Re: [tor-talk] Building Petnames with DNSSEC...?

2012-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
My take is that [hex].onion is not really a domain name, but an address in a new address family for a different protocol, which has then been stuck into a domain name. So the technically right thing to do, all practical considerations aside, is to define a new family, analagous to A and ,

[tor-talk] reply-to: list surprising on a privacy-centric list

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Troxel
I just sent a private reply to a posting here. I was surprised that reply began to compose a message to the list instead of to the individual sender as it should have, but did notice in time. The problem of course is the Reply-To: header that points to the list. I know there are pro and anti

Re: [tor-talk] Deterministic builds?

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Troxel
We believe that Windows and Mac OS X both produce build results that are extremely difficult to verify. On Gnu/Linux sometimes the build results are difficult to verify. I am not crystal clear on all the details, but NetBSD has recently undergone a perhaps-similar effort, with the goal

[tor-talk] GNU make required?

2011-09-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Someone updated the pkgsrc entry for tor to 0.2.2.32, and on NetBSD/i386 5.1ish it failed to build. The complaint was about not knowing how to build libtor.a. Switching to GNU make (from BSD make, which is 'make') resulted in a build which seems to work (and passes make check). The

Re: [tor-talk] Torbutton 1.4.1 Released

2011-08-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Mike Perry mikepe...@fscked.org writes: However, the New Identity button and the Hotmail fix are only available to Tor Browser Bundle users. If you are still using Torbutton with a vanilla Mozilla Firefox, we strongly recommend you download the Tor Browser Bundle 2.2.x alphas from

Re: [tor-talk] To Toggle, or not to Toggle: The End of Torbutton

2011-04-12 Thread Greg Troxel
The reason I am discussing this in so much detail here is because I believe there is a chance that there are users out there who rely on the toggle model and/or their OS Firefox build, and may be confused or enraged by the new model. I'm asking this list to get an idea of how many of