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Lunar
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Tue Feb 18 16:20:14 UTC 2014
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==== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/7 ====
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Welcome to the seventh issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what is happening in the inked [XXX] Tor
-community.
-
- [XXX]: http://redd.it/1y5y49
+newsletter that covers what is happening in the inked [1] Tor community.
+
+ [1]: http://redd.it/1y5y49
Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha is out
------------------------
-Roger Dingledine announced [XXX] the second alpha release in the Tor
-0.2.5 series. As well as incorporating “all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc
-and 0.2.4.20, like the “poor random number generation” fix and the
-“building too many circuits” fix”, this release brings with it several
-new features of its own, among them the forced inclusion of at least one
+Roger Dingledine announced [2] the second alpha release in the Tor 0.2.5
+series. As well as incorporating “all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and
+0.2.4.20, like the “poor random number generation” fix and the “building
+too many circuits” fix”, this release brings with it several new
+features of its own, among them the forced inclusion of at least one
relay capable of the NTor handshake in every three-hop circuit, which
should reduce the chance “that we're building a circuit that's worth
attacking by an adversary who finds breaking 1024-bit crypto doable”, as
Roger wrote.
You can read the full changelog in Roger's announcement, and download
-the new release from the Tor Project website [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032150.html
- [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/dist/
+the new release from the Tor Project website [3].
+
+ [2]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032150.html
+ [3]: https://www.torproject.org/dist/
Tor Browser 3.5.2.1 is released
-------------------------------
-A new point release of the Tor Browser Bundle was put out [XXX] on
-February 15th. A change in how Mozilla tags Firefox releases broke
-the localization [XXX] of the browser interface. This release
-restores proper behavior for languages other than English.
+A new point release of the Tor Browser Bundle was put out [4] on
+February 15th. A change in how Mozilla tags Firefox releases broke the
+localization [5] of the browser interface. This release restores proper
+behavior for languages other than English.
Apart from the localization fix and the removal of unneeded libraries
from the Windows bundles, no other changes have been made.
- [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-3521-released
- [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10895
+ [4]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-3521-released
+ [5]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10895
Help draft a proposal for partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation
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@@ -57,11 +56,11 @@
operates Wikipedia and related projects, is currently not as good as it
could be: many Tor users feel they should be able to contribute to
Wikipedia anonymously, while many Wikipedia editors are wary of dealing
-with a tool that could enable untraceable or unblockable vandalism
-of pages and articles.
-
-As a prelude to resolving this conflict, Lane Rasberry has opened
-a discussion [XXX] on the Wikimedia Foundation’s IdeaLab, a forum in which
+with a tool that could enable untraceable or unblockable vandalism of
+pages and articles.
+
+As a prelude to resolving this conflict, Lane Rasberry has opened a
+discussion [6] on the Wikimedia Foundation’s IdeaLab, a forum in which
ideas can be discussed and debated before being collaboratively
developed into full grant proposals. As Lane wrote, “Persons using Tor
(the anonymity network) should be able to create Wikipedia accounts and
@@ -74,19 +73,19 @@
If you are interested in helping to resolve this issue, please see the
IdeaLab page, and add your comments!
- [XXX]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership_between_Wikimedia_community_and_Tor_community
+ [6]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership_between_Wikimedia_community_and_Tor_community
Only as good as your weakest transport?
---------------------------------------
-Delton Barnes pointed out [XXX] that although the ScrambleSuit pluggable
+Delton Barnes pointed out [7] that although the ScrambleSuit pluggable
transport protocol includes a certain amount of protection against
active probing for bridges by censorship systems like the Chinese ’Great
Firewall’, bridge operators who run more vulnerable protocols like obfs3
alongside ScrambleSuit may be increasing the risk that censors will
discover their relay and block connections to it of any kind.
-In reply, Philipp Winter conceded [XXX] that although the Chinese
+In reply, Philipp Winter conceded [8] that although the Chinese
censorship system currently seems to block bridges by IP:port tuples,
rather than by IP address alone, the mere presence of an
easily-discoverable pluggable transport protocol (or a public relay) on
@@ -96,94 +95,96 @@
protection than running other protocols at the same time -- at the cost
of attracting less users, however”, he concluded.
