[tor-reports] Nick's post-November status report

[Nick Mathewson]

And in November:

For the sponsor F deadline:
* I got Tor to support IPv6 traffic from exits.
* With Steven, I finished a first-draft revision of the Tor design
paper. It needs more work, but it's converging on accuracy and fewer
omissions about Tor's behavior.
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/tor-design-2012-11-14.pdf
* Finished my specification notes/drafts.  These are very drafty
drafts that need feeback from domain experts.  They're at
http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/volatile/tlsext-padding.txt and
http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/volatile/chopper-spec.txt for now.

Also in November:
* With Andrea and others, I prioritized "big features" for the
December 10 big feature deadline.  Details at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/Tor/024 .
* I did a patch to make client-side DNS cacheing off-by-default,
currently under review as ticket #7570.
* Another patch to make AutomapHostsOnResolve support IPv6 : Ticket #7571.
* I implemented ECDHE for TLS to finish proposal 198: ticket #7200
* I started work on the ntor circuit extension protocol.

And more:
* I reviewed, commented on, and merged a bunch of code, and wrote
other code not listed above.
* I wrote proposals 214 (with code) and 215, and converted the old
ntor writeup to proposal 216.
* I went to a reception for this:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,48#thinker78

In December I want to:
* Finish up the ntor handshake.
* Implement directory guards if there is somehow time.
* Merge other pending big features for 10 Dec deadline.
* Get another Tor alpha or two released
* Work on a number of annoying missing features
* Figure out what I've been neglecting in this last sprint, and do it.
* Take a little time off around Christmas.