[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Tue Apr 8 01:40:18 UTC 2014


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version 38
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-04-08T00:50:57+00:00

   start openssl bug item (will update)

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 Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
 newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
+
+The Heartbleed Bug and Tor
+--------------------------
+
+OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160 [XXX], also known as the Heartbleed bug [XXX],
+“allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of systems protected
+by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software”, potentially
+enabling the compromise of information including “user names and
+passwords, instant messages, emails, and business critical documents and
+communication”. Tor is one of the very many networking programs that use
+OpenSSL to communicate over the Internet, so within a few hours of the
+bug’s disclosure Roger Dingledine posted [XXX] a security advisory
+containing some initial thoughts on how it might affect different areas
+of the Tor ecosystem.
+
+“The short version is: upgrade your openssl” [XXX]. Tor Browser users
+should await new packages, while those using a system Tor should upgrade
+their OpenSSL version and manually restart their Tor process. For relay
+operators, “best practice would be to update your OpenSSL package,
+discard all the files in keys/ in your DataDirectory, and restart your
+Tor to generate new keys”, and for hidden service administrators, “to
+move to a new hidden-service address at your convenience”. Clients,
+relays, and services using an older version of OpenSSL, including Tails,
+are not affected by this bug.
+
+Ultimately, “if you need strong anonymity or privacy on the Internet,
+you might want to stay away from the Internet entirely for the next few
+days while things settle.” Be sure to read Roger’s post in full if you
+are unsure what this bug might mean for you.
+
+ [XXX]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2014-0160
+ [XXX]: http://heartbleed.com/
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/openssl-bug-cve-2014-0160
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-April/032602.html
 
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