> Here's what I said at the beginning of August that I hoped to do: > >> - Chair the FOCI workshop at Usenix Security, and also attend the rest >> of Usenix Security. >> https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci12/tech-schedule/workshop-program >> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/tech-schedule/technical-sessions > > Done. FOCI went really well -- we had 30-40 people there, and I think > most of the talks were interesting. > > I've attempted to pass the torch to Jed Crandall and Joss Wright > for next year's FOCI. But it looks like there will be some early > stumbling blocks around whether Usenix wants to keep FOCI attached > to Usenix Security. We'll see how that plays out. > > I spent much of my Usenix Security talking to research groups about > setting up fast exit relays. See more about that below. > > I also talked to George Kadianakis about Tor network diversity metrics, > and got him talking to a wide variety of other researchers for further > suggestions. > >> - Talk to Ralf-Philipp Weinmann about his TorScan paper (upcoming at >> Esorics) and what we can do to address his attacks. > > I talked to him, but we didn't come to any conclusions. Most of the fixes > are delicate and have poorly understood tradeoffs. I left him with the > plan that he would write a Tor design proposal or two, so we can think > through the implications. > >> - Look at Rob Jansen's performance graphs from his new Shadow >> simulations. >> Try to move the performance tickets forward. > > Done. We did a bunch of huge simulations using Amazon EC2, and ended > up finding that mysterious bugs were ruining our results. We decided > to focus on the simplest simulation question, and try to sort out the > bugs. You can read our saga here: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6341 > and as of early September, we've found and/or solved some good ones. Hard > to say how many more remain before Shadow can solve all our problems, but > I think we're getting closer. > >> - Expand on the set of metrics by which the SponsorF Red Team will judge >> the project's success. Specifically, I should list the anonymity attacks >> that they shouldn't evaluate since the PETS community is already doing >> a good job at evaluating anonymity attacks. > > Continued. You can read some of my discussions at > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-September/003992.html > George suggested that we try to turn them into a survey list of Tor > attacks. Feel free to get that started if you like the idea. > >> - Launch the "run fast bridges for BBG" campaign, ideally by gathering >> volunteers on tor-relays. > > Started: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2012-August/001545.html > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2012-August/001549.html > > We have a few fast bridges running. The real challenge here will be the > traditional bridge distribution strategy question: we need to give them > out to people who need them without letting the bad guy find them. We're > trying out some not-so-automated strategies first. I think the handful > of fast stable bridges we have should be enough for now, on the principle > that for any strategy that doesn't tell so many people that the bad guy > learns too, a stable 100mbit bridge can handle all the good users who > learn about it. In parallel we should continue exploring tricks like > Philipp Winter's brdgrd tool: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/brdgrd.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/README.md > and maybe later on we'll move on to alternate transports like Obfsproxy. > >> - Launch the "exit relays at universities" push, and send BBG a >> timetable >> for how our exit relay rollout is looking. > > We've got immediate plans from CMU and Penn that I know of, and promises > from Georgia Tech and Michigan: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2012-August/001543.html > > Moritz and I wrote up > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines > which has so far been useful. > > Steve Bellovin at Columbia suggested that we get EFF to write a letter > that university professors can hand to their general counsel, explaining > what Tor is. I'm still talking to EFF people about what exactly they > could write. > > There's also now a tor-relays-universities list as a support group for > people trying to run exit relays at universities: > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays-universities > >> - Get some money to some exit relay operators, since it turns out (ha) >> that it's harder than I expected on our side to do it in a way we'll >> pass our audits. > > Not done. I believe Andrew met with Tor's lawyers to discuss how to > position it so that we continue to pass our audits, etc. (Making new > organizational and bureaucratic ways to attack Tor doesn't sound great, > at least not until we understand them better.) I'm hoping to team up > with a couple of other organizations so that we can give them large bulk > grants, and they can divide the money up further. If that should be you, > please let us know! > > I'm hoping Moritz can take charge of this topic and make it happen. > >> - Get 0.2.3.20-alpha and 0.2.3.21-alpha out. > > I got 0.2.3.20-rc out: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025093.html > > Turns out 0.2.3.21-rc waited until September. > >> - Consider an 0.2.2.38 stable update. > > Done: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html > >> - Consider an 0.2.4.1-alpha release. > > Not done, but done in September. > >> - Sort out my September travel to Germany > > Done. I'm going to Berlin next week: > http://internethumanrights.org/ihrberlin2012/ > Dagstuhl after that: > http://www.dagstuhl.de/no_cache/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12381 > and ETH Zurich after that to do a talk at Srdjan Capkun's group on > Sept 25. > >> and my November travel to >> Netherlands et al. > > Still unsorted. > >> - Schedule our NSF "censorship measurement" kickoff meeting, perhaps >> the last week of September or first of October. > > Not yet scheduled. The other PIs are overloaded with other things, > so I guess there's no rush, so long as we're doing useful research things. > >> - Encourage Andrew to put our "project coordinator" job description up >> and announce it. > > He's written the web page, but hasn't announced it or linked it yet. I > guess I'll leave that timing up to him > >> - Try to take a vacation Aug 11-19. > > Done. I even managed to be on vacation for some of it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Here are some other things I did in August: > > - Continued a mass of personal mail threads with exit relay > operators. Reaching out to them and talking about how to help them makes > them like us more: > https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=bandwidth-flags&start=2012-08-01&end=2012-09-01#bandwidth-flags > Exit relay capacity moved from 10Gbps to just over 12Gbps in August > (growth of 20%), and actual reported load moved from around 6.4Gbps to > 8Gbps (growth of 25%). > > I don't think it's wise to aim to get to BBG's "125 100mbit+ exit relays" > goal anytime soon (that would involve something like doubling or more > the exit capacity), but we're seeing great effects so far from ramping up > the campaign. And if George and Sathya's preliminary graphs are accurate, > we have maintained or improved our network diversity during this time. > > - Tariq's paper on guard rotation got into WPES! I helped them revise it. > http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#wpes12-cogs > > - Turned down a pair of journal review invites because the journals are > harming my field (aka not open-access). > > - Agreed to be on the program committee for PETS 2013: > http://petsymposium.org/2013/ > Though PETS is technically not open-access either (due to its publisher), > I maintain the website so I can make sure that it is open-access in fact. > I think that's good enough for now, but I'm pushing for more. > > - Jumped into the latest "omg Tor isn't perfect" thread: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025278.html > > - Lost a weekend to what was supposed to be a routine drive replacement > and turned into an almost complete hardware replacement for moria1, > one of the directory authorities. Thanks again to Andrew Lewman for > spending his weekend messing with it. > > - Helped suggest useful historical documents to seed Karsten's Tech > Reports page: > http://research.torproject.org/techreports.html > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >
Like a boss! :D You're insanely productive compared to me, how do you keep it up? My productivity follows some kind of sine wave or something, 1 good day is followed by 2 mediocre, 3 bad, and then back over again. I'd like to reverse the order there. Any observations? What works! _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
