Re: [tor-talk] MITM attack on TLS

2015-11-18 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 11/18/2015 04:36 PM, Justin Davis wrote: I just learned that the IT department of an organization where I am will begin mass decryption on TLS traffic. Would this effect the use of the Meek pluggable transport? Just to give more information, the attack will be done by having every network

[tor-talk] Current RPMs re-siged with new key

2015-08-16 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, as I was announcing few days ago, RPM keys rotated. Since there seems to be bug in repo_gpgcheck validation of repomd.xml.asc, I regenerated repo and package signatures. Both 0.2.6.10 and 0.2.7.2 were re-signed. The new key's fingerprint is: E273 44C4 BD24 BEDF E4F4 C741 803F EFB7 F4B8

[tor-talk] Key rotation - new key for future RPM packages

2015-08-10 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, since the old RPM key signing key expires today, so I created a new one with following fingerprint: E273 44C4 BD24 BEDF E4F4 C741 803F EFB7 F4B8 5E0F The Tor RPM page is updated with the new fingerprint for double-checking (https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en). The new key is at

Re: [tor-talk] Crasher in tor browser alpha when playing videos

2015-05-21 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 05/19/2015 12:57 AM, Christian Stadelmann wrote: Thank you, that's exactly the bug I am running into. Thanks for the links anyway! In my case, removing the gstreamer-ffmpeg package fixed the problem. That was EL6 case. You didn't specify which distro you used, but if gstreamer-ffmpeg isn't

Re: [tor-talk] tor v0.2.5.x hits 'stable' repos / ControlPort auth behaviour change?

2014-10-24 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 10/23/2014 10:44 PM, Nusenu wrote: I use vidalia to connect to a system tor (via HashedControlPassword authentication). Regarding the control port I had the following two lines in my torrc: ControlPort 9051 HashedControlPassword x after the upgrade to tor 0.2.5.9-rc vidalia

[tor-talk] RPM packages available also for EL7 (RHEL 7, CentOS 7)

2014-07-30 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, since the latest versions - 0.2.4.23 stable and 0.2.5.6 beta - there are EL7 packages available. I did some testing on CentOS 7 VM installation and they seem to work fine. Let me know if something is broken. The howto is added onto the usual RPM page:

Re: [tor-talk] Tor DNS

2014-07-30 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, On 07/30/2014 01:43 PM, Mike Fikuart wrote: I am aware that there is a Project Idea (under https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#improvedDnsSupport) point q. Improved DNS support for Tor; I am the author of the proposal 219. If you want DNS, you can make it work today

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-29 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 03/29/2014 01:34 PM, Kus wrote: FYI, today OpenDNS and Google public DNS servers are blocked too. Other than that, they're redirecting DNS queries to ISP servers automatically if you try to use Google or OpenDNS servers. Probably, they're started to use transparent DNS proxy. Btw, they're

Re: [tor-talk] Problems installing Tor on my server

2014-03-04 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, On 03/03/2014 11:47 PM, Duncan Drury wrote: I'm trying to install Tor on my Centos5 server. I have been running an old version of Tor as a relay for several years, installed via yum from one of the Centos repos. I realised I wasn't doing anyone any favours by running an old version, and

Re: [tor-talk] [Cryptography] 1024 bit DH still common in Tor network

2013-09-08 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 09/07/2013 07:10 PM, Benedikt Gollatz wrote: On 2013-09-07 19:03, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 06, 2013 10:28:22 PM Nick Mathewson wrote: Yup. Please upgrade, people. 0.2.4 is looking pretty

Re: [tor-talk] RPM packaging back on track

2013-03-10 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 03/10/2013 12:51 AM, Abel Luck wrote: Ondrej Mikle: Hi, new packages are finally at deb.torproject.org from my local repo. 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6, namely. The just-released Tor 0.2.4.7 should be packaged shortly (in a few days). Sorry for the delays, I have no more travelling

[tor-talk] Temporary pause for RPM updates

2012-10-28 Thread Ondrej Mikle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, there will be a temporary pause in packaged RPMs for Fedora and RHEL. The latest 0.2.3.24-rc and 0.2.4.5-alpha got uploaded today. Since I'll be leaving to travel in several days and be off the net most of the time, this is probably latest RPM

Re: [tor-talk] how to access http://localhost/test.php through TBB

2012-10-24 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 10/24/2012 03:35 PM, adrelanos wrote: esolve esolve: hi, I know this question may seems strange, but I have some tests to do over tor I set up a LAMP, php webserver and I want to access html pages on this server locally but it seems to me that TBB can't connect to localhost, the error

