Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-05 Thread glymr
to get some idea of what i am up against* jon smith wrote: --- glymr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm pretty sure someone has written some dns proxy that queries through tor, i have a vague memory that it was only implemented in windows however. i'm going to look into this because i think it'd

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I am not adding anything useful, but I wish to add my feeling about this situation that people are so rapidly responding to a threat so early. :) tor will never die if people like you all are on it. (which reminds me i've blathered about writing

Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-04 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 i'm pretty sure someone has written some dns proxy that queries through tor, i have a vague memory that it was only implemented in windows however. i'm going to look into this because i think it'd be rather cool to actually resolve all dns

Re: Tor not working

2006-10-04 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 are you running vidalia? vidalia manages starting up tor. obviously you have got privoxy auto-starting, so that's not at issue. you could always go without vidalia but then you miss out on all the neat interface features in vidalia like watching

ftp

2006-10-04 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I'm rather puzzled why tor proxies every other protocol but refuses ftp and says it isn't a http proxy. ftp != http. why is this error coming up? i grepped the source for ftp and 21 and came up with nothing telling me why it was refusing to talk

Re: ftp

2006-10-04 Thread glymr
server (LC_TIME=C) PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (203,16,234,85,184,221). Cannot create a data connection: No route to host Disconnecting from site localhost - --8--snip--8-- Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: On Oct 4, 2006, at 06:54:56, glymr wrote: I'm rather puzzled why tor proxies every other

Re: Tor not working

2006-10-03 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Spin Doctor wrote: I've been trying to connect to various web sites through Tor on Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Mac OS X, but it no longer works for any site. I get the error page saying that Tor is enabled on port 8118 but it Tor does not operate on

Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-03 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 jon smith wrote: Hi, I'd installed the vidalia-bundle-0.1.1.23-0.0.7-tiger and set up Firefox 1.5.0.6 (Mac) exactly as shown here: http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-web.html.en i.e. the first four set to localhost Port: 8118, and

Re: More bad tor server?

2006-10-03 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 i get this at some exits when i go to thinkgeek.com, so it's happened to me too. is there a way to find out what the current exit node is so it can be blacklisted when it redirects like this? nile wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:31:18PM

Re: tor and its speed

2006-10-03 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Perhaps changing the number of seconds for MaxCircuitDirtiness may help reduce the unpleasant effect of slow circuits by shortening circuit lifespan? have you installed fasterfox? I personally find tor is more than adequately fast with the

Re: Using a network monitor when tor is running.

2006-10-02 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 iptraf doesn't do anything other than inspect the stack. whether that is insecure or not i guess would be something to do with whether you log, but even then your isp could have a box doing that anyway. watching traffic in only useful to a snoop

Re: Tormap

2006-10-01 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 vidalia uses geoip too. i'm not sure, it was during a time my server was up and down, maybe the directory that site uses had my server registered as offline and thus didn't show it Christoph Sieghart wrote: [glymr wrote] the vidalia client has

Re: BIND over TOR?

2006-09-30 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 running your own bind does not eliminate dns leaks, out of your node will still emerge dns requests and that's all that's needed to do the time-correlation. It should be possible, however, to proxy bind through tor, but only through a

Re: Tormap

2006-09-30 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 the vidalia client has a map on it too. strangely i couldn't find my tor node on that map on that page but it is definitely up and vidalia can see it too. Christoph Sieghart wrote: Hello, I just skimmed through the or-talk archives and found

Re: Precompiled tor binary for openwrt/dd-wrt?

2006-09-28 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Roger, what do you think of the idea of having /dev/urandom as an alternative rng for embedded devices as a build option? News Assi wrote: Hi, perhaps openwrt hasn't got urandom? urandom is pretty intensive as far as i know, it'd

Re: Precompiled tor binary for openwrt/dd-wrt?

2006-09-27 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 perhaps openwrt hasn't got urandom? urandom is pretty intensive as far as i know, it'd definitely load the little router hard. i'd say the devs will be able to tell you if there's anything that can be done. my initial thought is edit the source

Re: Precompiled tor binary for openwrt/dd-wrt?

2006-09-25 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 if you can point me at the right gentoo software packages to compile it i could do that News Assi wrote: Hello, I want to use openwrt [http://openwrt.org/], that is an open source firmware for linksys router. It use a special package system

Re: Tor appliance

2006-09-23 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any information about how to do this, but the last two modem/routers I have used for my dsl connection have both had linux software running them... I was just reading today about the netcomm nb5, which is

using low ports when running vidalia on gentoo or allowing vidalia to modify configs on init.d configured tor server

2006-09-22 Thread glymr
user owned files, but I'm buggered if I can figure out how to do it. Any help would be appreciated. Glymr -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFFHzgGkOzwaes7JsRA2KYAKC1d2AMQJeOwNXONzxqjCmUQqYjdgCfQP9k lV8lY2eVA2eSN1y4eub9TsU= =W415 -END PGP SIGNATURE-

oopsy

2006-09-22 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 ok, i see what i need to do here now, sorry to ask an faq question -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFFH4pGkOzwaes7JsRAxomAJsH8CHJz6ICR9fge82Iz/AXVuSdHwCeJXZo JyWQPP0CH7wZYxAFct6G4qY= =pW07 -END PGP

port 53 for dirport for firewalled users?

