On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:04 PM, George Kadianakis <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for picking this up again, George! [...] > - Post-Quantum key exchanges for Tor > > There are a few proposals falling under this topic that were developed in > the > past months. Here are a few: > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/263-ntru-for-pq-handshake.txt > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/269-hybrid-handshake.txt > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/270-newhope-hybrid-handshake.txt > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-October/011553.html > > I'm far from an expert on this field, so I'm not sure about the current > status of this project and the right direction to approach it. However, it > seems that there have been enough developments here lately that a group > discussion might be useful. Could be! I'd like to hear more here from our domain experts, since as far as I can tell, we have more to discuss here. Also, (nearly?) all of these will need proposal 249 (for large create cells) or something like it. > - A name system API for Tor > > This is a proposal suggesting a single API that allows us to integrate > secure > name systems with Tor hidden services: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-October/011514.html > > The proposal received useful feedback in and out of the mailing list. It > seems that implementing the proposal as part of a Tor controller might be an > easier way to test it. Some discussion on future directions might be helpful > here, as this is something that will be needed sooner than later. +1. > - New topics in Next Gen Hidden Services > > We've done multiple IRC meetings on prop224, but it keeps on growing as it's > being developed. Here are a few topics that might be worth discussing as a > group: > - Control port API for hidden services > (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20699) > - torrc UX for hidden services > (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-November/011661.html) > - torrc/control UX for hidden service client auth > (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-November/011617.html) > - UX for offline keys > (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18098) > - UX of hidden services on Tor Browser +1, but let's make sure we have at least a sketch proposal or list of questions for each thing as we discuss it? > - Prop271: Another algorithm for guard selection > > We've also done a few IRC meetings on future guard algorithms, but we are > now > closer to completing that project than ever. After we have a few results and > statistics of the new guard algorithm, it might be worth scheduling a > meeting > to discuss how well it works and ways to improve it. Also +1. It might be a good idea to schedule this after we have time to review the code we've got so far. (See #19877) -- Nick _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
