UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP.

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread slush
No. 2008/12/19 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP.

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:23:25PM +0100, slush wrote: No. This monosyllabic answer no doubt comes from in-depth knowledge of legal requirements in regards to data retention for ISPs in Germany? 2008/12/19 Eugen Leitl [1]eu...@leitl.org This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:23:25PM +0100, slush wrote: No. This monosyllabic answer no doubt comes from in-depth knowledge of legal requirements in regards to data retention for ISPs in Germany? Yes. 2008/12/19

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread phobos
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:24:01AM +0100, eu...@leitl.org wrote 0.1K bytes in 3 lines about: : : This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult : than TCP/IP. How would UDP make data retention more difficult? -- Andrew

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Anderson
Am 19.12.2008 um 11:24 schrieb Eugen Leitl: This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP. Since you seem to talk about Germany: Again, data retention does and will not happen on a per-packet basis and especially not on the transport layer (TCP/UDP)

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:23:40AM -0500, pho...@rootme.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:24:01AM +0100, eu...@leitl.org wrote 0.1K bytes in 3 lines about: : : This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult : than TCP/IP. How would UDP make data retention more

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:32:57PM +0100, Sven Anderson wrote: Since you seem to talk about Germany: Again, data retention does and will not happen on a per-packet basis and especially not on the transport layer (TCP/UDP) with the current law. There will only be Thanks for the pointer.

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Anderson
Am 19.12.2008 um 14:32 schrieb Sven Anderson: Am 19.12.2008 um 11:24 schrieb Eugen Leitl: This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP. Since you seem to talk about Germany: Again, data retention does and will not happen on a per-packet basis and

Re: Windows buffer problems

2008-12-19 Thread Lee
On 12/19/08, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: there are actually two issues (or more?) for non-server Windows running Tor. the usual problem Tor encounters is not related to the number of concurrent attempts but to kernel non-paged memory resources consumed to exhaustion when lots of

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Smuggler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:23:40AM -0500, pho...@rootme.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:24:01AM +0100, eu...@leitl.org wrote 0.1K bytes in 3 lines about: : : This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Michael Holstein
This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP. I don't see how .. tcpdump -s 1514 -w evidence.pcap ip proto \\udp is any harder than .. tcpdump -s 1514 -w evidence.pcap ip proto \\tcp Now I guess you could rig a communications network that dealt

Re: Windows buffer problems

2008-12-19 Thread coderman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Lee ler...@gmail.com wrote: ... Manipulating HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize and TcpWindowSize to 0xfaf00 (1027840) seemed to increase the time to failure when running Tor and BitTorrent. seems

Re: Failed to hand off onionskin

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:44:58 -0500 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:28:37AM +0100, Mitar wrote: From time to time I am getting this warning: Failed to hand off onionskin. Closing. Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests!

Re: Failed to hand off onionskin

2008-12-19 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: That is odd. In my experience, tor has 4 + NumCPUs threads, except right after a SIGHUP or during initialization. I normally only see two threads do any work, and most of it is done by one of those two. Although

Suggestions for Advocacy

2008-12-19 Thread Roc Admin
looking for advice - I'm a member of one of those local organizations that regularly presents information related to security, technology, etc to each other. I'm wondering if there are suggestions for local advocacy and training guidelines so not to mis-represent Tor (although it would be

Performance optimizations for high-bandwidth Tor exit

2008-12-19 Thread 6cnf6cp02
Hallo, I've been running a Tor exit node on one of my machines (Intel Dual E2160 (1.8GHz), 2GB RAM, Xen domU for Tor, encrypted HDD) for some months. It is on a shared 100MBit/s line (500GB in/out daily). I have not configured any bandwidth limits within Tor. Most of the time, the Tor process

Re: Suggestions for Advocacy

2008-12-19 Thread phobos
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:25:49PM -0600, onionrou...@gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 28 lines about: : I'm a member of one of those local organizations that regularly presents : information related to security, technology, etc to each other. I'm : wondering if there are suggestions for local

Re: Performance optimizations for high-bandwidth Tor exit

2008-12-19 Thread phobos
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 03:13:00AM -, 6cnf6c...@sneakemail.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 26 lines about: : Most of the time, the Tor process maxes out the CPU (85-100%), : while memory consumption stays at ~10%; until today, this didn't : pose much of a problem as log files show no errors and the

Re: Suggestions for Advocacy

2008-12-19 Thread Ringo Kamens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pho...@rootme.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:25:49PM -0600, onionrou...@gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 28 lines about: : I'm a member of one of those local organizations that regularly presents : information related to security, technology,