Re: Need help with MPAA threats

2008-12-15 Thread tor user
--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Sven Anderson wrote: > As long as you allow > arbitrary ports your bandwidth is always maxed out because > of file transfers. If you only allow port 80 you have a very > erratic bandwidth usage. So if you have only port 80 open, your connection is being under-utilized. > Of

Re: Need help with MPAA threats

2008-12-14 Thread tor user
This: > I just wish there were a better way to > inspect the > traffic and disallow certain traffic. seems to contradict: > Don't get me > wrong, I'm not > advocating that any relay inspect any traffic, Do you mean you want a way to *automatically*, without recording/logging/inspecting persona

Re: Firefox sends your uptime

2008-04-05 Thread tor user
> Mozilla Firefox sends your computer's uptime while > establishing TLS > (SSL) connection. This could be used to correlate anonymous > traffic with > non-anonymous (e.g. LAN traffic) by correlating intercepted > uptime > values (or to search the originator of anonymous traffic by > correlating > u

Is heavy dirport traffic normal?

2008-02-20 Thread tor user
Is it normal for dirport connections to consume 4x-5x as much bandwidth as orport connections use on a server? Whenever I enable the dirport I see my outgoing traffic dominated by dirport connections. B

Re: many scrubbed connections on tor relay running v0.2.0.19-alpha (r13450)

2008-02-20 Thread tor user
> Yes, I got the messages as well. The solution is: > the machine > geoip.vidalia-project.net runs on had a hardware > problem yesterday and isn't > fixed yet and therefore not reachable. After setting SafeLogging 0 as Roger suggested, I see that it is geoip.vidalia-project.net too.

Re: many scrubbed connections on tor relay running v0.2.0.19-alpha (r13450)

2008-02-20 Thread tor user
--- john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, vidalia 0.0.16.0 has crashed twice since I > began running this > version of Tor from around 07:00 on Tue, Feb 12, > 2008. First time was > 14/02/2008 & again on 19/02/2008. I have some logs > from the Event > Viewer if this is useful let me know &

Re: many scrubbed connections on tor relay running v0.2.0.19-alpha (r13450)

2008-02-20 Thread tor user
I get the hourly scrubbed messages too. This instance of Tor is only being used as a server and not a client, so I don't expect to see these messages. What could be going on? Feb 20 00:11:51.103 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address '[scrubbed]' at 3 different places. Giving up.

Re: Input required on Secure Wiki project

2008-01-16 Thread tor user
--- tor user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Imagine what someone was doing with your new IP > address the few hours before you had control of it, > or > the few hours after you release it, when such errors > can happen. Oops, sent the email too soon. I wanted to add: I woul

Re: Input required on Secure Wiki project

2008-01-16 Thread tor user
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > that's wrong: TOR also countermeasures traffic > analysis and other sorts of information > abuse. > That's why i'm using TOR also for IRC and ICQ. > To countermeasure taking a public IP number e. g. > from an email header into a log file > via an editor (e. g. for

Re: (tor + linux).install()

2008-01-04 Thread tor user
--- Jon McLachlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.ta

Re: We're missing a certificate from authority lefkada with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.

2008-01-01 Thread tor user
Sorry, I'd forgotten to mention that this was with the latest Tor 0.2.0.15-alpha. Though, the messages do not appear anymore, so it looks like the poblem with the authority is fixed. Be a better frien

We're missing a certificate from authority lefkada with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.

2007-12-30 Thread tor user
Just started up my Tor client today and saw this repeating in my log. Why are there signing keys made up of zeroes? Is this a serious error, or just a printing issue? It has been happening once or twice per minute since I started it up. Dec 30 19:38:49.286 [Notice] We're missing a certificate fro

Re: is Java unsafe to use with Tor?

2007-10-21 Thread tor user
--- Paolo Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if you're actually coding the program > or not. Yup. Well, it is just something that I am experimenting on. > If you do, > then you should probably have a look at the > ProxySelector class: > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/jav

Re: is Java unsafe to use with Tor?

2007-10-20 Thread tor user
--- tor user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I don't want to VNC all the traffic from > this system to the proxy, anyway). Sorry to reply to myself. Of course, I meant to say VPN, not VNC. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!

Re: is Java unsafe to use with Tor?

