Re: [tor-dev] Improving the structure of indirect-connection PTs (meek/flashproxy)

2014-04-16 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:51:20PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > As a side point though, I realised another issue for flashproxy. At > the moment, the PT client sets the facilitator (the controller) on the > command line. This means we can't use Bridges that come from different > facilitators. Meek see

Re: [tor-dev] Heard of the Net Mundial meeting next week?

2014-04-16 Thread MSvB
Hi list, On Wed., Apr. 16, 2014, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >On 4/16/14, grarpamp wrote: >>> [1] http://www.netmundial.br/ >>> >I'll be there - I land in Brazil on Saturday and I'll be there >for around a week. I expect to have a lot of discussions about the >importance of Free Software, the need for

Re: [tor-dev] Heard of the Net Mundial meeting next week?

2014-04-16 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 4/16/14, grarpamp wrote: >> [1] http://www.netmundial.br/ >> [2] >> http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/unesco-comprehensive-study-on-internet-related-issues-draft-concept-paper-proposed-by-the-secretariat-for-consultations/155/ > I'll be there - I land in Brazil on Saturday and I'll be

Re: [tor-dev] Named pipes with tor

2014-04-16 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:28:17PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:32 AM, carlo von lynX > > wrote: > > [...] > >> So the question is, would it be okay to catch ESPIPE in > >> all cases, thus having it ignored in

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Challenge for onboarding developers?

2014-04-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Helder Ribeiro wrote: > The Eudyptula Challenge is for kernel hacking and was inspired by the > Matasano Challenges. > > I hear that several patches are already being submitted to the Linux > kernel thanks to its "onboarding process" nature. > > http://eudyptula-ch

Re: [tor-dev] Improving the structure of indirect-connection PTs (meek/flashproxy)

2014-04-16 Thread Ximin Luo
On 16/04/14 16:24, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 16/04/14 16:11, Ximin Luo wrote: >> On 16/04/14 15:56, George Kadianakis wrote: >>> Ximin Luo writes: >>> >>> Hm, but this kind of kills the magic of indirect PTs, right? That is, >>> users who want to use flashproxy in the way above, will have to know >>>

Re: [tor-dev] Improving the structure of indirect-connection PTs (meek/flashproxy)

2014-04-16 Thread Ximin Luo
On 16/04/14 15:56, George Kadianakis wrote: > Ximin Luo writes: > >> >> >> >> So instead of having, as currently: >> >> (old, hacky) Bridge flashproxy (dummy addr) >> >> We would have the following cases: >> >> (1) Bridge flashproxy (real addr) >> (2) Bridge flashproxy (real addr) (fingerprint)

Re: [tor-dev] Improving the structure of indirect-connection PTs (meek/flashproxy)

2014-04-16 Thread Ximin Luo
On 16/04/14 16:11, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 16/04/14 15:56, George Kadianakis wrote: >> Ximin Luo writes: >> >> Hm, but this kind of kills the magic of indirect PTs, right? That is, >> users who want to use flashproxy in the way above, will have to know >> an address or a fingerprint of the bridge be

Re: [tor-dev] Improving the structure of indirect-connection PTs (meek/flashproxy)

2014-04-16 Thread George Kadianakis
Ximin Luo writes: > ## Background > > Pluggable Transports are proxy programs that help users bypass censorship. > > [App client] -> XXX EVIL CENSOR HAS YOU XXX ACCESS DENIED XXX > [App client] -> [PT client] -> (the cloud!) -> [PT server] -> [App server] > > The structural design, on the client

Re: [tor-dev] Heard of the Net Mundial meeting next week?

2014-04-16 Thread grarpamp
> [1] http://www.netmundial.br/ > [2] > http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/unesco-comprehensive-study-on-internet-related-issues-draft-concept-paper-proposed-by-the-secretariat-for-consultations/155/ The full paper is at wikileaks. ___ tor-dev ma

[tor-dev] Heard of the Net Mundial meeting next week?

2014-04-16 Thread MSvB
Hello list, There's a meeting [1] of one or two dozen delegate countries relating to Internet governance in Sao Paulo next week. A typical discussion topic is UNESCO's proposal [2] (search for 'privacy' or 'anonymity'.) Maybe a little off topic here, but this could be considered of peripheral i

[tor-dev] Tor Challenge for onboarding developers?

2014-04-16 Thread Helder Ribeiro
The Eudyptula Challenge is for kernel hacking and was inspired by the Matasano Challenges. I hear that several patches are already being submitted to the Linux kernel thanks to its "onboarding process" nature. http://eudyptula-challenge.org/ Would something like this make sense for Tor? Is there