[tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Hi, Lately, the question of persistent Tor entry guard nodes in live distributions has been raised in a few places. Typically, the conclusion is that /var/lib/tor/data should be made persistent. I see it as problematic, since a live distro can be expected to be moved around more frequently than a

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Maxim Kammerer: Hi, Lately, the question of persistent Tor entry guard nodes in live distributions has been raised in a few places. Typically, the conclusion is that /var/lib/tor/data should be made persistent. I see it as problematic, since a live distro can be expected to be moved around

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.torproject.org/2653 Thanks, I must have read this ticket some a year or so ago — explains the identical sorting approach (forgot about weighting). Strangely, though, I don't see an option to add myself to

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: As commented in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2653#comment:10 and after reading the whole ticket, I believe it would be best to use a pin/password to determine which guards to use. How would you factor in

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Maxim Kammerer: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: As commented in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2653#comment:10 and after reading the whole ticket, I believe it would be best to use a pin/password to determine which guards to use. How

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On 10/15/12, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.torproject.org/2653 Thanks, I must have read this ticket some a year or so ago — explains the identical sorting approach (forgot about weighting).