Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-29 Thread Ringo
I was actually thinking Ubuntu but the scripts I'm planning on making should apply pretty universally to any debian-based system. Ringo Ted Smith wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:19 -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: I might be confused but I thought you were writing this for standard Linux

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Humphry
Hi Ringo, Chris wrote a question: 4. Other services which an administrator could offer would be great. Maybe a blog? However, to me the use a forums in OnionLand is most interesting and useful; for example a section of the forums could be a quasi-blog. Ringo wrote an answer: Blog hosting

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-28 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:19 -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: I might be confused but I thought you were writing this for standard Linux installation? Do you mean I can use Ubuntu as the Linux OS? (re: My goal is to make a standard Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP installation) Thanks for your time

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-27 Thread Ringo
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe someone made HS security/usability improvements a while ago which included the username:passphrase option and making it possible to keep the URL hidden from anyone except those who are provided the URL? As far as I know, no such feature has been

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Humphry
Hi Ringo, Thanks for your soon to be improvements!   I have a couple of requests/questions if you do not mind: 1. I believe the current state of Hidden Service (HS) is one where access to an HS can be username:passphrase protected?  Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe someone made

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-01 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Specifically, I will be creating a how-to guide for securing standard LAMP servers as well as a script that will help Linux users set them up. I have a few ideas for locking down apache, php, etc. but I would appreciate any other ideas admins of hidden services have as well as suggestions on

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:59:28 -0400 Ringo 2600den...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be working on improving hidden service security and usability this summer (starting in about three weeks). I'm currently attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and am working on an 'independent contract'

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Ringo
This is actually something that I thought about but I decided to go for Linux for a few reasons. The first one being my own experience in Linux is much greater than that in Windows and the second one being that installing Ubuntu has become easy enough that I suggest it to non-techies. If somebody

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 09:59:28PM -0400, Ringo wrote: I'll be working on improving hidden service security and usability this summer (starting in about three weeks). I'm currently attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA Based on your location, there are two nearby events that

SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-05-24 Thread Ringo
Hey Tor users, I'll be working on improving hidden service security and usability this summer (starting in about three weeks). I'm currently attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and am working on an 'independent contract' which is basically designing a program/class for myself.