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New GPG key for Mike Perry
by Mike Perry 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hi everyone, I've finally made a new GPG key (after a scant 7 years!). This new key will be used to sign email from me going forward, and will be used to sign software releases until such time as I get around to creating a second set of keys on a hardware token for that purpose. While I dislike the Web of Trust for a number of reasons*, my plan is to cross-certify these two sets of new keys, and also sign both with my old key. Hence I will not immediately be issuing a revocation for my old key. The new key is attached, and is available on the keyservers (with a signature from my old key) at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x29846B3C683686CC Here's the fingerprint and current subkey information for reference: pub 8192R/29846B3C683686CC 2013-09-11 Key fingerprint = C963 C21D 6356 4E2B 10BB 335B 2984 6B3C 6836 86CC uid Mike Perry (Regular use key) <mikeperry(a)torproject.org> sub 4096R/717F1F130E3A92E4 2013-09-11 [expires: 2014-09-11] sub 4096R/A3BD8153BC40FFA0 2013-09-11 [expires: 2014-09-11] This message should also be signed by my previous key, which was used extensively to sign my email and my source code releases prior to today. * Ensuing flamewars about the Web of Trust should reply only to tor-talk. -- Mike Perry

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[tahoe-dev] the GNU 30th Birthday party!
by Eugen Leitl 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:00:04 +0000 From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog(a)gmail.com> To: tahoe-dev <tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org> Subject: [tahoe-dev] the GNU 30th Birthday party! Folks: Tahoe-LAFS is one of the featured projects at the GNU 30th Birthday Party Hackathon! https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/celebration I'm going to be there in person in Cambridge. What I want to do during the Hackathon is make Tahoe-LAFS work better with Tor and/or I2P. I know that at least a couple of Tor developers and at least one I2P developer will be there in person, so this is a good opportunity to collaborate face-to-face or side-by-side. One thing I could spend Hackathon time on is just to contribute some patch review service to the Tor project, if it seems like they want that. Issue tickets relevant to this: Go to https://Tahoe-LAFS.org, click on "View Tickets" → https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/ViewTickets , click on "anonymity" → https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~anony… Eyeballing those, I recognize the following as especially ripe, because the I2P folks have been working on them and flagging them as blockers for I2P: #68, #1010. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/68# implement distributed introduction, remove Introducer as a single point of failure https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1010# use only 127.0.0.1 as local address See also a couple of patches that the I2P people are trying to contribute to foolscap, and which are also needed for full Tahoe-LAFS+I2P integration: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/query?status=!closed&keywords=~i2p You can join in! Just connect to us on IRC -- irc.freenode.net channel #tahoe-lafs -- or physically show up in Cambridge. Or, I suppose, at one of the other GNU 30th Birthday celebrations around the world: https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/ (scroll down to "Satellite Events"). ☺ Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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Pluggable transport biweekly meeting - Friday Sept 27
by vmonmoonshine＠gmail.com 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello PT devs, We'll have our next meeting (almost) today Friday - Sept 27 at CEST: 18:00 BST (Summer GMT): 17:00 UTC: 16:00 EST: 12:00 MNT: 10:00 PST: 9:00 @ #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net As last time asn is going to take us through this after identifying the participant we go one by one and update the group about our recent progress and blockers. As people suggested last time after update we will have a brief code review session when each of us will take at piece of code of another developer and comment on it. If you missed last the meeting or you need a bit of reminder you can find it summary here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/meeti… See you in few hours, Vmon

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tor-bundle:How to extend the firefox context menu?
by mabra＠manfbraun.de 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello ! I am doing really very boosted webserach in the last month. I am using the tor-bundle, if I am searching in several different and sensitiv areas, like wiki-leaks etc. >From my long term experience with all other search engines, beside google, they really dont allow you to continue, if the browser crashes. But this happens in minimum 10 times a day :-( So I want to use google to search, without allowing them to track me. This is why I use the tor-bundle. Using tor for simple webpages is usually slow. What would beome best for me, is, to use the tor-bundle together with the google search engine, but then, have a context menue (right click) to open another browser for a given search result item. The other browser then, is not configured to use the tor network. Does anyone has an information, how I, as an end-user, can exceed the context menue in the tor-bundles browser? Thanks anyway and best regards, ++mabra

