tor-webwml.git

@@ -482,11 +482,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     as well</a>.

     </p>

-    <p>

-    <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

-    <i><a href="#torbuttonForThunderbird">Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</a></i>

-    </p>

-    

     <a id="project-obfsproxy"></a>

     <h3><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git/tree/HEAD:/doc">Obfsproxy</a> (<a

     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git">code</a>, <a

@@ -1341,23 +1336,58 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

-    <a id="torbuttonForThunderbird"></a>

+    <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a>

     <li>

-    <b>Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</b>

+    <b>Improving TorBirdy</b>

     <br>

-    Priority: <i>Medium</i>

+    Priority: <i>High</i>

     <br>

     Effort Level: <i>High</i>

     <br>

-    Skill Level: <i>High</i>

+    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>

     <br>

-    Likely Mentors: <i>Jake</i>

+    Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i>

+    <p>

+    TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail

+    clients.

+    </p>

+    <p>

+    TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a

+    href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy">our wiki</a>

+    and <a

+    href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">mozilla's

+    addons site</a>.

+    </p>

+    

+    <p>

+    The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by:

+    </p>

+    

+    <ul>

+      <li>

+        Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a

+        href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397">submitted a

+        patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work

+        required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire

+        patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a

+        completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for

+        Thunderbird.

+      </li>

+      <li>

+        Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a

+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958">ticket</a>)

+      </li>

+      <li>

+        Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an

+        example see its <a

+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319">ticket</a>)

+      </li>

+    </ul>

+    

     <p>

-    We're hearing from an increasing number of users that they want to use

-    Thunderbird with Tor. However, there are plenty of application-level

-    concerns, for example, by default Thunderbird will put your hostname in

-    the outgoing mail that it sends. At some point we should start a new

-    push to build a Thunderbird extension similar to Torbutton.

+    A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript

+    development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird

+    extension development is a plus, but not required.

     </p>

     </li>