Re: [tor-talk] Designing a secure "Tor box" for safe web browsing?

2012-03-22 Thread ra
at being a "Tor workstation" so it might be a good idea to try to make it fit into the virtualization concept - although VirtualBox does not support exporting VMs to OVA including a ISO by now. [0] https://github.com/ra--/Tor-gateway [1] https://github.com/ra--/Tor-gateway/wiki/Todo [2]

Re: [tor-talk] Isolating Proxy and iptables.

2014-05-17 Thread ra
On Saturday 17 May 2014 16:59:23 Clare ♬ wrote: > I'm setting up a Tor-based isolating proxy using the 'Anonymizing > Middlebox' iptables rules specified here: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy i.e. > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INT_IF -p udp --dport 53 -j R

Re: [tor-talk] Does an Exit Node will be tagged with an "Exit" flag?

2014-07-03 Thread ra
On Thursday 03 July 2014 11:06:15 Bron Taylor wrote: > p accept 25,110,119,143,443,465,995 > "252.94.2.188.25.27.196.125.74.ip-port.exitlist.torproject.org. 1799 IN > A 127.0.0.2" from Google Public DNS. Moreover, the answer from TorDNSEL > told that the node with the ip address "188.2.94.252" is

Re: [tor-talk] Ninja Stik?

2013-07-17 Thread ra
On Wednesday 17 July 2013 12:30:16 Andrew F wrote: > The real question is about flash. They say that flash sites, including > youtube and other "tube" sites work. > Do you no of a way to use flash safely with tor and Ubuntu? > I don't. Virtual Machines can be used to use Flash with Tor securely I

Re: [tor-talk] Ninja Stik?

2013-07-17 Thread ra
On Wednesday 17 July 2013 15:19:20 Karsten N. wrote: > Flash may be used to compute a unique fingerprint of a surfer IMHO. > It does not break the anonymity by self if it was correct proxyfied, but > it may help to break the anonymity. Many attributes can be used to compose a unique fingerprint. T

Re: [tor-talk] What's the proper way to reset entry guards?

2013-08-06 Thread ra
On Tuesday 06 August 2013 02:34:05 mirimir wrote: > Thank you. I ended up stopping tor, deleting everything in > DataDirectory/, and starting tor. It's crude, but it works. I implemented a TorCtl command for dropping all guard nodes[0]. If it is possible for you to patch the Tor client, the patch

Re: [tor-talk] What's the proper way to reset entry guards?

2013-08-06 Thread ra
On Tuesday 06 August 2013 02:34:05 mirimir wrote: > Thank you. I ended up stopping tor, deleting everything in > DataDirectory/, and starting tor. It's crude, but it works. I implemented a ctrl-command for dropping all guard nodes[0]. If it is possible for you to patch the Tor client, the patch m

Re: [tor-talk] block Skype in torrc

2013-08-24 Thread ra
On Friday 23 August 2013 20:56:09 scar wrote: > hello i would like to use Skype from my Tor exit node (which is running > Linux) but, for whatever reason, the powers that be at Skype have banned > my IP address. Skype blocks all Tor exit IP addresses since end of June 2013. Best, Robert signatu

Re: [tor-talk] What's the proper way to reset entry guards?

2013-10-08 Thread ra
On Tuesday 06 August 2013 13:06:54 Lunar wrote: > ra: > > On Tuesday 06 August 2013 02:34:05 mirimir wrote: > > > Thank you. I ended up stopping tor, deleting everything in > > > DataDirectory/, and starting tor. It's crude, but it works. > > > > I

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-relays] Is Kaspersky right to be concerned?

2014-03-11 Thread ra
On Monday 10 March 2014 19:37:25 grarpamp wrote: > > http://cryptome.org/2013/09/tor-analysis-hidden-services.pdf > > Do you seriously think that reporters, aid workers, freedom > fighters, investigators, whistleblowers, and simple chatfriends, > etc are going to publish their onions for all to se

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-relays] Is Kaspersky right to be concerned?

2014-04-03 Thread ra
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 04:30:42 grarpamp wrote: > Given current onion discovery mechanics as in the paper, public vs. > private is defined largely by the access restrictions operators put > up, not by whether they posted the address somewhere or not. > (descriptor-cookie and stealth auth may ha

[tor-talk] New research paper on performance measurements and improvements

2016-01-16 Thread ra
Hi all, I would like to share our paper: "NavigaTor: Finding Faster Paths to Anonymity" in which we propose and evaluate methods to measure and improve performance in the Tor network. To this end, we developed a measurement software which includes a custom path generator and allows conducting l