Creating nym using mixmaster option

[PowerPress]

Terminal showed the following: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1535, in call return self.func(_args) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 136, in entry_passphrase_login.get())) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 166, in start_session self.start_session(address, passphrase, True) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 168, in start_session self.gui.start_session(creating_nym) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 51, in start_session self.window_main = MainWindow(self, self.client, creating_nym) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 343, in init text='Mix chain: ' + self.client.chain) TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1535, in call return self.func(_args) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 421, in self.entry_duration_create.get())) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nymphemeral/gui.py", line 460, in create self.gui.window_main.set_creation_interface(False) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_creation_interface'

But software shows following in gui: The following message was successfully sent to config@nym.now.im

Appears my gui is no longer responding and cannot switch tabs.

This is on Whonix Workstation

[felipedau]

Thanks for the report, @PowerPress!

Appears my gui is no longer responding and cannot switch tabs.

This issue you are having seems to be related from the trace and it looks like an easy bug to fix. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

But software shows following in gui: The following message was successfully sent to config@nym.now.im

A report made in #19 shows that nymphemeral is not detecting when the transmission fails and you might get a confirmation like that. It doesn't seem that the error you got from the trace is related to this issue. I hope I can find a way to solve it, but it's not so simple.

[felipedau]

Hi @PowerPress,

The error from the trace you got should be fixed with 2b0b14ed9dc4c027934c8b80ba6ca791dccbb3bf. If you installed nymphemeral with pip, you can update it with sudo pip install --upgrade nymphemeral.

After the fix, the GUI should respond properly and your message should be sent. If you believe that the transmissions failed but the confirmation was displayed anyway, please reply to #19 with any additional information that can help me fix that, for example, your Mixmaster version and the output you get when you send a dummy message (mixmaster -d).

Thanks!

[PowerPress]

Dumb question but how do I apply this fix?

Do I need to uninstall the app and is so what command would I use?

Thanks

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @PowerPress https://github.com/PowerPress,

The error from the trace you got should be fixed with 064476a https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/commit/064476a2a0906e2267a7497508973cb7a67356e7 .

After the fix, the GUI should respond properly and your message should be sent. If you believe that the transmissions failed but the confirmation was displayed anyway, please reply to #19 https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/19 with any additional information that can help me fix that.

Thanks!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-140078737 .

[felipedau]

Dumb question but how do I apply this fix? Do I need to uninstall the app and is so what command would I use?

After I sent the message, I edited to add more information (with the command to update). As I see that you are using email to reply, you probably didn't get the new information. Here is how to do it:

If you installed nymphemeral with pip, you can update it with sudo pip install --upgrade nymphemeral. Then you can check the current version with pip list | grep nymphemeral. Let me know if it works.

I should add an update section to the docs.

[PowerPress]

Ok that worked. I then went to https://nymphemeral.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install/connections-whonix.html#connections-whonix Because I dont have a news added I did the following:

sudo apt-get install stunnel4

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/master/connections/stunnel-whonix.conf -o /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

/etc/default/stunnel4 added enable=1

sudo service stunnel4 start

But never received any messages.

Now I still cant find any news servers even if I close and reopen the app.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Dumb question but how do I apply this fix? Do I need to uninstall the app and is so what command would I use?

After I sent the message, I edited to add more information (with the command to update). As I see that you are using email to reply, you probably didn't get the new information. Here is how to do it:

If you installed nymphemeral with pip, you can update it with sudo pip install --upgrade nymphemeral. Then you can check the current version with pip list | grep nymphemeral. Let me know if it works.

I should add an update section to the docs.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-140214287 .

[felipedau]

But never received any messages.

Now I still cant find any news servers even if I close and reopen the app.

So at first it tried to find messages by loading a progress bar and now you only get an error message, right?

/etc/default/stunnel4 added enable=1

Make sure that the option is ENABLED=1, otherwise it will not start automatically. That might be the reason it only worked once. You might want to run sudo service stunnel4 start again.

