[tor-dev] Some Gosling Updates!

2024-07-05 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hi Everyone! It's been a minute since the last time I posted to this list about Gosling (December, 2021 what the actual heck: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2021-December/014684.html ). Well, since then I have been quite busy leading the applications team and shipping

[tor-dev] Applications team no longer updating gitolite repos

2022-12-06 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hi everyone, With the 12.0 release almost out the door, the applications team will no longer be pushing commits to our git.torproject.org (gitolite) repos. All future code updates will only be pushed to our various gitlab.torproject.org (Gitlab) repos. best, -Richard

Re: [tor-dev] tor-browser-build : any way to get it to use system packages for building?

2022-06-14 Thread Richard Pospesel
So the purpose of tor-browser-build is to two-fold: 1. Providing a system which can reproducibly build tor-browser for all of our platforms, this necessitates ensuring every builder is building using the same toolchain, libs, dependencies, etc (which does necessitate downloading and validating

Re: [tor-dev] Gosling onion-to-onion specifications

2022-03-20 Thread Richard Pospesel
14:51, Richard Pospesel wrote: Hi tor-dev, As part of my work with Blueprint for Free Speech, I recently gave a short presentation during the 2021 state-of-the-onion where we announced Gosling ( see https://youtu.be/mNhIjtXuVzk?t=8155 ). If you missed the talk, the tldr; is that we're

[tor-dev] Gosling onion-to-onion specifications

2021-12-07 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hi tor-dev, As part of my work with Blueprint for Free Speech, I recently gave a short presentation during the 2021 state-of-the-onion where we announced Gosling ( see https://youtu.be/mNhIjtXuVzk?t=8155 ). If you missed the talk, the tldr; is that we're developing a specification and

[tor-dev] Mostly Automatic Censorship Circumvention in Tor Browser

2021-07-08 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hi Everyone, As part of our Sponsor 30 work, we are looking to improve the new about:torconnect experience by adding automatic tor settings configuration for censorship circumvention. This document outlines and discusses the *technical* challenges associated with this work, and does not go into

[tor-dev] SOOC (Same Origin Onion Certificates) discussion tomorrow

2020-03-09 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hi Everyone, The current UX situation around HTTPS-enabled onionsites is not the best: Tor Browser shows security warning splash screens and icons in scenarios that do not warrant them. On top of that, the only way for your onion site to not show these warnings is by getting an EV cert which is

Re: [tor-dev] introduce some customization on the tbb

2019-11-21 Thread Richard Pospesel
I think a 'restart tor daemon' (with user-friendly language) in about:preferences#tor under 'Advanced' could be a potentially useful addition. On 11/15/19 11:13 AM, d...@foundingdocuments.org wrote: > I bring this up in this thread because of its timeliness. Please excuse > me if you are

Re: [tor-dev] introduce some customization on the tbb

2019-11-14 Thread Richard Pospesel
ge is already available inside tbb > > 5) entry, middle and exit countries will fill the torrc with user > selected options > > based on the commit you mentioned forĀ  "about:preferences#tor pane", i > believe that commit is the right place i should start coding. > >

Re: [tor-dev] introduce some customization on the tbb

2019-11-13 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hey Sarpedon, The tor-browser-build project ( https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/ ) can be used to build tor-browser for all the various environments, and you can updated the /projects/firefox/config file to point to your own git repo and commit for development.

Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Richard Pospesel
Yeah same, this convo went from 'wow an interesting discussion about allocators' to 'fuck you Tom' real quick and without provocation. From a human standpoint, maybe try and be your best self? Or (if you prefer) from a practical standpoint, maybe berating on one of the devs that would be

Re: [tor-dev] #3600 tech doc

2019-01-18 Thread Richard Pospesel
e session. I hope that clears things up. best, - -Richard On 1/11/19 9:05 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: > Richard Pospesel: >> And here's a link that actually works: >> https://storm.torproject.org/shared/Kw99Ow0ExZFFC6FKD5CeryfVFAoAL9Z_iEVlflI0fiL > > Thanks for collecting and

Re: [tor-dev] #3600 tech doc

2018-10-29 Thread Richard Pospesel
And here's a link that actually works: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/Kw99Ow0ExZFFC6FKD5CeryfVFAoAL9Z_iEVlflI0fiL On 10/26/18 1:34 PM, Richard Pospesel wrote: > Hey y'all, > > For the past little while I've been working on a technical overview doc for > #3600 (Prevent re

[tor-dev] #3600 tech doc

2018-10-26 Thread Richard Pospesel
Hey y'all, For the past little while I've been working on a technical overview doc for #3600 (Prevent redirects from transmitting+storing cookies+identifiers) detailing the problems, scenarios and possible solutions. Please take a look and feel free to comment, edit or add! Link: