[tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-06-28 Thread Yawning Angel
Hello, I have been talking about this in #tor-dev for a while (and pestering people with questions regarding some of the more nuanced aspects of writing a pluggable transport, thanks to nickm, mikeperry and asn for their help), and finally have what I would consider a pre-alpha for the PT implemen

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-02 Thread Ximin Luo
On 28/06/13 10:13, Yawning Angel wrote: > Hello, > > I have been talking about this in #tor-dev for a while (and pestering > people with questions regarding some of the more nuanced aspects of > writing a pluggable transport, thanks to nickm, mikeperry and asn for > their help), and finally have w

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-26 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:13:18AM -0700, Yawning Angel wrote: > obfsproxyssh is a pluggable transport that uses the ssh wire protocol to > hide tor traffic. It uses libssh2 and interacts with a real sshd > located on the bridge side. Behaviorally it is identical to a user > sshing to a host, aut

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-26 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:42:20 +, Ximin Luo wrote: ... > What sort of PKI are you using to verify the pubkey claimed by either side, to > prevent MitM? What for? The authentication happens in the next step, within the OR/bridge protocol. In this case we just have an additional layer of encryptio

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-27 Thread Tom Ritter
On 26 July 2013 23:56, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:42:20 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > ... >> What sort of PKI are you using to verify the pubkey claimed by either side, >> to >> prevent MitM? > > What for? The authentication happens in the next step, > within the OR/bridge protocol.

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-29 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:52:52 +, Tom Ritter wrote: ... > I've always thought with SSH-based obsproxies, that you could > distribute the SSH private key to connect to the server with the > bridge IP address:port. I couldn't quite avoid the reflexive cringe at 'distribute private key'. :-) ... >

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-29 Thread Yawning Angel
On 2013-07-29 00:05, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:52:52 +, Tom Ritter wrote: > ... >> I've always thought with SSH-based obsproxies, that you could >> distribute the SSH private key to connect to the server with the >> bridge IP address:port. > > I couldn't quite avoid the refl