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en/volunteer.wml   9) <h2>Three things everyone can do now:</h2>
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volunteer.html    10) <ol>
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en/volunteer.wml  11) <li>Please consider <a href="<page docs/tor-doc-server>">running
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volunteer.html    12) a server</a> to help the Tor network grow.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  13) <li>Tell your friends! Get them to run servers. Get them to run hidden
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volunteer.html    14) services. Get them to tell their friends.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  15) <li>We are looking for funding and sponsors. If you like Tor's goals, please
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en/volunteer.wml  16)   <a href="<page donate>">take a moment to donate to support further
en/volunteer.wml  17)   Tor development</a>. Also, if you know any
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en/volunteer.wml  18)   companies, NGOs, agencies, or other organizations that want communications
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en/volunteer.wml  19)   security, let them know about us.</li>
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volunteer.html    20) </ol>
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en/volunteer.wml  22) <a id="Usability"></a>
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en/volunteer.wml  23) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Usability">Supporting Applications</a></h2>
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volunteer.html    24) <ol>
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en/volunteer.wml  25) <li>We need good ways to intercept DNS requests so they don't "leak" their
en/volunteer.wml  26) request to a local observer while we're trying to be anonymous. (This
en/volunteer.wml  27) happens because the application does the DNS resolve before going to
en/volunteer.wml  28) the SOCKS proxy.)</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  29) <li>Tsocks/dsocks items:
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en/volunteer.wml  30) <ul>
en/volunteer.wml  31) <li>We need to <a
en/volunteer.wml  32) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TSocksPatches">apply
en/volunteer.wml  33) all our tsocks patches</a> and maintain a new fork. We'll host it if
en/volunteer.wml  34) you want.</li>
en/volunteer.wml  35) <li>We should patch Dug Song's "dsocks" program to use Tor's
en/volunteer.wml  36) <i>mapaddress</i> commands from the controller interface, so we
en/volunteer.wml  37) don't waste a whole round-trip inside Tor doing the resolve before
en/volunteer.wml  38) connecting.</li>
en/volunteer.wml  39) <li>We need to make our <i>torify</i> script detect which of tsocks or
en/volunteer.wml  40) dsocks is installed, and call them appropriately. This probably means
en/volunteer.wml  41) unifying their interfaces, and might involve sharing code between them
en/volunteer.wml  42) or discarding one entirely.</li>
en/volunteer.wml  43) </ul>
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en/volunteer.wml  44) </li>
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volunteer.html    45) <li>People running servers tell us they want to have one BandwidthRate
volunteer.html    46) during some part of the day, and a different BandwidthRate at other parts
volunteer.html    47) of the day. Rather than coding this inside Tor, we should have a little
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en/volunteer.wml  48) script that speaks via the <a href="<page gui/index>">Tor Controller Interface</a>,
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volunteer.html    49) and does a setconf to change the bandwidth rate. Perhaps it would run out
volunteer.html    50) of cron, or perhaps it would sleep until appropriate times and then do
volunteer.html    51) its tweak (that's probably more portable). Can somebody write one for us
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en/volunteer.wml  52) and we'll put it into <a href="<svnsandbox>contrib/">contrib/</a>?
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en/volunteer.wml  53) This is a good entry for the <a href="<page gui/index>">Tor GUI
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en/volunteer.wml  54) competition</a>.
