June 2016 - tbb-dev - lists.torproject.org

Next meeting July 5, 19:00 UTC
by Georg Koppen 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hi, due to the Independence Day in the US and folks being partly away from the keyboard on Monday we scheduled our next Tor Browser meeting for July 5 19:00 UTC in #tor-dev or, if it is occupied by a different meeting, in #tor-project on irc.oftc.net. Georg

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What protections are present in the hardened Tor Browser?
by David Fifield 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

I wanted to know what exactly is different in the hardened series. The master..hardened-builds diff has many spurious changes and is not that clear: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/diff/?id=hard… The best I can tell, the differences are: * ASan * --enable-expensive-hardening for tor (enables -fsanitize=address, -fsanitize=undefined, and -fno-omit-frame-pointer) * selfrando

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Determining cipher suites
by Ben Mixon-Baca 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hi, What is the easiest/fastest way to figure out which cipher suites old versions of the tor firefox client exported during the client hello. -- Ben

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WebExtensions
by Jeff Burdges 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

I suppose folks know that FireFox plans to adopt WebExtensions. And I might eventually deprecate XUL. Mozilla has a survey at http://bit.ly/webextensions-apis asking what WebExtensions APIs developers want. Jeff p.s. They've more radical discussions too : https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/proposal-native-js-to-embrace-ext… Via https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions

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