Re: [tor-talk] So I Guess Tor Could Never Be Secure No Matter What

2014-08-29 Thread Travis Biehn
Ben, If you showed a caveman a linear polynomial then told him to move a term to the other side of the equation I'm sure he'd come up with all sorts of interesting methods of doing it. When you don't have a firm grasp of the constraints of a problem you can naturally invent an infinitude of weakne

Re: [tor-talk] Propsal for decentralization of the Tor network

2014-11-24 Thread Travis Biehn
Sybil, You make me so sad :( You're why we can't have nice things. Being able to 'replay' messages from a recently deceased directory nodes opens up new venues for attack. Directory servers as single points of failure, you might extrapolate that to routing servers listed in directory servers; Tor

Re: [tor-talk] [Cryptography] Blogpost: CITAS, a new FBI security program proposal

2014-11-26 Thread Travis Biehn
LE, Gov and private industry have always been bedfellows - they will continue to enjoy preferential treatment and advanced threat intelligence whilst sacrificing 'secrecy' both of internal operations and client information for the privilege. The gov can get IP addresses for sybil attacks, they don

Re: [tor-talk] Blockchain.info Tor Hidden Service + Signed Certificate

2014-12-03 Thread Travis Biehn
"Part four: what do we think about an https cert for a .onion address?" https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Nik Cubrilovic wrote: > Blockchain.info has become the second site after Facebook to roll out > a Tor hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)

2015-03-03 Thread Travis Biehn
Couldn't resist! Certain individuals attribute structures that a society naturally evolves as being somehow directed by an omnipotent actor. This actor is often cast in the role of tormentor / antagonist. For you your tormentor is the 'Gestapo government' and what you perceive as its colluding br

Re: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)

2015-03-03 Thread Travis Biehn
TAO.. Tailored Advertising Operations!! Got it. :) -Travis On Mar 3, 2015 7:11 PM, "Travis Bean" wrote: > On 03/03/2015 02:51 PM, z9wahqvh wrote: > > if the corrupt Gestapo government is so opposed to Tor, why do it and its > > subsidiary agencies provide (and have provided for all of its histo

Re: [tor-talk] 34 similar AWS Exit Relays joined on 2015-02-04/05

2015-06-05 Thread Travis Biehn
Could be, like if they were spot instances & there was a spike in pricing. Unlikely. On Jun 4, 2015 5:10 AM, "nusenu" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > > 34 exit relays joined the tor network on 2015-02-04/05. > > There restart pattern links them to a likely group. Th

Re: [tor-talk] Chaum Fathers Bastard Child To RubberHose ... PrivaTegrity cMix

2016-01-07 Thread Travis Biehn
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:51:29PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > Nine server council... a hoseablitly focus point similar to Tor dirauths. > > In any case... interesting. > > The privaTegrity (PT) backdoor is significantly more malignant than th