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en/volunteer.wml  57) <li>Tor can <a
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volunteer.html    58) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ChooseEntryExit">exit
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en/volunteer.wml  59) the Tor network from a particular exit node</a>, but we should be able
en/volunteer.wml  60) to specify just a country and have something automatically pick. The
en/volunteer.wml  61) best bet is to fetch Blossom's directory also, and run a local Blossom
en/volunteer.wml  62) client that fetches this directory securely (via Tor and checking its
en/volunteer.wml  63) signature), intercepts <tt>.country.blossom</tt> hostnames, and does
en/volunteer.wml  64) the right thing.</li>
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volunteer.html    65) <li>Speaking of geolocation data, somebody should draw a map of the Earth
volunteer.html    66) with a pin-point for each Tor server. Bonus points if it updates as the
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en/volunteer.wml  67) network grows and changes. Unfortunately, the easy ways to do this involve
en/volunteer.wml  68) sending all the data to Google and having them draw the map for you. How
en/volunteer.wml  69) much does this impact privacy, and do we have any other good options?</li>
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volunteer.html    70) </ol>
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en/volunteer.wml  72) <a id="Documentation"></a>
en/volunteer.wml  73) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
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volunteer.html    74) <ol>
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en/volunteer.wml  75) <li>We hear that Tor users can fall victim to anonymity-breaking attacks
en/volunteer.wml  76) from javascript, java, activex, flash, etc, if they don't disable
en/volunteer.wml  77) them. Are there plugins out there (like NoScript for Firefox) that make
en/volunteer.wml  78) it easier for users to manage this risk? What is the risk exactly?</li>
en/volunteer.wml  79) <li>Is there a full suite of plugins that will replace all of Privoxy's
en/volunteer.wml  80) functionality for Firefox 1.5+? We hear Tor is much faster when you take
en/volunteer.wml  81) Privoxy out of the loop.</li>
en/volunteer.wml  82) <li>Please help Matt Edman with the documentation and how-tos for his
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en/volunteer.wml  83) Tor controller,
en/volunteer.wml  84) <a href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a>.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  85) <li>Evaluate and document
en/volunteer.wml  86) <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">our
en/volunteer.wml  87) list of programs</a> that can be configured to use Tor.</li>
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volunteer.html    88) <li>We need better documentation for dynamically intercepting
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en/volunteer.wml  89) connections and sending them through Tor. tsocks (Linux), dsocks (BSD),
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en/volunteer.wml  90) and freecap (Windows) seem to be good candidates, as would better
en/volunteer.wml  91) use of our new TransPort feature.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  92) <li>We have a huge list of <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SupportPrograms">potentially useful
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volunteer.html    93) programs that interface to Tor</a>. Which ones are useful in which
volunteer.html    94) situations? Please help us test them out and document your results.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml  95) <li>Help translate the web page and documentation into other
en/volunteer.wml  96) languages. See the <a href="<page translation>">translation
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en/volunteer.wml  97) guidelines</a> if you want to help out. We especially need Arabic or
en/volunteer.wml  98) Farsi translations, for the many Tor users in censored areas.</li>
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volunteer.html    99) </ol>
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en/volunteer.wml 101) <a id="Coding"></a>
en/volunteer.wml 102) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Coding">Coding and Design</a></h2>
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volunteer.html   103) <ol>
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en/volunteer.wml 104) <li>Tor servers don't work well on Windows XP. On
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en/volunteer.wml 105) Windows, Tor uses the standard <tt>select()</tt> system
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en/volunteer.wml 106) call, which uses space in the non-page pool. This means
en/volunteer.wml 107) that a medium sized Tor server will empty the non-page pool, <a
en/volunteer.wml 108) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/WindowsBufferProblems">causing
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en/volunteer.wml 109) havoc and system crashes</a>. We should probably be using overlapped IO
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en/volunteer.wml 110) instead. One solution would be to teach <a
en/volunteer.wml 111) href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">libevent</a> how to use
en/volunteer.wml 112) overlapped IO rather than select() on Windows, and then adapt Tor to
en/volunteer.wml 113) the new libevent interface.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 114) <li>Because Tor servers need to store-and-forward each cell they handle,
en/volunteer.wml 115) high-bandwidth Tor servers end up using dozens of megabytes of memory
en/volunteer.wml 116) just for buffers. We need better heuristics for when to shrink/expand
en/volunteer.wml 117) buffers. Maybe this should be modelled after the Linux kernel buffer
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en/volunteer.wml 118) design, where we have many smaller buffers that link to each other,
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en/volunteer.wml 119) rather than monolithic buffers?</li>
en/volunteer.wml 120) <li>We need an official central site to answer "Is this IP address a Tor
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en/volunteer.wml 121) exit server?" questions. This should provide several interfaces, including
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en/volunteer.wml 122) a web interface and a DNSBL-style interface. It can provide the most
en/volunteer.wml 123) up-to-date answers by keeping a local mirror of the Tor directory
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en/volunteer.wml 124) information. The tricky point is that being an exit server is not a
en/volunteer.wml 125) boolean: so the question is actually "Is this IP address a Tor exit
en/volunteer.wml 126) server that can exit to my IP address:port?" The DNSBL interface
en/volunteer.wml 127) will probably receive hundreds of queries a minute, so some smart
en/volunteer.wml 128) algorithms are in order. Bonus points if it does active testing through
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en/volunteer.wml 129) each exit node to find out what IP address it's really exiting from.
