grothoff: transport bugs new member hopefully joining from Iran this year (PhD) Taler engineering positions news hopefully "soon" bad news: EU proposal rejected (low rating for commercial impact) 24th Feb DocMalloc's defense (Christian will be around in Munich) raphael: no news from BOSS, maybe soon (after exams) julius: few changes in a few weeks serialization to disk / snapshots ideas: careful about handing out peers twice (non-randomly) how to measure peer randomness (especially without random peers) what requirements for topology? reasonable assumption: connection possible to every peer how much information is leaked to a passive adversary especially via polling can it be quantified? scenario: C is picked as exit node and knows B (middle node) with what probablity can I decide that the connection was initiated by X? what time between rounds of brahms? maybe allow a range for adjusting value later bart: very difficult to reproduce some bugs (CADET) problems seem to be in UDP time and resources devoted to Taler vs. GNUnet