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003906.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003907.html
+ [7]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003906.html
+ [8]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003907.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-The Tails team has published [XXX] its report for January 2014. A lot is
+The Tails team has published [9] its report for January 2014. A lot is
happening in the growing community of Tails developers. Have a look!
- [XXX]: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2014_01/
+ [9]: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2014_01/
Qingping Hou sent out the beginnings of a proposal to increase the speed
-of connections to Tor Hidden Services by using circuits of only five hops,
-and asked the community for feedback [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006198.html
+of connections to Tor Hidden Services by using circuits of only five
+hops, and asked the community for feedback [10].
+
+ [10]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006198.html
Yawning Angel called for help with testing obfsclient, a C++ pluggable
-transport client, and clarified the next steps in the development process [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006211.html
+transport client, and clarified the next steps in the development
+process [11].
+
+ [11]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006211.html
David Fifield made available a second updated set of the experimental
Tor Pluggable Transport Bundle with tor-fw-helper, which fixes several
-of the errors encountered in the first version. [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-qa/2014-February/000338.html
+of the errors encountered in the first version. [12].
+
+ [12]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-qa/2014-February/000338.html
Nick Mathewson called for help with reviewing proposal 227, which
-involves “extending the Tor consensus document to include digests of
-the latest versions of one or more package files, to allow software
-using Tor to determine its up-to-dateness, and help users verify that
-they are getting the correct software” [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006230.html
+involves “extending the Tor consensus document to include digests of the
+latest versions of one or more package files, to allow software using
+Tor to determine its up-to-dateness, and help users verify that they are
+getting the correct software” [13].
+
+ [13]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006230.html
Efforts to include the FTE protocol in the Tor Pluggable Transport
-Bundles have taken a step forward, as Kevin P. Dyer announced [XXX]
-the release of a patch including fteproxy that not only works, but
-also builds deterministically, in keeping with the Tor Project's
-focus on build security [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006223.html
- [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise
-
-Rusty Bird announced [XXX] the release of corridor [XXX], a Tor traffic
+Bundles have taken a step forward, as Kevin P. Dyer announced [14] the
+release of a patch including fteproxy that not only works, but also
+builds deterministically, in keeping with the Tor Project's focus on
+build security [15].
+
+ [14]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006223.html
+ [15]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise
+
+Rusty Bird announced [16] the release of corridor [17], a Tor traffic
whitelisting gateway. corridor will turn a Linux system into a router
-that “allows only connections to Tor relays to pass through (no clearnet leaks!)”.
-However, unlike transparent proxying solutions, “client computers are themselves responsible
-for torifying their own traffic.”
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032152.html
- [XXX]: https://github.com/rustybird/corridor
+that “allows only connections to Tor relays to pass through (no clearnet
+leaks!)”. However, unlike transparent proxying solutions, “client
+computers are themselves responsible for torifying their own traffic.”
+
+ [16]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032152.html
+ [17]: https://github.com/rustybird/corridor
One relay operator was looking for an init.d script able to start
-multiple tor instances. Johannes Fürmann pointed out [XXX] that one
-was available in the torservers.net Git repository [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003915.html
- [XXX]: https://github.com/torservers/setup-automation/blob/master/config/initd-tor
+multiple tor instances. Johannes Fürmann pointed out [18] that one was
+available in the torservers.net Git repository [19].
+
+ [18]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003915.html
+ [19]: https://github.com/torservers/setup-automation/blob/master/config/initd-tor
TorBirdy, the Tor-enabling extension for the Thunderbird mail client,
currently disables the automated account configuration system for
-security reasons. Progress is being made [XXX] in changing the
-behavior to make it fit the expectations of Tor users.
-
- [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/1083
+security reasons. Progress is being made [20] in changing the behavior
+to make it fit the expectations of Tor users.
