[tor-reports] Fwd: November 2015 Report for Tor Bridge Distribution

Tue Dec 1 19:53:45 UTC 2015

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> From: isis <isis at torproject.org>
> Subject: November 2015 Report for Tor Bridge Distribution
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 06:15:18 +0000
> Message-ID: <20151201061518.GD19543 at patternsinthevoid.net>
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> Cc: isis at torproject.org, tor-assistants at torproject.org
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> 
> Hey!
> 
> I'm Isis, and I work on various things for The Tor Project, mostly concerning
> Tor bridges.  I'm looking forward to soon meeting those of you I've not yet
> had a chance to meet.
> 
> 
> In November 2015, the following progress was made for Tor Bridge Distribution:
> 
>  * Several updates to BridgeDB's web interface (https://bridges.torproject.org):
> 
>    - Mobile users, and other users with small screen pixel ratios, will find
>      that the UI of BridgeDB's HTTPS Distributor has greatly increased in
>      usability and readability. (https://bugs.torproject.org/16649)
> 
>    - BridgDB's web interface now features more user-friendly error pages, to
>      provide friendlier explanations for downtime, missing pages, and internal
>      server errors.  For example: https://bridges.torproject.org/404
> 
>    - Distribution of obfs2 bridges is now disabled.  This pluggable transport
>      has known distiguishers which allow adversaries to identify client
>      connections to obfs2 bridges, which in turn allows these connections to
>      be blocked/censored.  With numerous obfs3 and obfs4 bridges both readily
>      available, users should not be presented with an easily-configurable
>      choice that is known to be unsafe for the majority of
>      users. (https://bugs.torproject.org/14685)
> 
>  * BridgeDB's backend parsers for Tor server descriptors have been entirely
>    revamped.
> 
>    - BridgeDB is now using a commonly-maintained library, called Stem, for Tor
>      relay descriptor parsing. (https://bugs.torproject.org/9380)
> 
>    - The HSDir flag can now be included within bridge-networkstatus documents.
>      BridgeDB now has unittests which guarantee that its parsers safely ignore
>      this flag, as well as any flags unknown to BridgeDB which may appear in
>      the future. (https://bugs.torproject.org/16616)
> 
>    - BridgeDB's parsers have been improved to handle new Tor relay Ed25519
>      identity and signing keys. (https://bugs.torproject.org/16630)
> 
>  * BridgeDB's production server has been migrated to new hardware.
>    (https://bugs.torproject.org/14797)
> 
>  * Translations for the following languages have been updated: English
>    (en_US), English (en), Serbian (sr), Arabic (ar), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs),
>    Danish (da), German (de), English (en_GB), Farsi (fa), Finish (fi), French
>    (fr), French (fr_CA), Croatian (hr_HR), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id),
>    Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Latvian (lv), Norwegian Bokmål (nb), Dutch
>    (nl), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR), Romanian
>    (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk_SK), Albanian (sq), Swedish (sv), Turkish
>    (tr), Ukranian (uk), Chinese Mandarin (zh_CN), and Taiwanese Mandarin
>    (zh_TW).
> 
>  * Numerous improvements to BridgeDB's developer documentation, currently
>    located at https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> -- 
>  ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft
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> From: isis <isis at torproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [OTF-Talk] November 2015 Report for Tor Bridge Distribution
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:43:48 +0000
> Message-ID: <20151201194348.GB26529 at patternsinthevoid.net>
> To: otf-projects at opentechfund.org, otf-active at opentechfund.org
> Reply-To: isis at torproject.org
> Delivered-To: <isis+torproject at patternsinthevoid.net>
> 
> isis transcribed 5.3K bytes:
> > Hey!
> > 
> > I'm Isis, and I work on various things for The Tor Project, mostly concerning
> > Tor bridges.
> >
> > […]
> 
> I forgot to link to the corresponding tor-dev at lists.torproject.org
> announcements for those who want more details!  Oopsie daisies; caveat jetlag.
> 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-December/010006.html
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-December/010008.html
> 
> As always, all feedback and suggestions are super helpful and welcome.
> 
> Best Regards,
> -- 
>  ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft
> _________________________________________________________
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> Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt

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