Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:59:28 -0400 Ringo 2600den...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be working on improving hidden service security and usability this summer (starting in about three weeks). I'm currently attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and am working on an 'independent contract'

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Ringo
This is actually something that I thought about but I decided to go for Linux for a few reasons. The first one being my own experience in Linux is much greater than that in Windows and the second one being that installing Ubuntu has become easy enough that I suggest it to non-techies. If somebody

Re: weird path selection

2009-05-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:53:24AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: Someone is up to some shenanigans, methinks. Or perhaps someone's copy of tor has a newly discovered bug. I just noticed an odd message go by, so I checked the current log file to see how often it was happening. It turns out

Re: weird path selection

2009-05-25 Thread Freemor
On Mon, 25 May 2009 11:41:08 -0400 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:53:24AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: Someone is up to some shenanigans, methinks. Or perhaps someone's copy of tor has a newly discovered bug. I just noticed an odd message go by, so I

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 09:59:28PM -0400, Ringo wrote: I'll be working on improving hidden service security and usability this summer (starting in about three weeks). I'm currently attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA Based on your location, there are two nearby events that

Out-of-date Tors (was Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory)

2009-05-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:57:17PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: That brings up something that has bothered me for a long time. When tor discovers that its version doesn't match any in either client-versions or server-versions, it currently writes complaints about it to the log(s), but

Re: Out-of-date Tors (was Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory)

2009-05-25 Thread scream
On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:33 -0400, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: snip But you're right, this is a real problem. Some of our users use Linux packaging systems that keep them mostly up to date. But some are on Ubuntu (...insert expletives here). And some are on BSD, which either provides