# Activities of November 2015 - Plenty of progress on prop250 as always (#16943)
We spent time thinking about how to generate the shared randomness value (SRV) in a way that avoids nasty edge cases: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-November/009903.html Based on that thread and multiple IRC discussions, we improved how SRVs are inserted on the consensus in a way that makes it much harder to cause edge cases on the real network (tm). We also introduced a killswitch mechanism for the shared randomness protocol so that dirauths can turn it off the feature through torrc if it causes too much negative chaos. - I took another look at the "Got INTRODUCE2 with no corresponding rend_intro_point_t" ticket (#16702), and found a potential cause for the bug. We promptly fixed it and hopefully this time for good. - Did some code reviews (#17254, #8195). - Helped Kate counter the CMU attack bad press. # Activities for December 2015 - More finalizing & testing work needs to be done on prop250. I think we are almost there. - Need to code the changes that teor requested for the HS RSOS mode (#17178). - Help move the bug bounties project forward. - CCC time! _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list tor-reports@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports
