[tor-talk] webfingerprinting against Tor user and padding

2015-12-14 Thread tor_talk
hi Tor talkers fyi https://securewww.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2456.pdf A Critical Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Attacks padding - BuFLO, CS-BuFLO, Tamaraw https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-July/007246.html - fill the gaps with generic patterns of the no

Re: [tor-talk] Why is 'Wgm' (middle-relay-for-guard weight) not zero?

2015-12-14 Thread starlight
Just scanned through all the material and did find anything that directly discusses the question: _specifically_ why is the weight of middle relays for USE AS A GUARD not zero? The 'Wgm' parameter is described as Wgm - Weight for non-flagged nodes in the guard Position The fix for bug #17

Re: [tor-talk] Why is 'Wgm' (middle-relay-for-guard weight) not zero?

2015-12-14 Thread starlight
At 03:14 12/15/2015 +0100, you wrote: >hi starlight >. . . >there are several possible answers for such a purpose Thank you for the links! I see why this question did not yield to simple web searching. . . Will take a couple of days to digest the material. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@l

[tor-talk] Why is 'Wgm' (middle-relay-for-guard weight) not zero?

2015-12-14 Thread tor_talk
hi starlight to your text > it seems that middle relays have a weight equal to guard relays when guard > selection occurs [...] > ... understand the purpose there are several possible answers for such a purpose https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters

Re: [tor-talk] Machine readable index of stable/unstable release versions

2015-12-14 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:56:57PM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: > Just my 2 cents, if you move to something like github's "latest" binary > releases approach for projects, it works really well. > > I do that for a few of mine and it works great. As simple as a latest.zip > that is them most rec

Re: [tor-talk] Machine readable index of stable/unstable release versions

2015-12-14 Thread Scfith Rise up
Just my 2 cents, if you move to something like github's "latest" binary releases approach for projects, it works really well. I do that for a few of mine and it works great. As simple as a latest.zip that is them most recent version binary for Linux, OSX, & Windows. > On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:45

Re: [tor-talk] Machine readable index of stable/unstable release versions

2015-12-14 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:55:39PM +0100, MacLemon wrote: > I???d like to automate notifications about official new tor stable/unstable > source versions like they???re linked on the downloads page. I???d like to > regularly grab the versions and alert if the published version is newer than > wh

[tor-talk] Machine readable index of stable/unstable release versions

2015-12-14 Thread MacLemon
Hoi! I’d like to automate notifications about official new tor stable/unstable source versions like they’re linked on the downloads page. I’d like to regularly grab the versions and alert if the published version is newer than what I have. Is there a URL where I can grab these version numbers