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1. Roger's status report, Nov 2012 (Roger Dingledine)<br>
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:58:34 -0500<br>
From: Roger Dingledine <<a href="mailto:arma@mit.edu">arma@mit.edu</a>><br>
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Subject: [tor-reports] Roger's status report, Nov 2012<br>
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Six big things I did in November:<br>
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1) Attended the NSF PI meeting for our new grant (joint with Georgia<br>
Tech and Princeton). Met dozens of professors and renewed connections<br>
to dozens more. One standout: I met a nice economist who framed our<br>
exit relay funding debate as an "if you" vs "now that" game. When you<br>
incentivize people with "if you X, I'll Y", they behave differently than<br>
when it's "now that you've X, I'll Y".<br>
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2) Went to Georgia Tech to meet with Nick Feamster's group about the NSF<br>
grant. It will be about Tor network measurement, circumvention evaluation,<br>
OONI, and in the spirit of NSF grants, whatever other research projects<br>
the group finds worthwhile. We (me, Jake, Arturo, Isis, maybe others)<br>
will meet with them again in mid January.<br>
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3) Helped Nick Hopper submit an NSF "medium" proposal around<br>
privacy-preserving Tor network / user behavior measurements. We're still<br>
on track to hire Nick as our research director for his sabbatical year<br>
starting this summer, and this funding would help him have good students.<br>
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4) Wrote proposal 213 ("Remove stream-level sendmes from the design"):<br>
<a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-November/thread.html#4136" target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-November/thread.html#4136</a><br>
After discussion, one of the flaws in the proposal turns out to be a flaw<br>
in the n23 congestion control algorithm too:<br>
<a href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#pets2011-defenestrator" target="_blank">http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#pets2011-defenestrator</a><br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7346" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7346</a><br>
(thanks to Andreas Krey)<br>
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5) Attended Foreign Policy's "Global Thinkers Gala" where they named Nick,<br>
Paul, and me as global foreign policy thinkers:<br>
<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,48#thinker78" target="_blank">http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,48#thinker78</a><br>
I talked to a lot of journalists who had never heard of Bluecoat or<br>
their exports to Syria :(, as well as a lot of State Dept people whose<br>
jobs are to create foreign policy. One person I met was tasked by Congress<br>
with designing and deploying the US sanctions against Iran.<br>
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6) Released Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha:<br>
<a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-November/026463.html" target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-November/026463.html</a><br>
Released Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable in the 0.2.3 branch:<br>
<a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-November/026554.html" target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-November/026554.html</a><br>
But I still haven't mailed tor-announce because our new Windows and OSX<br>
TBB packages still have bugs.<br>
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Six smaller things I did in November:<br>
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7) Finally crafted (with help from Wendy) a trademark faq entry for<br>
researchers who use cute Tor-derived names in their research paper titles:<br>
<a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en#researchpapers" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en#researchpapers</a><br>
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8) Wrote <a href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions</a><br>
based on original text from george (asn).<br>
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9) Made a list of SponsorF progress we've made that can be integrated<br>
into the 'system development plan' that their funders want, and helped<br>
Karsten to find the tex / txt sources to do so.<br>
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10) Jumped into the libtech 'silent circle' flame war ("re:<br>
<a href="http://issilentcircleopensourceyet.com" target="_blank">issilentcircleopensourceyet.com</a>"):<br>
<a href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2012-November/005434.html" target="_blank">https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2012-November/005434.html</a><br>
Got a bunch of responses from lurkers -- a whole lot of people read this<br>
list, even though they avoid posting to it.<br>
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11) Participated in our Q4 board meeting, where we elected a new director!<br>
More details coming soon.<br>
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12) Helped Rob Jansen, Karsten, and Steven track down another bug in<br>
Shadow -- this one was preventing us from testing Shadow on Debian/Ubuntu<br>
reliably:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/97" target="_blank">https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/97</a><br>
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And five things I started but didn't get far enough on:<br>
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13) Started talking to Nathan Freitas / Guardian about my hopes for a<br>
push-to-talk feature in Orbot, and general voip-over-tor usability:<br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5699" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5699</a><br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5700" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5700</a><br>
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14) Worked with Aaron Gibson to start migrating to our new<br>
<a href="http://check2.torproject.org" target="_blank">check2.torproject.org</a> plan. Still todo is writing up the requirements<br>
for the scripts to turn descriptors and consensuses into a more accurate<br>
exitlist.<br>
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15) Tried some more to contact Noisebridge people about funding their<br>
exit relays. I assume there are some internal politics preventing<br>
them from wanting to touch government money (even without strings<br>
attached). Hopefully I'll find them at 29c3 and learn some details.<br>
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16) Resumed the discussion with Will Scott about using his torperf-like<br>
tools to make more realistic Tor performance measurements over time:<br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7516" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7516</a><br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7517" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7517</a><br>
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17) Started reviewing some tor-dev proposals, which led to noticing an<br>
interesting potential attack:<br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7582" target="_blank">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7582</a><br>
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--Roger<br>
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