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Welcome to the eighteenth 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
------------
+Contents
+--------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+ 1. Tor Project, Inc. appoints interim Executive Director
+ 2. Monthly status reports for April 2015
+ 3. Miscellaneous news
+ 4. Upcoming events
- [XXX]:
+Tor Project, Inc. appoints interim Executive Director
+-----------------------------------------------------
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
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+Following the departure of the Tor Project, Inc.’s Executive Director,
+Andrew Lewman [XXX], the board of directors has appointed Roger
+Dingledine as interim Executive Director, and Nick Mathewson as interim
+Deputy Executive Director, until long-term candidates for these roles
+are found. Roger and Nick are both co-founders and lead developers of
+Tor, and need no introduction here — but you can watch Roger’s
+conversation with the National Science Foundation [XXX] and (if you read
+Spanish) take a look at Nick’s recent interview with El País [XXX] to
+learn a bit more about who they are and what inspires them to work on
+Tor.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/roger-dingledine-becomes-interim-executive-director-tor-project
+ [XXX]: https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=77516
+ [XXX]: http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2015/04/04/actualidad/1428169979_196077.html
+
+Monthly status reports for April 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].
+month of April has begun. George Kadianakis released his report
+first [XXX] (offering updates on onion service research), followed
+by reports from Yawning Angel [XXX] (reporting on pluggable transport
+research and core Tor hacking), Sherief Alaa [XXX] (on support work,
+documentation rewrites, and testing), David Goulet [XXX] (on hidden
+service and core Tor development), Nick Mathewson [XXX] (on core Tor
+development and organizational work), Leiah Jansen [XXX] (on graphic
+design and branding), Pearl Crescent [XXX] (on Tor Browser and Tor
+Launcher development and testing), Jacob Appelbaum [XXX] (on advocacy
+and outreach), Griffin Boyce [XXX] (on security research and
+Satori/Cupcake development), Damian Johnson [XXX] (on Stem development
+and coordinating Tor Summer of Privacy), Georg Koppen [XXX] (on Tor
+Browser Development and build system research), Juha Nurmi [XXX] (on
+ahmia.fi development and Tor outreach), and Israel Leiva [XXX] (on the
+GetTor project).
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Mike Perry reported on behalf of the Tor Browser team [XXX], giving
+details of the 4.5 release process, significant security enhancements,
+and work to ensure that the wider Internet community takes the Tor
+network into account when developing standards and protocols.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000807.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000808.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000809.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000810.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000811.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000812.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000813.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000814.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000815.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000816.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000817.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000819.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000820.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000818.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Isis Lovecruft announced [XXX] the release and deployment of version
+0.3.2 of BridgeDB [XXX], the software that handles bridge address
+collection and distribution for the Tor network. Notable changes include
+the setting of obfs4 as the default pluggable transport served to users,
+better handling of clients from the same IPv6 address block, and the
+exclusion of broken bridge lines from the database.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008760.html
+ [XXX]: https://bridges.torproject.org
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Tom Ritter shared a slide deck [XXX] offering “a 100-foot overview on
+Tor”: “Before I post it on twitter or a blog, I wanted to sent it around
+semi-publicly to collect any feedback people think is useful.”
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-May/037723.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+Moritz Bartl announced [XXX] the Tor-BSD Diversity Project, which aims
+to mitigate the risks that the “overwhelming GNU/Linux monoculture”
+among Tor relay operators might pose to the security of the Tor network:
+“In a global anonymity network, monocultures are potentially disastrous.
+A single kernel vulnerability in GNU/Linux that impacting Tor relays
+could be devastating. We want to see a stronger Tor network, and we
+believe one critical ingredient for that is operating system diversity.”
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/037649.html
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
+David Fifield published the regular summary of costs incurred by the
+infrastructure for meek in April [XXX], detailing a large increase in
+simultaneous users over the last month (from 2000 to 5000), and the
+possible effects of a larger meek userbase on the Tor Metrics
+portal’s [XXX] bridge user graphs.
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008767.html
+ [XXX]: https://metrics.torproject.org
- [XXX]:
+John Brooks suggested [XXX] that, when the “next-generation onion
+services” proposal is implemented, there will no longer be any reason
+to use both introduction points and hidden service directories [XXX]
+when establishing connections between Tor clients and onion services.
+Calculating introduction points in the same way that HSDirs would be
+selected may have “substantial” benefits: “Services touch fewer relays
+and don’t need to periodically post descriptors. Client connections are
+much faster. The set of relays that can observe popularity is reduced.
+It’s more difficult to become the IP of a targeted service.” See John’s
+proposal for a detailed explanation, and feel free to send your comments
+to the tor-dev mailing list.
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008743.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
+ May 06 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 07 15:00 UTC | SponsorO support/documentation meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 08 15:00 UTC | Tor Messenger/Tor Mail meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 11 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 11 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 12 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 12 19:00 UTC | Tails low-hanging fruit session
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-May/008704.html
+ |
+ May 13 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
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