en/volunteer.wml 130) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/contrib/torbl-design.txt">Read more here</a>.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 131) <li>Sometimes Tor servers crash, or the computers they're on fall off the
en/volunteer.wml 132) network, or other accidents happen. Some Tor operators have expressed
en/volunteer.wml 133) an interest in signing up to a "notifying" service that periodically
en/volunteer.wml 134) checks whether their Tor server is healthy and sends them a reminder mail
en/volunteer.wml 135) when it's not. Anybody want to write a few cgi scripts, a few web pages,
en/volunteer.wml 136) and set up some sort of wget hack and/or something more complex like <a
en/volunteer.wml 137) href="http://nagios.org/">Nagios</a> to do the monitoring? The first
en/volunteer.wml 138) version could check just the directory port, e.g. looking through the
en/volunteer.wml 139) cached network-status page for the right IP address and port and then
en/volunteer.wml 140) asking for the "/tor/server/authority" page.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 141) <li>It would be great to have a LiveCD that includes the latest
en/volunteer.wml 142) versions of Tor, Polipo or Privoxy, Firefox, Gaim+OTR, etc. There are
en/volunteer.wml 143) two challenges here: first is documenting the system and choices well
en/volunteer.wml 144) enough that security people can form an opinion on whether it should be
en/volunteer.wml 145) secure, and the second is figuring out how to make it easily maintainable,
en/volunteer.wml 146) so it doesn't become quickly obsolete like AnonymOS. Bonus points if
en/volunteer.wml 147) the CD image fits on one of those small-form-factor CDs.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 148) <li>Related to the LiveCD image, we should work on an intuitively secure
en/volunteer.wml 149) and well-documented USB image for Tor and supporting applications. A
en/volunteer.wml 150) lot of the hard part here is deciding what configurations are secure,
en/volunteer.wml 151) documentating these decisions, and making something that is easy to
en/volunteer.wml 152) maintain going forward.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 153) <li>Our preferred graphical front-end for Tor, named
en/volunteer.wml 154) <a href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a>, needs all sorts
en/volunteer.wml 155) of development work.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 156) <li>We need to actually start building our <a href="<page
en/volunteer.wml 157) documentation>#DesignDoc">blocking-resistance design</a>. This involves
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en/volunteer.wml 158) fleshing out the design, modifying many different pieces of Tor, adapting
en/volunteer.wml 159) <a href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a> so it supports the
en/volunteer.wml 160) new features, and planning for deployment.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 161) <li>We need a flexible simulator framework for studying end-to-end
en/volunteer.wml 162) traffic confirmation attacks. Many researchers have whipped up ad hoc
en/volunteer.wml 163) simulators to support their intuition either that the attacks work
en/volunteer.wml 164) really well or that some defense works great. Can we build a simulator
en/volunteer.wml 165) that's clearly documented and open enough that everybody knows it's
en/volunteer.wml 166) giving a reasonable answer? This will spur a lot of new research.