Can you check if stunnel is running with sudo service stunnel4 status? If it is then we need to check if you are able to connect to the news server calling telnet localhost 119. If it connects, you can type quit to close.

If you're able to connect to the news server with telnet, then it might be a bug on nymphemeral.

[PowerPress]

Change to one to enable stunnel automatic startup

ENABLED=1 FILES="/etc/stunnel/*.conf" OPTIONS=""

executing the following: user@host:/etc/stunnel$ sudo service stunnel4 start user@host:/etc/stunnel$

Notice it does not return any information once that command is executed.

user@host:/etc/stunnel$ sudo service stunnel4 status ● stunnel4.service - LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SSL tunnel for network daemons) Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/stunnel4) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-09-15 01:10:45 UTC; 21h ago

Sep 15 22:50:40 host systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SS...). Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

user@host:/etc/stunnel$ telnet localhost 119 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

But never received any messages.

Now I still cant find any news servers even if I close and reopen the app.

So at first it tried to find messages by loading a progress bar and now you only get an error message, right?

/etc/default/stunnel4 added enable=1

Make sure that the option is ENABLED=1, otherwise it will not start automatically. That might be the reason it only worked once. You might want to run sudo service stunnel4 start again.

Can you check if stunnel is running with sudo service stunnel4 status? If it is then we need to check if you are able to connect to the news server calling telnet localhost 119. If it connects, you can type quit to close.

If you're able to connect to the news server with telnet, then it might be a bug on nymphemeral.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-140392949 .

[PowerPress]

Any ideas on what I can do next bud?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Jonathan Brown jonbrownmasterit@gmail.com wrote:

Change to one to enable stunnel automatic startup

ENABLED=1 FILES="/etc/stunnel/*.conf" OPTIONS=""

executing the following: user@host:/etc/stunnel$ sudo service stunnel4 start user@host:/etc/stunnel$

Notice it does not return any information once that command is executed.

user@host:/etc/stunnel$ sudo service stunnel4 status ● stunnel4.service - LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SSL tunnel for network daemons) Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/stunnel4) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-09-15 01:10:45 UTC; 21h ago

Sep 15 22:50:40 host systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SS...). Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

user@host:/etc/stunnel$ telnet localhost 119 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

But never received any messages.

Now I still cant find any news servers even if I close and reopen the app.

So at first it tried to find messages by loading a progress bar and now you only get an error message, right?

/etc/default/stunnel4 added enable=1

Make sure that the option is ENABLED=1, otherwise it will not start automatically. That might be the reason it only worked once. You might want to run sudo service stunnel4 start again.

Can you check if stunnel is running with sudo service stunnel4 status? If it is then we need to check if you are able to connect to the news server calling telnet localhost 119. If it connects, you can type quit to close.

If you're able to connect to the news server with telnet, then it might be a bug on nymphemeral.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-140392949 .

[felipedau]

Any ideas on what I can do next bud?

Let's find out if for some reason the connection to the news server is being blocked. Try to connect without stunnel with telnet news.mixmin.net 563.

Then I'd like that you confirmed that you succesfully downloaded the stunnel-whonix.conf file and saved it at /etc/stunnel/ as stunnel.conf. It is important that (to download messages) it must have the nntps-client section at the bottom:

[nntps-client]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:119
connect = news.mixmin.net:563

[PowerPress]

user@host:~$ telnet news.mixmin.net 563 Trying 188.40.76.149... Connected to news.mixmin.net. Escape character is '^]'.

Success

nano /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf ; Example SSL server mode services

[nntps-client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:119 connect = news.mixmin.net:563

[ssmtp-client] protocol = smtp client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:25 connect = 2.2.2.2:25

Appears success from above

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Any ideas on what I can do next bud?

Let's find out if for some reason the connection to the news server is being blocked. Try to connect without stunnel with telnet news.mixmin.net 563.

Then I'd like that you confirmed that you succesfully downloaded the stunnel-whonix.conf file and saved it at /etc/stunnel/ as stunnel.conf. It is important that (to download messages) it must have the nntps-client section at the bottom:

[nntps-client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:119 connect = news.mixmin.net:563

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141233423 .

