[tor-talk] Looking for information about onion site user deanonymization

2021-05-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
Hi tor-talk, I'm working as a consultant to a criminal defense lawyer who's representing a defendant in a case involving Tor and an investigation by U.S. law enforcement and foreign law enforcement. In 2019 a foreign law enforcement agency claimed to identify the clearnet IP addresses of a large

Re: [tor-talk] >170 tor relays you probably want to avoid (Oct 2019 @ Choopa)

2019-10-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
te Very odd naming convention. It's kind of like (random.choice(words) + " " + random.choice(words)).replace("a", "").title().replace(" ", "") ... why no letter a? -- Seth Schoen Senior Staff Technologist https://ww

[tor-talk] What is the weirdest/creepiest thing you have found on the dark web?

2019-04-07 Thread Seth Caldwell
I know the dark web can be a terrible place, with content not suitable for anyone, basically. Like illegal drug cartel, fake passports/IDs,creepy websites, and generally all around messed up stuff. If you feel comfortable talking about your experiences. Then, please reply to this Message. --

Re: [tor-talk] Tor to become illegal in Europe?

2019-03-11 Thread Seth David Schoen
ice congress -- which doesn't imply much about police agencies' or legislators' agreement with this idea. We've heard similar language in many countries and it hasn't necessarily led to prohibitions on privacy tools. -- Seth Schoen Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
Seth David Schoen writes: > if its operator knew a vulnerability in some clients' video codecs, (or in some other part of Tor Browser, since the proxy can also serve arbitrary HTTP headers, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON, and media files of various types) > it could also serve a malic

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
ore about how onion services work, or showing YouTube that there's a significant level of demand for an official onion service? -- Seth Schoen Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Edd

[tor-talk] Running a tor-node?

2018-11-18 Thread Seth Caldwell
I would like to know if you could, would you run a Tor node? If so, what level? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Thanks

2018-10-16 Thread Seth Caldwell
Thank you for your response but, does it work with Duckduckgo too? Because it works just fine when I use it and the Tor app has it on their page. Thank You Nathan F., Seth -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https

[tor-talk] How can Orbot for Android contact me?

2018-10-14 Thread Seth Caldwell
I want to know how I can get orbot to send me an SMS or Email if something isn't configured correctly or a bug occurs etc. P.S. I am somewhat new to Tor being that I only have had it for less than a month so, please don't make your response too complicated. -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Post Quantum Tor

2018-05-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
n't realize they were running over Tor would continue to send cookies from non-Tor sessions, and they would continue to be highly fingerprintable. -- Seth Schoen Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org

Re: [tor-talk] Intercept: NSA MONKEYROCKET: Cryptocurrency / AnonBrowser Service - Full Take Tracking Users, Trojan SW

2018-03-20 Thread Seth David Schoen
who are privacy conscious should already have done so following several years of academic, journalistic, and commercial work on this subject! :-( -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [tor-talk] catastrophe: ip-api.com sees me

2018-02-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
a lot of people using the old TorButton setup definitely ran into this kind of problem. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA

Re: [tor-talk] Privacy Pass from Cloudflare, and the CAPTCHA problem

2017-11-20 Thread Seth David Schoen
duce the anonymity set a bit by partitioning users into those who have the extension and those who don't have the extension, as well those who currently have tokens remaining and those who are currently out of tokens.) -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist

[tor-talk] Proposed DV certificate issuance for next-generation onion services

2017-11-02 Thread Seth David Schoen
the Forum's membership thinks of the idea! -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk m

Re: [tor-talk] noise traffic generator?

2017-10-06 Thread Seth David Schoen
ay. But there's also a probability that someone else starts interacting with you. Some of these things will probably have to be studied in some depth in order to have a hope of fooling really sophisticated adversaries with synthesized online activity. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior S

Re: [tor-talk] How to find trust nodes?

