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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-05T12:38:03+00:00
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Following last week’s stabilization of Tor 0.2.5.x, Nick Mathewson
-announced [XXX] the first alpha release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series.
+announced [1] the first alpha release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series.
Quoting the changelog, this version “includes numerous code cleanups and
new tests, and fixes a large number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory
conditions are handled better than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have
@@ -29,51 +29,52 @@
“This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
bugs.” If you want to test it out, you can find the source code in the
-distribution directory [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035390.html
- [XXX]: https://dist.torproject.org/
+distribution directory [2].
+
+ [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035390.html
+ [2]: https://dist.torproject.org/
Tor Browser 4.0.1 is out
------------------------
-Mike Perry announced [XXX] a bugfix release by the Tor Browser team.
-This version disables DirectShow [XXX], which was causing the Windows
-build of Tor Browser to crash when visiting many websites [XXX]. This
-is not a security release, but Windows users who have experienced this
-issue should upgrade.
+Mike Perry announced [3] a bugfix release by the Tor Browser team. This
+version disables DirectShow [4], which was causing the Windows build of
+Tor Browser to crash when visiting many websites [5]. This is not a
+security release, but Windows users who have experienced this issue
+should upgrade.
Please see Mike’s post for the changelog, and download your copy from
-the project page [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-401-released
- [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectShow
- [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
+the project page [6].
+
+ [3]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-401-released
+ [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectShow
+ [5]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13443
+ [6]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
Facebook, hidden services, and HTTPS certificates
-------------------------------------------------
Facebook, one of the world’s most popular websites, surprised the
Internet by becoming the most prominent group so far to set up a Tor
-hidden service [XXX]. Rather than connecting through an exit relay,
+hidden service [7]. Rather than connecting through an exit relay,
Facebook users can now interact with the social network without their
traffic leaving the Tor network at all until it reaches its destination.
Soon after the service was announced, some in the Tor community
expressed concern over the implications of its unusually memorable
-.onion address [XXX]. Had Facebook somehow mustered the computing power
-to brute-force hidden service keys at will? Alec Muffett, one of the
-lead engineers behind the project, clarified [XXX] that in fact “we just
-did the same thing as everyone else: generated a bunch of keys with a
-fixed lead prefix (‘facebook’) and then went fishing looking for good
-ones”, getting “tremendous lucky” in the process. Those concerned by how
-easy this seems, added Nick Mathewson [XXX], “might want to jump in on
-reviewing and improving proposal 224 [XXX], which includes a brand-new,
+.onion address [8]. Had Facebook somehow mustered the computing power to
+brute-force hidden service keys at will? Alec Muffett, one of the lead
+engineers behind the project, clarified [9] that in fact “we just did
+the same thing as everyone else: generated a bunch of keys with a fixed
+lead prefix (‘facebook’) and then went fishing looking for good ones”,
+getting “tremendous lucky” in the process. Those concerned by how easy
+this seems, added Nick Mathewson [10], “might want to jump in on
+reviewing and improving proposal 224 [11], which includes a brand-new,
even less usable, but far more secure, name format”.
“Why would you want to use Facebook over Tor?” remains a
frequently-asked (and -misunderstood) question, so Roger Dingledine took
-to the Tor blog [XXX] to address this and related issues. “The key point
+to the Tor blog [12] to address this and related issues. “The key point
here is that anonymity isn’t just about hiding from your destination.
There’s no reason to let your ISP know when or whether you’re visiting
Facebook. There’s no reason for Facebook’s upstream ISP, or some agency
@@ -91,105 +92,106 @@
like an unnecessary belt-and-suspenders approach to security. This has
been the subject of “feisty discussions” in the Internet security
community, with many points for and against: on the one hand, users have
-been taught that “https is necessary and http is scary, so it makes sense
-that users want to see the string “https” in front of” URLs, while on
-the other, “by encouraging people to pay Digicert we’re reinforcing the
-certificate authority business model when maybe we should be continuing
-to demonstrate an alternative.”
+been taught that “https is necessary and http is scary, so it makes
+sense that users want to see the string “https” in front of” URLs, while
+on the other, “by encouraging people to pay Digicert we’re reinforcing
+the certificate authority business model when maybe we should be
+continuing to demonstrate an alternative.”
Please see Roger’s post for a fuller discussion of all these points and
more, and feel free to contribute your own thoughts on the tor-talk
-mailing list [XXX]. If you experience problems with the service, please
-contact Facebook support rather than the Tor help desk; as Alec wrote
-in the announcement, “we expect the service to be of an evolutionary and
+mailing list [13]. If you experience problems with the service, please
+contact Facebook support rather than the Tor help desk; as Alec wrote in
+the announcement, “we expect the service to be of an evolutionary and
slightly flaky nature”, as it is an “experiment” — hopefully an
experiment that will, as Roger suggested, “help to continue opening
people’s minds about why they might want to offer a hidden service, and
help other people think of further novel uses for hidden services.”