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Using the consensus-health web page to debug the Tor network
by Karsten Loesing 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hi Damian, Roger and I discussed the consensus-health web page that the Java version of DocTor produces [0] but your Python version does not. Roger says he uses that page to debug the Tor network. In particular, he says he scans the huge relay flags table to spot differences between relay flags assigned by the directory authorities. I'm pasting the IRC log below, but we should move this discussion to email, because it seems unlikely that we're all present in #tor-dev at the same time to discuss this. I see four ways how we can make most people mostly happy: 1.) We add votes documents to Onionoo (#9778) and include relay flags contained in votes in relay details pages of Atlas/Globe, so that people can find out what the different directory authorities think about their relay. We write a new Onionoo client that fetches this information for all running relays and produces a long table of relay flags. Before we do all this we make sure that there's nothing else on the consensus-health web page that Roger secretly hoped to keep. Then we shut down the Java DocTor. 2.) We rewrite the website-generating part of DocTor in a language we're happier to maintain long-term. This could be part of your DocTor, or of a new tool. Then we shut down the Java DocTor. 3.) We keep the Java DocTor running to generate the website, but disable the part that sends notifications to the mailing list and to the IRC bot. Or rather, I'll want to move the page away from metrics.tpo to, say, consensus-health.tpo or consensus-explorer.tpo, because it has always been a hack to serve it on metrics.tpo. Then we hope the Java DocTor never breaks. 4.) We do something much smarter which I didn't think of yet. What do you think? All the best, Karsten [0] https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html 08:04:49 < karsten> armadev: about removing per-relay votes from https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html. that was intentional, because the page took so long to load and it seemed nobody cared. 08:05:14 < karsten> armadev: but it seems the next step will be to kill that web page entirely.. 08:05:34 < karsten> the reason is that atagar's consensus-health checker will take over very soon. 08:05:56 < karsten> so, what information from the consensus-health page do you still need, either the current one or even the one with per-relay votes? 08:06:10 < karsten> we should try to rescue that information then. 08:07:16 < armadev> karsten: is atagar's consensus health checker up yet? 08:07:22 < karsten> yes, it is. 08:07:26 < armadev> url? 08:07:33 < karsten> it's sending mail to tor-consensus-health@ and to #tor-bots. 08:07:36 < karsten> it has no website 08:07:48 < karsten> it's sending out warnings if something goes wrong. 08:07:56 < karsten> when* :) 08:08:54 < armadev> karsten: in this case, what i wanted from the consensus health page was the set of votes per authority for 000000000000myTOR2 08:08:56 < karsten> right now, both consensus-health things send mail to that list. the ones at :03 are from mine, the other ones from atagar's. 08:09:11 < armadev> i pieced it together manually from moria1's v3-status-votes, but i'm special so i can do that 08:09:16 < karsten> right 08:09:25 < karsten> I thought about this a while ago. we could include votes in onionoo. 08:09:34 < karsten> not sure how yatei will like that though. 08:09:50 < karsten> but it's the votes you care about, ok. anything else from the consensus-health page? 08:10:16 < karsten> wfn: ^^ we should talk about this. 08:11:05 < armadev> s/votes/votes about flags/ here 08:11:23 < karsten> right. 08:37:19 < armadev> it seems i used consensus-health as consensus-explorer 10:11:35 < armadev> karsten: can you fwd me a sample mail from the health checker mailing list? 10:12:07 < karsten> armadev: they're archived: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2013-September/… 10:13:43 < armadev> oh good 10:13:56 < armadev> that's a very short mail. 10:14:02 < armadev> it has, like, nothing from the consensus health checker 10:14:20 < karsten> that's the things that need fixing to make it quiet again. 10:14:42 < armadev> why is "it takes a long time to load" a bug in consensus-health.html ? 10:15:37 < karsten> well, the page is huge, and firefox can't handle that very well. that's not a bug, but an inconvenience. 10:16:09 < armadev> sure 10:16:25 < karsten> I could have split the page into two. 10:16:34 < karsten> but anyway, the entire page is going away soon. 10:16:39 < armadev> if you were planning to drop it entirely, you could just leave it alone? 10:17:12 < karsten> as unmaintained service? 10:17:36 < karsten> I'd rather take the pieces we like and integrate them in maintained services. 10:17:37 < armadev> i guess. or write a howto for how to take votes in and generate the html, and i'll run it on moria 10:17:53 < armadev> though i think it needs more than votes as input 10:18:11 < armadev> i've used most parts of this page over the past few months 10:18:13 < karsten> it downloads votes and consensuses. 10:18:19 < karsten> I see. 10:18:42 < armadev> i have votes and a consensus on moria 10:18:49 < armadev> if that's the input, i can just cron it to run on moria 10:18:58 < armadev> based on the votes i see and the consensus i see 10:19:09 < armadev> unless i guess it requires a massive tomcat engine too :) 10:19:15 < karsten> it doesn't. 10:19:17 < karsten> it requires java. 10:19:29 < karsten> and produces a static html that you can service with whatever. 10:19:55 < karsten> well, if you need it, it's easier to keep it running on yatei. 10:19:57 < armadev> i don't have any java. i guess i could add it. or we could stick it on people.tp.o or something 10:19:59 < armadev> right 10:20:09 < karsten> and just turn off the email notifications, because atagar's thing will send those. 10:20:11 < armadev> i use it for debugging the network 10:20:32 < karsten> ok 10:20:58 < karsten> would #9778 solve the problem with the missing relay flags table? 10:20:59 -zwiebelbot:#tor-dev- [tor#9778: Adding votes documents to Onionoo] 10:21:08 < karsten> assuming atlas or globe would show those? 10:21:32 < armadev> do i have to load each relay one page at a time? 10:22:05 < karsten> probably. 10:22:31 < karsten> so, you're looking through the table to spot problems? 10:22:41 < karsten> or, have been looking, when the table was there. 10:22:41 < armadev> yes. and to get a sense of trends. 10:22:44 < armadev> right 10:22:57 < armadev> i guess in this most recent case i just wanted one relay 10:23:11 < armadev> but after that, i realized that i wanted to know how many relays had a Running flag from those two authorities and no Running flag from any others 10:23:33 < karsten> ok 10:23:42 < armadev> (i still want to know :) 10:24:06 < karsten> let me re-enable the table and think about a better long-term solution.. :) 10:24:07 < armadev> (related to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9775 ) 10:24:08 -zwiebelbot:#tor-dev- [tor#9775: Authorities should report when they don't vote Running but some addresses are still reachable] 10:24:48 < armadev> we are dropping an unknown number of relays from the consensus because they enable ipv6 but screw up the reachability 10:25:16 < armadev> hopefully every relay operator who knows what ipv6 is also knows how to check relay-search for themselves 10:28:21 < karsten> the next consensus-health.html will contain the relay flags table again. in roughly 35 mins. 10:29:51 < armadev> thanks. sorry for the troubles. and i understand the drive to get rid of extra things. i wish we had more things that were actually extra. 10:32:10 < karsten> yeah, we have a lot of stuff. and some of it is really old and hasn't seen love for too long.

