Hello,
here is the July 2016 report for SponsorR:
- Attended and participated in the quarterly SponsorR meeting.
- After many many months of development the codebase of proposal 250 got merged
upstream! That's the shared randomness project, tracked under ticket #16943.
This is great news as it marks the beginning of deployment of "next gen
hidden services".
The code is already being tested by the dirauth moria1. You can see moria1's
votes here:
http://128.31.0.34:9131/tor/status-vote/current/authority
See how its votes contain "shared-rand-participate" which signifies that the
dirauth
supports the shared randomness protocol.
We also killed various post-merge bugs that appeared (#19551, #19561, #19555).
- On the topic of advocacy, we did a talk at the HOPE conference, explaining
various technical aspects of hidden services.
- We also wrote a blog post about how Tor hidden services can be used to
enhance the security of Internet of Things solutions like Home Assistant:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/quick-simple-guide-tor-and-internet-things-so-far
And we wrote another blog post about new techniques for detecting malicious
HSDir nodes:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-research-northeastern-university
- We continued our research on improving the performance and reachability of
hidden services when hosted on unstable networks (like mobile phones):
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16387
During our research we found a bug where hidden service on mobile phones
would needlessly rotate their intro points causing reachability problems to
its
clients: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19522
- Continued work on the Tails server project:
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2016-July/001079.html
- Discussed ways to integrate Tor HSes with Namecoin and other naming systems:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-July/011245.html
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