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

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Fromme
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:19 AM, John Brooks wrote: > 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

Re: DNS issue: Tor works great but VPNs do not - why?

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Matthew wrote: > I am on a University network.  I do not have control of my DNS settings. > When I use OpenDNS, for example, I cannot get any connection.  This is > understandable. For more information about DNS and Tor, see [0] and [1]. But are you really sur

Re: Encrypt for browsing

2010-07-08 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, wrote: > The first question I had that was answered was that I could simply look at > the URL and add an "s" to http. Thanks to Runa. So, since I have to do a lot > of assuming, this would be before clicking or hitting return for going > there. Duh, right? Bu

Re: IRC-channel of Tor

2010-05-01 Thread Christian Fromme
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:16 AM, James Brown wrote: > Does it exist? > It seems to me that "yes", but I can't find... #tor on irc.oftc.net Best, /C *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe

Re: Tor for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

2010-03-18 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:01 PM, scar wrote: > when i receive update for Tor in the update manager, update-manager, i > see, "This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs." > down in the lower pane when i expand "Description of update" Maybe we don't update the Changelog

Re: verifying signatures

2010-03-18 Thread Christian Fromme
Hello, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, wrote: > So, at the risk perhaps, of some or many of you, becoming frustrated with my > consistent questioning on this subject, I need some real clear, easy to > follow Steps to learn how to verify signatures. What may be so perfectly > clear to you all m

Re: Verifying signatures

2010-03-14 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:41 PM, wrote: > At the Torproject site, the directions are as follows: > I'll need someone's keys. Okay. > Step one: Import the keys Right. From where exactly and how, exactly. > Step two: Verify the fingerprints. Yeah? How exactly? I still have never > been able t

Fwd: Uninstalling problems

2009-07-27 Thread Christian Fromme
This time with correct or-talk address ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Fromme Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Uninstalling problems To: Jason Enthonius Cc: or-t...@torproject.org Hi Jason, I am taking this from tor-ops to or-talk since it'

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: >> Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` >> or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via >> `kill `. Make

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi Scott, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > On UNIX systems, the default signal sent by kill is SIGHUP. Is that > default signal different on LINUX systems? Not meaning to sound like a professor here, but the default kill signal is SIGTERM on systems I have used. YMMV.

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> killall tor > 12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc > Jul 24 12:54:15.469 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental software. Do > not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) > Jul 24 1

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 12:37:50 Christian Fromme wrote: >> Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile? >> If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the >> meantime, br

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > Why do you think that? What he posted above shows that tor started > up okay, successfully built a circuit, and has encountered no situation > since that time that would require logging a notice-level message. What > is broken about

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bob Williams wrote: >> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or >> see anything at all? >> > I have the following line uncommented in torrc > > Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log > > and that file contains the following > > ---q

Re: Newbie needs help

2009-07-24 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Bob Williams wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: >> Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address >> with your assigned addressed. > > That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume that > shows that

Re: Tor 0.2.0.32 changelog?

2008-11-30 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi Matthieu, On 30.11. 16:51, Matthieu Dalissier wrote: > > Is there somewhere a changelog for 0.2.0.32 ? I can't find it, neither > on the blog, nor on the page. > > I guess i symply overlooked it somewehre https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/ChangeLog HTH, Christian

Re: Re: about the legal consequences of the data-retention in germany for tor server owners

2008-11-15 Thread Christian Fromme
On 15.11. 11:29, Sebastian Schmidt wrote: > Here you go, > I hope I got every message for you. Brilliant, thanks!

Re: about the legal consequences of the data-retention in germany for tor server owners

2008-11-15 Thread Christian Fromme
Hi Sven, On 17.10. 14:11, Sven Anderson wrote: > > on the German mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] we recently had a > discussion about that topic. It started with the following mail by > Karsten N. If you are interested I can forward you the whole thread. Could you forward me the thread in case