2017-09-27 Thread Seth David Schoen
for brief periods. Yet many of these attacks would work at least some of the time against a pretty considerable amount of Tor traffic. I agree with your point that just having more random people run nodes helps decrease the probability of success of several of these attacks. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff

Re: [tor-talk] New OONI release: Test sites you care about!

2017-09-27 Thread Seth David Schoen
ere with OONI in some way -- especially since it's already led to published reports about specific censorship events and practices in specific countries. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Founda

Re: [tor-talk] Tor users in US up by nearly 100,000 this month

2017-09-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
mething, which perhaps then suggests that non-bot Tor users are up about 10% this month. This still wouldn't reveal whether 60% or 95% of the non-solvers are bots. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Found

Re: [tor-talk] Tor users in US up by nearly 100,000 this month

2017-09-01 Thread Seth David Schoen
be happy to ask CloudFlare if they'd be willing to share this data (maybe in relative rather than absolute numeric terms, like "the number of people successfully completing a CAPTCHA per day from a Tor exit node on September 1, 2017 is x% of what it was on January 1, 2016"). -- Seth Schoen <

Re: [tor-talk] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
el free to access the .onion version of this site while also believing that it's run by the same organization as the TLD"? Presumably such an OID could be added by a CA without a new CA/B Forum ballot because it's just asserting an additional check and not reducing the CA's verification

Re: [tor-talk] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-30 Thread Seth David Schoen
spins up a Tor client by default to let users > reach your webserver using whichever level of security they prefer. Well, I'm still working on being able to write to the CA/B Forum about this issue... hopefully we'll find out soon what that community is thinking. -- Seth Schoen <

Re: [tor-talk] Motivations for certificate issues for onion services

2017-08-10 Thread Seth David Schoen
be necessary to have any form of this argument. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x10

[tor-talk] Motivations for certificate issues for onion services

2017-08-09 Thread Seth David Schoen
?) (2) What reasons do people have for wanting certificates that cover onion names? I think I know of at least three or four reasons, but I'm interested in creating a list that's as thorough as possible. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] Tor's work

2017-06-18 Thread Seth David Schoen
Suhaib Mbarak writes: > Dear Seth Schoen: > > Thank you very much for your extremely appreciated answer: > > It seems that you were the most person who got what I'm looking for. > To be honest I'm doing my best to find away to figure out how to achieve my > goal to show

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 9

2017-06-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
ypt it using the keys that were logged by the modified client, showing exactly what information can be seen by someone in possession of each secret key, and conversely which keys are necessary in order to learn which information. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior

Re: [tor-talk] Tor source code

2017-06-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
ep secrets. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Tor source code

2017-06-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
ide of a useful contribution. The Tor Project has actually thought about this issue a lot, if you're very interested in it... there are probably other resources and presentations that you could look at that further examine the issue. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Seni

Re: [tor-talk] State of bad relays (March 2017)

2017-03-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
a circuit is operated by the same operator) -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- t

Re: [tor-talk] Exits: In Crossfire on the Front Lines

2017-01-04 Thread Seth David Schoen
s-are-reading-my-blog-they-arent/ (His article says that, while it's plausible that these attacks were sponsored by the Russian government, the IP addresses involved don't tend to prove that because many of them -- being Tor exit nodes -- could have been used by any attacker.) -- Seth Schoen &l

Re: [tor-talk] Will Quantum computing be the end of Tor and all Privacy?

2016-11-28 Thread Seth David Schoen
Seth David Schoen writes: > Notably, Google has even experimentally deployed a PQ ciphersuite > in Chrome (that uses elliptic-curve cryptography in parallel with > Alkim et al.'s "new hope" algorithm). > > https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenti

Re: [tor-talk] Will Quantum computing be the end of Tor and all Privacy?

2016-11-28 Thread Seth David Schoen
10-c1.pdf -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Will Quantum computing be the end of Tor and all Privacy?

2016-11-27 Thread Seth David Schoen
ell and research continues to support this approach, it should be standardized as a ciphersuite in TLS. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, Sa

Re: [tor-talk] What is the different between Official TorBrowser and Browser4Tor?