2007-10-20 Thread tor user
--- James Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Java is not safe to use with Tor, or any other > proxy-based anonymity > system. It is possible for applets to override any > proxy settings you > might have set (i.e. an applet running in your > browser can disregard > your proxy settings and make a

is Java unsafe to use with Tor?

2007-10-20 Thread tor user
Greetings, (I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place to discuss this, but it pertains to using proxies in Java in a possibly unsafe manner, and this sort of thing seems to only matter to users of Tor) If I hava a Java program, and I do something like the following: Properties systemSett

Stealing Wheelbarrows and Nazis.. was Re: "Secondary" ways to preserve Tor anonymity/integrity

2007-03-25 Thread tor user
.. a tor user ps think nazis and the stealing wheelbarrows joke.. Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: > Would it be off topic to discuss how various people obtain > privacy/security in the "real world" as a way to better preserve it > for the on-line world? I think this is a critica

www.dd-wrt.com instead of sveasoft nongpl compliance and nonsource availability Re: Some networking questions

2007-02-01 Thread tor user
Sveasoft is basically bug ridden and they like to lock binaries to mac addresses(this is supposed to be GPL???) try instead www.dd-wrt.com.. ful gpl compliance and works much better than sveasoft.. a former very unhappy sveasoft customer.. Tony wrote: > 1. a) Approx 50 metres. Depends on

what happened to the hidden wiki??

2006-12-01 Thread tor user
is it just me or has the hidden-wiki disappeared? a tor user wishes to know

Re: TOR on Academic networks (problem)

2006-05-17 Thread Tor User
Good idea. How can I do this without also breaking DNS lookups? I am not sure if the following would work, but it is what I would try first. With a bit of luck someone else can suggest a better solution, or at least warn you if mine has an obvious fatal flaw. Anyway, as long as you don't mind that

Re: TOR on Academic networks (problem)

2006-05-17 Thread Tor User
On 5/17/06, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006, Michael Holstein wrote:> >You are hurting the Tor network more than you realize.  You are lying to> >clients and clients cache that answer.  Don't do this.  I don't think it is as bad as that, seeing as the 'blocked' addre

Re: Some simple changes to the tor architecture I believe may greatly improve it

2006-05-15 Thread Tor User
2. Make all clients run a 1.5kb/s server as a minimum by default. Themore nodes the better the anonymity. Make this serving behaviour mandatory as a minimum contribution to the network for any person usingit (see below for an idea of how to eliminate any node not relayingtraffic below) Few ISPs wi

Re: FreeCap and a Tor server – good combination?

2006-05-02 Thread Tor User
connecting to) as well as monitoring my computer (to see where the connections to my server came from)?Watson Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because anyone observing the SOCKS server will be able to see what you are doing just as well as if it was your computer.On 4/28/06, Tor User &l

Re: FreeCap and a Tor server – good combination?

2006-04-28 Thread Tor User
nt is being used. Tor uses multiple endpoints for sucessive connections to avoid tracking a connection.On 4/27/06, Tor User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been running an Tor server (middleman only) for a while and I've been wondering about using FreeCap and an account on an SSH

Re: Tor client over a SOCKS proxy, and Tor client running through another Tor Circuit

2006-04-27 Thread Tor User
came from (to my knowledge). It does work on normal socks proxy chains because they aren't blind and many keep logs.   Ringo   On 4/27/06, Tor User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the response.  Just to clarify, I wasn't refering to routing other users circuts

Re: Tor client over a SOCKS proxy, and Tor client running through another Tor Circuit

2006-04-27 Thread Tor User
as the exit point several times 3. It doesn't increase anonymity (perhaps generating cover traffic would be better) 4. Why don't you have your server fetch some SOCKS proxies from google and then route users through those instead?  On 4/27/06, Tor User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Tor client over a SOCKS proxy, and Tor client running through another Tor Circuit

2006-04-27 Thread Tor User
I’m wondering what the anonynimity implications the following:1) Running Tor using Freecap:  By this I mean running a Tor client and using FreeCap to transparently redirect all of Tor’s network connections through a SOCKS proxy.  This seems to work, and ‘feels’ just like using Tor in the standa

FreeCap and a Tor server � good combination?

2006-04-27 Thread Tor User
I’ve been running an Tor server (middleman only) for a while and I’ve been wondering about using FreeCap and an account on an SSH server that has a SOCKS proxy to tunnel my Tor server’s connections over an SSH tunnel to the SOCKS proxy running on that SSH server.  Hopefully I explained that cl