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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/41 ===
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version 26
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-14T18:47:09+00:00
add more to 10-minute item/freeze
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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — October 15th, 2014
+
+'''Status:''' Frozen. Technical and language fixes only; new items should go in [wiki:TorWeeklyNews/2014/42 next week's issue].
{{{
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@@ -124,10 +126,15 @@
Greg Norcie wondered [XXX] why the interval at which Tor switches to using
a new circuit was set at ten minutes, and Nick Mathewson responded [XXX] that
after the original period of thirty seconds was found to be unworkable, the
-new number was selected in 2005 “more or less intuitively”.
+new number was selected in 2005 “more or less intuitively”. Paul Syverson
+added [XXX] that the choice was “an informed one”, taken after a bunch of
+discussions concerning the trade-offs between the overhead of the public-key
+operations of circuit building and the pseudonymous profiling occurring at an
+exit”.
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035212.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035213.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035217.html
Both Tor and Tails received their first cinematic credits [XXX] with the
première of “CITIZENFOUR” [XXX], a documentary film concerning the recent
version 25
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-14T18:37:56+00:00
events/credits
--- version 24
+++ version 25
@@ -175,17 +175,22 @@
Upcoming events
---------------
-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
-
-
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+ Oct 15 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Oct 17 17:00 CET | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Oct 20 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Oct 23 10:10 CET | Andrew @ Broadband World Forum
+ | Amsterdam, Netherlands
+ | http://broadbandworldforum.com/agenda/day-3/#81301
+
+
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, qbi, and
+Harmony.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
version 24
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-14T18:32:51+00:00
write about gfw project
--- version 23
+++ version 24
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
Welcome to the forty-first issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Academic research into Tor: three recent studies
-------------------------------------------------
+Academic research into Tor: four recent studies
+-----------------------------------------------
Major contributions to the development and security of Tor are often
made by academic researchers, either in a laboratory setting using
@@ -59,6 +59,17 @@
preferable “in further study of Tor vulnerability to AS- and IX-level
adversaries and development of practical defenses.”
+Meanwhile, Philipp Winter took to the Tor blog [XXX] to summarize some new
+findings concerning the the way in which the Chinese state Internet censorship
+system (the “Great Firewall of China”) acts upon blocked connections, like
+those trying to reach Tor, as detailed in a recent project [XXX] to which he
+contributed. Searching for spatial and temporal patterns in Chinese censorship
+activity, the researchers found that “many IP addresses inside the China
+Education and Research Network (CERNET) are able to connect” to Tor in certain
+instances, while the filtering of other networks — centrally conducted at the
+level of Internet exchanges — “seems to be quite effective despite occasional
+country-wide downtimes”.
+
Each of these studies is up for discussion on the tor-dev mailing
list [XXX], so feel free to join in there with questions and comments
for the researchers!
@@ -72,6 +83,8 @@
[XXX]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.1823v1.pdf
[XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_%28Internet%29
[XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/closer-look-great-firewall-china
+ [XXX]: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~royaen/gfw/
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
Miscellaneous news
@@ -183,6 +196,3 @@
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
}}}
-
-Possible items:
- * A closer look at the Great Firewall of China https://blog.torproject.org/blog/closer-look-great-firewall-china
version 23
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-14T18:11:31+00:00
more misc
--- version 22
+++ version 23
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@
Miscellaneous news
------------------
+Michael Rogers submitted [XXX] patches against tor and jtorctl, making
+two improvements to the performance of mobile hidden services: one “avoids
+a problem where we'd try to build introduction circuits immediately, all the
+circuits would fail, and we'd wait for 5 minutes before trying again”, and
+the other “[adds] a command to the control protocol to purge any cached state
+relating to a specified hidden service”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007590.html
+
Karsten Loesing published [XXX] a “non-functional” mock-up [XXX] of a
possible redesign for the Tor Metrics portal, with notes on design
decisions: “Feedback much appreciated. This is the perfect time to
@@ -85,12 +94,27 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007605.html
[XXX]: https://kloesing.github.io/metrics-2.0/
+Jeremy Gillula analyzed data relating to Tor node churn found in Tor
+consensuses for September 2014, and found that “on average, 0.003% of
+nodes switch from being relay nodes to exit nodes in any given 1-hour
+period, and 0.002% switch from being exit nodes to relay nodes”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035207.html
+
Noel Torres [XXX] and Andrew Lewman [XXX] sent their status reports for
September. Roger Dingledine also sent out the report for SponsorF [XXX].
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000674.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000676.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000675.html
+
+Greg Norcie wondered [XXX] why the interval at which Tor switches to using
+a new circuit was set at ten minutes, and Nick Mathewson responded [XXX] that
+after the original period of thirty seconds was found to be unworkable, the
+new number was selected in 2005 “more or less intuitively”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035212.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035213.html
Both Tor and Tails received their first cinematic credits [XXX] with the
première of “CITIZENFOUR” [XXX], a documentary film concerning the recent
@@ -161,7 +185,4 @@
}}}
Possible items:
- * Patches to improve mobile hidden service performance https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007590.html
* A closer look at the Great Firewall of China https://blog.torproject.org/blog/closer-look-great-firewall-china
- * node churn rate https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035207.html
- * Why 10 minutes? https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035213.html (nice trivia)
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version 1
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-14T18:49:32+00:00
create page
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@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+''68th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from October 14th, 2014 to October 21st, 2014. To be released on October 22nd, 2014.''
+
+'''Editor:'''
+
+'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — October 22nd, 2014
+
+{{{
+========================================================================
+Tor Weekly News October 22nd, 2014
+========================================================================
+
+Welcome to the forty-second issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
+newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+
+Feature XXX
+-----------
+
+Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+
+ [XXX]:
+
+Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
+-----------------------------------------
+
+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
+------------------
+
+Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+
+Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+
+Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
+ [XXX]:
+ [XXX]:
+
+Tor help desk roundup
+---------------------
+
+Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+
+News from Tor StackExchange
+---------------------------
+
+Text with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
+
+Easy development tasks to get involved with
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Text with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
+
+Upcoming events
+---------------
+
+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
+
+
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
+XXX.
+
+Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
+We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
+important news. Please see the project page [XXX], write down your
+name and subscribe to the team mailing list [XXX] if you want to
+get involved!
+
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
+}}}
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