Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-10-06 Thread Scott Bennett
Sorry I'm so far behind on email. Will try to catch up soon. On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:05:45 +0200 Sebastian Hahn wrote: >On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > >> >> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >>> In any case, Sebastian started a trac entry for thi

Re: Me <-> Tor <-> VPN <-> Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread John Brooks
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Load Bear wrote: > I am aware of that limitation. However, I am currently less concerned > about eavesdroppers between a given VPN and the destination than I am > about Tor exit-node eavesdroppers. Knowing the limitations involved, do > you know of some method to ac

Re: Me <-> Tor <-> VPN <-> Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread Load Bear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/10/06 11:02 PM, John Brooks wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Load Bear wrote: >> I have also noticed that there exist some free VPN services which can be >> used reasonably anonymously, such as ItsHidden. Thus, I was wondering - >> is

Re: Me <-> Tor <-> VPN <-> Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread John Brooks
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Load Bear wrote: > I have also noticed that there exist some free VPN services which can be > used reasonably anonymously, such as ItsHidden. Thus, I was wondering - > is there an easy way to, for lack of a better description, chain > proxies, so that the traffic b

Me <-> Tor <-> VPN <-> Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread Load Bear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From what I have read, it is at least theoretically possible for someone running a Tor exit node to monitor any plaintext, non-SSL/https connections that are passed through that node. The solution that seems to be usually suggested is to always use e

Re: Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Benedikt Westermann
Hi, I think you are looking for: __DisablePredictedCircuits __LeaveStreamsUnattached see Section 5.4 in the control protocol [1] specification for details. Regards, Benne [1] http://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=doc/spec/control-spec.txt Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2010, 1

Re: Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Brian Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the -controlport Commands to build custom Circuits. > > My problem with this is that I cannot trust TOR to use these circuits. > It keeps building new ones which were not requested by me via the command > interface. > I

Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Johnson
Hello, I am using the -controlport Commands to build custom Circuits. My problem with this is that I cannot trust TOR to use these circuits. It keeps building new ones which were not requested by me via the command interface. I can drop all circuits, build 2 new ones, refresh the circuit list a