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Kickoff Meeting Times for Project Otter [all next week]
by Tom Lowenthal 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

There seem to be relatively good times for all three Project Otter kickoff meetings next week. There's no need to RSVP, but if you can't make it and have something to contribute please try to provide that input as soon as possible in the form of a "comments" section on the relevant page on the wiki. Otter index page: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter> All the meetings will be held in #tor-dev on `irc.oftc.net`. Here are the times: * Attentive Otters [IM bundle]: Weds 2013-10-02 1100-1200 Pacific * Boisterous Otters [Help/outreach/l10n]: Weds 2013-10-02 0900-1000 Pacific * Cute Otters [Hidden services & publishing]: Weds 2013-10-02 1600-1700 Pacific If you have other questions or there are other problems, please reply here. -Tom

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IRC meeting to discuss sponsor F progress on Mon September 30, 18:00 to 19:00 in #tor-dev
by Karsten Loesing 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Hi all, I'd like to schedule an IRC meeting to discuss what progress we made on sponsor F deliverables in September. Time and place are: Mon September 30, 18:00 to 19:00 UTC in #tor-dev That's in roughly 6 days 3 hours from now. The time in other timezones is: 11:00 in San Francisco 14:00 in Boston 20:00 in Berlin 21:00 in Athens 23:30 in New Delhi People who should attend are: Andrea, Andrew, Arlo, Colin, David, George, Linus, Matt, Nathan, Nick, Roger, Tom, Ximin, and anyone else who wants to attend. If your name is on that list and you're working on sponsor F stuff, but the date or time doesn't work for you, please email me your progress and I'll report it for you at the meeting. Thanks, Karsten

