[tor-reports] Tor Core - November report

[Isabela]

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sharing  sponsorU monthly report here as well.


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Here's  a quick summary of progress and status for November for core Tor.

== Guards

We've been working on improvements to our prototype implementation. Progress has slowed a little as a developer became busy with other activities; we're expecting this to pick up more over the next month.

== Ed25519

We have deployed a  version of the directory improvements in 0.2.7.5, which was released on November 20[1].  In production, we have found some bugs in the consensus/voting system used for the new keys, which we're currently working on resolving.  We are also working on user-documentation for operators using the new keys.

On the protocols, we have the beginnings of an implementation for the link protocol written on a development branch; those are in progress. When done, they'll be some of the best-tested Tor patches to date.

== Documentation

No work in November besides improvements and clean-ups to existing documentation.

== DoS improvements

Some development branch progress has been made; the one for making particularly for making directory authorities better resist DoS attacks is in progress.  Other work is in the planning stages.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0275-released-and-stableSSSSSSS
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