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Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
stability, security, and privacy fixes.
o Major bugfixes:
- Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
o Minor bugfixes:
- Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
0.2.3.9-alpha.
Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays, Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to

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