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

[Ben Wilhelm <zorba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
> Sunday, December 18, 2005, 2:03:12 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:35:02 -0600, "Arrakistor" <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > said:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > Saturday, December 17, 2005, 10:05:43 AM, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm seeing plenty of Torpark chinese downloads. Do we know that these do
> > > > actually work?
> > >
> > > > ----- Forwarded message from Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@xxxxxxx> -----
> > >
> > > > From: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:59:52 +0000
> > > > To: silklist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Re: [silk] inside the Great FireWall...
> > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> > > > Reply-To: silklist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > > 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@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > --
> >  Glymr Darkmoon
> >  glymr_darkmoon@xxxxxxx