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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2015/28 ===
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version 12
Author: karsten
Date: 2015-07-15T11:54:45+00:00
Formatting.
--- version 11
+++ version 12
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
Jul 15 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
| #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
-
+ |
Jul 20 17:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
| #ooni, irc.oftc.net
|
version 11
Author: karsten
Date: 2015-07-15T11:54:09+00:00
Make some minor changes.
--- version 10
+++ version 11
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
A Caspar Bowden Legacy Fund [XXX] has been established “to promote advocacy
for privacy as a universal human right and privacy enhancing technologies as
one means to protect it”, in accordance with Caspar’s request “that we work
-to ensure equal protection regardless of nationality”. If you would like to
+to ensure equal protection regardless of nationality” [XXX]. If you would like to
make a contribution to this fund in Caspar’s memory, please see the web page
for further details.
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
The upcoming IETF Meeting in Prague [XXX] will have a DNS Operations
meeting on 20th July [XXX] that will discuss both the draft
proposal [XXX] to reserve .onion as a special-use domain suffix (about
-which Tor Weekly news has written before [XXX]), and other
+which Tor Weekly News has written before [XXX]), and other
proposals for related projects like I2P and Gnunet. If you're going to
Prague, consider attending this meeting and humming in support of
reserving .onion and these other domains!
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@
Upcoming events
---------------
+ Jul 15 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+
Jul 20 17:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
| #ooni, irc.oftc.net
|
version 10
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T11:27:39+00:00
--
--- version 9
+++ version 10
@@ -9,14 +9,18 @@
Tor Weekly News July 15th, 2015
========================================================================
-Welcome to the twenty-eighth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
+Welcome to the twenty-eighth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the
+weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Contents
--------
- 1. XXX
- 2. XXX
+ 1. Caspar Bowden
+ 2. Tor 0.2.6.10 is out
+ 3. New onion service-related proposals
+ 4. ExoneraTor gets an update
+ 5. Miscellaneous news
+ 6. Upcoming events
Caspar Bowden
-------------
@@ -180,8 +184,8 @@
| https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-July/000264.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 Karsten Loesing,
+Tom Ritter, 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 9
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T11:24:17+00:00
--
--- version 8
+++ version 9
@@ -17,6 +17,26 @@
1. XXX
2. XXX
+
+Caspar Bowden
+-------------
+
+Caspar Bowden, a leading advocate for many years in the field of civil
+liberties, and a member of the Tor Project, Inc.’s board of directors, has
+died after a short illness. As the Tor Project wrote in a statement [XXX],
+Caspar “was a passionate supporter of universal human rights, including the
+right to privacy”: “The world has lost a voice of tremendous moral courage.”
+
+A Caspar Bowden Legacy Fund [XXX] has been established “to promote advocacy
+for privacy as a universal human right and privacy enhancing technologies as
+one means to protect it”, in accordance with Caspar’s request “that we work
+to ensure equal protection regardless of nationality”. If you would like to
+make a contribution to this fund in Caspar’s memory, please see the web page
+for further details.
+
+ [XXX]: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/619159503397875716
+ [XXX]: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Danezis/CasparsLegacy_foundation.html
+ [XXX]: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/619107498197434368
Tor 0.2.6.10 is out
-------------------
version 8
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T11:15:46+00:00
meeting will have happened by the time this goes out
--- version 7
+++ version 8
@@ -140,9 +140,6 @@
Upcoming events
---------------
- Jul 15 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
- | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
- |
Jul 20 17:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
| #ooni, irc.oftc.net
|
version 7
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T11:15:10+00:00
--
--- version 6
+++ version 7
@@ -91,11 +91,26 @@
to your investigation of the problem.
After much discussion and feedback on the tor-relays list [XXX], Karsten
-Loesing and Julius Mittenzwei have updated ExoneraTor to offer a simpler,
-more intuitive service without unnecessary technical details. [TBC]
+Loesing and Julius Mittenzwei have updated [XXX] ExoneraTor to offer a simpler,
+more intuitive service without unnecessary details that might confuse a
+non-specialist. Searches are now restricted to full days, rather than
+precise timestamps, to avoid most issues relating to timezone differences
+(ExoneraTor’s results are given in UTC, and searchers might forget to make
+adjustments for their local timezone); the form allowing searchers to check
+whether a relay permitted exit traffic to a target address and port has been
+replaced by an “Exit” column indicating whether or not any exit traffic was
+allowed by that relay, again for the sake of simplicity; and the overall
+look of the service has been streamlined, with clearer, non-technical
+explanations of Tor and Exonerator, and a translation into German (with
+more languages planned).
+
+“Please give it a try, including the tricky edge cases where you expect
+it to break”, wrote Karsten. “And if you have any further feedback,” please
+send it to the tor-relays mailing list.
[XXX]: https://exonerator.torproject.org/
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007287.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007374.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
@@ -160,6 +175,3 @@
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
}}}
-
-Possible items:
- - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007374.html
version 6
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T11:05:42+00:00
--
--- version 5
+++ version 6
@@ -17,6 +17,27 @@
1. XXX
2. XXX
+
+Tor 0.2.6.10 is out
+-------------------
+
+Nick Mathewson put out a new release [XXX] in the current Tor stable
+series. Version 0.2.6.10 contains a fix for a regression [XXX] introduced
+in 0.2.6.3-alpha that made it difficult for clients to access onion
+services under certain circumstances — for example, if a hidden service
+restarts after a client connects, the same client would have been unable
+to connect again until the next hour. This version also “bulletproofs the
+cryptography init process, and fixes a bug when using the sandbox code
+with some older versions of Linux”.
