Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-04-02 Thread intrigeri
Hi Mike and fellow Tails developers, Mike Perry wrote (02 Apr 2013 02:55:20 GMT) : > 5. I helped Pearl Crescent get a bunch of feedback on their Tor Launcher > extension at the dev meeting and elsewhere. My current estimation is > that shipping some running code in a TBB-alpha is still more import

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-04-02 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake intrigeri (intrig...@boum.org): > Hi Mike and fellow Tails developers, > > Mike Perry wrote (02 Apr 2013 02:55:20 GMT) : > > 5. I helped Pearl Crescent get a bunch of feedback on their Tor Launcher > > extension at the dev meeting and elsewhere. My current estimation is > > that shippi

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-04-02 Thread adrelanos
Mike Perry: > #8511 might cause you problems if you use a $TOR_SOCKS_PORT env var with > a value other than 9151, though. You may want to either add iptables > redirect rule for 9151 or add an additional SocksPort line to your torrc > rather than messing with TBB's socks port env vars for that reas

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-10-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Mike Perry wrote (02 Apr 2013 08:52:56 GMT) : > #8511 might cause you problems if you use a $TOR_SOCKS_PORT env var with > a value other than 9151, though. You may want to either add iptables > redirect rule for 9151 or add an additional SocksPort line to your torrc > rather than messing with

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-10-22 Thread intrigeri
Hi Mike, hi Pearl Crescent team! Mike Perry wrote (02 Apr 2013 08:52:56 GMT) : > Thus spake intrigeri (intrig...@boum.org): >> 1. Any obvious showstopper, off the top of your head, regarding how >>the Tor Launcher could be usable for Tails? > I think you guys mostly won't use it. Back in Apr

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-10-22 Thread adrelanos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thank you for starting this discussion! intrigeri: > Also, it would be really awesome if all major ways of using Tor > (TBB, Tails, etc.) could provide the same interface for configuring > how Tor should access the network. This would be interestin

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-10-23 Thread Kathleen Brade
On 10/22/13 2:12 PM, intrigeri wrote: ... And then, someone suggested turning Tor Launcher into an autonomous XUL application. I've not thought this through yet, but it does seem this would be enough to allow us to simply s/Vidalia/Tor Launcher/. Are there plans to do so? How hard would you expec

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-10-23 Thread adrelanos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 intrigeri: > The thing is, it seems to me that Tails cannot really use Tor > Launcher in its current state, for a few reasons: > > * we want to stop starting a web browser by default; * we would > rather *not* give the desktop user, that runs the we

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-11-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, thanks for your prompt answer, and sorry for the delay. Kathleen Brade wrote (23 Oct 2013 18:08:23 GMT) : > Can you describe your requirements in more detail? Here are some of our > questions: > - Do you use Vidalia to launch tor (I would guess not) or just as a > controller to > allow pe

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-11-03 Thread intrigeri
adrelanos wrote (23 Oct 2013 20:14:39 GMT) : > What about user customizations in torrc? Where never supported in > Tails? Would be no longer supported? Persistence of torrc? It has always been technically possible (you're root, hey), but customizing torrc was never supported yet, more even so pers

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-11-04 Thread Alan
Hi, > > - What features of Vidalia do you need? Currently, Tor Launcher > > only provides "start tor", network settings, and "Copy Tor Log to > > Clipboard" capabilities. Within the TBB Browser, users can create > > a new identity but that is handled by Tor Button. > > At a glance, I think this

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]

2013-11-04 Thread intrigeri
Alan wrote (03 Nov 2013 20:13:10 GMT) : > Unfortunately I didn't find how to see which stream uses which circuit > with arm, so I'm not sure it could really replace Vidalia's network map. That's arm ticket #5186 [1]. The development wiki [2] reads "Associate streams to circuits" in the "Next relea