en/volunteer.wml 167) See the entry <a href="#Research">below</a> on confirmation attacks for
en/volunteer.wml 168) details on the research side of this task &mdash; who knows, when it's
en/volunteer.wml 169) done maybe you can help write a paper or three also.</li>
en/volunteer.wml 170) <li>We need a measurement study of <a
en/volunteer.wml 171) href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a>
en/volunteer.wml 172) vs <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</a>. Is Polipo in fact
en/volunteer.wml 173) significantly faster, once you factor in the slow-down from Tor? Are the
en/volunteer.wml 174) results the same on both Linux and Windows? Related, does Polipo handle
en/volunteer.wml 175) more web sites correctly than Privoxy, or vice versa? Are there stability
en/volunteer.wml 176) issues on any common platforms, e.g. Windows?</li>
en/volunteer.wml 177) <li>Related on the above, would you like to help port <a
en/volunteer.wml 178) href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a> so it
en/volunteer.wml 179) runs stably and efficiently on Windows?</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 180) <li>We need a distributed testing framework. We have unit tests,
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en/volunteer.wml 181) but it would be great to have a script that starts up a Tor network, uses
en/volunteer.wml 182) it for a while, and verifies that at least parts of it are working.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 183) <li>Help Mike Perry on his <a
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en/volunteer.wml 184) href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/">TorFlow</a>
en/volunteer.wml 185) library (<a href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/TODO">TODO</a>):
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en/volunteer.wml 186) it's a python library that uses the <a
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en/volunteer.wml 187) href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torctl/doc/howto.txt">Tor controller
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en/volunteer.wml 188) protocol</a> to instruct Tor to build circuits in a variety of ways,
en/volunteer.wml 189) and then it measures performance and tries to detect anomalies.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 191) <li>Right now the hidden service descriptors are being stored on just a
en/volunteer.wml 192) few directory servers. This is bad for privacy and bad for robustness. To
en/volunteer.wml 193) get more robustness, we're going to need to make hidden service
en/volunteer.wml 194) descriptors even less private because we're going to have to mirror them
en/volunteer.wml 195) onto many places. Ideally we'd like to separate the storage/lookup system
en/volunteer.wml 196) from the Tor directory servers entirely. The first problem is that we need
en/volunteer.wml 197) to design a new hidden service descriptor format to a) be ascii rather
en/volunteer.wml 198) than binary for convenience; b) keep the list of introduction points
en/volunteer.wml 199) encrypted unless you know the <tt>.onion</tt> address, so the directory
en/volunteer.wml 200) can't learn them; and c) allow the directories to verify the timestamp
en/volunteer.wml 201) and signature on a hidden service descriptor so they can't be tricked
en/volunteer.wml 202) into giving out fake ones. Second, any reliable distributed storage
en/volunteer.wml 203) system will do, as long as it allows authenticated updates, but as far
en/volunteer.wml 204) as we know no implemented DHT code supports authenticated updates.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 206) <li>Tor 0.1.1.x and later include support for hardware crypto accelerators
en/volunteer.wml 207) via
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volunteer.html   208) OpenSSL. Nobody has ever tested it, though. Does somebody want to get
volunteer.html   209) a card and let us know how it goes?</li>
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volunteer.html   210) <li>Perform a security analysis of Tor with <a
volunteer.html   211) href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing">"fuzz"</a>. Determine
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en/volunteer.wml 212) if there are good fuzzing libraries out there for what we want. Win fame by
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volunteer.html   213) getting credit when we put out a new release because of you!</li>
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volunteer.html   214) <li>Tor uses TCP for transport and TLS for link
volunteer.html   215) encryption. This is nice and simple, but it means all cells
volunteer.html   216) on a link are delayed when a single packet gets dropped, and
volunteer.html   217) it means we can only reasonably support TCP streams. We have a <a
volunteer.html   218) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#TransportIPnotTCP">list
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en/volunteer.wml 219) of reasons why we haven't shifted to UDP transport</a>, but it would
en/volunteer.wml 220) be great to see that list get shorter. We also have a proposed <a
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en/volunteer.wml 221) href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/proposals/100-tor-spec-udp.txt">specification
en/volunteer.wml 222) for Tor and
