Re: [tor-dev] Dormant Mode and pluggable transports

2018-12-13 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hi, On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 04:15:56PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: > If transports need to become dormant too, then there needs to be some > way for tor to tell them to be. Now that https://bugs.torproject.org/28179 > (Handle output from PT processes with the event loop) is almost > finished,

[tor-dev] Dormant Mode and pluggable transports

2018-12-13 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:56:50PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: > == Compatibility issues > > I see two issues here: one minor, and one major. > > Minor issue: some applications periodically make requests to the tor > network on their own -- for example, Tor Browser's update requests. > These

[tor-dev] Upcoming Tor change with application impact: "Dormant Mode"

2018-12-13 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hello! This email is about a new feature that has some implications here for applications that use Tor. I want to make sure we've thought about and prepared for those implications, since we still have time to tweak this feature. == Overview In 0.4.0.x, Tor will begin supporting a new "dormant"

[tor-dev] Update on Guardian Project Pluggable Transport work

2018-12-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The Guardian Project "PLUTO" project is our name for the work we're doing around Pluggable Transports. If you want to follow this work more closely, you can ask n8fr8 to add you to our semi-private PLUTO mailing list. n8fr8 is currently working on integrating PTs into Android apps in a reusable

Re: [tor-dev] prob_distr.c: LogLogistic fails stochastic tests on 32-bits mingw

2018-12-13 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:25:30 + > From: Taylor R Campbell > > Binary80 arithmetic tickled a problem in the lerp used for binning -- > [...] Correction: while making the lerp less naive addresses this problem, it also arises only when binary80 arithmetic and binary64 arithmetic are