Re: A tor error message prior to crash

2009-05-12 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Maybe it's not related to this error at all but maybe it is because since I upgraded to 0.2.1.14-rc version my entry-guard does also have some problems related to the libevent. My node is not crashing but my logfile gets spammed with these messages: ... May 12 14:32:45.027 [warn] Error from lib

Re: Questions about gathering information and statistics about the tor-network

2009-01-20 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:17:17 +0100 Karsten Loesing wrote: > Starting with the descriptors is a good idea. You can collect them with > Peter Palfrader's directory archive scripts in the contrib/ directory. I already created my own one :) > Right, making data available might turn out to be diffic

Re: Questions about gathering information and statistics about the tor-network

2009-01-17 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Hi Karsten, sorry for my late reply but I was really busy these days. On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:10:10 +0100 Karsten Loesing wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Well, first of all, I should say that your concerns about possibly > endangering anonymity of Tor users are very important. Th

Questions about gathering information and statistics about the tor-network

2009-01-14 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Hi, I'm writing a tool right now to gather some longtime statistics about the tor-network. I want to plot these hourly taken information (e.g. with gnuplot) to offer plots on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly base about the tor-network. I think this is usefull (for the tor-development and the intere

Re: tor controlport wants authentication even if authentication is switched off

2009-01-07 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Thanks for your reply now I understand :) ! But this isn't explained in control-spec.txt. At least I hadn't understood it in that way. Maybe the specs could be updated to make this more clear? Of course 3.5 says "Before the client has authenticated..". But it feels more natural that when authen

tor controlport wants authentication even if authentication is switched off

2009-01-07 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Hello, I wanted to play a bit with the tor controlport. To check some basic functionality of it I just switched the authentication in vidalia off and restarted tor to make the settings take effect. ps aux shows this now about the process: /usr/bin/tor -f /home/MYUSERNAME/.vidalia/torrc DataDire

Re: Re: about the legal consequences of the data-retention in germany for tor server owners

2008-11-15 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Here you go, I hope I got every message for you. greetings --- Begin Message --- Hallo Tor-Admins, Die German Privacy Foundation e.V. wird zusammen mit der JonDos GmbH die sich aus dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung (§113 TKG) ergebenen Speicherpflichten für Anonymisierungsdienste klären und

Re: about the legal consequences of the data-retention in germany for tor server owners

2008-10-17 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:11:36 +0200 Sven Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > Am 17.10.2008 um 13:51 schrieb Sebastian Schmidt: > > > I'm a law student at the saarland university. I got noticed in the > > newest blog entry of the

about the legal consequences of the data-retention in germany for tor server owners

2008-10-17 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
her german jurist is interested to join in and work with me together on finishing this paper, you're pretty welcome to contact me!! greetings Sebastian Schmidt Download: * http://www.stud.uni-saarland.de/~s9sescmi/tor-dret-ger.tar.bz2 * http://www.stud.uni-saarland.de/~s9sescmi