+
+ [20]: https://bugs.torproject.org/1083
Andrea Shepard submitted seven status reports, covering her activity
-since July 2013 [XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000455.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000456.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000457.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000458.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000459.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000460.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000461.html
+since July 2013 [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27].
+
+ [21]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000455.html
+ [22]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000456.html
+ [23]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000457.html
+ [24]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000458.html
+ [25]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000459.html
+ [26]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000460.html
+ [27]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000461.html
Tor help desk roundup
---------------------
-Users often ask for help updating their Tor Browser Bundle. Some users download and
-try to run their new Tor Browser without first closing their current Tor Browser.
-This causes an error message, since Tor is already running. The Tor Browser Bundle
-update is not an upgrade that can be applied while Tor Browser is still running.
-Users must close their current Tor Browser before running their newly downloaded
-Tor Browser Bundle.
+Users often ask for help updating their Tor Browser Bundle. Some users
+download and try to run their new Tor Browser without first closing
+their current Tor Browser. This causes an error message, since Tor is
+already running. The Tor Browser Bundle update is not an upgrade that
+can be applied while Tor Browser is still running. Users must close
+their current Tor Browser before running their newly downloaded Tor
+Browser Bundle.
Upcoming events
---------------
@@ -204,12 +205,12 @@
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
-important news. Please see the project page [XXX], write down your
-name and subscribe to the team mailing list [XXX] if you want to
+important news. Please see the project page [28], write down your
+name and subscribe to the team mailing list [29] if you want to
get involved!
- [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
+ [28]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
+ [29]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
}}}
Possible items:
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:13:40+00:00
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Miscellaneous news
------------------
-The Tails team has published [XXX] its report for January 2014 [XXX]. A lot is
+The Tails team has published [XXX] its report for January 2014. A lot is
happening in the growing community of Tails developers. Have a look!
[XXX]: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2014_01/
version 45
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:02:19+00:00
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--- version 44
+++ version 45
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@
| Grand Hotel, Reykjavík, Iceland
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, harmony, and
+Matt Pagan.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
@@ -214,5 +214,4 @@
Possible items:
- * announcement of new TBB releases https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032116.html (probably postpone to a later time, without any answer from the TBB team, this is a little bit pointless — lunar)
- * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership_between_Wikimedia_community_and_Tor_community (think might worth taking the time to write a full item… at least it would be worthwhile to explain how IdeaLib works to the Tor community — lunar)+ * announcement of new TBB releases https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032116.html (probably postpone to a later time, without any answer from the TBB team, this is a little bit pointless — lunar)
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:01:17+00:00
freeze
--- version 43
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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
'''Editor:''' harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — February 19th, 2014
+
+'''Status:''' FROZEN. Only technical and language fixes are welcome. New items should go to next week's edition. Expected publication time: 2014-02-19 12:00 UTC.
{{{
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T14:59:48+00:00
apostrophe
--- version 42
+++ version 43
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
of pages and articles.
As a prelude to resolving this conflict, Lane Rasberry has opened
-a discussion [XXX] on the Wikimedia Foundations IdeaLab, a forum in which
+a discussion [XXX] on the Wikimedia Foundation’s IdeaLab, a forum in which
ideas can be discussed and debated before being collaboratively
developed into full grant proposals. As Lane wrote, “Persons using Tor
(the anonymity network) should be able to create Wikipedia accounts and
version 42
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T14:58:25+00:00
add wikimedia story
--- version 41
+++ version 42
@@ -48,6 +48,32 @@
[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-3521-released
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10895
+Help draft a proposal for partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The relationship between Tor users and the Wikimedia Foundation, which
+operates Wikipedia and related projects, is currently not as good as it
+could be: many Tor users feel they should be able to contribute to
+Wikipedia anonymously, while many Wikipedia editors are wary of dealing
+with a tool that could enable untraceable or unblockable vandalism
+of pages and articles.
