Re: Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Del Vecchio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone else here use Ubuntu? I set OpenDNS as my domain resolvers, but DHCP later erased these settings. I should be able to have static DNS servers while using DHCP for my local IP address right? I tried adding the info to my dhcpclient.conf fil

Re: Tor network signature detection

2006-09-05 Thread Watson Ladd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arrakistor wrote: > Nick, Roger, et al > > Does the ISP/network administrator know if a client is connected to the tor > network or is > the connection disguised? Essentially, does running tor create > signatures? > > Regards, > Arrakistor > > No

Tor network signature detection

2006-09-05 Thread Arrakistor
Nick, Roger, et al Does the ISP/network administrator know if a client is connected to the tor network or is the connection disguised? Essentially, does running tor create signatures? Regards, Arrakistor

Re: Revealing tor hidden services by their clock skew

2006-09-05 Thread Steven Murdoch
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:48:52AM -0700, Brian C wrote: > http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/09/04/hot-or-not-revealing-hidden-services-by-their-clock-skew/ I was going to post this to the or-talk list, but I see someone beat me to it :-) To avoid any misunderstanding, I should add that the

Re: Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

2006-09-05 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Matt Ghali wrote: > Doesn't ORSN use an alternate-root scheme where there's no real > guarantee you're getting the same answers anyone using the one true > root would get? That's the point of ORSN. Should the "real" US-controlled root go nuts we still have some place that

Re: Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

2006-09-05 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Matt Ghali wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, numE wrote: > >> Maybe http://www.orsn.net/ would be even better than opendns. >> OpenDns is commercial... orsn not. > > IIRC, OpenDNS does the same sort of "Lie on NXDOMAIN" foolishness that > Earthlink has started doing, which is what the original poster

Re: Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

2006-09-05 Thread Matt Ghali
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, numE wrote: Maybe http://www.orsn.net/ would be even better than opendns. OpenDns is commercial... orsn not. IIRC, OpenDNS does the same sort of "Lie on NXDOMAIN" foolishness that Earthlink has started doing, which is what the original poster was trying to escape. Doesn

Re: TOR Directory file

2006-09-05 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Joe Clark wrote: > First of all, thanks ! > > You're saying to not rely on the cached-routers file (name and > format), so what can I rely on as a list of all routers? You can rely on cached-routers working for now, but we do not promise never to c

Re: TOR Directory file

2006-09-05 Thread Joe Clark
First of all, thanks !   You're saying to not rely on the cached-routers file (name and format), so what can I rely on as a list of all routers?   this: http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.pl?textonly=1%22   or maybe this: (notice that this is by the old format) http://moria.mit.ed

Re: being a middleman

2006-09-05 Thread thalunil
Pascal Levasseur wrote: > May I take the liberty to remove "This is called being a "middleman" > node" from the wiki ? Hi Pascal, i fixed it. Thal

Re: being a middleman

2006-09-05 Thread Pascal Levasseur
Hello Roger, > > I've removed all trace of the word 'middleman' from the code, the docs, > and the sample torrc file. So the only place you'll be encountering > it is somebody else's docs or an old torrc file if you're using an old > 0.1.0.x one. Are there places that I missed? > By the way, the

Revealing tor hidden services by their clock skew

2006-09-05 Thread Brian C
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/09/04/hot-or-not-revealing-hidden-services-by-their-clock-skew/ This is on the front page of reddit.com right now, so it should get some attention. Murdoch's paper is here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/ccs06hotornot.pdf