- [XXX]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035403.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035413.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035416.html
- [XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
- [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
+ [7]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237
+ [8]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035403.html
+ [9]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035413.html
+ [10]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035416.html
+ [11]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
+ [12]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs
+ [13]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Monthly status reports for October 2014
---------------------------------------
The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of October has begun. Juha Nurmi released his report first [XXX],
-followed by reports from Georg Koppen [XXX], Sherief Alaa [XXX], Pearl
-Crescent [XXX], Lunar [XXX], Harmony [XXX], Sukhbir Singh [XXX], Colin
-C. [XXX], Leiah Jansen [XXX], Nick Mathewson [XXX], Arlo Breault [XXX],
-Noel Torres [XXX], and George Kadianakis [XXX].
-
-Lunar reported on behalf of the help desk [XXX], Arturo Filastò for the
-OONI team [XXX], and Mike Perry for the Tor Browser team [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000677.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000678.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000679.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000680.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000682.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000683.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000684.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000685.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000687.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000688.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000689.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000690.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000691.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000681.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000686.html
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000692.html
+month of October has begun. Juha Nurmi released his report first [14],
+followed by reports from Georg Koppen [15], Sherief Alaa [16], Pearl
+Crescent [17], Lunar [18], Harmony [19], Sukhbir Singh [20], Colin
+C. [21], Leiah Jansen [22], Nick Mathewson [23], Arlo Breault [24], Noel
+Torres [25], and George Kadianakis [26].
+
+Lunar reported on behalf of the help desk [27], Arturo Filastò for the
+OONI team [28], and Mike Perry for the Tor Browser team [29].
+
+ [14]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000677.html
+ [15]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000678.html
+ [16]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000679.html
+ [17]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000680.html
+ [18]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000682.html
+ [19]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000683.html
+ [20]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000684.html
+ [21]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000685.html
+ [22]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000687.html
+ [23]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000688.html
+ [24]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000689.html
+ [25]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000690.html
+ [26]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000691.html
+ [27]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000681.html
+ [28]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000686.html
+ [29]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000692.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Mike Perry updated [XXX] the Tor Browser design document [XXX] to cover
+Mike Perry updated [30] the Tor Browser design document [31] to cover
Tor Browser version 4.0 — “Feedback welcome! Patches are even more
welcomer!”
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2014-October/000148.html
- [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
-
-Israel Leiva sent out an update [XXX] on the progress of the GetTor
+ [30]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2014-October/000148.html
+ [31]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
+
+Israel Leiva sent out an update [32] on the progress of the GetTor
redevelopment project.
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007700.html
-
-David Fifield distributed [XXX] a graph [XXX] of “the number of
+ [32]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007700.html
+
+David Fifield distributed [33] a graph [34] of “the number of
simultaneous relay users for every country, one country per row”.
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007697.html
- [XXX]: https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/graphs/relays-all.pdf
-
-David also sent out a summary [XXX] of the costs incurred by the meek
+ [33]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007697.html
+ [34]: https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/graphs/relays-all.pdf
+
+David also sent out a summary [35] of the costs incurred by the meek
pluggable transport, which have increased significantly following its
incorporation into the latest stable Tor Browser and the consequent
“explosion” in use.
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007716.html
-
-Esfandiar Mohammadi announced [XXX] the MATor project [XXX] and
-accompanying paper. MATor is a tool that “assesses the influence of Tor’s
-path selection on a user’s anonymity”; “since MATor is an ongoing project,
-we would appreciate your opinion about the approach in general.”
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007692.html
- [XXX]: http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/anonymity-guarantees/mator.html
+ [35]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007716.html
+
+Esfandiar Mohammadi announced [36] the MATor project [37] and
+accompanying paper. MATor is a tool that “assesses the influence of
+Tor’s path selection on a user’s anonymity”; “since MATor is an ongoing
+project, we would appreciate your opinion about the approach in
+general.”
+
+ [36]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007692.html
+ [37]: http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/anonymity-guarantees/mator.html
Tor help desk roundup
---------------------
-The help desk has been asked if Tor Browser acts as a relay by
-default. Tor Browser’s Tor by default acts only as a client, and
-not as a bridge relay, exit relay, or relay. Additionally, this
-is unlikely to change in the future [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EverybodyARelay
+The help desk has been asked if Tor Browser acts as a relay by default.
+Tor Browser’s Tor by default acts only as a client, and not as a bridge
+relay, exit relay, or relay. Additionally, this is unlikely to change in
+the future [38].
+
+ [38]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EverybodyARelay
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distribution directory [XXX].
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035390.html
+ [XXX]: https://dist.torproject.org/
Tor Browser 4.0.1 is out
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improved proxy support, and clients now use optimistic data for
contacting hidden services.” Support for some very old compilers that do
not understand the C99 programming standard, systems without threading
-support, and the Windows CE operating system have also been dropped.
+support, and the Windows CE operating system has also been dropped.
“This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
bugs.” If you want to test it out, you can find the source code in the
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, Matt Pagan,
-and Harmony.
+Karsten Loesing, and Harmony.
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