2016-11-26 Thread Seth David Schoen
the old design of the Tor Project web site (and using "torbrowser" in the URL). -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francis

Re: [tor-talk] Find Real IP via ISP.

2016-11-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
Jason Long writes: > Are you kidding? Iranian relays are good in this scenario? Why? Because they might be less likely to cooperate with ISPs in other countries to track Tor traffic. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://ww

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-07 Thread Seth David Schoen
nk about and a good reminder that the Tor technology isn't perfect. But I wouldn't agree with the idea that there's no point in using Tor. Lots of people are getting an anonymity benefit from using it all of the time. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-06 Thread Seth David Schoen
or users use this or understand how to use it. Maybe it could be made clearer and more convenient and integrated with the Tor Browser interface in some way. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [tor-talk] Timing attacks and fingerprinting users based of timestamps

2016-11-06 Thread Seth David Schoen
to know what the state of the art is in padding attacks and defenses. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-06 Thread Seth David Schoen
e users are who are using that particular bridge. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-06 Thread Seth David Schoen
but which are effectively North Korean for surveillance purposes. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 4

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-10-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
some data that didn't seem significant at the moment. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x1

Re: [tor-talk] Tor-Retro' for OS/2 Warp 4.52 Latest Release (2001) ?

2016-05-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
ted in them. So it's at least not a strategy that can scale very well. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +

Re: [tor-talk] Could Tor be used for health informatics?

2016-05-30 Thread Seth David Schoen
e extra latency and possible occasional reachability problems associated with the hidden service connection. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San

Re: [tor-talk] augmented browsing - "sed inside torbrowser"

2016-05-16 Thread Seth David Schoen
ut it's a nice tool that can handle a variety of use cases -- and should be fully compatible with Tor Browser already. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join

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

2016-03-09 Thread Seth David Schoen
Fkqqrr writes: > Oskar Wendel <o.wen...@wp.pl> writes: > > BTW, Does facebook has a onion version? Probably one of the most famous onions, https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/. See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035421.html -- Seth Schoen <sch.

Re: [tor-talk] .onion name gen

2016-03-04 Thread Seth David Schoen
difficult to find that nobody knows a single example! -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436

Re: [tor-talk] .onion name gen

2016-03-04 Thread Seth David Schoen
o have the same private key! -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing lis

Re: [tor-talk] Lets Encrypt compared to self-signed certs

2016-02-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
mpelled assistance? This > project has the advantage of letting Tor clients spot anomalies in > the Tor consensus documents should any of the DirAuths be > compromised and it can be used for CAs too: > > https://github.com/dedis/cothority I'll be happy to take a look at that. -- Set

Re: [tor-talk] Lets Encrypt compared to self-signed certs

2016-02-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
ncrypt, though we don't have the tools in place for this yet. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 4

Re: [tor-talk] Bridges and Exits together

2016-02-20 Thread Seth David Schoen
p-circumvention benefit of bridges, ideally, comes in because censors don't know that their traffic is related to Tor. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join

Re: [tor-talk] Tracking blocker

2016-02-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
or Browser currently doesn't, or if the Disconnect developers can think of one, it might be constructive to bring it up with the Tor Browser developers, because they might be willing to consider adding it as a standard feature for all users. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff

Re: [tor-talk] PGP and Signed Messages,

2016-02-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Seth David Schoen writes: > People also don't necessarily check it in practice. Someone made fake > keys for all of the attendees of a particular keysigning party in > 2010 (including me); I've gotten unreadable encrypted messages from > over a dozen PGP users as a result, because t

Re: [tor-talk] PGP and Signed Messages,

2016-02-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Cain Ungothep writes: > This is not just the "traditional" answer, it's the only proper answer. There are other ideas out there too, like CONIKS. https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/1004.pdf -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] PGP and Signed Messages,

2016-02-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
key was real or because software auto-downloaded it for them without checking the signatures. If you did try to check the signatures but didn't already have some genuine key as a point of reference, there's also this problem: https://evil32.com/ -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior

