remove the old gsoc 2008 stuff from the volunteer page. patch from aleksei.
Roger Dingledine

Roger Dingledine commited on 2008-09-04 00:28:04
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those of you who want your items still on the volunteer page (that'd
be great) should add them back.

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 <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Projects">Good Coding Projects</a></h2>
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 <p>
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-You may find some of these projects to be good <a href="<page
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-gsoc>">Google Summer of Code 2008</a> ideas. We have labelled each idea
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-with how useful it would be to the overall Tor project
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-(priority), how much work we expect it would be (effort level), how much
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-clue you should start with (skill level), and which of our <a href="<page
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-people>#Core">core developers</a> would be good mentors. There are plenty
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-of other good ideas to work on too &mdash; see for example the <a
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-href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/proposals/">current proposals</a> list, or
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+Here is a list of ideas that were proposed for the <a href="<page gsoc>">Google Summer of Code 2008</a>
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+but have not been put into practice. Some of the <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/proposals/">current proposals</a> 
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+might also be short on developers. If you think you can help out, <a href="<page contact>"> let us know!</a> 
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-Likely Mentors: <i>Mike</i>
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-Applications as of 1 Apr 00:00 UTC: <i>5</i>
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-The Tor exit node scanner 'SoaT', part of the <a
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-href="<svnsandbox>../torflow/">Torflow project</a>, makes connections out
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-of each Tor exit node and compares the content it gets back with what it
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-"should" get back. The goal is to notice misconfigured, broken, and even
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-malicious exit relays. Alas, the code is
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-currently written in rather rickety perl and relies on MD5sums of
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-content. The problem with this is threefold: 1) Perl sucks at life.
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-Ideally, soat.pl would be reimplemented in a sane language with a
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-that would be nice, but it is not required), and calculate signatures only for
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-This scanner would likely be run by the Directory Authorities and
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-setting.
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 <b>Tor Node Scanner improvements</b>
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-Similar to the exit scanner (or perhaps even during exit scanning),
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+Similar to the SoaT exit scanner (or perhaps even during exit scanning),
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 statistics can be gathered about the reliability of nodes. Nodes that
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 fail too high a percentage of their circuits should not be given
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 Guard status. Perhaps they should have their reported bandwidth
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 <b>Help track the overall Tor Network status</b>
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 It would be great to set up an automated system for tracking network
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 health over time, graphing it, etc. Part of this project would involve
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 inventing better metrics for assessing network health and growth. Is the
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 Status wish list</a>.
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-Some simple improvements can be made to Tor's path selection to vastly
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-time</a> (and/or using values gained from Torflow), and set the timeouts
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-that proposal. In particular, clients probably should avoid guards that
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-and non-firewalled clients should issue a warning if they are only able
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-We need a way to edit and translate sections of the website. Currently
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-or use svn to commit them back. The current "cost" of publication of
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 <b>Better Debian/Ubuntu Packaging for Tor+Vidalia</b>
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 Vidalia currently doesn't play nicely on Debian and Ubuntu with the
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 default Tor packages. The current Tor packages automatically start Tor
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 as a daemon running as the debian-tor user and (sensibly) do not have a
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 and ask the user to manually move it to <code>/etc/tor/torrc</code>,
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 but that's bad because users shouldn't have to mess with files directly.
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-A student undertaking this project should have prior knowledge of
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 Debian package management and some C++ development experience. Previous
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 experience with Qt is helpful, but not required.
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 <b>Improving Tor's ability to resist censorship</b>
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 The Tor 0.2.0.x series makes <a
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 href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/blocking.html">significant
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 <b>Tor/Polipo/Vidalia Auto-Update Framework</b>
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 We're in need of a good authenticated-update framework.
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 Vidalia already has the ability to notice when the user is running an
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 issues. The student will then implement their framework (or integrate
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+experience. Previous experience with Qt is helpful, but not required. One
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 practices, such as package signature verification. Good writing ability
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 is also important for this project, since a vital step of the project
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 <b>An Improved and More Usable Network Map in Vidalia</b>
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 One of Vidalia's existing features is a network map that shows the user
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 the approximate geographic location of relays in the Tor network and
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 plots the paths the user's traffic takes as it is tunneled through the
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 into Vidalia and customize Marble to be better suited for our application,
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 such as making circuits clickable, storing cached map data in Vidalia's
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 own data directory, and customizing some of the widget's dialogs.
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 experience. Previous experience with Qt and CMake is helpful, but not
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 <b>Tor Controller Status Event Interface</b>
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 There are a number of status changes inside Tor of which the user may need
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 Qt's Designer will be very helpful, but are not required. Some
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 English writing ability will also be useful, since this project will
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 <b>Improvements on our active browser configuration tester</b> -
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 <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">https://check.torproject.org/</a>
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 We currently have a functional web page to detect if Tor is working. It
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 many known issues as possible. It should attempt to decloak the
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 website should ensure that it tells a user what their problem is. It
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 should help them to fix the problem or direct them to the proper support
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 to prevent Tor information leakage.
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 <b>Tuneup Tor!</b>
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 double-check this paper's findings and verify the extent to which they
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