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Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool
by Matt Pagan 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:59:23 -0400 Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification > > > because I find guiding users through the verification process on > > > Windows/Mac through the command line painful. > > > > Just a thought: have you considered doing this through a Firefox > > extension instead? > > It does seem like a Firefox extension is a better alternative. The > "here's an executable you just fetched from the Internet, please run > it" model is likely bad news, and also isn't the right habit to be > teaching users. > If you go the browser extension route, there is a now defunct Firefox add-on called FireGPG that implemented GnuPG in the web browser. This add-on was discontinued in 2010 and it's primary focus was encrypting and decrypting gmail messages. However, the software was open source and the code is still available. If you decide to implement this project as a browser extension, you might want to see if there are any usable parts you can salvage from that rubble (there might not be). http://getfiregpg.org/s/home

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Onion IPv6 transport needed [was: ed25519 HS identity keys]
by grarpamp 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

On 9/24/13, Bernhard R. Fischer <bf(a)abenteuerland.at> wrote: > On Thursday 19 September 2013 10:53:13 grarpamp wrote: >> On 9/13/13, George Kadianakis <desnacked(a)riseup.net> wrote: >> > This proposal is in serious need for comments. >> > >> > 1.2. From the PoV of the HS client: >> > Tor clients can distinguish new-style HS addresses from old ones by >> > their length. Legacy addresses are 16 base32 characters, while new >> > ones are 56 (XXX) base32 characters. >> > >> > If Tor is asked to connect to a legacy address it SHOULD throw a >> > warning and advocate the use of new-style addresses (it should still >> > connect to the HS however). In the future, when old-style HS >> > addresses are close to depletion, we can introduce a torrc parameter >> > that blocks client connections to old-style HS addresses. >> >> As commented earlier on this list... >> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-August/005286.html >> >> This addressing change will break onioncat (IPv6) within Tor. >> https://www.onioncat.org/ >> >> I suggest a solution to transporting IPv6 within Tor be >> maintained/deployed concurrently with any change in >> current onion addressing and or transport mechanics. > > > 56 base32 characters means 280 bits. > And yes, the new addresses will break Onioncat addressing mechanism. > > Actually this is the same problem as with I2P which uses 256 bit addresses > for > the destinations. > Then, as a workaround I implemented an /etc/hosts file-based lookup. This is > > not a perfect solution but it was better than nothing ;) > > I'll think about a new method of addressing, which allows forward > compatibility (DNS comes into my mind -- I know...) I know, yet I don't mind the central nature of DNS for naming. It works on clearnet, you can subscribe to multiple roots to avoid censure and under an anonymous system someone will always be willing to carry the sensational records. So you can resolve just fine. The problem is the transport. Being able to resolve is pointless if you can't transport. And if you can transport you can resolve on top of that any which way you want, including DNS. I'm sure this is not really a naming issue but an addressing one. If people expect Tor, I2P etc to ever evolve to support for real p2p/social apps and services and build communities beyond what crippling unidirectional TCP is capable of (which I suggest we should), they need to transport IPv6. And to do that you need to have nodes fall within private RFC/48 addressing bound to an interface... whether natively as Tor currently does by byproduct with onioncat providing the layer, or via some future address mapping layer [1]. The 'DNS' you speak of could map 80bit to n-greater-than-80bit, (256/280/512 bit) within an internal backend of a new ocat that then transports to the higher bits. But if actual DNS was used for that it would invoke the root/censor/uptime/trust issues of DNS for *addressing* not naming, and we don't really want that type of breakdown there. Ocat currently does not have those problems. And if someone comes up with the likes of [1], a central trust system like DNS won't be needed. To the extent this is a wider summary, if there's an IPv6 transport (mod hidden addressing) ticket where reference to this should be lodged, please do. [1] Search for IPv6 on zzz.i2p, there were some comments found there of possible map considerations like signed announcements into DHT. Maybe also namecoin-like addressing.

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Re: [tor-dev] Limiting Tor RAM usage
by Gordon Morehouse 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

References for prior message: 1. http://linux.die.net/man/2/setrlimit 2. http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/40 Best, -Gordon M.

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