Re: [tor-talk] Not able to download Tor to droid]

2016-02-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
APK file there will cause it to be installed (if you've already set your settings to allow non-Play Store app installs). -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.ef

Re: [tor-talk] onion routing MITM

2016-01-26 Thread Seth David Schoen
Yes, or from DuckDuckGo's regular site. https://duck.co/help/privacy/no-tracking * The Bitcoin network is doing quite a bit more computation, in total, than this per year, so it's actually conceivable that someone with a very large amount of money to spend on custom hardware could do this. So

Re: [tor-talk] onion routing MITM

2016-01-26 Thread Seth David Schoen
ng to get people to believe that > *they* are actually the duckduckgo .onion site? Indeed, Juha Nurmi described earlier today that people are doing exactly that right now, probably with some success. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-January/040038.html -- Seth Schoen <sch...@e

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2016-01-22 Thread Seth David Schoen
Lucas Teixeira writes: > Are there references for "real life" usage of traffic confirmation? I've mentioned the Jeremy Hammond and Eldo Kim cases, which can be seen as "good enough" coarse-grained correlation. I think there are others if we look for them. -- Seth

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2016-01-01 Thread Seth David Schoen
Oskar Wendel writes: > Seth David Schoen <sch...@eff.org>: > > > As I said in my previous message, I don't think this is the case because > > the correlation just requires seeing the two endpoints of the connection, > > even without knowing the complete path.

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2015-12-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
he standard case, when compromised exit node have access to > all the user data if HTTPS is not used. That's definitely an improvement, although there's an issue in the long run that the crypto in HTTPS is getting better faster than the crypto in Tor's hidden services implementation.

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2015-12-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
See also https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-need-some-love There might be some more hope in the future from high-latency services (based on examples like Pond), or, based on what some crypto folks have been telling me, from software obfuscation (!!). -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org&g

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2015-12-31 Thread Seth David Schoen
to get a certificate for their sites because of these restrictions. (I'm grateful to Digicert for their work on this -- the restrictions aren't their fault!) -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundatio

Re: [tor-talk] Hello I have a few question about tor network

2015-12-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
ich poses different challenges from deanonymizing regular users. Attacks against hidden services can be quite serious, but they only represent a small fraction of the overall use of the Tor system. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist http

Re: [tor-talk] Ordering a .onion EV certificate from Digitcert

2015-12-15 Thread Seth David Schoen
be analogous to DV, based on proof of possession of a cryptographic key from which the name is derived). -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy S

Re: [tor-talk] I am getting European nodes only?

2015-08-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
outside of Europe), while if you have several non-European nodes as guard nodes, you'll tend to choose other nodes as exits (relatively more likely within Europe, especially since that's where the fastest exits are). -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] What's to be Done

2015-08-24 Thread Seth
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:26:58 -0700, Apple Apple djjdjdjdjdjdj...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a Debian specific problem. Even Security Conscious distros like Fedora only build a dozen or so key packages with pic and ssp because of performance concerns. Address sanatizor is obviously out of the

Re: [tor-talk] Letsencrypt and Tor Hidden Services

2015-08-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
to help people use TLS on hidden services. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Letsencrypt and Tor Hidden Services

2015-08-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
which mechanisms to use, how can they know that the interpretation they give to the names will be the same as end-users' interpretation? -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https

Re: [tor-talk] Letsencrypt and Tor Hidden Services

2015-08-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Alec Muffett writes: Pardon me replying to two at once... Thanks for all the helpful clarifications, Alec. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy

Re: [tor-talk] Letsencrypt and Tor Hidden Services

2015-08-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Flipchan writes: Im wondering , have anyone got letsencrypt to work with a .onion site? Or is it jus clearnet For the reasons described elsewhere in this thread, it's definitely just clearnet for the foreseeable future. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] Why is my message reject at tor-announce-ow...@lists.torproject.org ?

