Annoying polipo problem on linux

2008-01-16 Thread kazaam
Hi, I'm trying to switch from privoxy to polipo. But polipo seems to have an annoying problem. Polipo gets started as a service while booting, the same as I did with privoxy. But tor gets just started with activating Vidalia. The problem is if tor is not running when polipo gets started it

via ControlPort, postdescriptor w/ purpose=general fails

2008-01-16 Thread Jon McLachlan
From the contolPort + API, I am able to grab descriptors of or's using, GETINFO desc/name/[someNickName], I am then able to parse these descriptors out of the response, and send these descriptors to other onion routers (ones, that are not fetching descriptors from the dirservers). At these

Re: U.S. Launches Internet Anti-Censorship Effort

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Del Vecchio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's all just politics though. They have no problem with promoting censorship here in the US! Are they hypocrites? Yes. Is this something we all didn't already know? Of course not... ~Andrew - -- People just like you lose untold millions in personal

Re: Input required on Secure Wiki project

2008-01-16 Thread tor user
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's wrong: TOR also countermeasures traffic analysis and other sorts of information abuse. That's why i'm using TOR also for IRC and ICQ. To countermeasure taking a public IP number e. g. from an email header into a log file via an editor (e. g. for

Re: Input required on Secure Wiki project

2008-01-16 Thread tor user
--- tor user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine what someone was doing with your new IP address the few hours before you had control of it, or the few hours after you release it, when such errors can happen. Oops, sent the email too soon. I wanted to add: I would feel really nervous about

how many connections are legitimate to a DirPort?

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Bennett
How many simultaneous connections from a tor client to a directory mirror's DirPort are legitimate? Is more than a single such connection necessary, and if so, why? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: via ControlPort, postdescriptor w/ purpose=general fails

2008-01-16 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:09:57AM -0600, Jon McLachlan wrote: +POSTDESCRIPTOR purpose=general cache=no+CRLF+desc+CRLF+.+CRLF However, when I post the descriptor with the latter (purpose=general), Tor trips an assert on line 3115 in routerlist.c. It seems to be indicating an error that

Re: how many connections are legitimate to a DirPort?

2008-01-16 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:18:28PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: How many simultaneous connections from a tor client to a directory mirror's DirPort are legitimate? Is more than a single such connection necessary, and if so, why? Here are three cases where it occurs legitimately: a)

Re: how many connections are legitimate to a DirPort?

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:34:48 -0500 Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:18:28PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: How many simultaneous connections from a tor client to a directory mirror's DirPort are legitimate? Is more than a single such connection