[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Tue Sep 10 20:40:06 UTC 2013
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version 69
Author: harmony
Date: 2013-09-10T19:54:54+00:00
minor language fixes
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@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@
more hard-to-implement-wrong protocols to our mix: Salsa20 is looking
like a much better choice to me than AES nowadays, for instance.”
-Nick concluded one of his email with “these are interesting times for
-crypto”. It sounds like a good way to put it.
+Nick concluded one of his emails with the words: “these are interesting times for
+crypto”, which sounds like a good way to put it.
[11] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html
[12] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/029917.html
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@
looking for an introductory Tor project to hack on.”
Saytha already wrote that this was enough material to get the
-implementation started [28]. The project needs enough work for anyone
-interested. Feel free to join him!
+implementation started [28]. The project needs enough work that anyone
+interested should get involved. Feel free to join him!
[26] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005386.html
[27] https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html
@@ -185,19 +185,19 @@
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Not all new Tor users are computer programs! According to their latest
-report [42], Tails is now booted twice as much as six months ago (from
+report [42], Tails is now booted twice as much as it was six months ago (from
100,865 to 190,521 connections to the security feed).
[42] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-September/000336.html
-Thanks Frenn vun der Enn [43] for setting up a new mirror [44] of the
+Thanks to Frenn vun der Enn [43] for setting up a new mirror [44] of the
Tor project website.
[43] http://enn.lu/
[44] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2013-September/000351.html
With the Google Summer of Code ending in two weeks, the students have
-sent their the next to last reports: Kostas Jakeliunas for the
+sent their penultimate reports: Kostas Jakeliunas for the
Searchable metrics archive [45], Johannes Fürmann for EvilGenius [46],
Hareesan for the Steganography Browser Extension [47], and
Cristian-Matei Toader for Tor capabilities [48].
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
[47] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005409.html
[48] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005412.html
-Damian Johnson announced [49] he had completed the rewrite of DocTor in
+Damian Johnson announced [49] that he had completed the rewrite of DocTor in
Python [50], “a service that pulls hourly consensus information and
checks it for a host of issues (directory authority outages, expiring
certificates, etc). In the case of a problem it notifies
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
[50] https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git
[51] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-consensus-health
-Matt Pagan has migrated [52] several Frequently Asked Questions from the
+Matt Pagan has migrated [52] several Frequently-Asked Questions from the
wiki to the official Tor website [53]. This should enable more users to
find the answers they need!
@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@
[53] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html
In his previous call for help to collect more statistics [54], addressed
-at bridge operators, George Kadianakis forgot to mention that an extra
-line with “ExtORPort 6669” needed to be added to tor configuration
-file [55]. Make sure you do have it if you are running a bridge on tor
+to bridge operators, George Kadianakis forgot to mention that an extra
+line with “ExtORPort 6669” needed to be added to the tor configuration
+file [55]. Make sure you do have it if you are running a bridge on the tor
master branch.
[54] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-August/002477.html
@@ -237,13 +237,13 @@
For the upgrade of tor to the 0.2.4.x series in Tails, a tester spotted
a regression while “playing with an ISO built from experimental, thanks
to our Jenkins autobuilder” [56]. This marks a significant milestone in
-the work on automated builds [57] done by the several member of the
+the work on automated builds [57] done by several members of the
Tails team in the course of the last year!
[56] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003617.html
[57] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5324
-Tails next low-hanging fruits session will be on September 21st at
+Tails' next 'low-hanging fruit' session will be on September 21st at
08:00 UTC [58]. Mark the date if you want to get involved!
[58] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003566.html
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@
[64] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005413.html
Eugen Leitl drew attention [65] to a new research paper which aims to
-analyze content and popularity of Hidden Services by Alex Biryukov, Ivan
-Pustogarov, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann from University of
+analyze the content and popularity of Hidden Services by Alex Biryukov, Ivan
+Pustogarov, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann from the University of
Luxembourg [66].
[65] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/029856.html
@@ -276,20 +276,20 @@
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The Tor help desk had a number of emails this week asking about the
-recent stories in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Pro Publica
+recent stories in the New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica
regarding NSA’s cryptographic capabilities. Some users asked whether
there was a backdoor in Tor. Others asked if Tor’s crypto was broken.
There is absolutely no backdoor in Tor. Tor project members have been
vocal in the past about how tremendously irresponsible it would be to
-backdoor our users [67]. As it is a frequently asked question, users
+backdoor our users [67]. As it is a frequently-asked question, users
have been encouraged to read how the project would respond to
institutional pressure [68].
The Tor project does not have any more facts about NSA’s cryptanalysis
-capabilities than what have been published in newspapers. Even if there
+capabilities than what has been published in newspapers. Even if there
is no actual evidence that Tor encryption is actually broken, the idea
-is to pace on the safe side by using more trusted algorithms for the Tor
+is to remain on the safe side by using more trusted algorithms for the Tor
protocols. See above for a more detailed write-up.
[67] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/calea-2-and-tor
@@ -300,18 +300,18 @@
Tor is about protecting everyone’s freedom and privacy. There are many
ways to help [69] but getting involved in such a busy community can be
-daunting. Here’s a selection of tasks on which one can get started:
-
-Get tor to log the source of control port connection [70]. It would help
-developing controller applications or libraries (like Stem [71]) to
+daunting. Here’s a selection of tasks on which one could get started:
+
+Get tor to log the source of control port connections [70]. It would help
+in developing controller applications or libraries (like Stem [71]) to
know which program is responsible for a given access to the control
facilities of the tor daemon. Knowledge required: C programming, basic
understanding of network sockets.
Diagnose what is currently wrong with Tor Cloud images [72]. Tor
Cloud [73] is an easy way to deploy bridges and it looks like the
-automatic upgrade procedure had troubles. Let’s have these virtual
-machines be again useful for censored users. Knowledge required: basic
+automatic upgrade procedure caused problems. Let’s make these virtual
+machines useful again for censored users. Knowledge required: basic
understanding of Ubuntu system administration.
[69] https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en
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version 5
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-09-10T19:41:14+00:00
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Possible items:
* How about mention Stack Exchange page for Tor? It is getting closer http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/56447/tor-online-anonymity-privacy-and-security
-* karsten updated the GeoIP database https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9714+* karsten updated the GeoIP database https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9714
+* Improvement of SSL Ciphers of Tor2web https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030003.html
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