Re: many new relays

2009-06-28 Thread grarpamp
I'd give it a 15 minute mile high eyeball if I had the 'before the jump' cache files or a 'getinfo desc/all-recent' from back then. I just don't have that dataset. It means everyone is busy working on other things. Yep, it's just an on the radar thing. more stats about the effect of other

Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory

2009-06-28 Thread Pei Hanru
On 2009-04-27 18:27 CST, Scott Bennett wrote: torstatus currently shows 25 different relays that are all named tbreq and appear to be in China. I wonder whether these are due to some benighted user restarting tor after clearing its key files every time, or whether there may be several

Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory

2009-06-28 Thread Freemor
Nice work tracking that down.. Thanks for the info and time. I'm not a Tor dev but as a person working with/in IT, I can appreciate the time and legwork involved.. so thanks. -- free...@gmail.com free...@yahoo.ca This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG - ( http://gnupg.org/ )

Question About Security Threat from Tor

2009-06-28 Thread Jim McClanahan
Hi, I have read on this mailing list several times about how some previous versions of Tor contain vulnerabilities that can threaten the host machine itself. I am reminded of this again with Pei Hanru's excellent work tracking down the tbreg mystery. (I too say thank you.) While I understand

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Humphry
Hi Ringo, Chris wrote a question: 4. Other services which an administrator could offer would be great. Maybe a blog? However, to me the use a forums in OnionLand is most interesting and useful; for example a section of the forums could be a quasi-blog. Ringo wrote an answer: Blog hosting

Re: Question About Security Threat from Tor

2009-06-28 Thread Michael
Jim McClanahan wrote: Hi, I have read on this mailing list several times about how some previous versions of Tor contain vulnerabilities that can threaten the host machine itself. I am reminded of this again with Pei Hanru's excellent work tracking down the tbreg mystery. (I too say thank

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-28 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:19 -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: I might be confused but I thought you were writing this for standard Linux installation? Do you mean I can use Ubuntu as the Linux OS? (re: My goal is to make a standard Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP installation) Thanks for your time

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-28 Thread coderman
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Udo van den Heuveludo...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2009-06-27 17:47, Kris Linquist wrote: Is this expected ...? Traffic shaping. http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ see also http://git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:47:01 -0700 Kris Linquist k...@linquist.net wrote: The answer to this may be yeah, duh., just thought I'd ask :). I've got a residential cable connection where I am guaranteed 22mbit down, 5mbit up. My Tor relay BandwithRate is 1000 KB bursting up to 2000 KB.

Re: Question About Security Threat from Tor

2009-06-28 Thread Jim McClanahan
Michael wrote: Jim McClanahan wrote: Hi, I have read on this mailing list several times about how some previous versions of Tor contain vulnerabilities that can threaten the host machine itself. snip Hi Jim, Not so much related to Tor itself, but more toward general

Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:09:25 +0800 Pei Hanru peiha...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-04-27 18:27 CST, Scott Bennett wrote: torstatus currently shows 25 different relays that are all named tbreq and appear to be in China. I wonder whether these are due to some benighted user restarting tor

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:10:56 -0700 coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Udo van den Heuveludo...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2009-06-27 17:47, Kris Linquist wrote: Is this expected ...? Traffic shaping. http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ see also

Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory

2009-06-28 Thread Curious Kid
- Original Message From: Pei Hanru peiha...@gmail.com To: or-talk@freehaven.net Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 2:09:25 PM Subject: Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory On 2009-04-27 18:27 CST, Scott Bennett wrote: torstatus currently shows 25 different relays that are all named