com wrote: Why abuse a Tor for Torrents? Just pay $5 for a VPN... No one suggests to use Tor for actual torrent download, people just use it to get to the tracker/catalog websites which are becoming blocked by ISPs.

Re: [tor-talk] Your computer is too slow...

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 07:45:57 +0200 Sebastian Pfeifer sebast...@pfeifer.or.at wrote: It somehow could be true what you say as I run tor on a machine with really really really small RAM (128MB) as I don't 'shit' money as a pupil to afford a bigger server. I wonder how much are you paying for

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Relays (not just exit nodes) blocked on Healthcare.gov?

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:00:56 -0400 Michael Wolf mikewol...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running a Tor Relay (not an exit node) from my home for quite a while now, and up to this point have not encountered any issues accessing any sites. However, today I attempted to access

Re: [tor-talk] My reason to stop using Tor

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:30:35 +0200 Antonio J. Delgado anto...@susurrando.com wrote: I just receive a letter from my ISP abuse department. Someone tried to do some SQL injection attack using my tor node [tor-talk] My reason to stop using Tor using Tor using Tor != running a Tor exit node.

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is out

On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 00:49:15 -0400 Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I realize this is release candidate code, and the answer may well be if you need to ask this question you shouldn't be running it but is there any way to get the latest RC builds installed via the usual apt-get mechanisms

[tor-talk] High RAM usage

Hello, It used to be that one could easily run a Tor relay in 512MB of RAM with lots of headroom remaining. However, here is what I am now seeing on some nodes: - KiB Mem:508936 total, 503728 used, 5208 free, 48 buffers KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 278072 used, 770500 free,

Re: [tor-talk] Exit node stats collection?

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:56:00 +0200 Andreas Krey a.k...@gmx.de wrote: Do you mean can't or don't want to? The latter; I mean we may indeed want to discriminate against (i.e. block) some clients, if the intent of those is to harm the Tor network or any specific hidden services. It is of course

[tor-talk] Exit node stats collection?

Hello, With the influx of popularity that Tor now sees, we need a way to figure out who/what are all these new users and what are they actually doing. Maybe this has been proposed or considered before, but... Why not make all exit nodes collect e.g. stats about top 10 most actively requested

[tor-talk] VPNGate

Hello, Came across this project: http://www.vpngate.net/en/ From the looks of it all the volunteers effectively operate open proxies for anyone who connects to this service. To me this sounds like a total insanity, even running a Tor Exit node can be dangerous (even though you have

Re: [tor-talk] VPNGate

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 05:27:45 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: You chose to provide last hop services (whether exit or vpn), any trouble you catch does not depend on deniability of the source. Tor exit nodes can't help in finding the anonymized originator of an illegal communication, so

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