[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Mon Oct 21 13:20:09 UTC 2013
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2013/16 ===
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version 15
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T12:45:11+00:00
ticket #10000
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@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@
[XXX] http://www.secure.edu.pl/
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
+Ximin Luo has been the first to create a ticket with 5 digits [XXX] on Tor
+tracker. At the current rate, ticket #20000 should happen by the end of 2015…
+Or will the project continued growth make this happen sooner?
+
+ [XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/10000
+
Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
version 14
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T11:32:20+00:00
cover Andrew's trip
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@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@
Miscellaneous news
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+Andrew Lewman was invited to speak at SECURE Poland 2013 [XXX] and sent
+a report on his trip [XXX] to Warsaw.
+
+ [XXX] http://www.secure.edu.pl/
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
+
Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
@@ -143,7 +149,6 @@
Possible items:
* looks like the botnet is declining… needs more information https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
- * Trip Report for SECURE Poland 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
* Roger's status report, September/October 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000365.html
* Usability issues with existing OTR clients https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005636.html
* Call for testing Tails 0.21 rc1 https://tails.boum.org/news/test_0.21-rc1/index.en.html
version 13
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T11:28:35+00:00
also volunteer for this week
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''Seventeenth issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from October 15th, 2013 to October 22th, 2013. To be released on October 23th, 2013.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Lunar
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — October 23th, 2013
version 12
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T11:28:05+00:00
first strike at Roger's blog post
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Welcome to the seventeenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+
+Tor's anonymity and guards parameters
+-------------------------------------
+
+In a lengthly blog post [XXX], Roger Dingledine looked back on three
+research papers published in the past year. Some of them have been
+covered and most of the time misunderstood by the press. A good recap
+of the research problems, what the findings mean and possible solutions
+hopefully will help everyone understand better.
+
+Introduced in 2005 [XXX], entry guards were added to recognise that
+“some circuits are going to be compromised, but it's better to increase
+your probability of having no compromised circuits at the expense of
+also increasing the proportion of your circuits that will be compromised
+if any of them are.” Roger “originally picked ‘one or two months’ for
+guard rotation” but the initial parameters called for more in-depth
+research [XXX].
+
+That call was heard by “the Tor research community [XXX], and it's great
+that Tor gets such attention. We get this attention because we put so
+much effort into making it easy [XXX] for researchers to analyze Tor.”
+In his writing Roger highlights the finding of three papers. Two of them
+published at WPES 2012 and Oakland 2013, and another upcoming at
+CCS2013.
+
+These research efforts highlighted several deffiencies way Tor handles
+entry guards. Roger details five complementary fixes: using fewer
+guards, keeping the same guards for longer, better handling of
+brief unreachability of a guard, making the network bigger, and smarter
+assignment of the guard flag to relays. Some will require further
+research to identify the best solution. There's also other aspects
+regarding systems which don't currently record guards such as Tails, how
+pluggable transports could prevent attackers from recognizing Tor users,
+or enhancing measurements from the bandwidth authorities…
+
+The whole blog post is insightful and is a must read for everyone who
+wish to better understand some of Tor's risk mitigation strategies. It
+is also full of little and big things where you could make a difference!
+
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/top-changes-tor-2004-design-paper-part-2
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-better-guard-rotation-parameters
+ [XXX] http://freehaven.net/anonbib/
+ [XXX] https://research.torproject.org/
New Release of XXX
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@@ -99,7 +143,6 @@
Possible items:
* looks like the botnet is declining… needs more information https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
- * Improving Tor's anonymity by changing guard parameters https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters
* Trip Report for SECURE Poland 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
* Roger's status report, September/October 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000365.html
* Usability issues with existing OTR clients https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005636.html
version 11
Author: asn
Date: 2013-10-21T10:48:52+00:00
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--- version 10
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@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@
XXX: details about release
[XXX]
+
+Hidden Service research
+-----------------------
+
+George posted a list of items that need work on the Hidden Service area [XXX].
+It's not an exhaustive list, but it might help with upgrading the Hidden Service design.
+Help and comments are welcome!
+
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005637.html
Monthly status reports for XXX month 2013
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version 10
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T10:32:22+00:00
arturo's report
--- version 9
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@@ -94,4 +94,5 @@
* Trip Report for SECURE Poland 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
* Roger's status report, September/October 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000365.html
* Usability issues with existing OTR clients https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005636.html
- * Call for testing Tails 0.21 rc1 https://tails.boum.org/news/test_0.21-rc1/index.en.html+ * Call for testing Tails 0.21 rc1 https://tails.boum.org/news/test_0.21-rc1/index.en.html
+ * Arthuro's report for September https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000366.html
version 9
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-10-21T09:42:26+00:00
add possible item
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@@ -93,4 +93,5 @@
* Improving Tor's anonymity by changing guard parameters https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters
* Trip Report for SECURE Poland 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000364.html
* Roger's status report, September/October 2013 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000365.html
- * Usability issues with existing OTR clients https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005636.html+ * Usability issues with existing OTR clients https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005636.html
+ * Call for testing Tails 0.21 rc1 https://tails.boum.org/news/test_0.21-rc1/index.en.html
version 8
Author: mttp
Date: 2013-10-21T05:40:11+00:00
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Tor Help Desk Roundup
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-This week users asked many questions.
+The Tor Help Desk continues to be bombarded with help requests from users
+behind university proxies who cannot use ORPort bridges or the Pluggable
+Transports Browser to circumvent their network's firewall. Although the
+cases are not all the same, bridges on port 443 or port 80 do not always
+suffice to circumvent such proxies.
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