Hello,
here is the March 2017 report for SponsorR:
- Lots of progress on the implementation of the service-side of prop224: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20657 and we also made an implementation plan for the client-side coding and splitted it into tickets: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17242
- Wrote a blog post on the onion address UX and how to improve their usability: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/cooking-onions-names-your-onions
- Some more improvements to the prop224 spec: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/011966.html
- Discussed possible improvements to the encoding of onion addresses to make them more resistant to phishing: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012030.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012029.html
- Discussed additional security verifications that might need to happen to onion addresses: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012015.html
- Continued progress on the Name System API proposal. It's now in torspec as proposal 279, and it also received some more feedback on the mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012077.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012020.html