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Author: harmony
Date: 2015-02-18T11:52:19+00:00
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''85th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from February 10th, 2015 to February 17th, 2015. To be released on February 18th, 2015.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — February 18th, 2015
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Welcome to the seventh issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Feature XXX
------------
+Onion services
+--------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Anonymous web services hosted in the Tor network [XXX] have until now
+been referred to as “hidden services”. Although this name accurately
+describes one of their properties, it does not convey some of the other
+benefits that the system provides, like end-to-end encryption without a
+purchased SSL certificate, or self-authenticating domain names outside
+of the commercial DNS system. Furthermore, as Aaron Johnson points
+out [XXX], words like “hidden” and “dark” have an unnecessarily negative
+connotation.
- [XXX]:
+Aaron and other members of the SponsorR team declared themselves in
+favor of using the word “onion” (as in “onion routing” [XXX]) to
+characterize Tor-protected web services. “Hidden services” could be
+renamed “onion services”, while websites offered as onion services are
+“onionsites”; an onion service’s URL is its “onion address”, while the
+dreaded “Dark Web” becomes simply “onionspace”.
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+A full list of new and more precise terminology is in Aaron’s message
+and on the Tor wiki [XXX]; please feel free to contribute to the
+discussion on the tor-dev mailing list with your thoughts.
-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]:
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008256.html
+ [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR/Terminology
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-February/000246.html
+Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project announced [XXX] the release of
+version 15-alpha-3 of Orbot. This release includes more work on VPN
+support, and builds on last week’s early release of the PLUTO
+library [XXX] to offer support for meek [XXX], although it is not
+currently possible to use both at the same time. See Nathan’s
+announcement for usage instructions and download links.
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-February/004243.html
+ [XXX]: https://github.com/guardianproject/pluto
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+Yawning Angel asked for comments [XXX] on an implementation of a
+proposal [XXX] to let Tor create “ephemeral” onion services, using key
+material that is supplied at runtime rather than stored on the disk. See
+Yawning’s post for a detailed explanation of the concept and a link to
+the new code; however, trying to run this untested and unreviewed new
+branch “WILL BROADCAST YOUR SECRETS TO THE NSA’S ORBITAL SPACE STATION”,
+so don’t do that.
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008279.html
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/6411
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Yawning also announced [XXX] version 0.0.4 of obfs4proxy, which “is
+more useful for the Tor Browser people than anyone else, since it means
+that the next build can remove the old go.crypto cruft from the build
+process, and the ScrambleSuit client provider can be switched over to
+obfs4proxy like obfs2 and obfs3 have been”.
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008306.html
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+SiNA Rabbani announced that Faravahar, the directory authority which he
+operates, will be moving to a new IP address on Friday [XXX].
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008278.html
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+Thanks to cuanto [XXX] for running a mirror of the Tor Project website
+and software!
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2015-February/000858.html
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
+Thomas White published [XXX] a guide [XXX] to configuring an Nginx
+webserver as a hidden service: “It isn’t intended to be a hardening
+guide or an ultra secure way of hosting, but it is for people who want
+to casually publish some static HTML files or with a little extra
+configuration to host some applications”.
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036886.html
+ [XXX]: https://www.thecthulhu.com/setting-up-a-hidden-service-with-nginx/
- [XXX]:
+Collin Anderson and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab made a joint
+submission [XXX] to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
+promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and
+expression, examining the importance of digital security software such
+as Tor in upholding free expression and the right to privacy.
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
+ [XXX]: https://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SR-FOE-submission.pdf
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+carlo von lynX wondered [XXX] about the truth of the statement that “it
+would take latencies in the order of hours to fully make communications
+impossible to shape and correlate”. Roger Dingledine clarified [XXX]:
+“It’s actually worse than that — we have no idea. I’d love to have a
+graph where the x axis is how much additional overhead (latency,
+bandwidth, whatever) we’re willing to add, and the y axis is how much
+additional security (anonymity, privacy, whatever) we can get. Currently
+we have zero data points for this graph.”
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036911.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036912.html
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
+ Feb 18 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 23 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 23 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 24 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Mar 01 - 06 | Tor Winter Dev Meeting 2015
+ | Valencia, Spain
+ | https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015WinterDevMeeting
+ |
+ Mar 24 - 25 | Roger and Jake @ RightsCon 2015
+ | Manila, Philippines
+ | https://www.rightscon.org/manila/
-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 Roger
+Dingledine.
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- * https://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SR-FOE-submission.pdf
- * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008256.html
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