Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread teor
Libertas, As I wrote to you earlier today, IPredator on Linux complained of similar issues with excessive calls to time() under the Linux 3.x kernel series, but not 2.6. Let's track these issues in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14056 as they appear to be quite similar. I'd l

Re: [tor-dev] high latency hidden services

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Resurrecting a thread from last year... On 11/12/14 16:05, grarpamp wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael Rogers > wrote: >> * Which links should carry chaff? > > First you need it to cover the communicating endpoints entry links > a

[tor-dev] log files on windows

2015-01-01 Thread Tony Willingham
Is there a trick to writing to log files in windows 7? The sample torrc file has this: Log debug file @LOCALSTATEDIR@/log/tor/debug.log I changed mine to this with no success: Log debug file C:\tor\tor_debug.log ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
> I wonder if TIME_IS_FAST is being defined as 1 in any of these Linux or BSD > builds. I just found that the current OpenBSD release (5.6) has TIME_IS_FAST = 0. Details are in a ticket comment I just posted. > Libertas, can you search your tor binary or tor debug symbols for the > function "ap

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
To clarify, I used "strings /usr/local/bin/tor | grep approx_time". signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
Also, I can do some testing with chutney on the OpenBSD VM in a few hours. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: Tor Messenger Alpha

2015-01-01 Thread Arlo Breault
> This little session at 31c3 may be of interest to anyone working on Tor > Messenger. -Jeff > > > > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Messaging > > @Jeff: Is there a summary or notes from the session? > You should think also RFC 1312 for message send protocol. > It is old b

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Dec 31, 2014 10:38 PM, "Yawning Angel" wrote: > > > > I don't think we merged that branch yet, since it's not ready for > general use. Additionally, it's not currently functional on the > *BSDs. The KIST code last I checked only is used under Linux. This is right; the KIST code is not curre

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
I'm working on question #2 now - I'm less well equipped to work on #1 at the moment. It's probably also worth mentioning that the dump with >400,000 calls to gettimeofday() also had 30,714 calls to clock_gettime(). On 01/01/2015 03:47 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2014 10:38 PM, "Yawn

[tor-dev] Tor Cloud Maintenance, revisited

2015-01-01 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Hi Everyone, Happy New Year, first post to the -dev list but I've been running some relays for months[1]. Overall a new user to Tor so feel free to point me elsewhere if I'm asking poor questions. I've noticed that the Tor Cloud project is dead in the water right now. The last post on this list is

Re: [tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
On 01/01/2015 08:07 AM, teor wrote: > I'd like to get a sense of how many calls per second this represents. > (400,000 would seem to be 100 to 1000 per second, unless you were debugging > for a long while.) My kdump suggested that there were almost 7,000 calls a second to gettimeofday(). The deta

[tor-dev] Deadline Approaching: EECEA2015 (Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering and their Applications)

2015-01-01 Thread Jackie Blanco
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[tor-dev] gettimeofday() Syscall Issues

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
On 01/01/2015 03:47 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > What part of tor is accounting for all these time/gettimeofday calls? I set up an OpenBSD 5.6 VM and built Tor 0.2.5.10 on it. I couldn't get chutney working because of a number of strange errors that seemed platform-specific, so I went for a less th

Re: [tor-dev] gettimeofday() Syscall Issues

2015-01-01 Thread Libertas
I also completely forgot to mention this comment: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14056#comment:6 I'll look into doing the replacements. If anyone has concerns about whether approx_time is exact enough, please let me know - I had never heard of it previously. I'll look int