[tor-dev] [GSoC] HTTPS Everywhere's Secure Ruleset Updater - Final Report

2014-08-18 Thread Red
Hello everyone! Today is the official "pencils down" date for Google Summer of Code, so I am going to outline the results of my work this Summer as a way of concluding my project. The first thing I had done at the start of my project was learn about Mozilla's XPCOM components and how they are use

[tor-dev] [GSoC] HTTPS Everywhere Secure Ruleset Updater Report

2014-08-01 Thread Red
Hello everyone! Sorry about the fact that I haven't made a report in a few weeks. It's been a busy time for me. With that said, I have been getting quite a bit of work done on my project to build a secure ruleset updating mechanism for the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox browser extension. In my last repo

[tor-dev] [GSoC] HTTPS Everywhere secure ruleset update mechanism update

2014-07-07 Thread Red
Hello everyone, I would like to quickly summarize what has been going on for the last couple of weeks of my work. Due to my mentor, Yan, being away on travel, we haven't had time to have a formal weekly meeting on IRC as per usual. We have, however, been emailing on the HTTPS Everywhere mailing l

[tor-dev] GSoC Report - Zack Mullaly - HTTPS Everywhere secure ruleset update mechanism

2014-06-20 Thread Red
Hello again everyone, I am here once again to report my progress in building a secure ruleset updating mechanism for the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. This past week's work has involved a lot of updates to the specification for the mechanism[1], and changing a lot of what I had done before t