Hey hey, Here's my December status report for the OTF-funded Tor Bridge Distribution project, which I've just sent to OTF's mailing lists.
----- Forwarded message from isis <[email protected]> ----- > From: isis <[email protected]> > Subject: [otf-active] December 2015 Report for Tor Bridge Distribution > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 17:32:05 +0000 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > Hello! > > In December 2015, I took some time off for the holidays, so less work than > usual was done. I also attended two conferences and gave a lecture to a group > of cryptographers at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. In between attending > Tanja Lange and Dan Bernstein's Post-Snowden Cryptography conference and 32c3, > I did manage to make the following progress towards Tor Bridge Distribution > project: > > - Spoke at Ei/Ψ, the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and > Information, for a quarterly seminar held by a group of Netherlands-based > cryptographers. [0] [1] My talk was on the design of the cryptographic > protocol which will be used for enabling people to rely on their social > relationships to distribute secrets (Tor Bridges, for my use case) without > the social graph being obtainable by any party (slides available [2]). > > Many thanks to Tanja Lange for inviting me to speak, and to all the > cryptographers and crypto-engineers in industry who contacted me afterwards > with interest and new ideas. > > - Began refactoring circuit code for Tor Bridge Guards. [3] > > - Minor maintenance on the BridgeDB server. > > - Rewrote all of BridgeDB data structures for determining/storing information > on whether a Bridge is known to be blocked in some given region. [4] [5] > > - Began separating the code for Bridge Distributors from the code which > touches the databases. [6] [7] Eventually, the goal is to have these run > as > separate processes for better scalability, as well as for > compartmentalisation of which code has access to the full set of Bridge > relays. Additionally, this is the first step towards implementing Tor > proposal #226. [8] > > [0]: https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/cwg/aank%20dec%202015.pdf > [1]: https://twitter.com/Ei_PSI/status/674371609420001280 > [2]: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/eipsi.pdf > [3]: https://bugs.torproject.org/7144 > [4]: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/commit/?id=91f4cf9c084765748fed80f8f8d00eae80c5e68e > [5]: https://bugs/torproject.org/12505 > [6]: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/commit/?id=5019761881c7807ab0f09f0728f337b5ce857ca5 > [7]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12506 > [8]: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/226-bridgedb-database-improvements.txt ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt
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