Re: [tor-talk] Scripted installer of Tor and more being worked on at GitHub, ya may want to sit down for this...

2016-01-21 Thread Michael
Hey David, thank you for the link to the Ansible project; I'll be reading up on how they suggest setting up relays and perhaps add in an option for using their code instead if dependences are found to be met on the host system. I may not know the language that they're using but the syntax isn't

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-assistants] Fwd: can you do an EV certificate for a .onion domain?

2016-01-21 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > Fun fact. https://certsimple.com now supports doing Extended > Validation TLS certificates for .onion. You can even get wildcard > certs, ooo! so fancy! > > For some hidden service operators struggling with people

Re: [tor-talk] Scripted installer of Tor and more being worked on at GitHub, ya may want to sit down for this...

2016-01-21 Thread David Stainton
Firstly, I don't think my questions "deserved" such a long reply and it is not my preference to have such a broad spattering of conversation topics... but you started it and so I have tried to reply to your various points. The take-away i get from all of that is that you really like bash and

Re: [tor-talk] Scripted installer of Tor and more being worked on at GitHub, ya may want to sit down for this...

2016-01-21 Thread Michael
Apologies David, I often am to long wended but will endeavor to be a bit more to the point in the future but I may fail as words are an not always the most efficient form of communication. Indeed Bash is what I use because it's what I know. While I've studied a bit of Python (enough to read

Re: [tor-talk] trusting .onion services

2016-01-21 Thread Mirimir
On 01/20/2016 03:29 PM, Oskar Wendel wrote: > What do you all think? I agree that HSDirs are the places to handle this. The network already trusts them not to MitM connections, and send users to malicious HS, right? And I presume that there is testing for dishonest HSDirs. If not, there should

Re: [tor-talk] trusting .onion services

2016-01-21 Thread Lara
Rejo Zenger: >> The user can call the admin and ask the admin to read aloud the key >> fingerprint. > > Yes, I like the idea. Still, I think this is not scalable, do you > think? In this case you will have to trust somebody who has already done that. Maybe. Or probably the one you know trusts