2015-08-12 Thread Seth David Schoen
Qaz writes: Hi there, Yeah the title pretty much says it. How do I go about this? tor-announce isn't a discussion list and the public isn't allowed to send messages to it. The place where you can have public discussions is tor-talk -- this list right here. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
serious work and resources would have to go into pinpointing and breaking said encryption? I think it's reasonable to guess that cryptographic attacks would be extremely expensive, so most prospective attackers today wouldn't try them. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
an attacker from simply claiming the same identifier in Namecoin before the actual hidden service operator does? -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-07 Thread Seth David Schoen
certificates can be issued, which cost money, take time, and sacrifice anonymity of the hidden service operator. The best-known example of a hidden service that managed to navigate the process successfully is https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] Profiling Tor users via keystrokes

2015-07-30 Thread Seth
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:36:15 -0700, flapflap flapf...@riseup.net wrote: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/how-the-way-you-type-can-shatter-anonymity-even-on-tor/ says that apparently it's possible to deanonymise Tor users by analysing their keystrokes in input fields of websites. Is it

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-28 Thread Seth David Schoen
, but I don't know why. Most users don't use GPG to verify their downloads -- probably much fewer than 1%. If the download succeeds without interference, it isn't technically necessary to verify it before using it. It's a security precaution. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] HORNET onion routing design

2015-07-24 Thread Seth David Schoen
it? Or is the replay problem a problem of wasting network resources rather than fooling the peer into thinking a communication was repeated? -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org

[tor-talk] HORNET onion routing design

2015-07-22 Thread Seth David Schoen
for the use of network-layer features that aren't present in today's Internet, so it might be hard to get a practical deployment up and running at the moment. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [tor-talk] pdf with tor

2015-07-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
the anecdote (which I've seen in a few places) that Tibetan Buddhists who've received a lot of malware are now practicing a new non-attachment principle. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/hit-by-cyberattacks-tibetan-monks-learn-to-be-wary-of-102361885314.html -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff

Re: [tor-talk] Is this still valid?

2015-06-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
Seth David Schoen writes: If you read the original Tor design paper from 2004, censorship circumvention was actually not an intended application at that time: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf (Tor does not try to conceal who is connected to the network

Re: [tor-talk] Is this still valid?

2015-06-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
understand exactly what HTTPS is and how it protects them, and just see that Tor Browser stops being able to use some sites that Internet Explorer can work with. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [tor-talk] do Cloudfare captchas ever work?

2015-06-20 Thread Seth
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 06:43:37 -0700, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez juanmi.3...@gmail.com wrote: El 20/06/2015 a las 10:18, Mirimir escribió: Is Javascript always needed to get the number photo CAPTCHAs? At least for me, it does 100% of the time: No JS: Infinite unreadable CAPTCHA. JS:

Re: [tor-talk] Making a Site Available as both a Hidden Service and on the www - thoughts?

2015-05-17 Thread Seth
On Sun, 17 May 2015 04:26:41 -0700, Ben b...@gerbil.it wrote: Minor Tweaks might be needed - There are some base assumptions that have already been made within the site - Javascript has been used sparingly if at all, but setting up a HS brings a few

Re: [tor-talk] a question about ip addresses

2015-05-11 Thread Seth David Schoen
controlled or monitored by the same entity. Some more technical details are in https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters and probably other places. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic

Re: [tor-talk] What is being detected to alert upon?

2015-04-30 Thread Seth David Schoen
? Thank you for your insight. Are they detecting non-public bridge traffic, or only normal entry guards? Detection and obfuscation is kind of a big topic that's been around for some years, so there are a lot of possibilities. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist

Re: [tor-talk] SIGAINT email service targeted by 70 bad exit nodes

2015-04-22 Thread Seth David Schoen
from that in the default Tor Browser. People are _very_ interested in knowing about compromised CAs. So I encourage people not to just assume that they're numerous and not bother to use tools to detect them. :-) -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https

Re: [tor-talk] Hi!