[PowerPress]

Extra info trying to get this to work on Whonix

user@host:~$ cat /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg SMTPRELAY 1.1.1.1 SMTPRELAY 2.2.2.2

This file is part of Whonix.

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2014 Patrick Schleizer adrelanos@riseup.net

See the file COPYING for copying conditions.

/home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg

Do not add comments on top of the file,

because mixmaster does not support that.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Jonathan Brown jonbrownmasterit@gmail.com wrote:

user@host:~$ telnet news.mixmin.net 563 Trying 188.40.76.149... Connected to news.mixmin.net. Escape character is '^]'.

Success

nano /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf ; Example SSL server mode services

[nntps-client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:119 connect = news.mixmin.net:563

[ssmtp-client] protocol = smtp client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:25 connect = 2.2.2.2:25

Appears success from above

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Any ideas on what I can do next bud?

Let's find out if for some reason the connection to the news server is being blocked. Try to connect without stunnel with telnet news.mixmin.net 563.

Then I'd like that you confirmed that you succesfully downloaded the stunnel-whonix.conf file and saved it at /etc/stunnel/ as stunnel.conf. It is important that (to download messages) it must have the nntps-client section at the bottom:

[nntps-client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:119 connect = news.mixmin.net:563

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141233423 .

[felipedau]

Appears success from above

Apparently the issue is stunnel. It seems to be correctly installed and configured. The only thing that I noticed is that the output from service stunnel status says it is active (exited), but should be running, and I really don't know why.

PowerPress commented 2 hours ago Extra info trying to get this to work on Whonix

user@host:~$ cat /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg SMTPRELAY 1.1.1.1 SMTPRELAY 2.2.2.2

Do not forget there is a Mixmaster (Whonix) section and the config you have there would not use stunnel to connect to the SMTP server. You should have SMTPRELAY localhost instead. However, that does not solve the issue, which is getting stunnel to work.

I've been very busy lately and I will try to create a Whonix installation again to find a solution, but can't promise you I will. I'll let you know if I get any progress and please keep me updated as well. We must find a solution!

[PowerPress]

Sounds like a plan. Thank you

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Appears success from above

Apparently the issue is stunnel. It seems to be correctly installed and configured. The only thing that I noticed is that the output from service stunnel status says it is active (exited), but should be running, and I really don't know why.

PowerPress commented 2 hours ago Extra info trying to get this to work on Whonix

user@host:~$ cat /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg SMTPRELAY 1.1.1.1 SMTPRELAY 2.2.2.2

Do not forget there is a Mixmaster (Whonix) https://nymphemeral.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install/mixmaster-whonix.html#mixmaster-whonix section and the config you have there would not use stunnel to connect to the SMTP server. You should have SMTPRELAY localhost instead. However, that does not solve the issue, which is getting stunnel to work.

I've been very busy lately and I will try to create a Whonix installation again to find a solution, but can't promise you I will. I'll let you know if I get any progress and please keep me updated as well. We must find a solution!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141301840 .

[PowerPress]

It appearsd just needed to run:

sudo service stunnel4 status ● stunnel4.service - LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SSL tunnel for network daemons) Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/stunnel4) Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-09-19 03:43:48 UTC; 15s ago Process: 9758 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/stunnel4 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 9772 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/stunnel4 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: /system.slice/stunnel4.service └─9785 /usr/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: stunnel 5.06 on i586-pc-lin...rm Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Compiled/running with OpenS...15 Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:P...AP Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Reading configuration from ...nf Sep 19 03:43:48 host systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SS...). Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel4[9772]: Starting SSL tunnels: [Started: /etc/s...l. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Now how do I fix the Mix Chain Unknown @ the bottom is that due to chain not being specified in /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg? Also how would it know what servers to chain specifically?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Brown jonbrownmasterit@gmail.com wrote:

Sounds like a plan. Thank you

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Appears success from above

Apparently the issue is stunnel. It seems to be correctly installed and configured. The only thing that I noticed is that the output from service stunnel status says it is active (exited), but should be running, and I really don't know why.

PowerPress commented 2 hours ago Extra info trying to get this to work on Whonix

user@host:~$ cat /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg SMTPRELAY 1.1.1.1 SMTPRELAY 2.2.2.2

Do not forget there is a Mixmaster (Whonix) https://nymphemeral.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install/mixmaster-whonix.html#mixmaster-whonix section and the config you have there would not use stunnel to connect to the SMTP server. You should have SMTPRELAY localhost instead. However, that does not solve the issue, which is getting stunnel to work.

I've been very busy lately and I will try to create a Whonix installation again to find a solution, but can't promise you I will. I'll let you know if I get any progress and please keep me updated as well. We must find a solution!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141301840 .

[PowerPress]

What happens if you don't specify a chain?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Jonathan Brown <jonbrownmasterit@gmail.com

wrote:

It appearsd just needed to run:

sudo service stunnel4 status ● stunnel4.service - LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SSL tunnel for network daemons) Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/stunnel4) Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-09-19 03:43:48 UTC; 15s ago Process: 9758 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/stunnel4 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 9772 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/stunnel4 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: /system.slice/stunnel4.service └─9785 /usr/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: stunnel 5.06 on i586-pc-lin...rm Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Compiled/running with OpenS...15 Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:P...AP Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel[9784]: LOG5[9784]: Reading configuration from ...nf Sep 19 03:43:48 host systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (SS...). Sep 19 03:43:48 host stunnel4[9772]: Starting SSL tunnels: [Started: /etc/s...l. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Now how do I fix the Mix Chain Unknown @ the bottom is that due to chain not being specified in /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg? Also how would it know what servers to chain specifically?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Brown < jonbrownmasterit@gmail.com> wrote:

Sounds like a plan. Thank you

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

Appears success from above

Apparently the issue is stunnel. It seems to be correctly installed and configured. The only thing that I noticed is that the output from service stunnel status says it is active (exited), but should be running, and I really don't know why.

PowerPress commented 2 hours ago Extra info trying to get this to work on Whonix

user@host:~$ cat /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg SMTPRELAY 1.1.1.1 SMTPRELAY 2.2.2.2

Do not forget there is a Mixmaster (Whonix) https://nymphemeral.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install/mixmaster-whonix.html#mixmaster-whonix section and the config you have there would not use stunnel to connect to the SMTP server. You should have SMTPRELAY localhost instead. However, that does not solve the issue, which is getting stunnel to work.

I've been very busy lately and I will try to create a Whonix installation again to find a solution, but can't promise you I will. I'll let you know if I get any progress and please keep me updated as well. We must find a solution!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141301840 .

[felipedau]

It appearsd just needed to run:

Great. So, what exactly did you run to fix the issue?

Now how do I fix the Mix Chain Unknown @ the bottom is that due to chain not being specified in /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg? Also how would it know what servers to chain specifically?

Yeap, you're right, but that's not an error. It just means that nymphemeral doesn't know the chain that will be used because it's not specified in the file. That option is not mandatory, because Mixmaster has a default chain. I cannot say for sure, but I beleive it then uses 4 random mixes (*,*,*,*).

[PowerPress]

I just had to run the stunnel restart command. This got stunnel running "sudo service stunnel4 restart"

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Felipe Dau notifications@github.com wrote:

It appearsd just needed to run:

Great. So, what exactly did you run to fix the issue?

Now how do I fix the Mix Chain Unknown @ the bottom is that due to chain not being specified in /home/user/.Mix/mix.cfg? Also how would it know what servers to chain specifically?

Yeap, you're right, but that's not an error. It just means that nymphemeral doesn't know the chain that will be used because it's not specified in the file. That option is not mandatory, because Mixmaster has a default chain. I cannot say for sure, but I beleive it then uses 4 random mixes (,,,).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/felipedau/nymphemeral/issues/30#issuecomment-141699876 .

[felipedau]

I just had to run the stunnel restart command. This got stunnel running "sudo service stunnel4 restart"

I totally forgot about that one!

Thanks for your feedback, @PowerPress.