[tor-dev] Tor 0.2.6.x now has its own branches

2015-02-24 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Work on the Tor 0.2.6.x release series will proceed on the maint-0.2.6 branch; releases will be build against release-0.2.6. The master branch new has Tor 0.2.7.0-alpha-dev. cheers, -- Nick ___ tor-dev mailing list

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: Ephemeral Hidden Services via the Control Port

2015-02-24 Thread meejah
carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org writes: I like your suggestion, and while we're bikeshedding ;) what if we use the recently-proposed naming system and call it ADD_ONION? Concerning the ephemerality of it, I can imagine services being configured en passant by a cat socket from a

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: Ephemeral Hidden Services via the Control Port

2015-02-24 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:06:37 +, carlo von lynX wrote: the advantages of that aren't obvious to me. why would i need to make every networking app hold the hand of its router to let it know it's still needed? You answer your question yourself: tor is on its way to becoming an AF_TOR -

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Project Idea for GSOC 2015

2015-02-24 Thread meejah
As a followup to this, I told Guatham I would consider mentoring this (pending an actual GSoC project submission). It would be nice to have a co-mentor who has better admin skills that me and ideally who has hosted real onion services in the past to provide perspective on use-cases and needs.

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: Ephemeral Hidden Services via the Control Port

2015-02-24 Thread carlo von lynX
Concerning the ephemerality of it, I can imagine services being configured en passant by a cat socket from a shell script or so, [..] On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 09:05:38PM +0400, meejah wrote: You still need to authenticate. I do like the simplicity, but it will be a little more complex