[tor-reports] tor-reports Digest, Vol 6, Issue 7

Wed Dec 19 12:08:03 UTC 2012

Wow, you have just inspired me to start keeping track of my life and doing
something that makes a difference because when you see it all laid out like
that it looks reallly good!
Thanks!

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