Re: A suggestion to TOR [a proxy server]
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:39 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kory Kirk kory.k...@gmail.com wrote: Torbutton is just a firefox extension. I have no idea how it could be shipped including tor itself. In my experience with windows machines in computer labs, you are able to install firefox extensions without the permissions to install programs. I mentioned torbutton for automatic checksum verification of the jar, it wouldn't be necessary - just convenient, because it could be done manually as well. Firefox extensions can and do include arbitrary binary native code, e.g. Firefogg includes ffmpeg, and I'm sure many others include native code too. Just an extension is not a great way of thinking about extensions! If people subject to policy restrictions really can't install software but can install extensions then an extension might be an excellent way of getting tor software to people... perhaps a stripped down end user proxy only distribution of Tor. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ guys, also, there should be some sort of solutions, by which Tor should be able to run in all mobile devices. not only in androids. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Firefox quits when attempting to download
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:25 +0530, emigrant wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 16:01 +0530, emigrant wrote: i use the new tor bundle for linux. whenever i try to download some thing from zshare, rapdishare etc.. firefox instantly quits. any idea? thank you very much. this is the error iv gotten: Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported Exited cleanly. Goodbye. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ bump... *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Tor Browser Bundle for GNU/Linux 1.0.0 Released
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:00 -0400, Faraaz Damji wrote: If that matches, make sure your version of tar is un-gzipping before un-tarring (try 'tar -xzvf FILE.tar.gz', or 'gzip -dc FILE.tar.gz | tar -xv') thanks it extracted. but when i click on the executable script nothing is happening. even setting permission to 777 doesn't make any difference. any idea? thank you very much. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Tor Browser Bundle for GNU/Linux 1.0.0 Released
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 02:51 -0400, Ringo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try running it from the terminal, do you get any errors? Ringo arshad wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:00 -0400, Faraaz Damji wrote: If that matches, make sure your version of tar is un-gzipping before un-tarring (try 'tar -xzvf FILE.tar.gz', or 'gzip -dc FILE.tar.gz | tar -xv') thanks it extracted. but when i click on the executable script nothing is happening. even setting permission to 777 doesn't make any difference. any idea? thank you very much. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuu/GIACgkQETpif9i/srojHgCfcyCfdHkNCTi62kW8WktAVAXI v4IAn2PYABavrlNUefL7YkryLyIa6bRT =7Er6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ thanks, its now working, i was running another instance of tor already (installed version). :) *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Tor Browser Bundle for GNU/Linux 1.0.0 Released
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 21:33 -0700, Erinn Clark wrote: http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/ i downloaded both English (en-US): i386 (sig) | x86_64 (sig) and i get this error when extracting: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors downloaded sizes: 21.4, 21.6 respectively (in mb) *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Pidgin with TOR
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 07:10 -0500, Flamsmark wrote: 2009/12/31 emigrant fromwindowstoli...@gmail.com hi all, i am using the pidgin with ubuntu. and i installed TOR as well. i want to set up TOR to one of the yahoo accounts in pidgin. so i went to proxy settings and changed the gnome proxy setttings into socks5 and host 127.0.0.1 and port 9050. but each time i restart pidgin the yahoo account wont' start. i think its may be due to yahoo email is opened? how can i solve the problem? thank you very much. Port 9050 is your web proxy (probably Polipo). Pidgin wants to use a Socks proxy, so you should set the port to 8118, which is where Tor itself is listening. hi, but the doc says its 9050? https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO/InstantMessaging *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: tor-proxy.net
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 03:52 +, M wrote: I came across this: tor-proxy.net Is it a good alternative if i am out without my TorBrowser Bundle? Whats the diff between the First option (express)and the third? Same question from me as well... :) is this have any recommendation from tor project? thank you. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Why governments fund TOR?
hi all, forgive me for my ignorance. may i know why governmetns fund TOR. i read 49% funds coming from government. TOR is usually considered for passing government restriction by journalists and activists. so why should governments fund this? thank you very much *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Why governments fund TOR?
