[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Mon Nov 11 18:00:06 UTC 2013
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2013/19 ===
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version 31
Author: mttp
Date: 2013-11-11T17:10:08+00:00
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their GnuPG program was named gpg2.exe rather than gpg.exe. A ticket
on improving the signature verification page has been opened [XXX].
+One user mentioned wanting to use the Tor Browser Bundle as their
+default browser but being unable to do so because their online bank
+required Java. Java is disabled in the Tor Browser Bundle because it
+can bypass the browser proxy settings and leak the client's real IP
+address over the network.
+
[XXX] https://torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html
[XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/projects/10073
version 30
Author: david
Date: 2013-11-11T16:35:11+00:00
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filters.
Improving upon the initial work of Leif Ryge [XXX], David Stainton has been
-working on new “bananaphone” pluggable transport for obfsproxy [XXX].
+working on the new “bananaphone” pluggable transport for obfsproxy [XXX].
The latter implements “reverse hash encoding“, described by Leif Ryge as
“a steganographic encoding scheme which transforms a stream of binary
data into a stream of tokens (eg, something resembling natural language
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
the tokens.”
For a concrete example, that means that using Project Gutenberg’s Don
-Quixote [XXX] as corpus, one can encoding “my little poney” into “lock
+Quixote [XXX] as corpus, one can encode “my little poney” into “lock
whisper: yellow tremendous, again suddenly breathing. master's faces;
fees, beheld convinced there calm” and back again!
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
[XXX] https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
[XXX] https://github.com/leif/bananaphone
- [XXX] https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-managed
+ [XXX] https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone
[XXX] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29468/pg29468.txt
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