Re: 2-node circuits Vs 3-node circuits

2007-04-25 Thread James Muir
Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: So what is the point of create-fast and entry guards? Entry guards help defend against the Ă˜verlier-Syverson attack on hidden services. Create-fast eliminates some unnecessary public key operations when a client negotiates ephemeral keys with its entry gu

To the operator of the node "AoF"

2007-04-25 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
OK, that's half off-topic, sorry for that. To the operator of the node "AoF": You didn't give any contact-info, so I try to reach you on this way: Your node doesn't seem to work very well, the squid-proxy you're using ran out of sockets. If you try to use your node, you'll always end up with the

Selecting and using a particular Tor IP address

2007-04-25 Thread F M
I find that when I'm browsing on forum that require a login, whenever I decide to post I have to keep re-logging in because the Tor IP keeps rotating on me while I'm on a forum session. After viewing some of the IP's from the Tor network I can see that several IP's have uptime of several months.

Re: Selecting and using a particular Tor IP address

2007-04-25 Thread Kyle Williams
when you access the site, choose an exit point. then in your URL, add nodename.exit. Example: www.google.com.nami.exit This lets you pick your exit node. Hope that helps. ~Kyle On 4/25/07, F M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I find that when I'm browsing on forum that require a login, whenever

Re: Selecting and using a particular Tor IP address

2007-04-25 Thread Ringo Kamens
You can also use web proxies. They are just as good in my opinion but many lack HTTPS support. Proxy.org has a nice rotating list of them. Also, it doesn't hurt to ask the admin if he can make changes. Stress that anonymity/security is very important to you and that because of security policies, i

Re: Selecting and using a particular Tor IP address

2007-04-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:38:17PM -0700, F M wrote: > I find that when I'm browsing on forum that require a > login, whenever I decide to post I have to keep > re-logging in because the Tor IP keeps rotating on me > while I'm on a forum session. After viewing some of > the IP's from the Tor netwo

Re: Selecting and using a particular Tor IP address

2007-04-25 Thread F M
Thanks for the tip. I'm a bit new to this, so please forgive the dumb question, but where do you find the nodename? Is this the IP address? Additionally, if I wanted to manually set my connection server setting to an http proxy IP # and correspnding port # from someone that is running on the Tor