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resolve bug 51 Geoff Goodell authored 19 years ago	15) 16) <table class="banner" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 17) <tr> 18) <td class="banner-left"></td> 19) <td class="banner-middle"> 20) <a href="index.html">Home</a> 21) \| <a href="howitworks.html">How It Works</a> 22) \| <a href="download.html">Download</a> 23) \| <a href="documentation.html">Docs</a> 24) \| <a href="users.html">Users</a> 25) \| <a href="faq.html">FAQs</a> 26) \| <a class="current">Contribute</a> 27) \| <a href="developers.html">Developers</a> 28) \| <a href="research.html">Research</a> 29) \| <a href="people.html">People</a> 30) </td> 31) <td class="banner-right"></td> 32) </tr>
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first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`42) 43) <h2>Tor: Contribute</h2>`
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first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`45)`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`46) <p>Ongoing needs:</p>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`47) <ul>`
Incorporate changes from Sh... Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`48) <li>Try Tor out, and let the Tor developers know about bugs you find or`
a few more items we'd like... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`49) features you don't find.</li>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`50) <li>Please consider <a`
on better thought, make the... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`51) href="cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc.html#server">running a`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`52) server</a> to help the Tor network grow.</li> 53) <li>We especially need people with Windows programming skills 54) to run an exit server on Windows, to help us debug.</li>`
a few more ways to contribute Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`55) <li>Run a <a href="cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc.html#hidden-service">Tor hidden`
Website 2/2: Applied Elly's... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`56) service</a> and put interesting content on it.</li>`
a few more ways to contribute Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`57) <li>Tell your friends! Get them to run servers. Get them to run hidden 58) services. Get them to tell <i>their</i> friends.</li>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`59) <li>What else needs to be documented? What is mis-documented?</li> 60) <li>Go take a look at the <a href="http://www.eff.org/">Electronic 61) Frontier Foundation</a>. More EFF donations means more freedom in the world, 62) including more Tor development.</li> 63) </ul> 64) 65) <p>We also have many project-lets: short-term or self-contained tasks 66) that would be really helpful for somebody to tackle so we can keep 67) focusing on Tor.</p> 68) 69) <p>Writing project-lets:</p> 70) <ul>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`71) <li>Does somebody want to help maintain this website, or help with 72) documentation, or help with managing our TODO and handling bug reports?</li>`
clean up translation pages Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`73) <li>Please help translate the web page and documentation`
Link to the translation gui... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`74) into other languages. See the <a href="translation.html">translation guidelines</a>`
clean up translation pages Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`75) if you want to help out. (Examples:`
Link to the translation gui... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`76) <a href="http://membres.lycos.fr/geolemalin/anonymat_garantit.htm">French</a> 77) and <a href="http://tor.freesuperhost.com/">Persian</a>)</li>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`78) <li>Please fix up <a`
start calling our faq a faq... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`79) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ Wiki</a>,`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`80) and if you know the answer to a question in the "unanswered FAQs" list, 81) please answer it.</li>`
i'd like somebody to solve... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`82) </ul> 83)`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`84) <p>Programmer and developer project-lets:</p>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`85) <ul> 86) <li>We need somebody to code up a GUI or other 87) controller program, to do configuration, etc. See our <a`
point to correct places in cvs Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`88) href="cvs/tor/doc/control-spec.txt">control specification</a> for details,`
fix a 404 Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`89) and the <a href="cvs/tor/contrib/TorControl.py">rudimentary demonstration`
Website tweak: Note more ki... Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`90) Python control script</a>. No, we don't know what the interface should look`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`91) like. You can use any license you want, but we'd recommend 3-clause BSD or`
Website tweak: Note more ki... Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`92) maybe GPL; and we can only help out if your license conforms to the`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`93) <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines">DFSG</a>.</li>`
Update contribute.html a bit Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`94) <li>We're always looking for better Windows installers. Specifically, 95) it would be great if somebody were to extend our NSIS-based windows 96) installer to include FreeCap and Privoxy.</li>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`97) <li>Does somebody want to do up a patch so we can be an NT service? Or`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`98) so we can go in the system tray?</li>`
ask santa for a clean fast... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`99) <li>A good (portable, fast, clean, BSD-free) asynchronous DNS library 100) would be really handy, so we don't have to keep forking DNS worker`
make us xhtml compliant again Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`101) threads to do gethostbyname.</li>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`102) <li>Can somebody take a look at Martin's <a 103) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/SquidProxy">Squid`
Fix empty RedirectExit link Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`104) and Tor</a> page, and update it to reflect Tor's 105) <a href="http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.html">RedirectExit</a> config 106) option?</li>`
a few more items we'd like... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`107) <li>See the <a href="cvs/tor/doc/TODO">TODO</a> and 108) <a href="cvs/tor/doc/HACKING">HACKING</a> files in the Tor distribution`
Make the words HACKING and... Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`109) for more ideas.</li>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`110) </ul> 111)`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`112) <p>Security project-lets: We need people to attack the implementation 113) and clean it up, and also to attack the design and experiment with 114) defenses.</p>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`115) <ul>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`116) <li>We need somebody to <a 117) href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing">fuzz</a> Tor. Are there 118) good libraries out there for what we want? What are the first steps? Win`
contribute.html research.ht... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`119) fame by getting credit when we put out a new release because of you!</li>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	120) <li>Server CPU load is high because clients keep asking to make new 121) circuits, which uses public key crypto. Possible defenses include: 122) using helper nodes (fixed entry nodes); rate limiting the number of 123) create cells handled per second; having clients retry failed extensions 124) a few times; implementing ssl sessions; and using hardware crypto when 125) available.</li> 126) <li>Website volume fingerprinting attacks (<a 127) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#back01">Back et al</a>, <a 128) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hintz02">Hintz</a>). 129) Defenses include a large cell size, <a 130) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#timing-fc2004">defensive dropping</a>, 131) etc. How well does each approach work?</li> 132) <li>The end-to-end traffic confirmation attack. We need to study 133) long-range dummies more, along with traffic shaping. How much traffic 134) of what sort of distribution is needed before the adversary is confident 135) he has won?</li> 136) <li>It's not that hard to DoS Tor servers or dirservers. Are puzzles 137) the right answer? What other practical approaches are there?</li> 138) <li>What sensitive info squeaks by privoxy? Are other html scrubbers 139) better?</li> 140) </ul> 141) 142) <p>Designer project-lets:</p> 143) <ul> 144) <li>Right now the hidden service descriptors are being stored on the 145) dirservers, but any reliable distributed storage system would do (for 146) example, a DHT that allows authenticated updates). Can somebody figure 147) out our best options and decide if they're good enough?</li> 148) <li>How hard is it to patch bind or a DNS proxy to redirect requests 149) to Tor via our tor-resolve socks extension? What about to convert UDP 150) DNS requests to TCP requests and send them through Tor?</li> 151) <li>Tor provides anonymous connections, but if you want to keep multiple 152) pseudonyms in practice (say, in case you frequently go to two websites 153) and if anybody knew about both of them they would conclude it's you), 154) we don't support that well yet. We should find a good approach and 155) interface for handling pseudonymous profiles in Tor. See <a 156) href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2004/msg00086.html">this 157) post</a> and <a 158) href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2005/msg00007.html">followup</a> 159) for details.</li>
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`160) </ul>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`161)`
clean up gratuitous irc url Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`162) <p>Drop by <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net/tor">the irc channel at irc.oftc.net</a> or`
point people to the irc cha... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`163) <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">email 164) tor-volunteer@freehaven.net</a> if you want to help out!</p>`
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