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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/24 ===
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version 46
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:50:46+00:00
update status
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'''Editor:''' harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — June 18th, 2014
+
+'''Status:''' FROZEN. Only technical and language fixes allowed. New items should go in [wiki:TorWeeklyNews/2014/25 next week's edition]. Expected publication time 2014-06-18 14:00 UTC.
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version 45
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:39:12+00:00
small fix
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compromise data collection nodes or coerce operators to reveal
cryptographic secrets and keys”.
-The introduction of the detailed tech [8] report gives a general
+The introduction of the detailed tech report [8] gives a general
description of the solution: “PrivEx collects aggregated statistics to
provide insights about user behaviour trends by recording aggregate
usage of the anonymity network. To further reduce the risk of
version 44
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:36:59+00:00
i will edit
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''50th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from June 10th, 2014 to June 17th, 2014. To be released on June 18th, 2014.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — June 18th, 2014
version 43
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:35:20+00:00
properly this time
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Upcoming developments in pluggable transports
---------------------------------------------
-In a new blog post [9], George Kadianakis reported on some recent
-pluggable transports [10] developments. Some — like the release of Tor
-Browser 3.6 [11], the deprecation of obfs2 [12], the new meek
-transport [13], or the recently-written “Child’s Garden Of Pluggable
-Transports” guide [14] should already be known to regular readers of Tor
+In a new blog post [9], George Kadianakis reported on some recent
+pluggable transports developments. Some — like the release of Tor
+Browser 3.6 [10], the deprecation of obfs2 [11], the new meek
+transport [12], or the recently-written “Child’s Garden Of Pluggable
+Transports” guide [13] should already be known to regular readers of Tor
Weekly News.
It was previously impossible to use pluggable transports at the same
-time as an HTTP or SOCKS proxy. The release of Tor Browser 3.6.2 [15] is
-the first to include work by Yawning Angel which solves this deficiency.
+time as an HTTP or SOCKS proxy [14]. The release of Tor Browser
+3.6.2 [15] is the first to include work by Yawning Angel which solves
+this deficiency.
However, ScrambleSuit, released last winter, has not yet been included
in Tor Browser. The pluggable transport team is considering skipping its
-deployment in favor of a new protocol, dubbed “obfs4” [16], which is
+deployment in favor of a new protocol, dubbed “obfs4” [16], which is
“like ScrambleSuit (with regards to features and threat model), but it’s
faster and autofixes some of the open issues”.
@@ -121,14 +122,14 @@
IPv6 is less common, it should buy some more time for users on censored
networks.
- [9]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/recent-and-upcoming-developments-pluggable-transports
- [10]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-36-released
- [11]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10314
+ [9]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/recent-and-upcoming-developments-pluggable-transports
+ [10]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-36-released
+ [11]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10314
[12]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
- [13]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/AChildsGardenOfPluggableTransports
- [14]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-362-released
- [15]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/232-pluggable-transports-through-proxy.txt
- [16]: https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4
+ [13]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/AChildsGardenOfPluggableTransports
+ [14]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/232-pluggable-transports-through-proxy.txt
+ [15]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-362-released
+ [16]: https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4
Miscellaneous news
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version 42
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:22:02+00:00
resolve link headache
--- version 41
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Tariq Elahi, George Danezis, and Ian Goldberg are working on new
solutions to tackle the problem of collecting statistics from Tor exits
-in a privacy-sensitive manner. Tariq announced [7] the PrivEx system
+in a privacy-sensitive manner. Tariq announced [7] the PrivEx system,
which “preserves the security and privacy properties of anonymous
communication networks, even in the face of adversaries that can
compromise data collection nodes or coerce operators to reveal
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@
networks.
[9]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/recent-and-upcoming-developments-pluggable-transports
- [10]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html
- [11]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-36-released
- [12]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10314
+ [10]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-36-released
+ [11]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10314
+ [12]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
[13]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/AChildsGardenOfPluggableTransports
[14]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-362-released
[15]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/232-pluggable-transports-through-proxy.txt
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/25 ===
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version 1
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-06-17T18:48:40+00:00
import template
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+''51st issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from June 17th, 2014 to June 24th, 2014. To be released on June 25th, 2014.''
+
+'''Editor:'''
+
+'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — June 25th, 2014
+
+{{{
+========================================================================
+Tor Weekly News June 25th, 2014
+========================================================================
+
+Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
+newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+
+Feature XXX
+-----------
+
+Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+
+ [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.
+
+News from Tor StackExchange
+---------------------------
+
+Text with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
+
+Easy development tasks to get involved with
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Text with cited source [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]:
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+Upcoming events
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+
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+
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