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Welcome to the twenty-ninth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Contents
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- 1. XXX
- 2. XXX
+ 1. More TSoP status reports
+ 2. Miscellaneous news
+ 3. Upcoming events
-Feature XXX
------------
+More TSoP status reports
+------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+The students in this year’s Tor Summer of Privacy continued work on
+their respective projects, as their status reports show.
- [XXX]:
+Jesse Victors made significant progress [XXX] on his DNS-like Onion
+Naming System (OnioNS) project at the recent onion service development
+meeting in Washington, DC. Many bugs were fixed and the software is now
+in a demonstration-ready state. The issue of implementing a global
+source of randomness, which is important for the next generation of
+onion services [XXX] as well as for OnionNS, was also worked on. “The
+server-to-server communication needs a few bug fixes, but most of that
+code is in place. As soon as that is complete, I should be about ready
+for a beta test.”
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+Israel Leiva sent the first report [XXX] on his GetTor enhancement
+project. GetTor now distributes links to copies of Tor Browser hosted on
+Github as well as Dropbox, and the text of the autoresponder was
+expanded with more information. Upcoming additions include a Google
+Drive script, distribution of mirror links, and the promotion of Github
+to the default download source.
-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].
+Cristobal Leiva also sent his first report [XXX], for the relay web
+status dashboard project. A prototype UI has been created [XXX] and
+development milestones have been prioritized: “Over the next two weeks
+I’ll be coding the graph and log components”.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Finally, Donncha O’Cearbhaill’s OnionBalance load-balancing system [XXX]
+has been enhanced with unit tests, and has received some real-world
+testing courtesy of s7r [XXX].
+Exciting progress all round!
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009103.html
+ [XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-July/000878.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-July/000879.html
+ [XXX]: https://github.com/leivaburto/rwsd/issues/8
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-July/000880.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038373.html
+
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+The Guardian Project announced new releases of Chatsecure and Orbot.
+Chatsecure v14.2.0 [XXX] is “all about squashing bugs, reducing memory
+and improving network stability”, while Orbot 15.0.3-RC-3 [XXX] features
+“overall improvements to system and server stability, improvements to
+Apps VPN mode support…improved launch and hidden service API for
+third-party app interaction”, and updates to Tor and OpenSSL.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-July/004452.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-July/004453.html
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Anthony G. Basile announced [XXX] a new release of tor-ramdisk, the
+micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in
+an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Version 20150714
+includes updates to the distribution’s core software.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038493.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+Nick Mathewson published proposal 248 [XXX] , which offers a migration
+path for “finally removing our old Ed25519 keys”.
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009088.html
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
+Following the recent outage of meek-azure [XXX], David Fifield published
+a workaround [XXX] for those who want to use this backend.
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038487.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038496.html
- [XXX]:
+The Tails team is planning [XXX] a sprint in November, possibly
+face-to-face, focusing on porting Tails to the current stable release of
+Debian, Jessie. “If you want to join the fun, let me know. If you’re
+interested in having a face-to-face sprint to work on this in November,
+let me know. If these dates don’t work for you, let me know”, wrote
+intrigeri.
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
+ [XXX]: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-July/009238.html
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+The Intercept’s Micah Lee published a detailed beginner’s guide to
+secure online chat [XXX], including how to configure your chat client to
+use Tor.
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
+For those who wish the modern world looked more like “Johnny Mnemonic”
+than “CITIZENFOUR”: you can hear Keanu Reeves narrating an unexpectedly
+soothing animation [XXX] about the “Deep Web” and Tor onion services as
+part of Alex Winter’s upcoming documentary film on the subject [XXX].
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://vimeo.com/124777509
+ [XXX]: http://www.deepwebthemovie.com/
Upcoming events
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@@ -105,8 +144,7 @@
| Washington, DC, USA
| https://blog.torproject.org/events/roger-and-others-foci-usenix-security-dc
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony.
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