[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Tue Apr 15 18:20:05 UTC 2014
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/15 ===
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version 39
Author: karsten
Date: 2014-04-15T17:38:49+00:00
Minor tweaks.
--- version 38
+++ version 39
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@
authorities and clients.
Directory authorities can currently tie relay's nickname to its identity
-key with the Named flag. That feature proven to be less helpful than it
+key with the Named flag. That feature proved to be less helpful than it
seemed and can subject its users to impersonation attacks. As relays
switch to new identity key, those who keep the same name will loose
their Named flag for the next six months. So now seems a good time to
-“throw out the Named and Unnamed flags entirely” [10]. Sebsatian Hahn
+“throw out the Named and Unnamed flags entirely” [10]. Sebastian Hahn
acted on the idea and started a draft proposal [11].
How should potentially compromised relays which have not switched to a
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
code to prevent the old keys from being accepted by Tor clients [17].
Changing the relay identity keys of the directory authorities has not
-been do so far “because current clients expect them to be at their
+been done so far “because current clients expect them to be at their
current IP:port:fingerprint and would scream in their logs and refuse to
connect if the relay identity key changes”. The specification of the
missing piece of code to allow a smoother transition has been written by
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
Andrew also updated the instructions [31] for mirror operators wishing
to have their sites listed on the Tor Project website. Thanks to Andreas
-Reich [32], Sebastian M. Bobrecki [33], and Jeremy L. Gaddis [34] for
+Reich [32], Sebastian M. Bobrecki [33], and Jeremy L. Gaddis [34] for
running new mirrors!
[31]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-April/000534.html
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