isis agora lovecruft: > ----- Forwarded message from isis agora lovecruft <i...@torproject.org> ----- > >> From: isis agora lovecruft <i...@torproject.org> >> Subject: February 2017 Report for Tor Bridge Distribution >> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 05:30:08 +0000 >> Message-ID: <20170302053008.ga21...@patternsinthevoid.net> >> To: otf-proje...@opentechfund.org, otf-act...@opentechfund.org >> Cc: isis agora lovecruft <i...@patternsinthevoid.net>, Henry de Valence >> <hdevale...@hdevalence.ca> >> Reply-To: i...@patternsinthevoid.net >> Delivered-To: <i...@patternsinthevoid.net> >> >> Hello! >> >> My apologies for missing a January report. Much of January was spent, >> unfortunately, dealing with the personal repercussions of an unexpected EO. >> >> >> The following progress was made in (late) January through February 2017: >> >> - The specification for elliptic curve zero-knowledge proof-of-knowledge of >> discrete logarithm equality was laid out in writing. We also shared this >> construction publicly with other cryptographers on the Trevor Perrin's >> curves mailing list, [0] since both Tony Arcieri of Chain and George >> Tankersley of Cloudflare were looking to use the same construction. >> >> - Outlined code for the above zero-knowledge proofs, and refactored some of >> the algebraic MAC and anonymous credential code. >> >> - Begun setting up domain fronting for BridgeDB. >> >> - More detailed documentation on our elliptic curve library, >> curve25519-dalek, as well as progress on the paper/specification for the >> cryptographyic requirements of our bridge distribution scheme. [1] >> >> - Extended functionality for curve25519-dalek to ease implementation of the >> Elligator2 birational map (which we require) and other features necessary >> for a potential external implementation of VXEdDSA (which is useful to >> Signal and other projects). [2] >> >> - Finished a ~~beta~~ implementation of Decaf [3] for curve25519. [4] Since >> we know of no other implementations which compiles, we are looking forward >> to further testing and review. NCC Group has potentially (and generously) >> offered to audit our cryptographic work, since (as mentioned above) other >> companies are intending to use it. For now, we'll call it extremely >> yolocrypto beta, and base our prototype off of it. >> >> - Finished the API for new Bridge Distributors and deployed to production. >> [5]
That's a bit dense for me. Could you elaborate what e.g. "deployed in production" means? Can user use that new feature now? If so, how? Or can devs test it? And I am confused about "Finished" as well with the link to distribute.py because that file did not get touched for almost two years. Georg
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