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en/volunteer.wml 223) UDP</a> &mdash; please let us know what's wrong with it.</li>
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volunteer.html   224) <li>We're not that far from having IPv6 support for destination addresses
volunteer.html   225) (at exit nodes). If you care strongly about IPv6, that's probably the
volunteer.html   226) first place to start.</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 227) <li>Don't like any of these? Look at the <a
en/volunteer.wml 228) href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/roadmap-2007.pdf">Tor development
en/volunteer.wml 229) roadmap</a> for more ideas.</li>
en/volunteer.wml 230) <li>Don't see your idea here? We probably need it anyway! Contact
en/volunteer.wml 231) us and find out.</li>
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volunteer.html   232) </ol>
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en/volunteer.wml 234) <a id="Research"></a>
en/volunteer.wml 235) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Research">Research</a></h2>
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volunteer.html   236) <ol>
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volunteer.html   237) <li>The "website fingerprinting attack": make a list of a few
volunteer.html   238) hundred popular websites, download their pages, and make a set of
volunteer.html   239) "signatures" for each site. Then observe a Tor client's traffic. As
volunteer.html   240) you watch him receive data, you quickly approach a guess about which
volunteer.html   241) (if any) of those sites he is visiting. First, how effective is
volunteer.html   242) this attack on the deployed Tor codebase? Then start exploring
volunteer.html   243) defenses: for example, we could change Tor's cell size from 512
volunteer.html   244) bytes to 1024 bytes, we could employ padding techniques like <a
volunteer.html   245) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#timing-fc2004">defensive dropping</a>,
volunteer.html   246) or we could add traffic delays. How much of an impact do these have,
volunteer.html   247) and how much usability impact (using some suitable metric) is there from
volunteer.html   248) a successful defense in each case?</li>
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volunteer.html   249) <li>The "end-to-end traffic confirmation attack":
volunteer.html   250) by watching traffic at Alice and at Bob, we can <a
volunteer.html   251) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#danezis:pet2004">compare
volunteer.html   252) traffic signatures and become convinced that we're watching the same
volunteer.html   253) stream</a>. So far Tor accepts this as a fact of life and assumes this
volunteer.html   254) attack is trivial in all cases. First of all, is that actually true? How
volunteer.html   255) much traffic of what sort of distribution is needed before the adversary
volunteer.html   256) is confident he has won? Are there scenarios (e.g. not transmitting much)
volunteer.html   257) that slow down the attack? Do some traffic padding or traffic shaping
volunteer.html   258) schemes work better than others?</li>
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volunteer.html   259) <li>The "routing zones attack": most of the literature thinks of
volunteer.html   260) the network path between Alice and her entry node (and between the
volunteer.html   261) exit node and Bob) as a single link on some graph. In practice,
volunteer.html   262) though, the path traverses many autonomous systems (ASes), and <a
volunteer.html   263) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#feamster:wpes2004">it's not uncommon
volunteer.html   264) that the same AS appears on both the entry path and the exit path</a>.
volunteer.html   265) Unfortunately, to accurately predict whether a given Alice, entry,
volunteer.html   266) exit, Bob quad will be dangerous, we need to download an entire Internet
volunteer.html   267) routing zone and perform expensive operations on it. Are there practical
volunteer.html   268) approximations, such as avoiding IP addresses in the same /8 network?</li>
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en/volunteer.wml 269) <li>Other research questions regarding geographic diversity consider
en/volunteer.wml 270) the tradeoff between choosing an efficient circuit and choosing a random
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en/volunteer.wml 271) circuit. Look at Stephen Rollyson's <a
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en/volunteer.wml 272) href="http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080/ugResearch/uploads/7/ImprovingTor.pdf">position
en/volunteer.wml 273) paper</a> on how to discard particularly slow choices without hurting
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en/volunteer.wml 274) anonymity "too much". This line of reasoning needs more work and more
en/volunteer.wml 275) thinking, but it looks very promising.</li>
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volunteer.html   276) <li>Tor doesn't work very well when servers have asymmetric bandwidth
volunteer.html   277) (e.g. cable or DSL). Because Tor has separate TCP connections between
volunteer.html   278) each hop, if the incoming bytes are arriving just fine and the outgoing
volunteer.html   279) bytes are all getting dropped on the floor, the TCP push-back mechanisms
volunteer.html   280) don't really transmit this information back to the incoming streams.
