# 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 consensuses and votes (#17435). - Revisited the overlap descriptor logic of prop224 and specified improvements to the system: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011059.html - Did some software development: Wrote a patch for #17688 [Our default Guard value is still 3 if no latest consensus or no params] and a patch for #19454 [tor crashed when "HeartbeatPeriod 0"] Reviewed #18322 [Core Tor/Tor]: Log unparseable votes so they can be analysed (inbox tor-bugs) and #18571 prop224: Encode/Decode descriptor implementation Did some analysis in #19162 [Make it even harder to become HSDir]. Handled four more bug reports through our bug bounty program. Also sent an email summarizing the current status of our bug bounty program and future steps. Helped with SponsorU triaging and prioritizing of guard tasks. - Investigated various issues with the hidden service protocol when used by unreliable devices like mobile phones on 3G. Ideally, hidden services should be able to support those kind of devices as well, without any reachability issues: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16387 Through this discussion we also found a bug in the intro point retry logic for hidden services: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19522 - Suggested ways to improve the current PT webpage: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011044.html - Suggested BridgeDB statistics that could be of interest: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-June/000424.html - Discussed the possibility of combining Tor hidden services with freenet: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011108.html _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports
