On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:04 PM, George Kadianakis desnacked@riseup.net wrote:
Thanks for picking this up again, George!
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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-han... https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/269-hybrid-handshak... https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/270-newhope-hybrid-... 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)