topic Re: unable to connect via tor today in Everything else

unable to connect via tor today

rrfcpczkae — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:34:33 GMT

Hello,As of today I've been unable to use tor browser (won't connect, in bridge mode either)
Then I went to tor website (on firexfox), and got this:
An error occurred during a connection to www.torproject.org. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).
Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

I saw in another thread (unable to access plusnet website) that the abovementioned message might be related to chromium-based browser(s). I have tried chrome and edge, with the same, nil effect. With opera it's nil too, UNLESS I turn on proxy and then I can open tor project site. So, the above suggestion, as the issue might have something to do with chromium-based misconfiguration doesn't work with chromium-based opera in proxy mode?

Should I be worried?
Or, more importantly, how to solve this?

Regards,
n.

Re: unable to connect via tor today

ont — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:28:36 GMT

Plusnet haven't sorted out their SHA1 problems, this has been going on for nearly a month with no update in site.

Re: unable to connect via tor today

thackie2015 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:31:58 GMT

Me too, I am unable to log into Plusnet using Chrome - it works using MS Edge.

The error message is

This site can’t provide a secure connection

portal.plus.net uses an unsupported protocol.

Re: unable to connect via tor today

dvorak — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:26:42 GMT

@ont wrote:
Plusnet haven't sorted out their SHA1 problems, this has been going on for nearly a month with no update in site.

Sorry, I'm not sure that the PN SHA1 issue is related to the TOR project, or have they take over the running of that?

Re: unable to connect via tor today

dvorak — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:29:13 GMT

@thackie2015 - see https://community.plus.net/t5/Everything-else/Unable-to-access-Plusnet-website/td-p/1935635/jump-to/first-unread-message

@rrfcpczkae - that usually happens if safeguard or some other content filter is active.

Re: unable to connect via tor today

thackie2015 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:24:51 GMT

@dvorak , @rrfcpczkae -Thanks for that. I turned off all security disabled malwarebytes and mcafee extensions and still could not access the main site using Chrome. (I can access via MS Edge).

I can access this forum via Chrome .

Not satisfactory but I guess I will have to live with that .

Re: unable to connect via tor today

rrfcpczkae — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:16:05 GMT

Hello,

It would appear that your hint is 'on target', as I do have parental filters on, however they were on until the day before yesteday too, and I could still access tor project website and use tor as a browser all the time without any problems.
Another timeline coincidence is that about the same time (the day before yesterday), MS built-in antivirus started flagging and blocking tor.exe as 'malicious'. It's been fixed in their av signature update, but I wonder if that could have, somehow, triggered some plusnet systems to block their site as precaution.
But, ultimately, I should have started with 'the usual suspect': the problem began about the time of a new tor update, which I installed. So, back to front 'solution': tor 12.5.5 dated 27th September works without any problems. Which does not solve the issue of what triggers blocking their website on plusnet, but then, I guess, this will get sorted, eventually, plus their site is easily accessible via opera proxy (presumably via firefox equivalent too, as well as vpns).

Regards,

Re: unable to connect via tor today

thackie2015 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 09:13:50 GMT

Its fixed all working on Chrome this morning.

Thank you