2006-09-22 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I know that many intranet firewalls have bandwidth limiters on port 53, especially the more severe types of firewalls, but for accessing directory mirrors this isn't a big deal, I mean sure, it slows down the process initially but once a cache is

Re: Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

2006-09-21 Thread glymr
why not just use your own client with the socks proxy turned on and access gmail via the pop and smtp they provide (both of which are encrypted, one ssl, the other tls)? Anthony DiPierro wrote: On 9/18/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] top posted (please don't): Are

Re: Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

2006-09-21 Thread glymr
DiPierro wrote: On 9/21/06, glymr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not just use your own client with the socks proxy turned on and access gmail via the pop and smtp they provide (both of which are encrypted, one ssl, the other tls)? I haven't really found any (gratis) clients I like that well

Re: [INFO] new anonymizing software

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
I don't know if this is a correction but the tor hidden service system is client AND server anonymising, tor itself is client anonymising, and the hidden services are server anonymising. It boggles my mind that anyone committed to anonymity would not see the sense of not using a proprietary

Re: Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
i personally don't like the ajax interface, fancy as it might be, javascript is full of holes and to be honest it's slower than a direct pop access. in case anyone reading this mailing list didn't know, you can access gmail via pop and they also have an smtp server (altho it rewrites the sender

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
yes, port 25 is blocked by most tor exit nodes. however, some webmail services (notably gmail) use different ports and are usable from tor. Watson Ladd wrote: Total Privacy wrote: Thank you very much, that will do the trick I think, but still; have to get an email accout somewhere to put into

Re: How anonymity software landscape will look

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
you can replace i2p for services with tor hidden services quite easily, and as far as content retrieval, which part of the process is your focus when ascribing insecurity? storage or transit? TOR sorts out transit, and the server operator using a decently strongly encrypted storage would keep the

Re: How anonymity software landscape will look

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
unless i'm mistaken, for the average adsl/cable user, this means some meaningless number like 10.0.0.2 or 192.168.0.4 Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Very true. Add to this the use of secure apps. This means no Skype, which codes your local IP into

regarding the german tor server business

2006-09-16 Thread glymr
I see that on the main site and from reading various thingies that there is some confusion about why some server operators were searched but didn't have their machines subpoenaed. I think that kinda explicitly says that the law enforcement in germany realise that tor nodes are useless as evidence.

Re: Tor crashes ZoneAlarm

2006-09-14 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 most current adsl2/2+ modems now have full configurable firewalls and QoS and IDS and ICMP ping on or off. sygate is better for a free firewall than zonealarm Kees Vonk wrote: Arrakistor wrote: 'real firewall' as in something physical

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread glymr
Just what exactly is insecure about being 100% vigilant about never accessing any random (eg hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail) mail server with tor? Well the main problem is in password recovery. Unfortunately most ... well any website ... has not got best practise cryptographic techniques for ensuring

Re: Protecting exit-nodes by GeoIP based policy

2006-09-11 Thread glymr
I may be mistaken, but just as is the practise with the linux kernel, it is not permissible to mix licenses when only interfaces are used, mixing licenses within a gpl licensed software unit is tainting the license but using an exported interface is not. The only thing that would be required would

An observation

2006-09-10 Thread glymr
This incident in germany just highlights something which I think that I would like to raise to the forefront of the tor community's mind, and in fact perhaps this would be well advanced in the entire open source community as a whole. This is a war. We are fighting at the highest level, and this

Re: CCC dirserver gone

2006-09-10 Thread glymr
hehe i was so emphatic! anyway, it still is valid what i said but if i'd realised that CCC meant the chaos computer club i'd have said 'oh wait, i saw that one in my vidalia network viewer app just this morning' BlueStar88 wrote: I would say: up and running router chaoscomputerclub

Re: Tor Defense Fund...an idea.

2006-09-10 Thread glymr
. I think perhaps that better would be to get people to sign on for being part of the class action defense group as a part of running a server. I'm sure this would bring a lot of the broader civil liberties people into the fold. Anothony Georgeo wrote: */glymr [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote

Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France +

2006-05-15 Thread glymr
traffic (and incoming in the case of hidden services). EXIT servers (according to their tested EXIT bandwidth) get First Class, ENTRY Middleman servers get Second Class and Non-server Clients ONLY get Third class. Its an incentive! Would that help you glymr? what would help me is if i could run

Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France

2006-05-15 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Anthony DiPierro wrote: On 5/15/06, Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Ringo Kamens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Also, they can put you on grand jury and give you obstruction of justice for refusing to talk. According to wikipedia

Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France

2006-05-14 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tony wrote: just wanted to suggest that biometrics are not wise for encryption whatsoever. for one thing, they use a software mechanism to 'unlock' and this lock can be bypassed. voiceprint, retina/iris scan, fingerprints, dna, all of these

Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France

2006-05-14 Thread glymr
glymr Ringo Kamens wrote: Also, they can put you on grand jury and give you obstruction of justice for refusing to talk. On 5/14/06, *Eric H. Jung* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, I don't have the time to respond to all the points of your email except

Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France

2006-05-13 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 yeah, i think if i were you, i'd sell all of the hardware they had their hands on for that time asap and get new hardware. there's way too many routes that could be used to compromise the server once it's been in the hands of untrusted people. A

Re: Firefox through Tor

2006-04-28 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Eric H. Jung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello Michaels, I apologize for the delayed reply. Please don't interpret the delay as a lack of interest--it surely isn't. Quoting Mike Perry: Just clearing cookies every