Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread Michael Holstein
Just a quick question. I thought that the encryption system used was based on factoring a large prime. If so, won't it become obsolete when quantum computers become available? That is something that I expect to see in this lifetime. At which point folks will switch to ECC (like the NSA already d

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:44:18AM -0700, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > Just a quick question. I thought that the encryption system used was > based on factoring a large prime. If so, won't it become obsolete when > quantum computers become available? That is something that I expect to

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
> Will they be able to decrypt the data from a middle node? Not in this lifetime. Just a quick question. I thought that the encryption system used was based on factoring a large prime. If so, won't it become obsolete when quantum computers become available? That is something that I expect to se

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:17:39AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A list of ISPs with which Tor node operators have had experience with > > can be found at > > http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs > > It's not editable or I'd add Cyberonic to the the list of GOOD ISPs

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread brianwc
> A list of ISPs with which Tor node operators have had experience with > can be found at > http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs It's not editable or I'd add Cyberonic to the the list of GOOD ISPs. They are now on the COVAD backbone, so you should be able to get service fro

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-29 Thread Michael Holstein
Do ISPs really care about whether people run servers on residential accounts Depends on who you ask .. but generally, as long as you pay your bill and you don't make them do paperwork on your behalf (eg: DMCA crapola), they ignore it. do they scan ports? If so, how often? Again .. depends

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-28 Thread Freemor
All the replies prior to this one are quite good.. I just wanted to add one other thing you might need to watch for. Bandwidth shaping. I ran a Tor server for a short while on my home isp account.. they didn't do anything formal to complain. However, after running it for a while (couple of month) I

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-28 Thread phobos
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:58:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.4K bytes in 19 lines about: : I have Verizon DSL 3Mbps/768Kbps that I want to run a Tor middle-node server on. However Verizon's TOS prohibit any kind of servers. Do ISPs really care about whether people run servers on residenti

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:58:19PM -0700, Rouslan Nabioullin wrote: > I have Verizon DSL 3Mbps/768Kbps that I want to run a Tor middle-node >server on. However Verizon's TOS prohibit any kind of servers. Do ISPs >really care about whether people run servers on residential accounts It depends a lot

Re: ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-28 Thread Ringo Kamens
It depends on how much traffic you are pulling. They will not be able to decrypt the information, however that doesn't mean they can't terminate your account. If you upload significantly more than you DL, then you are technically a server. Chances are they have a "but we can terminate your account

ISP TOS restrictions on servers

2007-05-28 Thread Rouslan Nabioullin
I have Verizon DSL 3Mbps/768Kbps that I want to run a Tor middle-node server on. However Verizon's TOS prohibit any kind of servers. Do ISPs really care about whether people run servers on residential accounts and do they scan ports? If so, how often? Will they be able to decrypt the data from a