Hello tor-dev.

over the past two weeks I have

- met with the team at SRI who have been developing further enhancements to stegotorus separately from the codebase available on github. We developed a plan to begin integrating the two codebases and to prepare it for integration with tbb and gitian builds as well (isis will hopefully advise us on the latter especially). To this end, I have established an Asana workspace specifically to cover the tasks needed for smooth integration (as opposed to the somewhat out of date individual tracs both sides were keeping)

- implemented the Elligator handshake on a circuit level. I need to look into implementing it on a connection level to add greater security, as well as adding OCB encryption (does anyone know for sure whether this is in OpenSSL now? I can't seem to find out)

- merged the config file code from SRI into our codebase. Multiple passphrase support should be added.

- resolved nagging problems with our SWF Steganographic module architecture; the lessons learned should be helpful when integrating SRI's new JSON modulen.

I intend to continue further work on this in person over the next month as well as at HOPE @ NYC in July, and a focused week in person with my mentor there should greatly speed progress.

Best Noah R.