Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
Last night I reported here that the directory authorities are in disagreement over client-versions and server-versions. Tonight they are still in disagreement. The consensus documents still fail to list any development branch versions later than 0.2.0.15-alpha as server-versions. When

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-27 Thread Dominik Schaefer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: if you use a transparent proxy plus a provider proxy as parent proxy for your TOR server, you can simply avoid that ;-) To be absolutely sure, you can restrict the TOR output to port 80 and and use transparent http proxying to port 80, plus a provider proxy as parent

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-27 Thread dr . _no
Hi, if you use a transparent proxy plus a provider proxy as parent proxy for your TOR server, you can simply avoid that ;-) To be absolutely sure, you can restrict the TOR output to port 80 and and use transparent http proxying to port 80, plus a provider proxy as parent proxy. I

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use a transparent proxy plus a provider proxy as parent proxy for your TOR server, you can simply avoid that ;-) To be absolutely sure, you can restrict the TOR output to port 80 and and use transparent http proxying to port 80,

Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett wrote: | Last night I reported here that the directory authorities are in | disagreement over client-versions and server-versions. Tonight they are | still in disagreement. The consensus documents still fail to list any |

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Reitmeir wrote: | | And i'm using two dozens of IP numbers in the headers of my transparent proxy, so | it's neither easy nor sure to find the IP number of my internet connection. | Another point is that logging has several flaws: The

Re: Huh?

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew
TorOp schrieb: And what's this about? Jan 27 10:08:00.373 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from 69.119.206.101 to 212.112.242.159; rebuilding descriptor. Jan 27 10:08:01.595 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.

Re: Huh?

2008-01-27 Thread TorOp
Andrew wrote: TorOp schrieb: And what's this about? Jan 27 10:08:00.373 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from 69.119.206.101 to 212.112.242.159; rebuilding descriptor. Jan 27 10:08:01.595 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-27 Thread dr . _no
Hi, ... As dr no pointed out, many sites log only the IP address, not any Forwarded-For or similar headers. So while those proxies cannot be *trusted* to provide any level of obscurity or anonymity, they *might* with luck proove to be a dead end (or at least a serious obstacle) for

Re: Huh?

2008-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:42:29 -0500 TorOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to 0.2.0.17 and didn't see an announcement of 0.2.0.18, which I guess I'll install tonight. Jan 27 10:07:38.882 [Warning] Please upgrade! This version of Tor (0.2.0.17-alpha) is not recommended, according to

Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:27:01 +0100 Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: | Last night I reported here that the directory authorities are in | disagreement over client-versions and server-versions. Tonight they are | still in disagreement. The consensus documents still

Re: Huh?

2008-01-27 Thread phobos
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:44:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 2.2K bytes in 42 lines about: : Yes, that's what I've reported twice already on this list. Thus far, : it appears that only Peter Palfrader has corrected the information that his : directory authority server dishes out. The

Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Dominik Schaefer
Scott Bennett schrieb: The latest consensus file appears to have 0.2.0.18-alpha listed as a recommended server version, but not 0.2.0.16-alpha or 0.2.0.17-alpha, even though it still lists 0.2.0.11-alpha, 0.2.0.12-alpha, and 0.2.0.15-alpha. Also, the individual status documents are still in

another unusual connection

2008-01-27 Thread john smith
greetings! another recurrence of the same type of unusual connection. i include the time the server started in the log below. the connection through 212.112.242.159 persists for a much longer period of time on this occassion (the 'scrubbed' connection did not occur last time). Jan 27

Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:02:28PM +0100, Dominik Schaefer wrote: Scott Bennett schrieb: The latest consensus file appears to have 0.2.0.18-alpha listed as a recommended server version, but not 0.2.0.16-alpha or 0.2.0.17-alpha, even though it still lists 0.2.0.11-alpha, 0.2.0.12-alpha, and

Re: another unusual connection

2008-01-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:42:14PM +, john smith wrote: another recurrence of the same type of unusual connection. i include the time the server started in the log below. the connection through 212.112.242.159 persists for a much longer period of time on this occassion (the 'scrubbed'

How does tor encrypt my data?

2008-01-27 Thread 孙超
Inspired by the principle of tor, we intend to develop a distributed data base which could maintain privacy preserving. But I still have some questions about how does tor work, especially how does it encrypt my data? We know that there is an entrance node and an exit node in a path, cleartext

Re: How to remove some useless nodes

2008-01-27 Thread John Kimble
On Jan 27, 2008 11:08 AM, Kraktus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can add ExcludeNodes NodeName1, NodeName2 to your torrc, where the NodeName1, etc. are the names of Chinese exit nodes that you are aware of. However, you much disallow each Chinese node separately; you can't exclude by country.

Re: directory authority/authorities need(s) updating?

2008-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:50:50 -0500 Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:02:28PM +0100, Dominik Schaefer wrote: Scott Bennett schrieb: The latest consensus file appears to have 0.2.0.18-alpha listed as a recommended server version, but not 0.2.0.16-alpha or