[tor-reports] George's status report: April 2014

# Activities of April 2014 - The obfsproxy/pyptlib garden was lively again this month [0]. Fresh fruits and vegetables emerged with Yawning's help. Specifically, we merged Yawning's code for outgoing proxy support just in time to realize #11658. We also released obfsproxy-0.2.9 so that we

[tor-reports] George's status report: October 2014

# Activities of October 2014 - Continued work on the guardfraction project. Specifically, I implemented the little-t-tor side and pushed a branch with the code: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9321#comment:27 Basically, it implements the part where dirauths vote and

[tor-reports] SponsorF November 2014 report

Hello, here is a draft of a November report for SponsorR: - Started a discussion on hidden service statistics and the ways they should be collected: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007816.html As a result, we posted a Tor proposal draft (#13509) on how to

[tor-reports] George's status report: November 2014

# Activities of November 2014 - Started a discussion on hidden service statistics and the ways they should be collected: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007816.html As a result, me and Karsten worked on a proposal draft (#13509) on how to collect the first

[tor-reports] SponsorR November 2014 report (was Re: SponsorF November 2014 report)

George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net writes: Hello, here is a draft of a November report for SponsorR: - Started a discussion on hidden service statistics and the ways they should be collected: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007816.html

[tor-reports] SponsorR December 2014 report

Hello, here is the December 2014 report for SponsorR: - In the beginning of December we revised the hidden service statistics proposal [0]. We also implemented the statistics in tor and after asking for review and feedback from the community we got the code merged upstream. The code has

[tor-reports] George's status report: December 2014

# Activities of December 2014 - I spent a large part of December working on the SponsorR project, and specifically on hidden service statistics. Together with Karsten and Aaron we revised proposal [0] and implemented it. We then asked for review and feedback by the community [1]. After a

[tor-reports] George's status report: February 2015

# Activities of February 2015 - A few things happened on guard security. After a few more tweaks, my guardfraction branch got merged to tor and released as part of tor-0.2.6.3-alpha. Also, the python script has now been deployed to three authorities. moria1 is even adding GuardFraction

[tor-reports] George's status report: April 2015

# Activities of April 2015 - Posted a proposal about fast-but-not-hidden services: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008625.html Received useful feedback as well as lots of discussion on better names for this feature. It seems that Alec Muffet has already written

[tor-reports] George's status report: March 2015

# Activities of March 2015 - Wrote a proposal for increasing the requirements to become an HSDir: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-March/008532.html That's trac ticket #8243. - Helped write a blog post crowdsourcing ideas for our upcoming crowdfunding campaign:

[tor-reports] SponsorR March 2015 report

Hello, here is the March 2015 report for SponsorR: - More work was performed on the first hidden service statistics [1]. We now update the original graphs in real time and are hosted on Metrics: https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html

[tor-reports] SponsorR May 2015 report

Hello, here is the May 2015 report for SponsorR: - More work on #15744. The riddle in that ticket is that currently we are expiring an introduction point circuit after conducting 16k introductions over it. We were not sure if our 16k figure was reasonable and whether it impacts the

[tor-reports] George's status report: May 2015

# Activities of May 2015 - Helped around with the latest DoS attack (#16052): https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008838.html - Worked on #15744. The riddle in that ticket is that currently we are expiring an introduction point circuit after conducting 16k introductions

[tor-reports] SponsorR July 2015 report

Hello, here is the July 2015 report for SponsorR: - In the beginning of July, we gathered in Washington, DC for a hackfest focused on hidden services. We did lots of work and wrote a blog post about it: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-service-hackfest-arlington-accords - As part

[tor-reports] George's status report: June 2015

# Activities of June 2015 - Published a report on the statistics we collected on hidden service descriptor and introduction point statistics. Hopefully you find it interesting: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009109.html We can also post it as a blog post, if

