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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 19 years ago	`42) 43) <h2>Tor: Contribute</h2>`
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first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 19 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 19 years ago	`47) <ul>`
more contribute items Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`48) <li>We need users like you to try Tor out, and let the Tor developers 49) know about bugs you find or features you don't find.</li>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 19 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 19 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>`
more contribute items Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`73) <li>We may have too <i>much</i> documentation. It's spread out too far 74) and duplicates itself in places. Can you help us consolidate?</li>`
clean up translation pages Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`75) <li>Please help translate the web page and documentation`
Link to the translation gui... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`76) into other languages. See the <a href="translation.html">translation guidelines</a>`
clean up translation pages Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`77) if you want to help out. (Examples:`
Link to the translation gui... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`78) <a href="http://membres.lycos.fr/geolemalin/anonymat_garantit.htm">French</a> 79) and <a href="http://tor.freesuperhost.com/">Persian</a>)</li>`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`80) <li>Please fix up <a`
start calling our faq a faq... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`81) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ Wiki</a>,`
fix and rearrange the lists... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`82) and if you know the answer to a question in the "unanswered FAQs" list, 83) please answer it.</li>`
i'd like somebody to solve... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`84) </ul> 85)`
break out a separate 'packa... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`86) <p>Packaging project-lets:</p> 87) <ul> 88) <li>We're always looking for better Windows installers. Specifically, 89) it would be great if somebody were to extend our NSIS-based windows 90) installer to include FreeCap and Privoxy.</li> 91) <li>Our OS X installer can't be uninstalled. Are there non-sucky OS X 92) packagers that have uninstall capabilities? This is becoming an 93) increasing bother.</li> 94) </ul> 95)`
add another section Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`96) <p>Organizational and application testing project-lets:</p> 97) <ul> 98) <li>We've got a list of potentially useful programs you might 99) run with Tor <a href="users.html">here</a>. We also have the <a 100) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">Torify 101) howto</a>. Can somebody try them out, simplify the explanations, expand 102) them where they need it, document them better, and make them all-around 103) more useful?</li> 104) </ul> 105)`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`106) <p>Programmer and developer project-lets:</p>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`107) <ul> 108) <li>We need somebody to code up a GUI or other 109) controller program, to do configuration, etc. See our <a`
point to correct places in cvs Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`110) href="cvs/tor/doc/control-spec.txt">control specification</a> for details,`
fix a 404 Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`111) and the <a href="cvs/tor/contrib/TorControl.py">rudimentary demonstration`
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rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`113) 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	`114) maybe GPL; and we can only help out if your license conforms to the`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`115) <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines">DFSG</a>.</li>`
we could use a script to tw... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	116) <li>Periodically people running servers tells us they want to have one 117) BandwidthRate during some part of the day, and a different BandwidthRate 118) at other parts of the day. Rather than coding this inside Tor, we should 119) have a little script that speaks via the Tor Controller Interface, and does 120) a setconf to change the bandwidth rate. Perhaps it would run out of cron, 121) or perhaps it would sleep until appropriate times and then do its tweak 122) (that's probably more portable). Can somebody write one for us and we'll 123) put it inside <a href="cvs/tor/contrib/">tor/contrib/</a>?</li>
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`124) <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 19 years ago	`125) so we can go in the system tray?</li>`
ask santa for a clean fast... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`126) <li>A good (portable, fast, clean, BSD-free) asynchronous DNS library 127) 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	`128) threads to do gethostbyname.</li>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`129) <li>Can somebody take a look at Martin's <a 130) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/SquidProxy">Squid`
break out a separate 'packa... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`131) and Tor</a> page, and update it to reflect Tor's 132) <a href="http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.html">RedirectExit</a> config`
Fix empty RedirectExit link Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`133) option?</li>`
a few more items we'd like... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`134) <li>See the <a href="cvs/tor/doc/TODO">TODO</a> and 135) <a href="cvs/tor/doc/HACKING">HACKING</a> files in the Tor distribution`
Make the words HACKING and... Nick Mathewson authored 19 years ago	`136) for more ideas.</li>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`137) </ul> 138)`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`139) <p>Security project-lets: We need people to attack the implementation 140) and clean it up, and also to attack the design and experiment with 141) defenses.</p>`
first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`142) <ul>`
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`143) <li>We need somebody to <a 144) href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing">fuzz</a> Tor. Are there 145) good libraries out there for what we want? What are the first steps? Win`
contribute.html research.ht... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`146) 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	147) <li>Website volume fingerprinting attacks (<a 148) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#back01">Back et al</a>, <a 149) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hintz02">Hintz</a>). 150) Defenses include a large cell size, <a 151) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#timing-fc2004">defensive dropping</a>, 152) etc. How well does each approach work?</li> 153) <li>The end-to-end traffic confirmation attack. We need to study 154) long-range dummies more, along with traffic shaping. How much traffic 155) of what sort of distribution is needed before the adversary is confident 156) he has won?</li> 157) <li>It's not that hard to DoS Tor servers or dirservers. Are puzzles 158) the right answer? What other practical approaches are there?</li> 159) <li>What sensitive info squeaks by privoxy? Are other html scrubbers 160) better?</li> 161) </ul> 162) 163) <p>Designer project-lets:</p> 164) <ul>
more contribute items Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	165) <li>Server CPU load is high because clients keep asking to make new 166) circuits, which uses public key crypto. Possible defenses include: 167) using helper nodes (fixed entry nodes); rate limiting the number of 168) create cells handled per second; having clients retry failed extensions 169) a few times; implementing ssl sessions; and using hardware crypto when 170) available.</li> 171) <li>We fear we might not work very well when servers have asymmetric 172) bandwidth. Because Tor has separate TCP connections between each hop, 173) if the incoming bytes are arriving just fine and the outgoing bytes 174) are all getting dropped on the floor, the TCP push-back mechanisms 175) don't really transmit this information back to the incoming streams. 176) Perhaps Tor should detect when it's dropping a lot of outgoing packets, 177) and rate-limit incoming streams to regulate this itself? We need somebody 178) who's good with networks to simulate this and help design solutions.</li>
rewrite the contribute.html... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	179) <li>Right now the hidden service descriptors are being stored on the 180) dirservers, but any reliable distributed storage system would do (for 181) example, a DHT that allows authenticated updates). Can somebody figure 182) out our best options and decide if they're good enough?</li> 183) <li>How hard is it to patch bind or a DNS proxy to redirect requests 184) to Tor via our tor-resolve socks extension? What about to convert UDP 185) DNS requests to TCP requests and send them through Tor?</li> 186) <li>Tor provides anonymous connections, but if you want to keep multiple 187) pseudonyms in practice (say, in case you frequently go to two websites 188) and if anybody knew about both of them they would conclude it's you), 189) we don't support that well yet. We should find a good approach and 190) interface for handling pseudonymous profiles in Tor. See <a 191) href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2004/msg00086.html">this 192) post</a> and <a 193) href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2005/msg00007.html">followup</a> 194) for details.</li>
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irc -> IRC. add link to use... Thomas Sjögren authored 19 years ago	`197) <p>Drop by <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net/tor">the #tor IRC channel at irc.oftc.net</a> or`
point people to the irc cha... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`198) <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">email 199) tor-volunteer@freehaven.net</a> if you want to help out!</p>`
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