2015-04-08 Thread Seth
On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:07:26 -0700, gary02121...@openmailbox.org wrote: How do I anonymize my phone? Yeah I have heard that phones are tracking devices. I have to use my phone right now. If I have the money to buy a replicant compatible phone, I will. I'm running on Android OS and I as much as

Re: [tor-talk] Tor on OpenBSD 5.6

2015-03-23 Thread Seth
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:42:55 -0700, davidx drhard...@gmail.com wrote: There were no specific download instructions for BSD on the Tor download page that I noticed. The header is for Linux and BSD there. I would gladly write them up if I can get this to work. Forgot to add that the source

Re: [tor-talk] Tor on OpenBSD 5.6

2015-03-23 Thread Seth
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:42:55 -0700, davidx drhard...@gmail.com wrote: There were no specific download instructions for BSD on the Tor download page that I noticed. The header is for Linux and BSD there. I would gladly write them up if I can get this to work. I can see your point. For a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor on OpenBSD 5.6

2015-03-22 Thread Seth
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 06:38:40 -0700, D. R. Hardy drhard...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I've been trying for several days to install Tor on OpenBSD 5.6 with hopes of setting up a relay. OpenBSD uses the Korn Shell. When I try to tar the downloaded Tor browser file I get: (*tar xvJf

Re: [tor-talk] Protest Blocking Tor via CloudFlare

2015-03-12 Thread Seth
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:58:05 -0700, Libertas liber...@mykolab.com wrote: The FreeBSD forums and (IIRC) download servers do the same thing, just dropping packets from Tor exits. Very annoying. I haven't got around to emailing them about it yet. I emailed the FreeBSD forum admin about this issue

Re: [tor-talk] New Tor project idea for internet comments

2015-03-04 Thread Seth David Schoen
that Tor developers don't necessarily support philosophically and that would be challenging to sustain over time.) Fourth, there are some other technical problems with having everyone be a relay. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#EverybodyARelay -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle with Chromium

2015-02-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
in their own right, just as they were a lot of work on the Firefox side. You can read about some of the customizations in the Tor Browser design document at https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https

Re: [tor-talk] REAL-ID Internet Access Coming Soon

2015-02-15 Thread Seth
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:35:03 -0800, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: We're not talking about books and soapboxing today, class. We're talking about papers please being required for everything you do. Including, among other things, your internet access at home, mobile, in the library, coffee

Re: [tor-talk] REAL-ID Internet Access Coming Soon

2015-02-10 Thread Seth
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:33:27 -0800, Lara lara@emails.veryspeedy.net wrote: grarpamp: The NRA is 3.5M - 5.0M members strong. They turn $250M/yr from that base (manufacturers too). They have little difference of opinion in their ranks. They are good at crafting and pitching political

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-04 Thread Seth
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:28:42 -0800, Andrew Roffey and...@roffey.org wrote: I don't suppose one could purchase a dummy domain with Namecheap and then ask them to sign a certificate for the real domain (with another provider)? I suspect not, but please correct me if I'm wrong. That's a damn

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
certificate verification. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Seth
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:01:36 -0800, Andrew Roffey and...@roffey.org wrote: - there is a cost of obtaining HTTPS signatures. Not certain if the deal is still being offered, but for quite a while you could get a free TLS/SSL certificate good for one year when registering or transferring a

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
_why_ the users didn't verify the signatures -- there are tons of possible reasons. But it's clear that most didn't, because the .asc file is so rarely downloaded.) -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [tor-talk] ATOMIC BANJO and LEVITATION used by CSE

2015-02-02 Thread Seth
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:37:58 -0800, Paul Syverson paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: The point was that there was a bunch of stuff we started doing at NRL in 1995 we called onion routing including what we eventually called Tor. Some people not at NRL designed, and in some cases built, other

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - VPN Clarification

2015-01-31 Thread Seth
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:25:38 -0800, Mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: How is that any worse than adversaries correlating traffic between your ISP and entry guards with traffic between exit nodes and destinations? He addresses VPNs and Tor about 45 min into the talk:

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