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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-25T23:33:48+00:00
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''73rd issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from November 18th, 2014 to November 25th, 2014. To be released on November 26th, 2014.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — November 26th, 2014
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Welcome to the forty-seventh issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the
-weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Feature XXX
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-25T23:33:00+00:00
credits/events
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Upcoming events
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-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
- |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
+ Nov 26 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Nov 26 16:00 UTC | Pluggable transports meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Dec 01 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Dec 01 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007852.html
+ |
+ Dec 02 17:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Dec 03 20:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-November/007418.html
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony and Matt
+Pagan.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
version 7
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-25T23:25:29+00:00
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Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
- [XXX]:
-
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
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-
-The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
[XXX]:
Miscellaneous news
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The help desk commonly sees questions from users who get error
messages when using Vidalia. Vidalia has been deprecated [XXX];
-for web browsing, only the latest version or Tor Browser [XXX]
-should be used. Documentation can be found on the website for
-other common uses of Vidalia such setting up a bridge [XXX].
+for web browsing, only the latest version of Tor Browser [XXX]
+should be used. Documentation for other common uses of Vidalia,
+such as setting up a bridge, can be found on the website [XXX].
-[XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html#WhereDidVidaliaGo
-[XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
-[XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en
-
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html#WhereDidVidaliaGo
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions
Upcoming events
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-25T23:21:44+00:00
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Miscellaneous news
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-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Nathan Freitas announced [XXX] the release of Orbot 14.1.3, which
+includes improved handling of background processes; it builds on the
+earlier 14.1.0 [XXX], which brought with it support for Android 5.0
+Lollipop, as well as stability fixes. Orweb was brought up to version
+0.7, also introducing support for the new Android release.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2014-November/004068.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2014-November/004036.html
+
+George Kadianakis sent out [XXX] a co-authored draft of a proposal for
+statistics concerning hidden service activity that relays could collect
+and publish without harming the anonymity or security of users and
+hidden services, and which might “be useful to Tor developers and to
+people who want to understand hidden services and the onionspace
+better.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/attachments/20141125/9cca7ccb/attachment.txt
+
+Tom Ritter drafted a proposal [XXX] exploring methods a hidden service
+operator might use to prove to certificate authorities that they control
+the service’s private key when requesting SSL certificates.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007853.html
+
+Karsten Loesing spruced up [XXX] the documentation on the Tor Metrics
+portal [XXX], including a handy glossary of frequently-used
+Tor-specific terms [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007834.html
+ [XXX]: https://metrics.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://metrics.torproject.org/about.html
+
+Damian Johnson sketched out a roadmap [XXX] for further development of
+Stem [XXX], the Tor controller library in Python, welcoming “more
+general ideas on directions to take Stem, the tor-prompt, and this whole
+space”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007831.html
+ [XXX]: https://stem.torproject.org/
+
+Andrew Lewman reported [XXX] on his experiments in mirroring the Tor
+Project website using the Fastly CDN as well as the BitTorrent Sync
+application.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-November/000781.html
+
+Following a suggestion [XXX] that a guide to server hardening should be
+distributed with the tor software package, Libertas drafted [XXX] a
+sample document and asked for reviews. “Please share any opinions or
+contributions you have. This was written in a little more than an hour,
+so it’s still a work in progress.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13703
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005846.html
+
+Libertas also scanned [XXX] a large number of currently-running Tor
+relays to check which access authentication methods their servers
+supported, finding 2051 relays that still permitted password-based
+authentication. “Generally, it is far more secure to allow only public
+key auth. The Ubuntu help pages have a good guide [XXX] on setting up
+key-based auth”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005759.html
+ [XXX]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
+
+SiNA Rabbani noted [XXX] that a large proportion of Tor exit relays are
+located in Europe, and called for relay operators to consider running
+nodes with US hosts. “I am not sure if the reason is lack of
+Tor-friendly ISPs or people are just too freaked out about the summer of
+Snowden. I think it’s very wrong to assume that EU countries are not
+part of the world-wide-wiretap, packets are going through a few internet
+exchanges anyways.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005806.html
Thanks to Andy Weber [XXX], Matt Kraai [XXX], Alexander Dietrich [XXX],
James Murphy [XXX], Jesse Victors [XXX], Lucid Networks [XXX],
@@ -108,12 +179,3 @@
Possible items:
* Longclaw https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-November/035650.html
- * Orbot news https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-November/035679.html https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2014-November/004068.html
- * Mirroring experiments https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-November/000781.html
- * Stem roadmap https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007831.html
- * How to Safely Sign a statement with a .onion key https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007853.html
- * Metrics documentation https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007834.html
- * List of relays' auth methods https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005759.html
- * US exit nodes https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005806.html
- * doc/HARDENING https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-November/005846.html https://bugs.torproject.org/13703
- * HS stats proposal https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007863.html
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