[tor-project] Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, August 2024

[rhatto]

Hi all :)

This is my monthly status report for August 2024 with the main relevant
activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the
period.

# Things I've done

## Notes from the Lisbon meeting

Finally sorted and edited notes from the Lisbon Meeting!

I would like to thank Rasmus Dahlberg for his impressive note taking skills!

Public notes are available here:

* Onion Plan:
  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/onion-plan-retrospective-and-perspective-summary

* ACME for Onions:
  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/update-on-the-acme-for-onions-rfc

* Self-authenticated certificates for Onion Services:
  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/self-auth-certs-for-onion-services

## Onion Services and Mixed content handling

Did some security evaluation for Tor Browser about upcoming changes on
mixed content handling on upstream Firefox:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43013

## Onion Discovery

Updated some documents related to Onion Discovery:

* Onion Association page:
  https://onionservices.torproject.org/research/proposals/usability/discovery/onion-association/

* Specs for DNS-based .onion records:
  https://onionservices.torproject.org/research/appendixes/dns/

## Onionbalance

Onionbalance documentation was migrated to Onion MkDocs and included in the
Ecosystem:

* New URL: https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/base/onionbalance/

* Related issues:
  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionbalance/-/issues/28
  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ecosystem/-/issues/2

## House keeping

* Created monthly scheduled builds for all major projects at
  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services

* Created monthly scheduled builds for documentation generators such as Onion
  MkDocs, Onion TeX Slim and Onion Reveal:
  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/onion-mkdocs/
  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/onion-reveal/
  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/onion-tex-slim

* Invited the Renovate Bot
  (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/renovate-cron) to help keeping some
  more projects.

## Support

* Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion
  Services.

# Other news from the Onionspace

* The ACME for Onions (https://acmeforonions.org/) Internet Draft is going
  through the Last Call on the IETF working group!

  Current status available at
  https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-onion/history/

-- 
Silvio Rhatto
pronouns he/him
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