Onion service hackathon summary
I heard George and David talking of writing up a summary of our onion service hackathon, and what projects we worked on, what tickets were opened or closed, what proposals written, etc etc. This is a great idea!
Activity
(Partial) list of things we worked on during the hackfest:
Proposals and stuff
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Direct Onion Services proposal (WIP: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/special/torspec.git/log/?h=xxx-direct-onion)
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Guard Discovery proposal https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009066.html
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Proposal: Merging Hidden Service Directories and Introduction Points https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009079.html
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Asked dirauths for feedback on a shared randomness script
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Worked on a consensus-based shared randomness proposal (not published yet)
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Modularized 224 into components (not published yet)
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Prepared post of statistics analysis (not posted yet)
Work On Trac Tickets
- #15588 (moved): Allow client authorization on control port ADD_ONION services
- #13207 (moved): Is rend_cache_clean_v2_descs_as_dir cutoff crazy high?
- #16583 (moved) obfsproxy executable no longer needed in Tor Browser
== Miscellaneous Projects ==
- Work on limiting the impact of malicious HSDirs (#16538 (moved))
- Compiled a Tor community projects list (#16576 (moved))
- Various improvements on ricochet by special
- Jesse worked on OnioNS
- Work on hidden service basics video by nima
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We also discussed whether we should enable the original HS statistics by default, and decided that we feel comfortable doing so. (#15254 (moved))
Blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-service-hackfest-arlington-accords
Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed