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:10 -0500, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:49:12PM +0530, arsha...@gmail.com wrote 0.5K bytes in 13 lines about: : may i know why governmetns fund TOR. i read 49% funds coming from : government. TOR is usually considered for passing government restriction : by journalists and activists. so why should governments fund this? Paul's already answered about how Tor and onion routing was started, so I'll skip that bit. Someone's already pointed you at the torusers page, so I'll skip that too. Governments fund tor to: - promote democracy - protect their agents doing sting operations or investigations - promote free speech where it doesn't exist - protect whistleblowers - provide freedom of access to an unfiltered internet - protect their soldiers in hostile environments - protect their employees identity while working online People in governments use tor for the same reason you use it. Thank you for all who replied for this topic. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Privoxy and Polipo
hi all, what is the difference in using privoxy and polipo? im in ubuntu and have used both. and privoxy seems unable to render all .gifs file. it shows part of the gif or in some cases won't show the animation. why is this? thank you very much *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?
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Re: TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 12:48 +0100, Nils Vogels wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:26, arshad arsha...@gmail.com wrote: i want the traffic be encrypted as well? any workarounds? Traffic within TOR itself is encrypted as part of the anonimization: When you are in the cloud, it is almost impossible to make heads or tails out of the messages that are being sent. When the traffic leaves the cloud, it is sent in the same way it was entered into the cloud, ie. HTTP will still be HTTP, HTTPS will be HTTPS. If you want your traffic to be both anonymous and encrypted throughout the entire path, use an encrypted protocol, such as HTTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, etc. Please, also read http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en it will answer not only this question, but also a few similar questions that you might have when first starting to use tor. Greets, Nils hi, thanks for your reply. i mean to avoid this: Eavesdropping by exit nodes In September 2007, Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security consultant, revealed that by operating and monitoring Tor exit nodes he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts.[17] As Tor does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL. While this does not inherently violate the anonymity of the source, it affords added opportunities for data interception by self-selected third parties, greatly increasing the risk of exposure of sensitive data by users who are careless or who mistake Tor's anonymity for security.[18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
Re: Privoxy and Polipo
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 04:50 -0700, Jim wrote: arshad wrote: hi all, what is the difference in using privoxy and polipo? im in ubuntu and have used both. and privoxy seems unable to render all .gifs file. it shows part of the gif or in some cases won't show the animation. Privoxy has the ability to deanimate gifs. Check your Privoxy configuration. The Look up which actions apply to a URL and why link in Privoxy's web interface may be useful to you. Cheers, Jim *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ thanks for the reply. i looked at links. will u be kind enough to breif how to resolve the problem please? thank you. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Privoxy and Polipo
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 04:50 -0700, Jim wrote: arshad wrote: hi all, what is the difference in using privoxy and polipo? im in ubuntu and have used both. and privoxy seems unable to render all .gifs file. it shows part of the gif or in some cases won't show the animation. Privoxy has the ability to deanimate gifs. Check your Privoxy configuration. The Look up which actions apply to a URL and why link in Privoxy's web interface may be useful to you. Cheers, Jim *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ thanks. now figured out a little. at first i went to that page without privoxy and didnt get the point. after going through proxy i figured it out a litte. but now i want to disable that deanaimate gif thing. but there isn't a place in config file to do that :( thank you very much *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Why Tor nodes based only on specific countries...
hi all, why tor nodes most of the time based on us,germany and korea? why not other countries like india, spain, italy, brazil etc... thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Privoxy and Polipo
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 14:06 +0100, Gitano wrote:
arshad wrote:
but now i want to disable that deanaimate gif thing. but there isn't a
place in config file to do that :(
The place for personal configuration in privoxy is 'user.action'.
You can append these two lines:
{-deanimate-gifs}
/ # Match all URLs
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thank you for this.
i did this. and hope fully will check what happens upon rebooting the
pc. as for now it seems not working.
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How many number of nodes usually pariticapte in relay?
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Re: TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 09:58 -0500, basile wrote: arshad wrote: i want the traffic be encrypted as well? any workarounds? thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ It is encrypted except at the exit unless you use https or imaps or whatever protocol + s. Let me illustrate. Suppose you go to http://www.google.com via privoxy+tor, then you establish a tunnel like this: Tor's encryption-- client -- clear http -Tor Relay ... Tor's encryption-- This continues until you get to the exit Tor's encryption-- -- clear http - Tor Exit -- clear http - Tor's encryption-- So sniffing is impossible except at the exit. The admin at the tor exit should never look at the traffic leaving his/her node. If you repeat the above, but go to https://www.google.com (note the http+s), then the above changes in that the clear http is replaced by encrypted https. Then even the tor exit node admin can't see your traffic. Hope this helps and that my ascii art didn't get wrapped beyond readability. thank you very much for your reply. the the ascii art really helped. now i have two doubts in this. 1) is no one able to decrypt the tor's encryption? 2) how can i trust the person who runs the tor's exit node? optional -3) [forgive me if it is too silly] why people run TOR nodes? is that only to support the community or other benifits as well? thank you very much. best regards.
Re: TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 09:27 -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:47:49 +0530 arshad arsha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 09:58 -0500, basile wrote: arshad wrote: i want the traffic be encrypted as well? any workarounds? thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ It is encrypted except at the exit unless you use https or imaps or whatever protocol + s. Let me illustrate. Suppose you go to http://www.google.com via privoxy+tor, then you establish a tunnel like this: Tor's encryption-- client -- clear http -Tor Relay ... Tor's encryption-- This continues until you get to the exit Tor's encryption-- -- clear http - Tor Exit -- clear http - Tor's encryption-- So sniffing is impossible except at the exit. The admin at the tor exit should never look at the traffic leaving his/her node. If you repeat the above, but go to https://www.google.com (note the http+s), then the above changes in that the clear http is replaced by encrypted https. Then even the tor exit node admin can't see your traffic. Hope this helps and that my ascii art didn't get wrapped beyond readability. thank you very much for your reply. the the ascii art really helped. now i have two doubts in this. 1) is no one able to decrypt the tor's encryption? 2) how can i trust the person who runs the tor's exit node? optional -3) [forgive me if it is too silly] why people run TOR nodes? is that only to support the community or other benifits as well? Please, please, please read the material at the torproject.org web site. Then read the documentation. The developers have put a lot of time and effort into writing good documentation for us to read and understand. An awful lot of the questions you have been flooding our in boxes with, including the questions in your message above, could have been avoided by your taking *your* responsibility to read the documentation that has been provided to you. Note further that the bulk of the documentation was installed onto your own computer as part of the tor installation. Please read it. Once you have done your homework, people on this list will be much happier to address any questions you still have after you do your part. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** :D thanks for the advice. iv been doing it and i will follow it in hte future also. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: How many number of nodes usually pariticapte in relay?
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 19:24 +0100, Nils Vogels wrote: 3. And please, please, please, read the FAQ: https://www.torproject.org/faq#Torisdifferent On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 16:05, arshad arsha...@gmail.com wrote: average for a usual traffic?... thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ thank you thank you thank you very much :) :) i read that. but i was looking for the average count. there its been mentioned the least count. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Why Tor nodes based only on specific countries...
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 12:34 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 12/27/2009 7:28 AM, arshad wrote: hi all, why tor nodes most of the time based on us,germany and korea? why not other countries like india, spain, italy, brazil etc... thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ 1) You don't bump email messages. I don't know how your mail client works but this isn't a message board. 2) The location of the nodes depends on the location of the people allowing their computers to be used as nodes. It's all in the documentation. I'm not responding to any more of your queries until you read all the docs. hi, please forgive me for the inconvenience. i assure i would be careful in future queries. thank you very much for your reply. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Why Tor nodes based only on specific countries...
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 19:49 +0100, Nils Vogels wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 19:34, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: It's all in the documentation. I'm not responding to any more of your queries until you read all the docs. While you are at it, please also consider the archives of this list, you will find that you are almost never the first person to ask a certain question: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ thank you very much for the link. would be much helpful :) *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
TOR and ISP
hi all, does the ISP know which sites the user visits through TOR and privoxy or polipo? thank you very much. -- Arshad *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: TOR and ISP
thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the sites the son visits what would the give? is the user shown as a peron who doesnt use internet or what will be there recorded for where the dns request came from etc? On 27/12/2009, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 12/26/2009 4:07 PM, Arshad wrote: hi all, does the ISP know which sites the user visits through TOR and privoxy or polipo? thank you very much. No. From all the documentation I read on how TOR works, they would only know the part of the relay closest to you. After that you pretty much disappear. HTH PIT -- Arshad *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: TOR and ISP
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 15:13 -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote: Arshad writes: thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the sites the son visits what would the give? is the user shown as a peron who doesnt use internet or what will be there recorded for where the dns request came from etc? The ISP would see the user visiting a number of Tor nodes. If the user isn't using bridges, then the ISP will know that the user is using Tor, but not what the user is doing with Tor. For example, the ISP won't know what sites or services the user is using through Tor. if the ISP doesnt know, which sites the user visit. then they cannot provide the sites visited with the bill if the user requests it? AFAIK all ISPs provide visited sites upon request right? thank you. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