Re: [tor-reports] SponsorR October 2015 report

George Kadianakis <desnac...@riseup.net> writes: > Hello, > > here is the October 2015 report for SponsorR: > > - The first bunch of hidden service statistics is now enabled by default. The > feature was enabled in tor-0.2.7.3 and the coverage graphs have already >

[tor-reports] SponsorR September 2015 report

Hello, here is the September 2015 report for SponsorR: - We attended the Tor development meeting in Berlin! We spent plenty of time roadmapping the following months: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeeting/Roadmap/HiddenServices?version=1 And

[tor-reports] George's status report: September 2015

# Activities of September 2015 - I attended the tor dev meeting in Berlin. It was quite fruitful and we moved forward on various projects. My TODO list has also expanded accordingly. We spent plenty of time roadmapping the following months:

[tor-reports] SponsorR June 2015 report

Hello, here is the June 2015 report for SponsorR: - We did more work on the following hidden service statistics: #15513: Investigate lifetime of IPs on Hidden Services - https://bugs.torproject.org/15513 #15744: Is 16384 introductions a sane limit for IP rotation? -

[tor-reports] SponsorR August 2015 report

Hello, here is the August 2015 report for SponsorR: - We crunched through 8 years of consensus data to help with an exciting visualization of how data flows around the Tor network. We also helped with an algorithm that simulates tor flows between relays. The Uncharted team released the

[tor-reports] George's status report: August 2015

# Activities of August 2015 - Published proposal250: "Random Number Generation During Tor Voting" which specifies how Tor dirauths can create a fresh random value every day to make HSDirs unpredictable (#8244). It was posted in the [tor-dev] mailing list:

[tor-reports] SponsorR November 2015 report

Hello, here is the November 2015 report for SponsorR: - Continued development on the shared randomness project (prop250). Lots of new code was written, and various discussions took place in the mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-November/009903.html

[tor-reports] George's status report: May 2016

Hello, this status report contains some items from April as well, since it seems like I never managed to send out that status report on time... # Activities of May 2016 - Attended the Montreal hidden service hackfest where we did tons of hidden services development. Check out the

[tor-reports] SponsorR January 2016 report

Hello, here is the January 2016 report for SponsorR: - We launched [tor-onions]! A new mailing list for hidden service operators: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-onions We hope it will become a place to discuss anything about operating and administrating

[tor-reports] George's status report: January 2016

# Activities of January 2016 - We finally pushed for review the code of proposal 250! Here is the announcement: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-January/010182.html - Started a thread about revisiting proposal 246. After some discussion we decided that there are some

[tor-reports] George's status report: June 2016

# Activities of June 2016 - Continued reviewing, testing and fixing bugs on the shared randomness subsystem (prop250). Our branch has been updated and is ready for merge (#16943). Also wrote a patch for updating dir-spec.txt with the changes that are going to be induced by prop250 to

[tor-reports] George's status report: July 2016

# Activities of July 2016 - The code for proposal 250 got merged upstream!!! This is the shared randomness subsystem that we've been developing for the past year, and marks the first deployed part of Next Generation Hidden Services (#16943)! moria1 is also running the code and voting for

[tor-reports] SponsorR August 2016 report

Hello, here is the August 2016 report for SponsorR: - More progress was done on implementing prop224. A branch with useful crypto functions for prop224 was merged on upstream tor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19872 Also, the branch for prop224 HSDir support is now on

[tor-reports] George's status report: August 2016

# Activities of August 2016 - Continued development of the prop224 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. Branch is almost ready for review: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19043 - Reviewed the prop224 HSDir code by David. I also wrote a few unittests and some additional functions:

[tor-reports] SponsorR September 2016 report

Hello, here is the September 2016 report for SponsorR: - The prop224 HSDir code passed the first rounds of review, and is in line to get merged on 0.3.0 (#17238). This is a big chunk of the work needed to complete proposal 224. - The first iteration of the prop224 ESTABLISH_INTRO code is