+
+“Everyone running an older version, especially an older version of 0.2.6,
+should upgrade”, writes Nick. Source code is downloadable from the
+distribution directory [XXX]; packages will become available as their
+packagers package them.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02610-released
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/16381
+ [XXX]: https://dist.torproject.org/
New onion service-related proposals
-----------------------------------
version 5
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T10:54:42+00:00
--
--- version 4
+++ version 5
@@ -18,22 +18,63 @@
1. XXX
2. XXX
+New onion service-related proposals
+-----------------------------------
+
+A gathering of experts in Tor onion service research and development
+resulted (among other things) in two new Tor proposals for improving
+the anonymity and efficiency of services hosted inside the Tor network.
+
+John Brooks and George Kadianakis expanded [XXX] John’s earlier suggestion
+that the roles of “hidden service directory” and “introduction point”
+could be merged [XXX] in the next generation of onion services, into what
+is now proposal 246 [XXX]. This innovation would simplify the relevant
+code, reduce load on the network, and limit the number of relays that
+can observe the service’s activity or serve as a fingerprint for an
+observer.
+
+George also wrote up draft proposal 247 [XXX], which tries to prevent
+“guard discovery attacks” (where an adversary is able to work out which
+Tor relay is being contacted directly by the target client, thereby
+allowing them to attack that relay itself and deanonymize the client) by
+making the attack significantly more costly to perform, using “vanguards”.
+By enabling a Tor configuration option, the service operator could pin
+the second and third hops (the “vanguards” in question) of their
+circuits for a longer period. A would-be attacker is then forced to
+carry out “a Sybil attack and two coercion attacks” before succeeding,
+as opposed to the current situation “where the Sybil attack is trivial
+to pull off, and only a single coercion attack is required”. “I consider
+this issue very important and any feedback is greatly appreciated”, wrote
+George.
+
+This is privacy development at the most advanced level, and the waters
+are very much uncharted: there may be major design flaws, improvements,
+and counter-arguments lurking up ahead. If this is an area in which you
+feel you have a contribution to make, by all means take a look at the
+proposals, and then pitch in on the tor-dev mailing list [XXX]!
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009079.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008743.html
+ [XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/246-merge-hsdir-and-intro.txt
+ [XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/247-hs-guard-discovery.txt
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
+
ExoneraTor gets an update
-------------------------
-The ExoneraTor service [XXX] lets you use historical Tor network data to
+The ExoneraTor service [XXX] lets you use historical Tor network data to
quickly determine whether or not a particular IP address was being used
by a public Tor relay on a given date. This is useful if, for example,
you’re the administrator of a web service that received malicious traffic
on that date, and you want to find out if the IP address will be useful
to your investigation of the problem.
-After much discussion and feedback on the tor-relays list [XXX], Karsten
+After much discussion and feedback on the tor-relays list [XXX], Karsten
Loesing and Julius Mittenzwei have updated ExoneraTor to offer a simpler,
more intuitive service without unnecessary technical details. [TBC]
- [XXX]: https://exonerator.torproject.org/
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007287.html
+ [XXX]: https://exonerator.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007287.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
@@ -51,31 +92,14 @@
[XXX]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2015-May/000098.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+After a hiatus in activity on the tor-mirrors list, Sebastian Hahn
+updated [XXX] the file used to build the directory of mirrors on the Tor
+Project website [XXX] with changes made in the last few months. “If you
+notice any unexpected entries or think you should be on the list but aren’t,
+I’ll check what the problem is.”
-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]:
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2015-July/000911.html
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors
Upcoming events
---------------
version 4
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T10:24:34+00:00
--
--- version 3
+++ version 4
@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@
1. XXX
2. XXX
-Feature XXX
------------
+ExoneraTor gets an update
+-------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+The ExoneraTor service [XXX] lets you use historical Tor network data to
+quickly determine whether or not a particular IP address was being used
+by a public Tor relay on a given date. This is useful if, for example,
+you’re the administrator of a web service that received malicious traffic
+on that date, and you want to find out if the IP address will be useful
+to your investigation of the problem.
- [XXX]:
+After much discussion and feedback on the tor-relays list [XXX], Karsten
+Loesing and Julius Mittenzwei have updated ExoneraTor to offer a simpler,
+more intuitive service without unnecessary technical details. [TBC]
+
+ [XXX]: https://exonerator.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-July/007287.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
version 3
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-07-15T10:12:21+00:00
--
--- version 2
+++ version 3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
''106th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from July 7th, 2015 to July 14th, 2015. To be released on July 15th, 2015.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — July 15th, 2015
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
========================================================================
Welcome to the twenty-eighth 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.
Contents
--------
@@ -25,30 +25,21 @@
[XXX]:
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
-
-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].
+The upcoming IETF Meeting in Prague [XXX] will have a DNS Operations
+meeting on 20th July [XXX] that will discuss both the draft
+proposal [XXX] to reserve .onion as a special-use domain suffix (about
+which Tor Weekly news has written before [XXX]), and other
+proposals for related projects like I2P and Gnunet. If you're going to
+Prague, consider attending this meeting and humming in support of
+reserving .onion and these other domains!
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
-
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/93/index.html
+ [XXX]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/93/agenda/dnsop/
+ [XXX]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2015-May/000098.html
Tor help desk roundup
---------------------
@@ -79,16 +70,27 @@
Upcoming events
---------------
-Jul 15 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
- | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
-
-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
+ Jul 15 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jul 20 17:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jul 20 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jul 21 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jul 22 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jul 22 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Aug 03 19:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-July/000264.html
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
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