[rishab at dxm.org: Re: [silk] inside the Great FireWall...]

[Ben Wilhelm]

What happens if your central coordinator - the one assigning circuits - 
is compromised?

-Ben

Arrakistor wrote:
> The Chinese government will eventually try to block Tor. This is why I
> think  the  next  design,  which  is  to  include a structure for mass
> scaling,  should  not  distribute  a  directory  list, but only assign
> circuits so the viewers can't get a whole view of the network.
> 
> ST
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> Sunday, December 18, 2005, 2:03:12 AM, you wrote:
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>>i don't know which version of tor is on torpark but i know the alpha
>>version, the current and the previous to current ones would sometimes
>>take several minutes building the circuits... this might be where the
>>problem comes from perhaps? i wonder how long it will take for the
>>chinese government to figure out that there is now yet another way to
>>bypass their great firewall.
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>>On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:35:02 -0600, "Arrakistor" <arrakistor at gmail.com>
>>said:
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>>>Yes,  it  works.  I've  read  the  websites  that  are  suggesting the
>>>downloads.  For  most  it  works,  for  some,  when they first open it
>>>firefox  times  out  so they assume it isn't working. However, it then
>>>appears  to  work  just  fine.  I  should have this timeout fixed next
>>>version.
>>>
>>>ST
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>>>Saturday, December 17, 2005, 10:05:43 AM, you wrote:
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>>>>I'm seeing plenty of Torpark chinese downloads. Do we know that these do
>>>>actually work?
>>>
>>>>----- Forwarded message from Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab at dxm.org> -----
>>>
>>>>From: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab at dxm.org>
>>>>Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:59:52 +0000
>>>>To: silklist at lists.hserus.net
>>>>Subject: Re: [silk] inside the Great FireWall...
>>>>User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
>>>>Reply-To: silklist at lists.hserus.net
>>>
>>>>using torpark [1] i was able to google for "shanwei" which the
>>>>IHT says i should not be able to do [2] and download pictures [3].
>>>
>>>>-rishab
>>>>1.  well... after a few mins, the tor connection died. now can't
>>>>connect to any site with tor. so i can't find the torpark url. but
>>>>ssh still works.
>>>>2. IHT.com, asia section,  "China's tight lid on village
>>>>shootings", pg 7. from nytimes. sorry, can't connect now to find
>>>>url, have paper in front of me. "until tuesday, web users who
>>>>[searched  on google for] Shanwei, the city with jurisdiction over
>>>>the village where the demonstration was put down, would find a
>>>>handful of pages.... after a few screens of information unrelated to
>>>>the incident, the browsers of users who persisted froze..."
>>>>3. http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-12-10/35613.html
>>>
>>>>----- End forwarded message -----
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Best regards,
>>> Arrakistor                            mailto:arrakistor at gmail.com
>>>
>>
>>-- 
>>  Glymr Darkmoon
>>  glymr_darkmoon at ml1.net
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