Re: [tor-talk] Up-to-date Repositories

2012-09-07 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 08/27/2012 08:31 PM, Robert Marquardt wrote: Then I tried to reinstall Tor with the following result: http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/el/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum It looks like Repositories created using RHEL6's

Re: [tor-talk] Up-to-date Repositories

2012-08-27 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 08/27/2012 08:31 PM, Robert Marquardt wrote: Hi, All RPM repositories on deb.tpo (outside the OBSOLETE/ directory) contain the current -rc release 0.2.3.20-rc . Ok, I thought the latest RC is 0.2.2.35. The 0.2.2.38 is latest stable, 0.2.3.20 is the RC for 0.2.3.x series. The plan was

[tor-talk] Testing RPMs for Fedora 16/17 and EL 5/6 (i686 and x86_64)

2012-06-21 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, if you're using Redhat-based distro you probably noticed that the RPMs got a bit outdated. I updated the old RPM build scripts and could use a bit help in testing the RPMs before they could be used officially (there are quite a few distro/arch combinations). Notes: - the repository only

[tor-talk] Experimental DNS/DNSSEC hidden service HOWTO (optionally over TLS)

2012-05-20 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, I've started a DNS/DNSSEC hidden service at b36iqwi6e4l4eyvf.onion. The service listens on two ports: - 53 (plain DNS over TCP) - 44353 (DNS over TLS) The TLS version is an experiment - paradoxically not for security (unbound currently does not check the certificate), but as a hackish

Re: [tor-talk] Tor with ttdnsd and unbound

2012-04-29 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/29/2012 03:49 PM, Tom wrote: On 29 April 2012 12:53, anonym ano...@lavabit.com wrote: So, you have to switch from using Google's DNS (which blocks Tor nowadays) to OpenDNS or whatever DNS server you trust. You'll still be unable to do multiple DNS requests at a time, though. Yes,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor with ttdnsd and unbound

2012-04-29 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/29/2012 07:01 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: On 04/29/2012 12:15 PM, Ondrej Mikle wrote: I wrote a HOWTO for DNS/DNSSEC over Tor with unbound+socat (IMHO if you're using unbound, drop ttdnsd altogether): https://labs.nic.cz/page/993/dnssec-validation-over-tor--linux-/ Click 'English

Re: [tor-talk] Problem with ttdnsd-665a534 on Ubuntu 12.04 server

2012-04-29 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/29/2012 10:38 PM, Gitano wrote: ttdnsd-665a534 does not compile on my server Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu): ### root@server:~/ttdnsd-665a534# make install /usr/bin/gcc -g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all -fwrapv -fPIE --param ssp-buffer-size=1 -Wall

Re: [tor-talk] Tor to VPN to Internet = Bad. Why?

2012-04-25 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/25/2012 04:06 PM, Low-Key² wrote: Recently, I'd come across some chatter that suggested that connecting to a VPN via TOR was not a good idea and, rather, the better idea was to connect to a VPN that then used Tor. I've not found any articles on the net that really discuss this issue.

Re: [tor-talk] Retroactive traffic confirmation attacks on Tor through data retention records?

2012-04-22 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/21/2012 08:41 PM, Pascal wrote: MAC addresses are used by layer 2 protocols (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model ). Once an IP packet traverses a layer 3 device (such as a router) the srcMac has been changed to that of the router's egress interface. Unless your ISP provided

Re: [tor-talk] Retroactive traffic confirmation attacks on Tor through data retention records?

2012-04-22 Thread Ondrej Mikle
). -Pascal On 4/21/2012 1:05 PM, Ondrej Mikle wrote: If the ISP's records store [srcIP, srcPort, srcMac, dstIP, dstPort, size, startTime, endTime] for every TCP connection, then it's definitely doable; note that srcMac is MAC of client visible from ISP's side of the router to internet (so

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-22 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/22/2012 01:25 AM, torsi...@tormail.org wrote: Hi, Is there anything to worry about if using curl with the below configuration? (I don't want to use a virtual machine) Only debian-tor can go online: iptables -F OUTPUT iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -m owner --uid-owner debian-tor

Re: [tor-talk] Another openssl advisory: Tor seems not to be affected

2012-04-20 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Nick Mathewson ni...@freehaven.net wrote: Hi, all! It looks like there is an openssl security advisory affecting some but not all of the ASN.1 parsing code. The announcement is here: http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20120419.txt And the full-disclosure

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-19 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hm, you're right, wget 1.12 does not leak DNS if you use http protocol. I just realized I tested it also with https when the leak happened (wget requires explicit 'https_proxy' to use CONNECT for https even if you use the same http proxy). Ondrej On 04/19/2012 10:54 PM, torsi...@tormail.net

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-18 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 04/18/2012 11:40 PM, torsi...@tormail.net wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:37, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: Which version of wget did you audit? What information leaks did you check for during your audit?

