Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Johnson
Hello, I am using the -controlport Commands to build custom Circuits. My problem with this is that I cannot trust TOR to use these circuits. It keeps building new ones which were not requested by me via the command interface. I can drop all circuits, build 2 new ones, refresh the circuit list

Re: Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Brian Johnson brian_john...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I am using the -controlport Commands to build custom Circuits. My problem with this is that I cannot trust TOR to use these circuits. It keeps building new ones which were not requested by me via the command

Re: Stop TOR from building circuits in the background?

2010-10-06 Thread Benedikt Westermann
Hi, I think you are looking for: __DisablePredictedCircuits __LeaveStreamsUnattached see Section 5.4 in the control protocol [1] specification for details. Regards, Benne [1] http://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=doc/spec/control-spec.txt Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2010,

Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread Load Bear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From what I have read, it is at least theoretically possible for someone running a Tor exit node to monitor any plaintext, non-SSL/https connections that are passed through that node. The solution that seems to be usually suggested is to always use

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread John Brooks
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Load Bear loadbear...@gmail.com wrote: I have also noticed that there exist some free VPN services which can be used reasonably anonymously, such as ItsHidden. Thus, I was wondering - is there an easy way to, for lack of a better description, chain proxies, so

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread Load Bear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/10/06 11:02 PM, John Brooks wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Load Bear loadbear...@gmail.com wrote: I have also noticed that there exist some free VPN services which can be used reasonably anonymously, such as ItsHidden. Thus, I was

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-06 Thread John Brooks
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Load Bear loadbear...@gmail.com wrote: I am aware of that limitation. However, I am currently less concerned about eavesdroppers between a given VPN and the destination than I am about Tor exit-node eavesdroppers. Knowing the limitations involved, do you know of