Re: [tor-dev] Rewrite Tor Weather Project

2014-05-01 Thread Abhiram Chintangal
Jonathan, Glad that you are interested in working on Weather. Your experience with Django can certainly come in handy. The wiki-page[1] for the project houses all the information you need to get started. It has links to the repositories and tickets that we are working on. I beleive that regular

[tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
Hello everyone, Last week I introduced myself [0] on this list, shortly after being accepted into GSoC to work on Consensus Diffs. My GSoC proposal is heavily based on the Tor proposal #140 [1], which is close to being six years old now. This is why, after some discussion with Nick, Sebastian and

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Daniel Martí wrote: > * Regarding their size, #140 suggests that they are not useful past 16 > hours. I thought we could compare the compressed size of the diffs > when creating them, since they may be of use for a longer time. We > could do this rela

Re: [tor-dev] Rewrite Tor Weather Project

2014-05-01 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 01/05/14 08:33, Abhiram Chintangal wrote: > Jonathan, > > Glad that you are interested in working on Weather. Your experience with > Django can certainly come in handy. > > The wiki-page[1] for the project houses all the information you need to > get started. It has links to the repositories a

[tor-dev] Tor Specs

2014-05-01 Thread Ahmed
Hello Everyone, Is this the latest version of Tor specification protocol? https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=tor-spec.txt -- Ahmed ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-b

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Specs

2014-05-01 Thread Lunar
Ahmed: > Is this the latest version of Tor specification protocol? > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=tor-spec.txt You will find the latest specifications in that Git repository, yes. -- Lunar signature.asc Descrip

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Daniel Martí wrote: >> * Regarding their size, #140 suggests that they are not useful past 16 >> hours. I thought we could compare the compressed size of the diffs >> when creating them, since t

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Last week I introduced myself [0] on this list, shortly after being > accepted into GSoC to work on Consensus Diffs. My GSoC proposal is > heavily based on the Tor proposal #140 [1], which is close to being six > years old n

[tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi adrelanos, I just noticed that Whonix uses Stem. That's great! Just a few quick thoughts... https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/whonix_shared/usr/lib/whonixcheck/help_check_tor_bootstrap.py > with Controller.from_port(port = p) as controller: > > if os.path.exists("/usr/share/whonix

Re: [tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi Damian, thank you for your e-mail! That script is stable, no bug reports in a while, stem is working fine. :) That authentication line and "password" is only in there to make stem happy. help_check_tor_bootstrap.py/stem isn't "really" using Tor's control port. It connects to Control Port Filt

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:27:38 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > One alternative in this case would be to include non-running relays in > the consensus. This would make each individual consensus longer, but > (if your guess is right) might make compressed diffs shorter. That's an interesting idea.

Re: [tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Damian Johnson
> That script is stable, no bug reports in a while, stem is working fine. :) Great! > That authentication line and "password" is only in there to make stem > happy. Stem should be perfectly fine without providing a password (that's an optional argument). If your proxy handles the authentication

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:37:12 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > I think the only change we'll need for this case is to add URLs for > the microdescriptor consensus diffs. Cool. > This nice thing about this approach is that the client doesn't need to > know whether the directory supports consensus

[tor-dev] Damian's Status Report - April 2014

2014-05-01 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi all. This April's status report is gonna be short and sweet. The bulk of my time went toward Google Summer of Code student selection. I'm delighted to announce that we have thirteen great students working with us this summer (twelve with Tor and one with the EFF)! This is twice as many as last y

Re: [tor-dev] Rewrite Tor Weather Project

2014-05-01 Thread Jonathan Baker
Thanks for the welcome. I registered on Trac as jondbaker, but upon authenticating don't see a link/button to edit the overview page and add myself as a contributor. After reviewing the tickets tagged weather-rewrite, I think #11141 would be a good place to start. Writing unit (and potentially int

Re: [tor-dev] Rewrite Tor Weather Project

2014-05-01 Thread meejah
Jonathan Baker writes: > Thanks for the welcome. I registered on Trac as jondbaker, but upon > authenticating don't see a link/button to edit the overview page and > add myself as a contributor. It's at the very bottom. > After reviewing the tickets tagged weather-rewrite, I think #11141 > woul

Re: [tor-dev] Hidden Service Scaling

2014-05-01 Thread waldo
El 30/04/14 17:06, Christopher Baines escribió: On 08/10/13 06:52, Christopher Baines wrote: I have been looking at doing some work on Tor as part of my degree, and more specifically, looking at Hidden Services. One of the issues where I believe I might be able to make some progress, is the Hidd

[tor-dev] GSoC Project: A Lightweight Censorship Analyzer for Tor

2014-05-01 Thread Jacob H. Haven
Hi Everyone, I'm a student completing my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Stanford. This summer I'm going to be working with Tor for Google Summer of Code 2014. I'll be packaging a tool to allow non-technical users to monitor censorship of Tor occurring in their country/network My project

[tor-dev] Trac accounts and potential account compromise

2014-05-01 Thread Erinn Clark
Dear Tor Trac users, We learned on recently that there was a bug in our Trac setup that allowed anyone to register a new user account for an existing user name, overwriting the existing user's password and thereby taking over the account [0]. A workaround was quickly implemented by weasel to prev

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-talk] Trac accounts and potential account compromise

2014-05-01 Thread Erinn Clark
* Erinn Clark [2014:05:01 22:41 -0400]: > Dear Tor Trac users, > > We learned on recently that there was a bug in our Trac setup that allowed > anyone to register a new user account for an existing user name, overwriting > the existing user's password and thereby taking over the account [0]. I