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+Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
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+ o Major features:
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+ - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
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+ possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
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+ directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
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+ that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
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+ directory: and when options about what to download are more or
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+ less standard. Resolves ticket 6526.
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+ - Tor servers and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
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+ format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
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+ and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
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+ closes ticket 7199.
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+
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+ o Major features (new circuit handshake):
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+ - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
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+ Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
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+ circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
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+ (especially on the server side), had a fragile security proof, and
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+ used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
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+ uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
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+ function, making it significantly more secure than the older
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+ handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
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+ pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
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+ can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
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+
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+ The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
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+ with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
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+ old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
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+
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+ Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
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+ comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
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+ UseNTorHandshake to 1.
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+
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+ Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
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+
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+ o Major features (better link encryption):
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+ - Servers can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
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+ and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-
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+ secure TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with
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+ our previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime.
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+ By default, public servers prefer the (faster) P224 group, and
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+ bridges prefer the (more common) P256 group; you can override this
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+ with the TLSECGroup option.
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+
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+ Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
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+ clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
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+ so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
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+ implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
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+ match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
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+ ciphers they actually mean, so servers can believe such clients
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+ when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
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+
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+ This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
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+ and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
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+ with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
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+ "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended. Implements
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+ the server side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
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+
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+ o Major bugfixes:
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+ - Avoid crashing when, as a node without IPv6-exit support, a
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+ client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
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+ 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
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+
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+ o Minor features:
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+ - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
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+ In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
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+ upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
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+ undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
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+ if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
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+ - Work correctly on unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
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+ separate error codes--or at least, don't break for that reason.
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+ Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
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+
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+ o Minor features (testing):
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+ - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
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+ (P-256) diffie-hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
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+ - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
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+
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+ o Minor features (path bias detection):
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+ - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
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+ of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
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+ - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
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+ two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
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+ options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
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+ The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
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+ - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
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+ which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
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+ PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
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+ - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
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+ in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
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+ - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
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+ PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
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+ - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
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+ built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
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+ Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
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+ destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
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+ can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
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+ - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
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+ point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
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+ - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
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+ *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
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+ makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
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+ detection capability loss.
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+
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+ o Minor bugfixes:
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+ - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
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+ circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
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+ keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
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+ not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
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+ - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
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+ which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
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+ were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
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+ 0.2.3.3-alpha.
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+
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+ o Code simplifications and refactoring:
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+ - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
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+ enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
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+ - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
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+ and the different handshakes it supports.
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+ - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
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+ cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
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+ recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
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+ any encoding is overkill.
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Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
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Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
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Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
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Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
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directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
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directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
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