Re: [tor-dev] Temporary decrease in FTE users in late August?

2014-09-17 Thread Kevin P Dyer
Hi David, I don't believe it has anything to do with bridges being blocked. Here's what I know: There was a few days downtime at the end of August for the first-listed FTE bridge in the Tor Browser. However, not all FTE bridges listed in the Tor Browser were down at that time. It should have

Re: [tor-dev] Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script

2014-09-17 Thread George Kadianakis
Damian Johnson ata...@torproject.org writes: - Q: Why do you slow stem instead of parsing consensuses with Python on your own? This is another part where I might have taken the wrong design decision, but I decided to not get into the consensus parsing business and just rely on stem. This

Re: [tor-dev] Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script

2014-09-17 Thread George Kadianakis
Sebastian Hahn sebast...@torproject.org writes: On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:15, George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: How guardiness works The idea was that the guardiness script will be an external script that is run by Tor in a similar fashion to the bandwidth auth scripts. We

Re: [tor-dev] Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script

2014-09-17 Thread Tim
On 17 Sep 2014, at 22:00 , George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: Sebastian Hahn sebast...@torproject.org writes: On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:15, George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: How the guardiness script will be deployed The idea is that dirauths will add another

Re: [tor-dev] Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script

2014-09-17 Thread Damian Johnson
FWIW, turning off validation helps a bit but not too much. For example, my laptop parsing 24 consensuses with validation takes 25 seconds, and if we disable validation it takes 22 seconds. This means that to reach the rate of 120~ consensuses a second with parse_file(), we need to make it

[tor-dev] Gitian Build Issue - Tor Browser

2014-09-17 Thread SiNA Rabbani
Dear Team, I need some help getting gitian-build to work for the Tor Browser. Can anyone help with this error please? ./mkbundle-windows.sh adding: Docs/ (stored 0%) adding: Docs/ChangeLog.txt (deflated 68%) adding: Docs/Licenses/ (stored 0%) adding: Docs/Licenses/Firefox.txt (deflated

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Issue - Tor Browser

2014-09-17 Thread SiNA Rabbani
Hi, Here is the last 20 lines: root@matrix:/opt/dist/noushafarin/gitian-builder/var# tail -n 20 build.log + xargs touch '--date=2000-01-01 00:00:00' + ./configure --disable-asciidoc --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-libevent-dir=/home/ubuntu/install/libevent

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Issue - Tor Browser

2014-09-17 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:11:29PM -0700, SiNA Rabbani wrote: Here is the last 20 lines: root@matrix:/opt/dist/noushafarin/gitian-builder/var# tail -n 20 build.logĀ  + xargs touch '--date=2000-01-01 00:00:00' + ./configure --disable-asciidoc --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-libevent-dir=/

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-17 Thread Tom Ritter
On 15 September 2014 21:12, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: Since meek works differently than obfs3, for example, it doesn't help us to have hundreds of medium-fast bridges. We need one (or maybe two or three) big fat fast relays, because all the traffic that is bounced through App

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-17 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:05:39PM -0500, Tom Ritter wrote: On 15 September 2014 21:12, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: Since meek works differently than obfs3, for example, it doesn't help us to have hundreds of medium-fast bridges. We need one (or maybe two or three) big fat