Re: Tor in China

2010-02-11 Thread onion . soup
http://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-users-graphs.html#china The figure almost doubles in the whole December. These extra usages disappears after that. Does anyone know what happens? On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:11:16 +0800 Runa Sandvik wrote: >On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Curious Kid > wrote: >

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Flamsmark
> > > Why couldn't your exit policy just block the IPs of the journal sites? > > Because there's > 1000 of them (and each would be a /32). It was > discussed in another thread at the time, and the developers led me to > the conclusion that such hugely long exit policies were a bad idea. Could you

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:20:49PM -0500, Flamsmark wrote: > On 11 February 2010 16:17, Michael Holstein > wrote: > > Let's not debate the stupidity of authenticating a network by IP address > > .. but the above problem is ultimately what forced us to do the same > > thing (although we just prohib

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Peter Farver
I meant clients for TOR were blocked. Yes, for all students and faculty. I believe the attacks were from the TOR exit nodes, but I will try to get more information from network administrators. I have not tried bridges yet, but maybe I will obtain a bridge to connect to test in the future. >>

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Holstein
> Why couldn't your exit policy just block the IPs of the journal sites? Because there's > 1000 of them (and each would be a /32). It was discussed in another thread at the time, and the developers led me to the conclusion that such hugely long exit policies were a bad idea. Cheers, Michael Hol

Re: Can't connect to TOR from uverse

2010-02-11 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Charles Eubanks wrote: > I just installed TOR on OSX and I am trying to connect. My ISP is AT&T Uverse. > I never get past 10% "Establishing encrypted directory connection" > I do not have outbound ports blocked for 80 or 443 > I have tried with and without  setti

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Flamsmark
On 11 February 2010 16:17, Michael Holstein wrote: > > Let's not debate the stupidity of authenticating a network by IP address > .. but the above problem is ultimately what forced us to do the same > thing (although we just prohibit the operation of an exit). I should > note that the original effo

Can't connect to TOR from uverse

2010-02-11 Thread Charles Eubanks
I just installed TOR on OSX and I am trying to connect. My ISP is AT&T Uverse. I never get past 10% "Establishing encrypted directory connection" I do not have outbound ports blocked for 80 or 443 I have tried with and without  setting bridges. and also with and without restricted ports.  Included

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Holstein
> TOR is now blocked campus-wide at Auburn University (for all 24,000 students) > because of apparent attacks emanating from the TOR network. If your problem is anything like the one we had, I'm guessing the "attacks" have more to do with the fact that many journal subscriptions authenticate by

RetroShare v 0.5 is out (encrypted messenger)

2010-02-11 Thread Max
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/retroshare/RetroShare/0.5.0%20alpha%201/RetroShare_0.5.0_alpha_1_2282_setup.exe?use_mirror=ovh http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/downloads.html http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/retroshare/RetroShare/0.5.0%20alpha%201/RetroShare_0.5-alpha1.2282_ubun

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Harry Hoffman
Hi Peter, When you say blocked are you saying that faculty, staff, and students are not allowed to run exit nodes in the TOR network? Or rather that the above are not allowed to use TOR clients to connect into the TOR network? Cheers, Harry On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 13:15 -0600, Peter Farver wrote:

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread coderman
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Peter Farver wrote: > TOR is now blocked campus-wide at Auburn University (for all 24,000 students) > because of apparent attacks emanating from the TOR network. can you elaborate on that? are these apparent attacks coming _from_ the Tor exits or are Tor clients

TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-11 Thread Peter Farver
TOR is now blocked campus-wide at Auburn University (for all 24,000 students) because of apparent attacks emanating from the TOR network. Whenever trying to run TOR, TOR cannot get past the 10% mark. Would it have been wiser for Auburn University to block incoming connections from TOR nodes, b

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-11 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Curious Kid wrote: >> From: Jon > >> To: or-talk@freehaven.net >> Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 2:10:16 AM >> Subject: Re: Tor in China >> >> Am not sure if they are still blocking, but I presume there are some >> blocks still on, as the bridge usage is very high f

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-11 Thread Curious Kid
> From: Jon > To: or-talk@freehaven.net > Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 2:10:16 AM > Subject: Re: Tor in China > > Am not sure if they are still blocking, but I presume there are some > blocks still on, as the bridge usage is very high for users from > there. Are you talking about who uses a bri

Re: Announce: amnesia Live system 0.4.2

2010-02-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Hannah Schroeter spake: > Hi! Hi, > Just checked a bit. > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:13:05AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: >> Hannah Schroeter wrote (09 Feb 2010 21:26:07 GMT) : >>> 404 Not found for both the RSS and the Atom. > >> oops, sorry, the correct links are: > >> - RSS: https://amnesia.

ressource problem on linux?

2010-02-11 Thread info
Hi, I'm using Tor 0.2.1.22 on Debian Lenny. I played a little bit with Tor (so there are 10 instances of tor client running simultaneous). I can see very often the following in log: We tried for 15 seconds to connect to '111.222.333.444' using exit 'SoDesuKa'. Retrying on a new circuit. This ve