[tor-reports] Isis' October 2014

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*** status report 2014/10
**** Isis' October 2014: Review

In October 2014, I recieved my contract in the second week and began working
on setting up a Persona server to test its use as a mechanism for "helping
internet services accept anonymous users." [0]  I sent a shorter, simpler
explanation of the issues which I encountered which make Persona unusable for
our purposes to the tor-dev mailing list, [1] while the longer explanation may
be found in the comments on #12193. [2]

I then spent the majority of the remainder of my work hours trying to
brainstorm organisational ideas for the PT/Bridge teams, drafting a proposal
to fund bridge-related work and submitting it, and assisting with the editing
of another proposal.

[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users
[1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007686.html
[2]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12193


**** In November 2014, I plan to work on:

 * Releasing and deploying BridgeDB-0.2.4.
 * Converting BridgeDB to using the new Stem-based descriptor parsers. (#9380)
 * Writing integration tests for BridgeDB's new database backends. (#12031)


**** Tickets worked on in October 2014:
***** Component: Analysis (1 match)
#10680 Obtain attributes of current public bridges

***** Component: BridgeDB (5 matches)
#6396 Reachability tests for obfuscated bridges
#12031 Create a Key-Value database system for simple/flat datatypes in BridgeDB
#13191 Smart Bridge anti-DPI
#13238 BridgeDB's GnuPG online signing key is expired
#13578 Store Pluggable Transport information in database

***** Component: Ooni (2 matches)
#13570 Write scripts for generating the bridge_db.json document based on the data that is given to us from the bridge db team
#13581 bin/* should avoid hacking sys.path

***** Component: Pluggable transport (2 matches)
#10314 Think of strategy for deprecating pluggable transports (e.g. obfs2)
#12130 Figure out deployment strategy for obfs4

***** Component: Ponies (1 match)
#12193 Set up a Mozilla Persona testing server

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***** Component: Tor (6 matches)
#5456 Defend against path bias and tagging attacks
#8121 IA-32 Tor users with NaCl may be distinguishable from others
#12951 BridgeAuth should add a `published` line to bridge networkstatus documents
#13414 Increase Authorities' AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr to 4 or 8 to use more processors
#13589 bridge authority could do bandwidth test along with reachability test
#13642 Implement offline encrypted master keys for Ed25519 identities

***** Component: Tor Browser (7 matches)
#3455 Tor Browser should set SOCKS username for a request based on first party domain
#5752 Isolate browser streams by url bar domain rather than by time interval
#7501 Audit PDF.js
#12468 TBB unconditionally logs all Firefox output to disk
#13503 Tor Browser does nothing when clicking "Allow" for offline storage use
#13504 Bridges in Tor Browser Bundles should be public so that we have metrics on them
#13575 Disable randomised Firefox HTTP cache decay user test groups

***** Component: Tor Launcher (1 match)
#9387 Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"

***** Component: TorBrowserButton (1 match)
#8641 Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP

***** Component: Website (1 match)
#13628 Tweet blog entries on @torproject


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