@ahf
Network Team Lead at The Tor Project.
Interested in privacy-enhancing technologies, cryptography, censorship, security, free software, and distributed systems.
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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq40l7uvfkl5cdxxqh72z6gzu2eegpycsgxfd65hqcnnneeujqpvnq9pypu3 the 403 message is custom for the Tor project so I'm kinda wondering tbh
It's a protection mechanism we've had to put in place due to the massive amount of crawling on the web right now that was otherwise slowing down our GitLab to the point where it became unusable.
I think the options were picking between one of the many PoW-style filters or this cookie-based approach. I think this option is less invasive than the other options, but it certainly would be nice if it weren’t needed.
I don't think the filter checks whether you’re coming from an Exit node, but I do believe it requires JavaScript to pass it, sadly.
I think the options were picking between one of the many PoW-style filters or this cookie-based approach. I think this option is less invasive than the other options, but it certainly would be nice if it weren’t needed.
I don't think the filter checks whether you’re coming from an Exit node, but I do believe it requires JavaScript to pass it, sadly.
The transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography in the #Tor network's #TLS layer is making progress! 😎 We are now at 44.57% of Tor relays supporting the X25519MLKEM768 hybrid handshake. This number is up from 34.65% in March earlier this year.
I've uploaded a list of relays and their scan results from yesterday on https://ahf.me/tor-tls-pqc/2026-06-18/ and wrote an email to the tor-relays@ mailing-list summarising the results in https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IY7FJU5XDSZ2O4SKUTN5VJFRLBRHYZ6W/
I hope we can get these numbers up in the near future. This upgrade requires more from the relay operators than our usual upgrades, as it depends upon an operating system-level upgrade of the underlying crypto libraries.
Now that #LibreSSL also supports the hybrid handshake, we also need to roll a C Tor release that enables the PQC group when Tor's compiled against LibreSSL. I will take a look at that next week! This should enable PQC for our #OpenBSD based Tor relays.
Thanks to all the relay operators for keeping their relays up to date! 🥳
#cryptography #postquantumcryptography #pqc
I've uploaded a list of relays and their scan results from yesterday on https://ahf.me/tor-tls-pqc/2026-06-18/ and wrote an email to the tor-relays@ mailing-list summarising the results in https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IY7FJU5XDSZ2O4SKUTN5VJFRLBRHYZ6W/
I hope we can get these numbers up in the near future. This upgrade requires more from the relay operators than our usual upgrades, as it depends upon an operating system-level upgrade of the underlying crypto libraries.
Now that #LibreSSL also supports the hybrid handshake, we also need to roll a C Tor release that enables the PQC group when Tor's compiled against LibreSSL. I will take a look at that next week! This should enable PQC for our #OpenBSD based Tor relays.
Thanks to all the relay operators for keeping their relays up to date! 🥳
#cryptography #postquantumcryptography #pqc
Hello Nostr!
First time here. Created the account while enjoying the event here at #aosconvergence
We brought some Tor stickers and dropped them at the sticker table near the entrance. If you want to talk about Tor, anonymity, anti-censorship, web traffic fingerprinting, Arti app integration, etc. both @Micah and I will be around to tomorrow!
First time here. Created the account while enjoying the event here at #aosconvergence
We brought some Tor stickers and dropped them at the sticker table near the entrance. If you want to talk about Tor, anonymity, anti-censorship, web traffic fingerprinting, Arti app integration, etc. both @Micah and I will be around to tomorrow!
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