+
+As a prelude to resolving this conflict, Lane Rasberry has opened
+a discussion [XXX] on the Wikimedia Foundations IdeaLab, a forum in which
+ideas can be discussed and debated before being collaboratively
+developed into full grant proposals. As Lane wrote, “Persons using Tor
+(the anonymity network) should be able to create Wikipedia accounts and
+contribute to Wikipedia while logged into those accounts.Some technical
+problems currently disallow this and some social problems prevent the
+technical problems from being addressed. Anyone with a proposal of what
+kind of relationship Tor and the Wikimedia movement should have should
+describe it here.”
+
+If you are interested in helping to resolve this issue, please see the
+IdeaLab page, and add your comments!
+
+ [XXX]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership_between_Wikimedia_community_and_Tor_community
+
Only as good as your weakest transport?
---------------------------------------
version 41
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T14:37:24+00:00
small language fixes
--- version 40
+++ version 41
@@ -37,10 +37,13 @@
Tor Browser 3.5.2.1 is released
-------------------------------
-A new point release of the Tor Browser Bundle has been released [XXX] on
-February 15th. A change how Mozilla tagged Firefox releases broke
-localization [XXX] of the browser interface. This release
+A new point release of the Tor Browser Bundle was put out [XXX] on
+February 15th. A change in how Mozilla tags Firefox releases broke
+the localization [XXX] of the browser interface. This release
restores proper behavior for languages other than English.
+
+Apart from the localization fix and the removal of unneeded libraries
+from the Windows bundles, no other changes have been made.
[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-3521-released
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10895
@@ -113,23 +116,23 @@
Rusty Bird announced [XXX] the release of corridor [XXX], a Tor traffic
whitelisting gateway. corridor will turn a Linux system into a router
that “allows only connections to Tor relays to pass through (no clearnet leaks!)”.
-But unlike transparent proxying solutions, “client computers are themselves responsible
+However, unlike transparent proxying solutions, “client computers are themselves responsible
for torifying their own traffic.”
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032152.html
[XXX]: https://github.com/rustybird/corridor
-One relay operator was looking for a init.d script able to start
+One relay operator was looking for an init.d script able to start
multiple tor instances. Johannes Fürmann pointed out [XXX] that one
was available in the torservers.net Git repository [XXX].
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003915.html
[XXX]: https://github.com/torservers/setup-automation/blob/master/config/initd-tor
-The Tor-enabling extension for the mail client Thunderbird, TorBirdy,
-currently disable the automated account configuration system for
+TorBirdy, the Tor-enabling extension for the Thunderbird mail client,
+currently disables the automated account configuration system for
security reasons. Progress is being made [XXX] in changing the
-behavior to make it fit for expectations of Tor users.
+behavior to make it fit the expectations of Tor users.
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/1083
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==== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/8 ====
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version 3
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:42:37+00:00
still not right
--- version 2
+++ version 3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Tor Weekly News February 26th, 2014
========================================================================
-Welcome to the 8th issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
+Welcome to the eighth issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
New Release of XXX
version 2
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:41:49+00:00
issue number mix-up
--- version 1
+++ version 2
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Tor Weekly News February 26th, 2014
========================================================================
-Welcome to the 34th issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
+Welcome to the 8th issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
New Release of XXX
version 1
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-02-18T15:41:11+00:00
import boilerplate
---
+++ version 1
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+''34th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from February 18th, 2014 to February 25th, 2014. To be released on February 26th, 2014.''
+
+'''Editor:'''
+
+'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — February 26th, 2014
+
+{{{
+========================================================================
+Tor Weekly News February 26th, 2014
+========================================================================
+
+Welcome to the 34th issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
+newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+
+New Release of XXX
+------------------
+
+XXX: cite specific release date, numbers, and developers responsible
+
+XXX: details about release
+
+ [XXX]:
+
+Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
+-----------------------------------------
+
+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].
+
+Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+
+Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
+ [XXX]:
+ [XXX]:
+
+Tor help desk roundup
+---------------------
+
+Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+
+Vulnerabilities
+---------------
+
+XXX: Reported vulnerabilities [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: vulnerability report source
+
+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
+
+
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
+XXX.
+
+Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
+We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
+important news. Please see the project page [XXX], write down your
+name and subscribe to the team mailing list [XXX] if you want to
+get involved!
+
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
+}}}
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