volunteer.html   281) Perhaps Tor should detect when it's dropping a lot of outgoing packets,
volunteer.html   282) and rate-limit incoming streams to regulate this itself? I can imagine
volunteer.html   283) a build-up and drop-off scheme where we pick a conservative rate-limit,
volunteer.html   284) slowly increase it until we get lost packets, back off, repeat. We
volunteer.html   285) need somebody who's good with networks to simulate this and help design
volunteer.html   286) solutions; and/or we need to understand the extent of the performance
volunteer.html   287) degradation, and use this as motivation to reconsider UDP transport.</li>
volunteer.html   288) <li>A related topic is congestion control. Is our
volunteer.html   289) current design sufficient once we have heavy use? Maybe
volunteer.html   290) we should experiment with variable-sized windows rather
volunteer.html   291) than fixed-size windows? That seemed to go well in an <a
volunteer.html   292) href="http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/theory.php">ssh
volunteer.html   293) throughput experiment</a>. We'll need to measure and tweak, and maybe
volunteer.html   294) overhaul if the results are good.</li>
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volunteer.html   295) <li>To let dissidents in remote countries use Tor without being blocked
volunteer.html   296) at their country's firewall, we need a way to get tens of thousands of
volunteer.html   297) relays, not just a few hundred. We can imagine a Tor client GUI that
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en/volunteer.wml 298) has a "Tor for Freedom" button at the top that opens a port and relays a
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volunteer.html   299) few KB/s of traffic into the Tor network. (A few KB/s shouldn't be too
volunteer.html   300) much hassle, and there are few abuse issues since they're not being exit
volunteer.html   301) nodes.) But how do we distribute a list of these volunteer clients to the
volunteer.html   302) good dissidents in an automated way that doesn't let the country-level
volunteer.html   303) firewalls intercept and enumerate them? Probably needs to work on a
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en/volunteer.wml 304) human-trust level. See our <a href="<page documentation>#DesignDoc">early
en/volunteer.wml 305) blocking-resistance design document</a> and our
en/volunteer.wml 306) <a
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en/volunteer.wml 307) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#BlockingResistance">FAQ
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en/volunteer.wml 308) entry</a> on this, and then read the <a
en/volunteer.wml 309) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#Communications_20Censorship">censorship
en/volunteer.wml 310) resistance section of anonbib</a>.</li>
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volunteer.html   311) <li>Tor circuits are built one hop at a time, so in theory we have the
volunteer.html   312) ability to make some streams exit from the second hop, some from the
volunteer.html   313) third, and so on. This seems nice because it breaks up the set of exiting
volunteer.html   314) streams that a given server can see. But if we want each stream to be safe,
volunteer.html   315) the "shortest" path should be at least 3 hops long by our current logic, so
volunteer.html   316) the rest will be even longer. We need to examine this performance / security
volunteer.html   317) tradeoff.</li>
volunteer.html   318) <li>It's not that hard to DoS Tor servers or dirservers. Are client
volunteer.html   319) puzzles the right answer? What other practical approaches are there? Bonus
volunteer.html   320) if they're backward-compatible with the current Tor protocol.</li>
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volunteer.html   321) </ol>
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en/volunteer.wml 323) <a href="<page contact>">Let us know</a> if you've made progress on any
en/volunteer.wml 324) of these!
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