[tor-talk] Combining Accounting* and RelayBandwidth* settings; changing IPv6 port.

2012-03-28 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, I'm bit confused about the various bandwidth-limiting options, currently I've set for a bridge running latest Tor alpha 0.2.3.13-alpha: RelayBandwidthRate 512 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 1024 KB AccountingMax 90 GB AccountingStart month 1 00:00 What I'm trying to achieve: I've got 90 GB traffic

[tor-talk] TBB linux-x86_64-2.2.35-7.2: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_set_realized on RHEL-like distros

2012-03-05 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, I've noticed that TBB linux-x86_64-2.2.35-7.2 won't start the browser. After some debugging, the reason is that it depends on gtk2 = 2.20 which contains the symbol gtk_widget_set_realized (RHEL-like distros have gtk2 2.18.9). The issue popped up on Scientific Linux 6.2, but other RHEL-like

Re: [tor-talk] Tor users trackable with common proxy?

2012-02-21 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 02/21/2012 06:48 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:26:06 +, Daniel .koolfy Faucon wrote: ... Checking the software's signatures should ensure that you are not bootstrapping from harcoded malicious fake nodes or looking at the wrong nodes list, and obfsproxy makes sure

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden service security w. Apache/Win32

2012-02-20 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 02/20/2012 05:06 PM, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: On 2012-02-19 19:58 CET, Ondrej Mikle wrote: Addendum for truly uberparanoid installation: [various best practices] With the uberparanoid installation, the greatest risk is a return-to-libc-style attack on Tor where attacker instructs

Re: [tor-talk] How to use Tor Browser without TBB Bundle?

2012-02-06 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 02/06/2012 02:39 PM, Phillip wrote: Thanks for the link C, I did what it suggested vis modifying the start-tor-browser script, but it ends up just launching another window of Firefox and not Aurora... Try adding option -no-remote to Firefox, it should start new process instead of connecting

Re: [tor-talk] tor_autocircuit script

2012-02-02 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/26/2012 05:38 PM, Klaus Layer wrote: I am playing around with the tor_autocircuit script (http://www.thesprawl.org/projects/tor-autocircuit/). When I start it, it always aborts with an error from torctl lib: [...] INFO [ Thu Jan 26 16:05:18 2012 ]: kznx: Country code not found INFO

Re: [tor-talk] How to install tor in Linux just as secure as tor-browser-bundle ?

2012-01-14 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/14/12 18:56, Tor Relays at brwyatt.net wrote: For some reason, FireFox doesn't do DNS resolution over SOCKS proxies (this is a known bug). Using an HTTP proxy (such as Polipo) will fix this (you have to also set FireFox to use it). The following tutorial should help, but the basic idea is

[tor-talk] DNSSEC validation over Tor with unboundsocat (Linux alpha howto)

2012-01-13 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, after a reviewer wrote on addons.mozilla.org that DNSSEC Validator add-on leaks DNS (because it does direct queries), I've been looking how to hack around SOCKS and Tor resolver deficiencies. I've tried ttdnsd first, but it did not get along well with unbound (unbound was complaining

Re: [tor-talk] Invalid Server Certificate accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

2012-01-05 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/05/12 05:18, Greg wrote: Hi Andrew, Thank you for taking a stab at this issue! I just tried this now, and it still doesn't work. I don't remember precisely what the chain looked, so I can't be sure I'm seeing anything different at all. I restarted Chrome (but not Windows). Both

Re: [tor-talk] (solved) Invalid Server Certificate accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

2012-01-05 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/05/12 17:52, Greg wrote: Hey Ondrej, Here's some info from msinfo32: OS Name Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Enterprise EditionVersion 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 3790OS ManufacturerMicrosoft Corporation System Manufacturer MSI System ModelMS-7350System Type

Re: [tor-talk] Invalid Server Certificate accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

2012-01-04 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/04/12 07:40, Greg wrote: Hi, I searched google for people having problems accessing torproject.org from Chrome on Windows, but I didn't see much besides a discussion on December 21 about an outage (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.general/2514). I can access torproject.org from

Re: [tor-talk] Invalid Server Certificate accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

2012-01-04 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 01/04/12 21:30, Pascal wrote: Running www.digicert.com through that tool shows the 2nd intermediate certificate that needs to be included. Their tool is quite good, but not all-powerful. The suggested 2nd intermediate certificate must have subject CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA.