Re: setup tor in private intranet

2006-11-30 Thread otrcomm
hello, thanks for the response! > DirServer [nickname] [v1] address:port fingerprint > Use a nonstandard authoritative directory server at the provided > address and port, with the specified key fingerprint. This option can be > repeated many times, for multiple authoritative directory serve

Re: Relakks

2006-11-30 Thread coderman
On 11/30/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you are mistaken. Going via an encrypted pipe to a foreign proxy certainly does not make it easier. sure, privacy via an encrypted link is better than plaintext. but that's different from anonymity, which is what i was referring to. Sure

Re: setup tor in private intranet

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Holstein
i am new to tor and was wondering if it is possible to setup tor in a private intranet without gateways to the internet? i have to assume it is, but where would i find documentation and code to build such a system? Yep .. just setup your own DirServer. See : http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.htm

RE: Relakks

2006-11-30 Thread Tony
I think you are mistaken. Going via an encrypted pipe to a foreign proxy certainly does not make it easier. It is obviously much easier for the US government to observe an unencrypted USA internet connection and all traffic to and from it than to observe an encrypted connection that terminates in

setup tor in private intranet

2006-11-30 Thread otr comm
hello all, i am new to tor and was wondering if it is possible to setup tor in a private intranet without gateways to the internet? i have to assume it is, but where would i find documentation and code to build such a system? essentially, i would like to build a tor development testbed/simulat

Re: Appeal for class-action lawsuit against connection data storage in Germany

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Syverson
> > I know, this topic will not be interesting to everyone but there are > German users in this mailing list after all and I considered this to > be important enough to let them know about it in case they haven't > heard of this yet. Everyone on the list is enriched by hearing about important rel

Re: Relakks

2006-11-30 Thread coderman
On 11/30/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If they use Relakks they they can make it much harder for the US governement to watch them - and get decent speed too - unlike with TOR! let me make this really clear: Relakks and other single hop proxies are trivial to observe for an adversary cor

RE: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread Tony
If they use Relakks they they can make it much harder for the US governement to watch them - and get decent speed too - unlike with TOR! Costs money of course, but not a lot... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jonathan D. Proulx Sent: Thu 30/11/2006 15:5

Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Michael Holstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What about the Department of the Navy that initially funded it? I >> wonder if it was pointed out in these meeting that it was the DoD that >> wanted this in the first place through the Office of Na

Appeal for class-action lawsuit against connection data storage in Germany

2006-11-30 Thread Enigma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know, this topic will not be interesting to everyone but there are German users in this mailing list after all and I considered this to be important enough to let them know about it in case they haven't heard of this yet. The "Arbeitskreis

Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Michael Holstein wrote: :Simple. It's okay for them to be sneaky to avoid *US* (the citizens) :from knowing what they're up to, but *NOT* okay when we try to hide from :them. Probably true of the people paraphrased, but I'm sure ONR folks understand if

Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Holstein
What about the Department of the Navy that initially funded it? I wonder if it was pointed out in these meeting that it was the DoD that wanted this in the first place through the Office of Naval Research and DARPA? Simple. It's okay for them to be sneaky to avoid *US* (the citizens) from know

Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:30:27PM +0100, George W. Maschke wrote: : at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of : Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as : IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others : have no

Correction: CHRISTOPHER Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread George W. Maschke
Sorry, Mr. Soghoian's first name is Christopher, not Stephen. -- University of Indiana graduate student Stephen Soghoian, against whom the U.S. Government considered filing criminal charges stemming from an airline boarding pass generator that he posted on-line, in the 28 November 2006 entry of

Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

2006-11-30 Thread George W. Maschke
University of Indiana graduate student Stephen Soghoian, against whom the U.S. Government considered filing criminal charges stemming from an airline boarding pass generator that he posted on-line, in the 28 November 2006 entry of his weblog,/ slight paranoia