Re: Random chaff [was: more work for Grobbages]

2009-09-23 Thread Jon McLachlan
*sigh* See below :) On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Paul Syverson wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:11:29AM -0400, Praedor Atrebates wrote: It would appear that the tor network should include some timing randomization and reordering of packets to thwart such analysis. Not so much to really

Re: The Register article about making online anonymity illegal in Australia

2009-09-09 Thread Jon McLachlan
I figure it's an arms race between those seeking control and those valuing freedom. I disagree. I'd say that valuing control and seeking freedom more accurately describe the actual state of affairs.

Tor bridges email discovery...

2008-12-04 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey everyone, Is the email based bridge discovery mechanism described here* not functional? I've tried from a few valid gmail accounts but have received no responses. * https://www.torproject.org/bridges#FindingMore

Dir servers on private networks

2008-11-10 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey everyone, Our research team is a bit stuck on a problem of bootstrapping generic Tor on a private network in planetlab. The two authoritative directory servers that we are running continuously complain that, Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_trusteddirserver(): No trusted

Re: Dir servers on private networks

2008-11-10 Thread Jon McLachlan
authoritative directory servers into config.c? You may need to run the them first to generate the fingerprints. Have you looked at the IP addresses your ORs are publishing to? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon McLachlan

Re: Dir servers on private networks

2008-11-10 Thread Jon McLachlan
on dir servers instantly? ~Jon On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Jon McLachlan wrote: Hey everyone, Our research team is a bit stuck on a problem of bootstrapping generic Tor on a private network in planetlab. The two authoritative directory servers that we are running continuously

Tor Socks4a handshake error?

2008-10-16 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey everyone, This is a long shot, but... I'm developing on top of Tor through it's API. I am running Tor as an OP, and I am continuously being rejected by the socks port during the handshake, returning the SOCKS4a error code 91 (or 0x5b = [generic] request rejected or failed). The

Re: Tor Socks4a handshake error?

2008-10-16 Thread Jon McLachlan
Many thanks for the very prompt and very helpful feedback! :) ~Jon Roger Dingledine wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:03:13PM -0500, Jon McLachlan wrote: I'm developing on top of Tor through it's API. I am running Tor as an OP, and I am continuously being rejected by the socks port during

circuits, streams, and their attachment

2008-07-28 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey Everyone, Does anyone know why automatic attaching of streams to circuits may fail, aside from the stale timeout that is currently on TorCircuits, defaulted at 10 min? I am using the Tor Controller to construct custom private circuit (with purpose=general, from posted TorDescriptors

light weight proxy

2008-06-20 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey, I am seeking the most light weight proxy to use with Tor, and I am curious if anyone knows of something better than the following: I am familiar with 2 proxy services that have 4a-socks forward abilities: privoxy and polipo. Neither are what I would consider very light weight, as

Re: Tor relay shutted down by ISP

2008-02-20 Thread Jon McLachlan
Thanks :) My ISP reconnected me again but I had to promise to never run Tor again. Tomorrow I'm going to call them and try to change their minds. XS4ALL is a ISP who stands for freedom of speech, they are against censorship, etc etc. If they knew what Tor was they wouldn't disconnect me for

bridges.torproject.org certificate

2008-01-30 Thread Jon McLachlan
Just a very small fyi, It seems the certificate has expired for bridges.torproject.org ~Jon

Re: quick circuit tear down question

2008-01-30 Thread Jon McLachlan
Many thanks for the help on understanding the issues and concerns around tearing down an ultimate node on a circuit :) ~Jon Paul Syverson wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:53:51PM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:47:42PM -0600, Jon McLachlan wrote: Maybe more

Re: Can nickname be duplicate?

2008-01-30 Thread Jon McLachlan
F. Fox wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Florian Reitmeir wrote: (snip) FAQ: https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ 4.10. Can I control what nodes I use for entry/exit? ... We don't actually recommend you use these for normal use -- you get the best

quick circuit tear down question

2008-01-23 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey all, Maybe more for developers... but, does anyone know a way to tear down only the last relay on an already constructed anonymous Tor circuit, in such a way that the circuit remains unchanged except for the disappearance of the last hop? It doesn't seem like this is documented/viable

Re: Hostname

2008-01-22 Thread Jon McLachlan
In fact, autonomous system diversity in a Tor circuit is a wonderful thing, for better anonymity against pseudo-global adversaries (such as ISP's). Then, different ISP's would have to collude to short circuit a Tor tunnel. Just be careful of those Internet eXchanges, as IX level adversaries

Re: attachstream via control port, permission denied? [FIXED]

2008-01-18 Thread Jon McLachlan
Ahh, I have discovered what was causing this issue. The [ip]:[port] location was a service running on the Exit OR. I believe setting the configuration variable, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate 0 fixed the problem reported below. Best Regards, ~Jon Jon McLachlan wrote: Running, version 0.2.0.16

attachstream via control port, permission denied?

2008-01-17 Thread Jon McLachlan
Running, version 0.2.0.16-alpha, I am... 1) extend one new tunnel, of length 2 through (1st hop) OR w/ purpose=bridge, (2nd hop) OR w/ purpose=controller Note, Tor indicates one built circuit of length 2: 250-circuit-status=50 BUILT $[some-hex-value],$[some-other-hex-value] 250 OK 2)

via ControlPort, postdescriptor w/ purpose=general fails

2008-01-16 Thread Jon McLachlan
From the contolPort + API, I am able to grab descriptors of or's using, GETINFO desc/name/[someNickName], I am then able to parse these descriptors out of the response, and send these descriptors to other onion routers (ones, that are not fetching descriptors from the dirservers). At these

RemoteControl dev trouble (510 Unrecognized command)

2008-01-12 Thread Jon McLachlan
Hey, I have been having some trouble with a python based Tor controller. After setting my local ControlPort in the Tor settings, and connecting, I am able to successfully authenticate, but then I am unable to get Tor to recognize any other commands. More precisely,

via ControlPort, can we build a circuit to a bridge?

2008-01-10 Thread Jon McLachlan
Referring to the spec http://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt, (in 3.10) it seems like we may have the ability to build/extend circuits through specific Tor relays. The spec seems ambiguous if the defined ServerSpec is specifically a Tor relay and/or Tor bridge. Reading

Re: What to do at IP number change?

2008-01-08 Thread Jon McLachlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another point is that without a tor server my home would be vulnerable to traffic analysis and a further point is that a tor server is more safe than only a client. I think this depends largely on what type of traffic analysis we're talking about. Traffic analysis,

Re: What to do at IP number change?

2008-01-08 Thread Jon McLachlan
Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:15:05 -0600 Jon McLachlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another point is that without a tor server my home would be vulnerable to traffic analysis and a further point is that a tor server is more safe than only

(tor + linux).install()

2008-01-02 Thread Jon McLachlan
I have a bare-minimum linux box, much like a planetlab node that I'd like to use to deploy a Tor relay. In installing Tor, I am having trouble satisfying the dependencies for the latest stable tor linux source tarball (tor-0.1.2.18.tar.gz). I (believe I) have successfully installed the