Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Robert Ransom's message of Thu Mar 29 23:28:39 -0400 2012: > On 2012-03-29, Seth David Schoen wrote: > > > There's a nice description of the possibility of creating a public key > > with a chosen set of bits at the beginning or end at > > > > http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-03-30, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 06:06, Robert Ransom wrote: >> Shallot computes a single public modulus p*q and searches for a public >> exponent e which produces a SHA-1 hash with the desired properties. > > For some reason I thought that that would produce non-sta

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 06:06, Robert Ransom wrote: > Shallot computes a single public modulus p*q and searches for a public > exponent e which produces a SHA-1 hash with the desired properties. For some reason I thought that that would produce non-standard RSA keys, perhaps because the old ssl-g

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-03-29, Seth David Schoen wrote: > There's a nice description of the possibility of creating a public key > with a chosen set of bits at the beginning or end at > > http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html > > although note that the Tor hidden service identifiers

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-03-30, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:54, Seth David Schoen wrote: >> Choosing the first 40 bits of a hash generally requires trying an average >> of 2⁴⁰ >> possibilities; my laptop does about 3-4 million SHA1 operations per second >> (per CPU core) so it would take me

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:54, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Choosing the first 40 bits of a hash generally requires trying an average of > 2⁴⁰ > possibilities; my laptop does about 3-4 million SHA1 operations per second > (per CPU core) so it would take me 3-4 days (per CPU core) of computation > t

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
Adrian Crenshaw writes: > Hi all, >I was under the impression that the .onion names for Tor Hidden Services > were pseudo-random based on the public key. How was someone able to choose > one/choose some character in one? As an example: > http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion (hope it is not against po

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Adrian Crenshaw wrote: > Hi all, >   I was under the impression that the .onion names for Tor Hidden Services > were pseudo-random based on the public key. How was someone able to choose > one/choose some character in one? As an example: > http://silkroadvb5piz3r.o

[tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Crenshaw
Hi all, I was under the impression that the .onion names for Tor Hidden Services were pseudo-random based on the public key. How was someone able to choose one/choose some character in one? As an example: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion (hope it is not against policy to post that link, only exampl

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy

2012-03-29 Thread proper
> Hi, > > is there any deb package or Ubuntu PPA repository for obfsproxy? > > If > not - are there any plans for that? > > Regards, > > Matej Although compiling obfsproxy is as easy as it could be, I asked that questions myself. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&stat

[tor-talk] obfsproxy

2012-03-29 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, is there any deb package or Ubuntu PPA repository for obfsproxy? If not - are there any plans for that? Regards, Matej ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Unable To Start Vidalia

2012-03-29 Thread J.C. Denton
Make sure you have all other proxy services turned off. If TOR wont start after that, go to the settings. Look for a high anonymous proxy server and manually input the address and port number. If that doesn't work, then send TOR support an email. From: Bla Bl

[tor-talk] Unable To Start Vidalia

2012-03-29 Thread Bla Bla
I haven't been able to find a fix for this problem. If it has been addressed anywhere please direct me there. I downloaded Tor and it worked fine for about 5 min. Then I restarted the computer because other things updated. After it came back on I tried to start Tor and it just says unable to sta

Re: [tor-talk] TorRouter - kickstarter

2012-03-29 Thread proper
Thanks Andrew for the detailed answer! > We're pondering kickstarter as well as a for-profit I didn't know that page. Looks very well.. http://www.kickstarter.com That sounds like very reasonable plan. FreedomBox had a lot success using kickstarter. In a very short time they got loads of money

Re: [tor-talk] Status/progress of TorRouter?

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:29:50 +0200 wrote: > What is the status of TorRouter? Any progress on the project? I've > been monitoring the active trac tickets and wiki sites. There are no > changes since a long time. Is the progress behind closed doors? > > What is up with that project? Became it to b

[tor-talk] Status/progress of TorRouter?

2012-03-29 Thread proper
What is the status of TorRouter? Any progress on the project? I've been monitoring the active trac tickets and wiki sites. There are no changes since a long time. Is the progress behind closed doors? What is up with that project? Became it to big, unmaintainable, time-consuming? Or what are the

Re: [tor-talk] test

2012-03-29 Thread James Brown
On 29.03.2012 07:56, Rock Neurotiko wrote: > answering the test :) > thanks ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] test

2012-03-29 Thread James Brown
test ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] test

2012-03-29 Thread Rock Neurotiko
answering the test :) 2012/3/29 James Brown > test > ___ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Miguel García Lafuente - Rock Neurotiko Vocal de la Junta Directi